BigBad Llama is as good as it gets!!!…read more BigBad Llama provide a number of photography services including: - Portraits and family shoots - Gig shoots - Band promo photography - Party photography - Model portfolios - Fashion shoots - Wedding photography service - Video service

Aidan from Photo Gallery Ireland took my wedding photos and i am more than happy with them!…read more They are amazing, much better than i could have ever imaged. He was so nice to deal with from start to end and did exactly what i wanted and more. I love them so much and cant emphasis how great they look. Wedding photographers are quite expensive although i priced quite a few and these ones were reasonable, but now seeing the end product i feel like i got a real bargain. Thank you thank you thank you :)

We try to arrange family photos in foreign countries so we don't end up with all selfie type…read morephotos. I came across Shine Pics Photography and although I didn't see a lot of family photography, decided to give them a try anyway. Diana made us feel at home and really captured the "Ireland" feel for us in our family photos. When we look back at them, we definitely are happy with the outcome. Hiring someone in a foreign country is weird and you never know what you are really going to get. I have to say - I got a ton of usable photos of high quality/resolution even before I made it home from my trip. Definitely recommended !

Belfast Exposed Photography now functions as a gallery for contemporary photography with emphasis…read moreon commissioning and publication of new work. Its good place for art and photography lovers

House of Elliot is a beautiful formal shop with clothes to die for! It's pricey but it's only to be…read moreexpected as you undoubtedly get what you pay for. Head this direction if you're after that unique wedding dress or something special for a black tie occasion. I got a beautiful dress here a few years ago for my school formal, ah the memories! The staff were more than welcoming and helped me choose my perfect selection and handily they had all the accessories to match, saved me trooping all over the place looking for them, this would have been a nightmare! I would recommend House of Elliot more so for special occasions as it is at the higher end of most peoples price range. You do find exquisite tailoring and quality. It's not to miss for that special event you might have coming up.

My aunt used this company in the summer for my young cousin's birthday party and everyone had so…read moremuch fun thanks to the equipment supplied by 1st for fun! This is a family run business and we got such a friendly and personable service, they really took the time to understand what we were looking for and advised accordingly, taking into consideration how much we wanted to spend. We had a bouncy castle and inflatable slide and they also provided face painting (you can also have party favours from them too but we didn't avail of this!) Definitely a great service and options to suit any event and budget!!!

I really like The Works, you can pick up all sorts of interesting books here for a bargain price,…read morethey are arranged out by category like they would in a library, children's section, thriller, local history, cookery, reference books etc. They also stock a wide range of craft goods, such as easels, all types of paint and paintbrushes, scrapbooks, stickers, wool, needles, you name it! The Works is a good shop for giftware too, for example if you have secret Santa, there are loads of fun items, themes such as Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Hello Kitty, and more. This is actually one of the nicer The Works stores I've been in, it's not too crammed as some others are, and is easy to navigate without knocking things over!

This is a great wee shop inside connswater shopping centre. There are a vast selection of books…read morethere are every book you can imagine in this shop, I like the cookbooks as I like to bake at home , most of my cookbooks are from here and theres lots to choose from and the prices are decent too. The works also sell children's books and children's toys and sweeties at the till. Theres a small craft selection which has a good selection of boxes ec to keep your crafting supplies in. If your an artist theres a brilliant selection of canvas's and paints and brushes even charcoals and pastels. Theres a great selection here for anyone into painting. Also a selection of DVDs, calendars and diarys. Theres gift sets and gadgets in store. Shop is always crammed and well filled with stock!

