If I could give the property and the company two different ratings I would…read more The layout of the property; the backyard, the private entrance to the beach, just enough dunes to create a great look - all are perfect. The company who manages it: Sue, Jake and Simon are a different story. Jake makes promises that he can't keep. Sue isn't organized and visible overwhelmed. Didn't work with Simon much, but when we did he backtracked on a lot of his answers to questions. No one could give me a solid answer on lights. Lights were supposedly hung by a licensed electrician. I've never seen a licensed electrician leave power cords with exposed openings hanging on the side of the building. Sue is great for trying to make the property's problem, your problem. Make sure you get EVERYTHING in writing. My clients absolutely LOVED the property which is THE only reason we stayed. If you use this property, please please please, get a day of coordinator to handle the mess of Sue and Simon (Jake has been MIA for months)! Don't rely on them or you may end up with LED backyard lights!

We hired Suncoast weddings a year in advance from Kansas. Our wedding consisted of a unlimited…read moreconsultation, rehearsal, videotographer, ceremony, and reception - set up and tare down. It was a shame to learn a week prior that Sarah, our wedding planner for the past year, would be unable to attend our events. As expected (without the original wedding planner) a few things went wrong along the way. I confronted Sue, the owner, with the issues in writing via email and she made it right with us in the end. We are confident since the company took responsibility we will be able to put the small things behind us in our future memories of our big day with the closure we received. It was a beautiful day on Clearwater Beach and we do have a lot to applaud Sun Coast Wedding for! I just wish it was perfect, but doesn't every bride? :) My advice: read your contract and make sure your original planner will be at your wedding! There were a few things I was promised and/or misunderstood with my original planner. Such as, Sun Coast is not your wedding "coordinators". They are your wedding "planners". Example: If you have things that need to be set up (like personal decor) they are not responsible for setting it up because it is not in the contract. So make sure everything is in writing in the contract, not just agreed upon via email or phone. Congratulations and good luck!

We just had our wedding with Gulf Beach Weddings…read more The staff had always been very accommodating, especially with all my last minute changes. This is a very laid back, low key type wedding which is what we wanted! If you're a bridezilla and want a high maintenance fussy wedding then this is not for you. There were lots of beach goers on the beach but they didn't bother us one bit and the staff made sure no one intervened with me walking down the aisle. Yes the flowers they use on the arches are fake but that didn't bother me. I'm sure if you wanted to pay a florist tons of money to do that then you could. We did the Upham Beach location just because it happened to be across from our condo. But parking at this location was definitely an issue for our guests considering it was a gorgeous 80 degree Sunday so it was very busy. We also really like that the paradise grille was right there so our guests could stop for a quick drink prior to the ceremony. The photographer provided with the package was amazing as well! So friendly and totally passionate about her profession. She made everyone very comfortable and kept the flow going well! If you're looking for low key, no fuss then this is for you!

My wedding was at the Pensacola park East location. I would have changed the time to maybe 3pm…read morebecause of how bad traffic was around 4:30pm that day. It was on a Saturday but even leaving at 4 pm to be there by 5pm, and I was only 15 min away but it was still not early enough! Consider having your wedding earlier if you decide to book a wedding with this location in Pensacola. Took about 1 hr to get to my wedding! One other mishap was the violinist was late but probably due to traffic, she was a ok violinist but I wish the music was louder, the waves from the ocean were loud so you could not really hear the music that well. She also played the music I picked in the wrong order. Other than that everything was good! The set up was beautiful! Weather was perfect! Something is always going to happen on your wedding day and I hope this review will help other people with their wedding plans:)

Simple Weddings was the planner for my wedding in St. Pete. Overall, they did okay. They showed up…read moreon time, more-or-less prepared for the rehearsal. They made great suggestions for touches we hadn't considered. They set up the beach wedding beautifully. My only gripes are that he tried to convince us not to have a rehearsal, the music cues were off, and he did not coordinate with the florist properly.

