Aristide Flower Mound

help us out! It was perfect!! We got so many compliments about how fun and amazing our wedding day was. I cannot express how amazing Kait was enough!!! 

what we paid. We chose the vendor package, which included the in-house photographer, and DJ among other things. While the convenience was appealing, several issues occurred throughout the day. To start, our centerpieces only covered 8 of the 10 tables. This may have been an oversight on my part, so I’m not placing blame on the venue for that. The ceremony itself was beautiful, but there was an issue with the music for my entrance. I chose the same song for both my bridesmaids and myself because there was a specific part of the song I wanted to walk down the aisle to. I had previously asked the wedding planner if the music could be looped if timing ran long, and she assured me it could. However, while waiting in the bridal suite with my dad, I heard the part of the song I was supposed to walk into come and go. I was later told that my niece and nephews took longer walking down the aisle. I completely understand that kids will be kids, but this was something we had discussed beforehand to prevent exactly this situation. Our photographer did a good job overall, though we are still waiting on the final photos. However, he forgot about the “first touch” moment I had planned with my husband until one of my bridesmaids reminded him. At the reception, there were multiple issues with the DJ. He switched the entrance songs for my husband, myself, and the bridal party. We used the provided app to carefully create our playlist, but it seemed like it was not followed closely. He also did not fade out the songs for our first dance or for my father-daughter dance as requested. Once open dancing started, he began playing songs that were not on our playlist and that many of our guests did not recognize. Overall, he seemed unprepared. As for the wedding planner, she was helpful during the planning process but did not seem organized on the actual wedding day. We had arranged for a coffee cart during cocktail hour. When the barista finished for the evening, he prepared a bag with coffee items for my husband and me for the next day and said he would give it to the wedding planner. However, the wedding planner left once dancing began. When we were leaving, we remembered the coffee and asked my mom to retrieve it, but she couldn’t find the coordinator to ask about it. If one or two small things had gone wrong, it would have been easier to overlook. But the number of mistakes throughout the day left a very disappointing impression for both my husband and me. If you are looking strictly for a beautiful venue, Aristide is stunning. However, based on our experience, I would not recommend purchasing the vendor package, as we did not feel that our plans were executed with the attention to detail we expected.

ence was fine while planning with Kait. She was friendly and relatable. She mentioned that she wouldn’t be at our actual wedding, which was a bummer, but we understood since she said she’d communicate everything to her assistant and still be at the rehearsal to make sure everything was set. When rehearsal night came, however, Kait wasn’t there, and there was no communication that she wouldn’t be. This would have been fine as well, but none of the details we had planned with her were given to her assistant. The whole rehearsal was very disorganized. The assistant kept asking me questions I had already gone over with Kait, and I was told by Kait that all my plans and details were in the wedding plan document—clearly, they weren’t. (The assistant even kept saying "I don't see that in this document") Meeting with the photographer and DJ was also chaotic, as they were both 10–20 minutes late to meetings. Then came the wedding day itself. Nothing was organized when it came to planning and details—where family would sit, when certain songs should play, and even décor that Kait said would be provided. My biggest wish was to have a wooden cross as the centerpiece for the ceremony. Kait told me they’d try to bring it over from another venue as they have done it before. I would have understood if she said they couldn't but we weren’t told anything, and I’m not confident the request was even made. To show up and not have something meaningful you were expecting was very disappointing. My sister had to keep reminding the assistant about things, and the DJ even came into the bridal suite while I was getting ready to ask me questions—questions I had already gone over with him on the phone, along with detailed notes and song requests I had entered into the app he directed me to use. I wanted to walk down the aisle at a specific part of a song, which I mentioned many times and even gave the exact time stamp, yet it was still wrong when I walked down (super embarrassing). The photographer also took several poorly framed photos where members of the bridal party were cropped out. During our first kiss, the pastor kindly stepped off stage so he wouldn’t be in the pictures—but the photographer didn’t wait two seconds, so now the photos show him awkwardly walking across the stage. When we got the photos back, I didn’t complain or ask for edits, because you can’t fix bad timing or framing. At that point, I was just exhausted by the whole experience. To make matters worse, throughout the wedding, the assistant and DJ were goofing off a lot. Normally that would be fine, but when everything is disorganized, the last thing you want to see is the staff being distracted. Lastly, my husband is in the military. When we first started planning, Kait told us that they usually don’t combine discounts with military, but she said she could probably figure something out for us. We never heard about it again, even after submitting a request for the Walter Weddings Military Fund program, which supposedly covered some military weddings. Overall, I would definitely choose somewhere else unless you want to have a stressful wedding, micromanage the day of, and waste thousands of dollars.