Please see a copy of our wedding review before it's posted should you a wish to dispute anything…read morewritten. I will post this review on Friday We got married in la mon 18th of may this year and this is our honest review. We siged upto our wedding just before christmas, so not to long to prepare. Our wedding co-ordinator was friendly and helpful on the day, offered us a free coffee ect. Importantly to us, we asked will there be any better deals in the new year and if there would be any discounts at the upcoming wedding fair. We where told there is no new packages and they do not offer any offers on the wedding fairs. This was false information givin to us, as there was a new package and a promotion for signing up on the day of the wedding fair. We did however change our package (this was before the wedding fair) And made to think to we where lucky because they did a midweek package (Monday-Wednesday) for us on a Thursday. They kept repeating this. However the discounted package included Thursday's anyway so this was irrelevant. They offered a package for £40. Ours was £61 Basing this on 60 guests is a difference of £1200. Only difference for us was that you don't get the limos included? So that was a big price difference, felt like the robbed us. Then on the day of the wedding fair they had freebies for booking on the day, a choice of 2 free rooms... Or menu upgrade to trio of deserts. As mentioned above, we where told they dont offer discounts at wedding fairs. This blatant lie ruined the build up to the wedding and sucked the fun out of it. It was also really annoying we needed to get the insurance liability certificates sent over to them... Alot of experienced vendors said they they have not had to do this for any other venue. Moving onto the day of the wedding. Credit where credit is due, went without a hitch (except food) All our vendors had no issues in the day and both co ordinator and master of ceremonies did everything as instructed. The big let down was the food. We paid an extra £3 for roast beef per head. (£180) just to have the choice alone. Then £3 for everyone who selected roast beef. THE ROAST BEEF WAS HORRIBLE. i remember looking along the tables to see no1 eating this... I wish i was being dramatic, but the quality was so poor. On par with supermarket beef. 1 scoop of mash.. Toddler size. And the veg was not cooked great either. I asked alot of guests about the beef also and all agreed it was rubbish and so tough. Anyone who had the chicken seemed to enjoy the meal though. Me and the wife who spent thousands for this dinner... Did not eat it. La mon should refund me all roast beef upgrades due to the lack of quality as most restaurants would do... However because of how they lied to me about the wedding fair promotions... I'm not going to hold my breath. (i will update this review should they hold their hands up) We also asked for kids cheese pizza and they served pepperoni pizza.. Kids didn't eat there pizza either. Also sent pizza to a child that had severe allergys la mon were told that he had allergys prior. On the day there was one thing that angered me. During the time we are asked to leave the room while they "flip the room" I took my drink upto the room to put our 2 year old to sleep. There was a lady standing by the door on some kind of massive power trip? She had 3 of my guests sitting in a hallway drinking there drink (one of which was disabled, then said to all of us about not allowing drink into the rooms or out of the rooms. (drink i bought at the bar) I get the reason why. But then i was threatened that the bar will be closed if any guests have drink upto or down from the room. What a great touch and amazing thing to say to someone who just spent thousands on food and room hires and filled 13 other bedrooms for you and im sure made the bars a few thousand. Thats one of the most unprofessional people i have come across im assuming that she may hold a managers position. Our bridal suite was lovely to be fair.. Comy bed We ordered room service.. And offcourse, it was a stone cold breakfast!! If you love a headache, bad food, power tripping managers. And cold breakfast And dont mind being lied to about offers...... Then la mon is the best venue around. Shout out to chris our master of ceremonies though, he was awsome on the day!

My partner and I stayed at La Mon for one night this weekend. We were greeted immediately as we…read morearrived, and were given the card to our room which was on the ground floor. Wanting to make the most of our stay, we left our things off in the room and made our way straight to the bar for a liquid lunch! The drinks at the bar were reasonably priced and it was lovely to be able to sit there and relax. We didn't order anything from the menu when we were there as we'd had a large lunch before we arrived, however we did take a look at it, and there was loads on offer and it sounded lovely. I saw a lot of food going past for other tables, which looked and smelled fantastic. I also saw a number of people having afternoon tea which looked really posh, I will definitely try that next time! The room we were staying in wasn't like the rest of the hotel, which is super stylish and classy - I will admit that it was a bit dated, but it did the job, it had everything I would have expected and the beds were really comfortable. We did have an issue when we stayed, where we were woken up by noise during the night due to a malfunction with the heating system, however when we reported this, the management at La Mon really went above and beyond in their response and to resolve this with us - we were really impressed! Last but not least, we had breakfast before we left the following morning. Usually I'm not overly excited about hotel breakfasts. This however was nothing like I'd ever had before, the cooked breakfast, which was served as a buffet, was cooked to perfection, with free range eggs, and good quality meat. Oh, and proper baked beans! This is unheard of for hotel cooked breakfasts. It was so good, I had to go up for seconds to make sure I wasn't imagining it :) Very much looking forward to returning to La Mon soon.