As soon as we decided to get married, we knew we would be working with Lori at Floral Creations for our flowers, and we were not disappointed. Lori was wonderful to work with, being very willing to accommodate a budget and willing to let you know which flowers might turn brown or otherwise turn out to not be great options for wedding flowers. Our flowers turned out beautiful - we were very happy.
Linda created a beautiful and delicious cake for our wedding. Many of the vendors in the area weren't very willing to make a real cake (the dummy cake and sheet cake option is what they want to do), so we went to Linda. Her portfolio was wonderful (her website is rather out of date, but if you meet with her in person she has a lovely book with pictures of her work that is much more recent), she was fun to work with, and the cake was gorgeous and delicious. Linda truly cares about creating a good product and it shows. I would highly recommend her to anyone.
Wonderful to work with and great pictures! My story is similar to another poster - my husband and I live in Maryland and were getting married in Iowa where I grew up, and finding a good photographer was one of THE most important things to me. After scouring a ton of websites and interviewing 4 photographers in person, we decided to work with Todd and Peggy. They were a great pair with easygoing, fun personalities, and they had by far the nicest album product that we saw. Our experience was top notch all along. Todd and Peggy were very flexible about packages, were willing to include/swap out items, and they were just all around fun to work with. On the wedding day, Peggy helped keep things rolling right along and get my very large family rounded up for the ever-important family picture. Everyone was amazed with how well the picture turned out. Todd managed to get a large group (36 people) shot with no eyes closed or funny faces, and everyone can be clearly seen. Our pictures overall were wonderful...almost zero editing required, and there are so many wonderful ones it was truly a struggle to pick which ones to put in our albums! Speaking of the albums, as I mentioned before, the bridal albums Todd makes are a beautiful product and I have had nothing but compliments on mine. It is a hard cover album with a very sturdy binding that opens flat and has sturdy pages, and the best part - every single inch is covered in your photos. Flowers and detail shots for backgrounds and the cover, etc. Wonderful. Overall, Todd and Peggy were wonderful to work with (my whole family has commented on how nice they were to work with, and how many pictures they got of the wedding and reception without being obtrusive), and the final product is wonderful. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a wedding photographer in the central Iowa area (although I'm pretty sure they travel, too). :-)