beautiful brides
happy valentine’s month!
Today starts, the Month of Love … and humor (of course), in our world. I’d like to introduce my bride, Kerry Sturm Brames and her awesome bridal party in our new header for February. I’ve already mentioned her on the blog, with her incredible dress.
Kerry married the love of her life, Aaron, on October 31, 2009 and I spent 3 hours pouring over her wedding photos this weekend (thanks Jordan Barclay). I’ve never seen a bride smile so much!
Their wedding will be in a special feature gallery on the brand, spanking new company website that will hopefully be launched within days.
Thank you Kerry for showing your fun side (and your grace and poise on every other day).
…bringing sexy back
When brides go shopping for their wedding dress they will definitely look at ALL angles of their wedding dress, but usually a lot of attention to detail is focused on the front of their wedding dress.
What if though, the back of your dress was the THE focal point? We’ve had a couple of brides that pulled that look off beautifully!
photo: Straub Photography
Above is our bride, Kristin Gross Duke, she married Zach Duke who’s a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. She is a vivacious little thing with a terrific figure! The back of her dress, while gorgeous from the front, was definitely the show-stopper. If you wish to read about her wedding, we blogged the last few days.
Then there is our most recent bride, Kerry Strum Brames (we’ll be featuring her wedding shortly). Kerry is a very articulate and intelligent person who is not shy, but certainly holds herself with decorum and modest character.
Who better to pull off this incredibly, sexy dress? My jaw dropped when I saw it. So gorgeous and uber fabulous. The front was pretty…. but the back was INCREDIBLE.
(And you can see why I’m not a photographer, I stopped her in the hall of the church to take a photo really quick and didn’t notice the crock pot behind her. *sigh*)
Well done ladies….definitely unique!
bridal show this weekend ::
The 2009 EvansvilleBrideGuide.com Contemporary Bride Expo
Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 12pm-5pm
Downtown Evansville, IN – The Centre
Join the area’s trendiest wedding vendors to help you plan your big day! From photographers, to cakes, to invitations, dresses, djs, tuxes and more, find just what you are looking for to get started or wrap up everything you need for the perfect wedding!
Brought to you by 106.1 KISS FM, EvansvilleBrideGuide.com, Bauer’s Tents & Party Rentals, planning… forever events, and davis digital photography.
Special Guest Display: Find out how a chic, eco-friendly bride can make a positive impact on the environment and not lose one bit of style! Visit the Eco Friendly Weddings display produced by Saundra Hadley, event engineer and owner of planning…forever events.
Admission: $2/person – All door proceeds benefiting Holly’s House.
For a full list of vendors, visit our website at: http://contemporarybrideexpo.com
Become a fan on Facebook at: Evansville Contemporary Bride Expo
See you there!
what kind of bride hires a wedding planner?
photo credit: studio b photography
Like with many of the different aspects of the wedding business, there are some serious misconceptions of what type of people hire wedding planners. The idea that these people may not have minds of their own or are incredibly disorganized cannot be further from the truth.
In the past six years of running an event planning business, I can only count on one hand where we had a few brides that were “challenged” in being organized and understanding the whole process. For some people, managing the sheer volume of details is very over-whelming. That does not make them inept; we all have our strengths and weaknesses.
99%t of our clients are Type-A personalities. They understand what they want, highly organized, accomplished, driven people who want to be intimately involved in planning their wedding but also really love to have an unbiased, third party input to bounce ideas around.
They are not weak. They are not mindless. They are not ladies/men who want to be led around. Instead they look at their wedding day as a financial investment in beginning their life together. And so, while spending their hard-earned money on professional caterers, cake designers, florists, photographers, videographers, or entertainment, they also understand the need for an event professional to pull all of this together so they don’t have to work or worry on their big day.
We have services that are Wedding Day Management (you plan your wedding, we are involved the last month and on the wedding day), Partial and Full Service Planning (we help along the way and we are there on your wedding day). With all of these services, we are simply implementing THEIR plans. NOT “our” plans.
unique engagement sessions…
Engagement sessions are one of the best ways you can really get to know your photographer(s). Instead of heading out in jeans and a shirt to the local park, why not think of something really creative?
Take a look at these fabulous photos (and there are tons more) taken by Robert and Kathleen Photographers who are located in Connecticut. Their subjects are Candice & Michael. Just so happens I know Candice who is owner of Jubilee Events, having met her personally and enjoy getting to know her better online. What fun it has been watching her run a wedding planning business and planning her own wedding.
Her engagement shots blew me away. Not only the photographers’ artistry, but the sheer orginiality and class (which is totally her). Take a peek and be sure to click off to Robert and Kathleen’s website for more.
Here are few tips to help your creative juices for your engagement photos:
- Look at photographer’s blogs (on a national level) to get some ideas.
- Talk to your fiance/fiancee and discuss what you really like to do and incorporate your hobby into your engagement photo session.
- Take a cue from Candice, who scheduled her engagement session on the same day that she did a trial run for her hair and makeup. Genius!
- Bring lots of changes of clothes.
- Talk to your photographer and let them know what you are thinking…they may have some ideas to share that you would have never thought about.
Community Marriage Builder fundraiser
COMMUNITY MARRIAGE BUILDERS is having a fundraising dinner at Applebee’s (East Side, Morgan Ave. in Evansville, Indiana) on May 21st. If you present the flyer to your server on that day when you eat, Applebee’s will donate 15% of your bill to Community Marriage Builders.
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