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FRIENDORS
We’ve shot with hundreds of vendors at hundreds of weddings over the years and the people below have made the final cut. Not only will they give you the best experience and product, but we highly recommend hiring all your vendors as a team. We love working with these friends, and a happy team makes it an even better experience for you and us!
Planners:
This is the one vendor we recommend the most! Think you, your friends and family can manage on your wedding day without a planner? You can’t. Want to save money? We get it. But don’t skimp here. At least hire a month-of (there’s no such thing as a day-of coordinator) planner to take over, contact your vendors, create a timeline, run your rehearsal and wedding day. This one cost will give you a worry free week before your wedding. Furthermore, it keeps us from playing planner on your wedding day (which we’ve had to do in the past), freeing us up to document more and organize less. We can’t tell you how much more you, your friends and family will get to enjoy the day, too!
PLANNER FRIENDORS: Orange Blossom Special Events, Bright Blue Events, Master Plan Events, Cluster Events, XOXO Weddings, LB Events, Demaray Events, Rheefined Events, So Smitten Events.
Florals:
Music:
DJ: Who’s That DJ?, Red Shoe LA, VOX, Dart Collective, Flash Dance
Ceremony: Jason Sulkin, Cattus Quartet
Hair & Makeup:
Girl Meets Bongga, Design Visage, Kelly Zhang, Fairytale Hair & Makeup, Mobile Bridal Salon
Rentals:
JS&CO Photo Booth
After hopping in dozens of booths and being disappointed by little space, terrible lighting, only one print, and no social sharing, we finally found our own Booth to offer and we think ours is the best!! Click here to read why!
Videography:
We offer video services ourselves, but if those packages aren’t what you’re looking for, we LOVE the vendors below (so much so that we offer a little discount if you book us and them together!). We work so closely in tandem with videographers on wedding days. This short list of sincere, loving, like-minded friends are people who shoot like us (read candid and natural, not stiff and posed), create films of your wedding day that are easy to watch and will tug at your heart strings, and we just love them. We highly recommend getting a video team in addition to photography. While we will take a photo of your dad giving a speech at your reception, there is just something about being able to hear him get choked up during that speech. And that’s something only video can provide.
WE RECOMMEND: Wes Films, Press Films
Lighting:
Catering & Bartending:
CATERING: Command Performance, RoomForty, Tres LA, ECO Caters, LA Roots
BARTENDING: We are always so impressed when bartenders understand that at weddings, making one drink at a time can take too long so instead the pre-make batches of the signiture cocktail and pass them during cocktail hour so more guests get served faster. And with only one bar on site, guests are thrilled!
LA Speakeasy, Mama’s Medicine, Pharmacie, Liquid Catering, The Typsy Gypsy Bar, Bubbles & Brews
Dessert:
TRUCKS & CARTS, ETC.: McConnell’s Ice Cream, Jeni’s Ice Cream, Si Paletas Gourmet Popsicles, Chunk N Chip, Porch Pies, Fonuts, Hula Girls Shaved Ice, Let’s Have A Cart Party, Milk Jar Cookies, Bottega Louise, Portos
Paper Goods:
WE RECOMMEND: Prim & Pixie, Minted, Paper Culture
SAY HEY!
meet: at our studio in the san fernando valley
los angeles, california
(by appointment only)
write: jenny@jennysmithandco.com