There is so many things that we have to say about this company, especially Ms. Amber. They ensured…read morefrom the VERY beginning that we saw forth with our vision for our intimate wedding and everything we wanted for our nuptials. Ms. Amber took so much stress off of our hands when it came to planning, it was no joke! The packages offered by this company caters to EVERY detail of getting married and the wedding aspect. Ms. Amber made sure that although we were doing a destination wedding, we were in great hands on every aspect! Ms. Amber is literally super woman and the best planner of all time! She was real with us when she needed to be (especially about our budget, our interesting families, and being on time), had our back when only TWO people, besides our parents, showed up to rehearsal, and was there for every phone call, moment of freaking out, both of our questions.concerns, Type-A personalities, text messages, and wedding planning meeting. She was so detail oriented to the point of mapping out every detail of what we wanted and seeing those ideals come forth to fruition was breath taking! She even ended up being our officiant, and we could not ask for any other person so lead us into marriage..Even down to my makeup and hair artist...she picked the perfect artist just for me and she made me look like a sea goddess!! We were able to have our dream beach ceremony, our dream reception venue, and everything else in between because of this company and we are so thankful! Because of working with Amber, we were at peace most of planning and had nothing to worry about! Even down to the day when we were doing the final clarification of ceremony music, I literally SANG music and Amber was right there talking me through the names because I was stressing and could not remember the artists. We will definitely be seeing Simple Beach Weddings for renewing our vows in a few years as well. If you are looking for a company that cares about you, knows the area, caters to you and your partner exclusively, and just overall is just an awesome company that takes care of everything you need for your marriage and wedding. Simple Weddings is the company to go with!!!! Thank you so much to Ms. Amber, Mr. Anthony, and the whole Simple Weddings team for making our dream come true! We are still on cloud 9 about how marvelous this whole experience was! If you are planning a beach wedding, destination wedding, basically ANY form of wedding, DO NOT go to any other company besides Simple Weddings, and be sure to have Ms. Amber take care of you! They are darn good at their job!!!!! We LOVE SIMPLE WEDDINGS!! Musically Yours, Fabian & Ashley Moore from Atlanta, GA

NEVER USE THIS COMPANY they ruined our pictures and sent us the wrong video of our wedding... We…read morehave been waiting for over 4 months for our video.... The photographer (Bobbi husband) took our weeding pictures with people photo bombing in the background and she thinks these are great pictures.... No refund or I am sorry... We could buy 30 pictures for the same $1,200 we spent for the only 300 pictures taken... That was Bobbi sorry

Word of warning!! DO NOT ENLIST THE SERVICES OF BOBBI PERRY AT PERFECT FLORIDA BEACH WEDDINGS!! I…read morerecently had her and her company do my wedding (October, 2014) and while the ceremony went off as expected, I was trapped into paying a ridiculous amount for my wedding photos. Here's my story: While working out the details of the contract with Bobbi, she did send me a price list of the photos and photo packages. I noted them and even saved that email and decided that I could budget $300 for fifty photos on a disc. Furthermore, I noted in her contract that there would only be edits on any photos purchased, and agreed that this was a fair and accurate thing to sign off on. Why would I need photos edited that I'm not purchasing?! So, the wedding day came and went and when I returned from our honeymoon, I had an email with a link to view the wedding proofs. Turns out, Bobbi's husband has a photography company and, lo and behold, it was his company she uses for her wedding photos. This in and of itself is fine, but I would have liked to known it upfront. The secrecy about this made it seem suspect and frankly creates a conflict of interests. She will never go to bat for her clients against her own husband. So, remember that. Anyways, while trying to select our photos, I emailed Booray (Bobbi's husband) to clarify that I could get my wind-blown hair "touched up" in the photos. He promptly replied that no photos on the disc would be edited. Imagine my shock!!! When I replied and asked what the $300 charge was for, he sent me a link to a very lengthy blog he had written in regards to why digital photos are so costly. In this blog, he used the example of charging a customer a $50 "session fee" and then making up the profits in the prints. Fine. But my "session fee" was $400 for TWO HOURS!!!!! That's quite a bit different. So, if you're keeping tabs, that brings the total to $700 for fifty UNEDITED pictures. I had several angry email exchanges with Bobbi where she even had the nerve to send me the portion of the contract that I had signed off on that discusses the pictures. Here it is: 26. EDITING Digital pictures are color corrected, corrected for exposure and cropped at the photographer's discretion. Items in the background such as people, umbrellas, volley ball nets, lifeguard stands, etc. are not removed on digital images purchased. Additional Photoshop may be applied to any prints and/or albums that are purchased and is completed at the photographers discretion. Special Requests for Photoshop are not accepted As you can clearly see, she states that additional photoshop may be applied to any prints that are purchased. Nowhere and at no time does she specify that digital pictures do not qualify. In fact, this paragraph starts with the words 'DIGITAL PICTURES"!!! Digital photos are purchased to make prints. This is an unethical misrepresentation of what products qualify. In hindsight, I should have asked for clarification. I took this to mean that the fifty photos I would purchase for $300 included editing, albeit "at the photographers discretion". I was sorely mistaken!! I spent $700 to have a guy come and devote two hours of his life to take some photos, then take five minutes and move fifty of them to a disc and drop it in the mail. If that isn't a rip-off, I don't know what is. Bobbi stated that she has never had a bride misunderstand her contract but when I asked her why her husband had a giant blog dedicated as his response to such questions if that was the case, she had no comment. Seems it's okay for her to mix business and pleasure when it is convenient for her, but she doesn't wish to discuss her husband and his business when it negates whatever absurd point she is trying to make. So, here I am, a month after my wedding, stuck. These people are the only ones with the photos of my wedding day and if I wanted any of them, I had to pay the exorbitant fee. So, I did. But, this is consumer entrapment at its finest and I want to spare any other brides from having this heartache. Please avoid Perfect Florida Beach Weddings and Bobbi Perry! Not only because of her shady business practices, but because throughout all of this, her lack of customer service and concern about me as HER client, was pathetic. I will be sending copies of our email exchanges to the Better Business Bureau and I will be posting my story on every wedding venue site I can think of to prevent anyone else from being ripped off. I hope your wedding memories aren't tarnished by a company lacking integrity like mine was.

