GUITAR / SOLOIST - Popular Music
For an excellent, (and affordable!) live musician at your wedding, check out Kevin Danzig (guitarist / soloist).  His e-mail is info@kevindanzig.com, phone 800-409-5040.  His groupie, Freda, told me he charges $400 for a south Orange County wedding, or he'll tag on an extra hundred bucks if he has to travel.  We heard him playing at the Beachfire Grill in Ladera Ranch, and he's wonderful!  He writes songs too, so I'll bet he could create a song for you.  Also, he lives in San Clemente, and if you just need him for a hour, locally, I'll bet he has some wiggle room in his pricing.  Check out his on-line music clips HERE.

CLASSICAL GUITARIST
I heard Efraim Villalobos at a private function in Mission Viejo, and he's very good.  He charges $150 an hour.  Phone 949-487-0158, or cell phone 949-422-2113.  He doesn't have a web-site with music clips, but I can vouch for him.

PIANIST
Yani Leppanen is a professional pianist (from Denmark or Finland).  Contact him on his cell at 909-263-4877.  I think if you have a piano available at your wedding site, he's quite affordable (the price goes up if he has to bring his own piano!).  He's a VERY GOOD pianist - and he tunes, sells, and refurbishes pianos too.

PHOTOGRAPHY
My daughter Monica provides affordable photography services.  Click HERE to see her work.  She's not a professional, but she has a very good eye - especially for candid pics.  Her camera is a decent Canon EOS Rebel with a dedicated shoe mount flash.  After July 1, she'll have her drivers license and will book weddings by herself (but she'll charge more then).  Also - this applies only to local Dana Point quickies where I'm officiating for half price - she'll do the job (before, during, and immediately after the ceremony) for $100.

A bit of advice - even if you're on a budget, don't ask a friend take the photos to save some money.  For some reason, that's an area where couples try to cut corners, but a friend doesn't get right in there and shoot photos throughout the ceremony (they're simply not comfortable getting right in there), and at best you'll have a nice collection of snapshots - but perhaps you won't have any portraits suitable for framing.  A photographer will cost you between $200 and $20,000.  Hire a photographer that's in your budget.

I don't have any florists or caterers that I would recommend, but for catering, it seems to work out nicely if you have your favorite local restaurant cater your party.  You know what their food is like, so you won't be disappointed.

Be careful when booking your reception at a restaurant... some restaurants waive the facility cost when you pay for a certain dollar amount of food and drinks (The Adobe in SJC does that), but other restaurants, like The Beach House in Dana Point Harbor, add on so many extra charges that it will make you cry.