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New York Photo Gallery and Testimonial:

We can't thank you enough for all your help to arrange our wedding - it was absolutely fantastic. We've just finished doing our album which took us ages but was good fun & brought back lots of great memories.
I have written some feedback for all the people we used including the hotels as I thought it might be useful to you if any new brides & grooms ask you for advice. Hope it helps in some way.

Red Door Salon @ Fifth Avenue:
I arranged my appointment with Tammy by email, I did have to phone once to confirm the booking with my credit card details. I didn’t have time to have a trial in NY so I just made sure I had a trial in the UK and took plenty of photos. Stephanie did my hair & Monique did my make-up on the wedding day - they both did a fantastic job. All the staff at Red Door were really friendly & made us feel very relaxed. The price was more than I would normally pay but it was definitely worth it.

Flowers:
My bouquet was perfect & exactly as I had requested. The ladies buttonholes came with a pin and a wristband and all the ladies thought this was a great idea. The flowers were delivered to the hotel, however one buttonhole was missing – Simon called Katerina & she quickly sorted this out for us. The buttonhole was delivered to the hotel within minutes.

Photographer:
Jen was fantastic – we love all the photos and cannot believe how many we have. She has taken so many amazing photos; we are going to struggle decided which ones to put in our album. She gave us the option of having photos taken in the park or in the city and made sure we had all the combinations of family photos we wanted. She was really friendly & made us both feel at ease especially as neither of us likes having our photo taken.

Minister:
Susanna wrote the words for our ceremony and it was lovely. Everyone commented on how beautiful the ceremony was and how very different from a UK registry wedding which I think they were all expecting so it was a lovely surprise for all our guests. I have emailed Susanna & she has sent me a copy of the ceremony wording for us to keep.

Katerina:
Katerina was lovely & a great help to us on the wedding day, she made sure everything ran smoothly so we didn’t have to worry about a thing. Simon contacted her about the missing buttonhole & she sorted this straightaway, she also made sure the limousine was there for me & my parents when she found out it hadn’t arrived for Simon. She was so helpful – holding on to coats and my wrap during the ceremony and even taking extra photos with all the family cameras. She arranged the horse & carriages while we were having photos so they were waiting for us when we finished – we definitely couldn’t have had such a stress free wedding without her.

Limousine:
The limousine driver was very friendly, I think there was a slight problem with parking outside our hotel when he arrived originally so Simon & some of the guests had to get taxis, but we always knew that the timing to do the 2 trips was very tight & it didn’t cause a problem. The limousine picked me & my parents up & got us to The Cop Cot on time. The driver then waited for us & after the ceremony he drove us to The Plaza Athenee.

Cellist:
Everyone has told us the cellist was a lovely touch to the ceremony, neither me or Simon could remember much about the music – I think we were both so overwhelmed by everything we just didn’t take it in at the time. I remember hearing the music as I walked up to The Cop Cot – Simons mum has a video of the ceremony & she said the cellist playing is very clear on this. We’ve not watched the video yet so will be nice when we do get chance to see it.

Cop Cot:
The Cop Cot is absolutely beautiful and was definitely the perfect setting for our wedding. We are so glad you recommended it to us in place of Ladies Pavilion as we hadn’t even looked at it originally so without your help we would never have found this spot.
We did visit Ladies Pavilion and Belvedere Castle while we were in New York, we both liked Belvedere Castle but agreed that it would have been too busy for us. We were both quite disappointed with Ladies Pavilion and so pleased we had changed venue to The Cop Cot. It's definitely a place we will be visiting every time we go back to NY.

Hotels:
We stayed at The Empire Hotel & booked this through Virgin Holidays. Most of our family also stayed at this hotel and everyone thought it was great. It is ideally located for Central Park - it’s near to Columbus Circle so just 5-10 minutes walk from The Cop Cot. The reviews on trip advisor were not great so we were all a bit nervous but everyone had a fantastic stay. The only downside is the price of drinks at the bar but we all expected this in NY. The hotel has a lobby bar & also a rooftop bar – this is open to the public but hotel guests can get access without queuing. On one day of our stay they were filming the new Sex & the City movie in the hotel which was very exciting (for the girls anyway) – we got to watch filming and saw quite a few of the cast and the hotel laid on a free bar for the whole day!
We had our wedding reception at The Plaza Athenee Hotel which is on 64th Street just off 5th Avenue and 5 – 10 minutes walk from Central Park, we arrived at the hotel about 4pm and had a private section of the bar and were served champagne and canapés. At 5.30pm we went into a private dining room for a 3 course meal. The food & service were fantastic and I would definitely recommend this hotel. We paid $30 dollars per head for the canapés and were served far too many (which isn’t a bad thing I guess). The meal was $110 dollars per head, I’m not sure how much we paid for the wine but bottles started at $50. The private dining room holds up to 25 people, we had 12 & it was on a large oval table. We left the hotel about 8.30pm and went back to The Empire rooftop bar for drinks.

Love Susan & Simon Evans

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