super bride sunday 2012 :: come see us!
It’s that time of year again … Super Bowl Sunday means …. Super Bride Sunday!!! We will be there again !! This year featuring a little country chic look. Be sure to come by and say hi!!!!
Super Bride Sunday 2012
10:00 – 3:00 pm
February 5, 2011 at the The Centre: Evansville, IN
Before you go though, you may want to take a moment to look back at our series, How to Choose a Wedding Vendor. It’s some easy reading with good information.
ps You saw our epic video from The Special Event last week. Well, check out this fabulous video from Voila Cinematic on the Opening Night Celebration. That evening was off the charts with experience and decor. If only people knew what goes on behind the scenes to create these fabulous events. Well, watch the video and you can see.
plan on!
the special event 2012 recap video
Last week I attended The Special Event, a trade show/conference that is worldwide for event professionals, in beautiful Tampa, Florida. I have to admit, it was nice to wear sandals and see the sun shining!
Not only did I get to speak at one of the training sessions, I was able to attend some of the special events and walk the trade show floor for several days. Look out … I took lots of photos and came up with great ideas for our local weddings.
Now you have to imagine, any type of cocktail party or dinner produced BY event professionals, FOR event professionals is going to be off the hook crazy with decor and the experience. This week did not disappoint.
The best part of this week was reconnecting with industry friends and sharing ideas. Social media has truly bridged a gap that makes people living miles apart, obsolete. It was great to meet up with people who I have been talking with for years, but never actually met in person. Thank you twitter and facebook.
So, true to form, my posse, Kelly McWilliams with Weddings by Socialites and Kelly Spalding with Perfectly Placed (and many others….) documented our epic journey through the week … it’s all here, hope you enjoy!
ps NEW found respect for videographers. All these photos were shot by iPhones so some of them are grainer than others. But this took me all afternoon to edit. It’s all in the editing …. lots of time.
plan on!
sh*t brides say …
Thanks to our good friends at Eyenamics for sending me this link. I had tears….and have almost heard every single thing said on this video.
Brides…we are not laughing at you. Just near you. xoxo
Thanks weddingchannel.com for this hilarious video.
plan on!
wedding dresses destroyed. what the hell?
In case you haven’t heard, Priscilla of Boston in Edina, Minnesota had their own little “trash the dress” party right before the end of the year.
You see David’s Bridal, who owns Priscilla (a bridal boutique), decided to close all of their store locations after 65 years in the business (thank you again, economy).
So with the doors closing, what do you do with the extra inventory? Apparently you bring the beautiful dresses out back and spray paint them with orange paint so they are never wearable. Now, you may ask yourself, why not donate them to a charity? Great question.
A spokesman from POB said that the dresses that were destroyed were old, tattered floor samples that needed repairing AND some labels contractually did not allow for them to be donated (this is me, paraphrasing. You’re welcome).
Who are these labels? A bystander said they found a $6k Vera Wang dress that was beautiful, BEFORE the orange paint, of course. I dug deep in the comments of the major news sites that were covering this story. On commenter (who worked for POB) said that they sold all the Vera Wang dresses by October 2011.
So who is right and who is wrong? Here’s my opinion (did you think you wouldn’t get one?):
- Legally, POB has the right to do with whatever they want with their own inventory. Do you have anyone standing over you on how you dispose of your garbage or old clothes?
- SUPER tacky destroying the dresses out in public at a busy shopping location. If they HAD to destroy dresses, then more discretion should have been used.
- Publicly list the designer labels that force you to destroy inventory as oppose to donating them. THIS is the crux, because those are the labels that should be boycotted. And, as far as I know there are many designers that design for POB, thus POB has their own label.
- Nah, I’m still back on cutting out the labels and donating them. Heck, a homeless shelter … some of them would make great comforters.
What’s your point of view on this subject? Let’s hear it!
image: uptownparkhouston.com (that’s a POB in Houston, TX)
plan on!
happy new years!
Happy New Year’s Eve, my lovelies ….
ps I’ll be with my sweetie at midnight!