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The Inn at St. Peter's Village

Some very close friends of ours have recently taken over the management at the beautiful Inn at St. Peter's Village. I headed up there the other week to shoot some photos for their, soon to be released, new website.
The Inn is a beautiful 19th century building overlooking French Creek. There are seven suites to choose from for your overnight stay in this unique village. And they are now open to book your wedding at this magnificent location. The Inn at St. Peter's Village will be a perfect location to host your Philadelphia wedding and reception!

The view from the deck, overlooking French Creek.

St. Peter's Bakery,also run by The Inn, is located right down the street.

Shout Out...DJ Mike Scott of Superior Sound Productions

We had one goal in mind for our wedding reception. One goal, two words.......DANCE PARTY!  Dawn and I both love to dance.  But with our busy schedules and weddings almost every weekend, we rarely get a chance to show off our moves.  This is why having a bumping dance party was of utmost importance to us.

We didn't really have to look too far to find a great DJ.  Our friend Vinny regularly DJs with his cousin Mike on Friday nights in Manayunk.  Vinny hooked us up with DJ Mike Scott of Superior Sound Productions and we immediately clicked.  Mike even met us on site about a week before our wedding for a run through of the ceremony, announcements and dancing requirements.

I usually judge a good night of dancing by how tired and sweaty I am at the end of the night.  By the end of our wedding, I was exhausted and my blue sweat band weighed abut 3 lbs.

Mike delivered exactly what we were looking for, a full fledge rock your socks off dance party! He played all our old school hip-hop favorites, some oldies for the oldies, and some contemporary hits. So many of our guests approached us throughout the night to let us know how great the music was! Our friends would try to leave the dance floor for a drink or a break only to come right back in a few seconds as another "must dance" song was played. Almost a month later we are still hearing from friends and family how great the music was at our wedding.

DJ Mike Scott and Superior Sound Productions made our wedding the party that we wanted it to be. Mike, we can't thank you enough. Dawn and I didn't leave the dance floor all night. Our guests had a blast. You helped make our wedding memorable. Thank you.

Once again, thanks to DollFace Studios and Jenn Childress Photography for providing the above photos.

Shout Out...Cakes by Suzy

At first Dawn and I were planning on not even having a wedding cake.  We had the grand idea to buy a bunch of Butterscotch Krimpet Tastykakes and stack them up on a table.  I thought this idea was pure genius!  But, my Mom kept making a sour face every time we mentioned the idea.  And even our friend Jessica said, "No, I can't let you have that". 

So, on Jess's advice we called Suzy Vanhoose of Cakes by Suzy.  She had created a custom chocolate cake to fit the fall theme of Jess and Andrew's November wedding at The Lake House Inn in Perkasie.

 

For our garden themed wedding we were looking for a fun, whimsical yet delicious cake.  We met Suzy at her home. She suggested that she could give us not 1 but 2 summer flavors in our three tiered cake.  We chose Strawberry Shortcake and Lemon Raspberry Poundcake.

Suzy customized the design of our cake to fit with our wedding colors.  The pink, orange and green of the cake dressing was a perfect accent to the colors of the wedding reception. But enough about the look...let's talk taste!!

This was THE BEST cake that we have tasted! Really. All our friends and family were raving about the flavor, freshness and the moist texture of our wedding cake.  No one could believe that it was actually wedding cake!

When we returned from our honeymoon in Costa Rica, we couldn't bare the thought of having the top tier of our cake stored in the freezer for a year.  So we ate it with our families only 2 weeks after the wedding!  And my mom was definitely NOT making a sour face.

Thank you so much Suzy! Your cake creation for our wedding was magnificent.  We will be calling Cakes by Suzy for all or birthday, anniversary or weekend BBQ cake need from here on out!

PS: The wedding topper has been getting rave reviews lately.  For your information, Dawn's mom bought us that cake topper from Wedding Star.  Go check them out. Cake toppers and wedding favors galore!!

Shout Out....Monday Morning Flowers

We are back in the swing of things around the First Floor Films office!  After the final weeks of prep for the wedding, the wedding weekend, 10 days in Costa Rica, back to back weddings when we returned and a day of decompressing....we are up and running again.

So, we wanted to start off a week of vendor reviews from our own wedding.  Everyone that we hired for our wedding exceeded our expectations.  All of our vendors were talented, professional and very friendly (which is important to Dawn and myself).

Today's highlighted vendor is our florist, Georgianne of Monday Morning Flowers.  We met with Georgianne at her Princeton, NJ location back in February.  We immediately enjoyed her and the meeting which was scheduled for an hour ended up taking about 3 hours b/c we all just got to talking about any and everything.

I didn't realize how important the flowers at a wedding truly are until we arrived at our ceremony and reception site.  We were married in an outdoor garden setting. Georgianne's arrangements from the arbor to the rose petals in the aisle, the flowers and ribbons tied to the chairs, the bridal bouquets and even the boutonnières for the groomsmen really made the natural setting of the garden pop with vibrancy.

My favorite part of Georgianne's creations were the centerpieces. Just look at the creative use of the limes in these centerpieces. The colors matched perfectly with our menus, place settings and all the other little details. My groomsmen even commented on how nice the flowers looked under the tented reception!

Thanks so much Georgianne! Not only was everything beautiful but, your professionalism, and organization was evident by the efficiency of the floral deliveries and set-up. Dawn's mom still has a centerpiece at her house! She said that they lasted all through our honeymoon. You are our go to flower professional from now on!!

PS: Thanks to Jenn Childress Photography and Dollface Studios for providing the photos.