This review is for their Christmas buffet. I believe the event hospitality group of the TradeWinds…read moreis in charge of this, their chefs and staff. Top notch job and if this shows what they are capable of, i would have them prepare a buffet for any special event. We enjoyed your Christmas brunch buffet for years and was very sad when it stopped due to COVID. Everyplace else was open and they moved to a plated meal instead of lavish and beautiful holiday buffet. We had to find another one and it was really subpar. Not the quality or variety of TradeWinds, small and cramped and the year after it went downhill from there. We vowed we could not go back. What could we do? When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but the tradewinds buffet brunch, there on the webpage, a glorious site to See. I blinked and hoped I had not made a mistake, an old archived site, but no, it said 2023! YESSS! This, my friends, is a holiday buffet, the way so many were that were lost. This buffet is back and is THE One. I was so happy to see Tradewinds was Back!!!! In all its glory. You can see my photos. This was a brunch, technically, so breakfast items too. French toast Omelette station Bacon and sausage Ham Pastries Fresh fruit display Smoked fish Turkey in gravy Carving station with prime rib and LAMB. Au jus and mint jelly. Mashed potatoes Stuffing with cranberries Chicken breast with cherry jam compote Cobia with crab Pasta station Charcuterie Cheese display Shrimp, mussels, crawfish under ice sculptures Salad display Dessert tables with chocolate fountain: cheesecake, pecan pie, carrot cake, red velvet, flourless chocolate cake, apple pie, and more. Victorian Santa and elves. No boisterous HoHo Ho. Class and gentility. Lovely music. No harpist this time but music was soft and tasteful. This is how it should be. Thank you for bringing back elegance and excellent food. Hats off to the chefs and staff for bringing this back in grand style. I know it takes a lot of work to make this happen. You all do it the BEST. Thank you, thank you so much for bringing it all back. Merry Christmas

Nice facility. Plenty of meeting rooms. Great energy cause there are always lots of people…read morearound. Last time I was here for a meeting the room felt like it was about 60 degrees. I inquired about making it warmer and nothing happened.

I truly can't even begin to find the words to describe how wonderful it is working with Totally…read moreTropical Weddings. We decided to get married very quickly after our engagement (only a few months) which has the potential of being extremely stressful and overwhelming. After enlisting the help of Jimmy and Julee we felt at ease with their sweet, calming personalities and confidence. Everything went incredibly smooth and we felt we were in great hands every step of the way. They completely set themselves apart from other companies due to the passion and heart that they put into ensuring your day is all you hoped and more. For example, I was blown away by our bridal party's flowers - they definitely were beyond my expectations. I showed Jimmy a screenshot of a bouquet that I loved and described a few small tweaks that I preferred, but also told him that nothing had to be exact if the flowers were difficult to find in the area and time frame. He called me to tell me about what they had come up with, including outsourcing some lilies, and assured me they were going to be great. Well, indeed they were! They were so incredibly similar to the picture and even better than I imagined. They continued to add so much color and vibrancy to our pictures throughout the night. They also had a wide variety of decor options that allowed us to personalize our setup (without the upgrade prices on every little thing like other companies we looked into). Everything was beautifully executed, but perhaps, one of my favorite parts of my wedding day experience with them was a message I received while getting my hair and makeup done (which was a bit behind in schedule - aka I was stressing). It was a picture of our setup with some comforting words to calm me - even while typing this it warms my heart remembering how it made me feel in that moment. It is the little things sometimes that make the biggest difference. I highly recommend them to all future bride and grooms!

