Dream Weddings did our daughter's wedding on April 30th. They are fabulous; we recommend them without hesitation - excellent service at a very reasonable cost.
They made prep easy & fun: table setting layout and colors, other decor, flowers, food choices, etc. In several planned meetings, Cesar, Lisa and Sergio made this painless, even enjoyable. Even looked at the bride's Pinterest pins to see what she liked. Sergio is fantastic on florals: table settings, ceremony arch, bouquets, wrist corsages - all beautiful. The table setups were exactly what the bride wanted, looked terrific, as did the signage.
Snags from vendors were zero stress, as Lisa just handled them. Priceless!
This is 4 star (not 5) is due to problems with the food prep and wait service. Our table (the parents of the bride and some close family) didn't get any entrees. When Grandma and the Aunts notice the other tables are all eating and they aren't, there's an issue :-) Also, grand kids' kid meals were very delayed (another table). It took a while for the kitchen to sort this out even after we told them. We heard afterwards that at least one other table had a similar problem: 7 guests got entrees but 1 didn't; after complaining and long wait, got hers. Another guest said the wait staff was pushing pork when she ordered hen. This is something that Dream Weddings should improve upon.
Also, no water refill on the table's water glasses. The bar staff had ample water bottles, but not on ice. So you'll fetch Grandma a water refill from the bar, but at room temperature... My advice: (a) specify that the bar staff (who did a great job) keep the water bottles on ice. (Which I could have asked for right then, but didn't think of it at the time, doh!) (b) Maybe price in an extra wait staff person to wander the tables both refilling waters, checking on service, etc. And, (c) Ask Dream Weddings to do some extra management of the food prep folks to avoid these problems.
Done with problems! To be clear, none of this was a major calamity, and the food was delicious (and the cake, from Michelle's Patisserie, was really fabulous). It just explains why the number of stars on this review isn't a perfect 5. And we'd recommend Dream Weddings to anyone in spite of these hiccups, because we believe they can be easily prevented in the future.
Now, talking about food: it is either really inconvenient, or really awesome, to take home a ton of left-over wedding cake at the end of the night. The Dream Weddings team believes it is inconvenient, and I agree with them. On the other hand, some folks (like the mother of the bride!) worry that if there isn't at least a little bit left over, someone who wanted cake might not have gotten any. (It was not served individually to the tables, but rather people walked up to get slices from a separate table in the room.) So if you have a strong preference on this, indicate it to the team up front, because they're going to default to minimal or no leftovers when they size things. (You'll of course get the top layer boxed to go to freeze for the bride and groom's first anniversary.)
Wrap-up: the value of working with Dream Weddings to figure out and provide exactly what the bride and groom want, from decor to flowers to food and cake, is phenomenal. Similarly, the coordination and management was excellent because it removed stress completely from the parents of the bride and because we were so confident in the team's professionalism and competence. The value for the price is outstanding: even if you choose to be your own "general contractor" for your wedding, I doubt you'd save any money compared to working with Dream Weddings, and you'd miss out on all the benefits. They made things easy and stress free, and they were also a great price performer -- wow. Plus they're all genuinely lovely people. We'd hire them again in a heartbeat. read more