The only bridal show we will ever go to

On 4.20 we went to Casa Real to check out their bridal show, something Amore. If you don't know what a bridal show is, it's just a place for wedding vendors to show you their stuff.  We were hoping to find an officiant, a cake, and a florist at this bridal show.

We walk in, grab our champagne, and started eating everything in sight.

I think we tried every cake vendors' cakes, and each vendor had 3 different samples.  That was a lot of cake.  My cake fix was definitely fulfilled.  But do we have a cake yet?

I had my eye on a cake by Jen's Cakes.  We're following up with a tasting at their bakery this Saturday.

They also had a few of the snack upgrades you could get at Casa Real. 

Mexican Hot Chocolate and Churro.  Lounge set up by Nicole Ha (which I also <3, but way out of budget).

Mikey's favorite was the chips and mini hamburger sliders.

I was sure flowers was where I would be minimal on the budget, but it's looking like I might just take what my Mom has already offered me for the flowers and blow it all on Nicole Ha's vision of a wedding. 

Her set up totally sold me...

It was a shabby chic/romantic themed table setting.

Oh and how I loved this bouquet!

I spoke with her for a second and she seemed super nice, professional, and very accommodating to any budget.  And surprisingly straight forward.  When I asked other vendors how much things cost, other vendors would give me the sale talk, and dress up a simple answer with a, "it starts here (insert a ridiculously high price), and goes up or down, depending on what you want."  I asked how much a ceiling arrangement was that she did and Nicole Ha straight up told me how much it was.  I thought that was pretty cool of her.  I followed up the other day and made a consultation appointment with her.  I'm pretty excited about it.


We did meet with the officiant there, but unfortunately, he was already booked for August 19th.  Not so unfortunately though, I thought he was kinda...creepy?  =) Mikey thinks I'm crazy picky, but I don't want to stand up there on my wedding day suppressing the giggles.


-Jenny