From the owner: Totally Tropical Weddings is a full-service wedding planning company based in Saint Petersburg,…read moreFlorida, that specializes in creating unforgettable beach weddings. The talented team offers planning services for weddings throughout the Tampa Bay area along the white sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. Whether you want to hold a large beach wedding ceremony or a more intimate destination wedding, they can ensure your day is special and just how you imagined it.

If you are want to meet at a lovely and ideal location in Downtown St Pete, be sure to use Nova…read more535. I love attending St Pete Girl Boss events at Nova 535. Their space is so accommodating and aesthetically beautiful. I love the bamboo at the entrance when walking into the space . It feels like it has the elements of Feng Shui that makes it so appealing. It has provided a unique space for presentations, small groups and larger groups. Meeting space is outside in the courtyard and indoors. There are lovely staircases and upstairs seating. Where you can meet and greet and have small groups with speakers in designated areas. It is a great place for larger group for weddings, film festivals Gala and your special occasion. I always look forward to attending events and meeting there. It is easy to get too. Be sure to check it out for any place you need for meeting family, friends and associates. I always look forward to spending a wonderful time here and the owners who manager this place are so nice and that makes each visit something I look forward to each and every visit . Book your next event here you won't be disappointed!

This spot was wonderful! I attended a convention that took place there as a vendor and it went so…read moresmooth! The staff was very nice. They saw that vendors didn't get a chance to leave their tables to go grab water and food and made sure to walk around and offer vendors water bottles and ask them about whether they have eaten. Me and vendors around me had zero issues and setting up went great! The spot had great AC which in the summer is a must. The bathrooms were clean and neat. Great venue!

We had our wedding on Feb 28th and Natalia is AWESOME!! If you want something done the day of your…read morewedding, she will absolutely get it DONE! I was worried that I was going to spend my day worrying if everything will go alright for the wedding, and when the big day finally came, I knew I was in good hands. I got to enjoy myself and not have to worry about anything at all, and everything went so smooth. All my friends and family were amazed at how well put together and how smooth our wedding went and they all had a blast. I cannot thank Natalia enough for how much she's done for us for our wedding!!

My wife and I got married this past Sunday and we could not have done it without Amy's help…read more From our first meeting down to the last minute, she was incredible. She exceeded all our expectations. She had fantastic recommendations for all the vendors we would need to work and they didn't upset. Amy was ahead of the game every step of the way. She was welcoming, she made wedding planning easy, and she became family. She was highly spoken about throughout the process not only from us but our family and bridal party and when our guests met her the day of the wedding, they all noticed how fantastic she was as well. I could sit here and type for hours about this incredible woman who made our day so much more than we hoped, planned and envisioned, but take my word, and see for yourselves first hand. Amy and Natalia, thank you both again. Honestly, we're still talking so many wonderful things about you and will continue to do so!

Par Bar will always have a special place in my heart. It's where my boyfriend and I had our first…read moredate, and we just recreated that date a few days ago, which made it feel even more special. The whole place is so cute and such a fun spot to grab some drinks, hang out, and just enjoy the atmosphere together. They have trivia, other games, and different events and leagues, so there's always something going on and it never feels boring. It's definitely one of my favorite places to go for a low-key but super fun night.

This evening at my mom and I decided to stop at the bar bar, which is a little local friendly…read moreneighborhood mini golf course along with life-size, hockey, sack, ping-pong, and an awful lot of fun. They are a bar so they have cocktails, seltzers, beers, and wine on tap. They also have indoor seating as well as four different TVs with different games playing on them; my mom and I had so much fun we played hackey sack toss. I had a happy Thursday seltzer for $6.50 and my mom had a black widow outsider for $6.50. If you haven't been here, I definitely recommend it. They do have parking however there's only about six different parking spaces however, parking office central Avenue is free. 10/10