Re: Getting Married in California (Orange County): Help with Makeup Artist
nabz:
for photography, go with samsonpro.com without a doubt. he’s a pakistani photographer who has done TONS of desi weddings and is excellent! all my family and friends have used him and couldn’t be happier. he takes his time and is very accomodating. he used to do wedding videography/photography in karachi.
there’s another up and coming photographer who i think is samsonpro’s biggest competition- aacreation.com . a few friends have used him when samsonpro was already booked and his pictures are also very good.
for caterers- we had bismillah halal tandoori cater our wedding this past december and it was delicious!! other popular caterers include: al watan, ashiana and shahnawaz.
beauty salons- ziba truly is a rip off. they charge upwards of $1000 and its really not that great. i had contacted madeeha at couturebeauty as well, but her customer service skills suck. i contacted her many times to get rates and tried to make appts for a trial, but she never responded. stuck up. too bad for her.
there is a lady named farah in chino hills who does really good makeup, hair and setting as well and its reasonable ($300-400). her website is kind of outdated, but email her for pics, etc. www.myfairbride.com . you could also go for MAC makeup in the mall. if you find someone willing to listen to you and you take pictures of exactly what you want, you can get realllly good makeup done. thats what i ended up doing for my nikkah, wedding and valima and alhamdulillah looked great :):). everyone kept asking who did my makeup (thinking it was a desi person), but i went to the MAC counter! i just took great pictures i printed from the bridal section here as samples of how i wanted my makeup and she replicated it perfectly
feel free to msg me if you have any other questions! i also live in the OC :). where will you be living in the OC?
good luck
Hi Nabz, thank you for all this information. I was looking at aacreation but since you mentioned samsonpro I will look into him as well. His website photo’s look great. Do you know if these caterers cater at any of the hotels in the OC region near NewPort Beach? A $1000 for hair and beauty, wow, so I’m definiately not going to go there! I’ll check out Farah and the MAC idea is awesome, will do some research for sure. Thank you soooo much!!
I’ll send you a private message with more details Nabz
