Fall Bridal Show 2010

My feet are exhausted and my voice is gone, and that can only mean one thing- another successful bridal show is in the books!

We had a bit of a crazy start to this week and weekend...we have been so busy lately that this bridal show sort of snuck up on us. So, while we had planned on building our new set of walls and having them completed and freshly painted in plenty of time for the show, we didnt get the painting side done until, well...two days before.

It rained most of the week which made it impossible to paint, so the final results were done in a rush and the end product was less than stellar. BUT, we made it work, and Saturday came and we tore apart our studio and packed up the u-haul for the setup day.

The walls this time around were a bit more difficult to set up, mainly due to our new location allll the way in the back (well, it's actually the front, but the farthest you can get from the loading dock!) of the convention center. We were stoked that an opening in the front row opened up this year, as we have been trying for one every show for the past few years.

Anyways, after the new walls were in place, we ran home for a quick night's sleep and packed up the car bright and early Sunday morning, eager to meet with our new brides. We had a TREMENDOUS show, adding close to 10 new couples to our 2011 family! Our booth was packed all day and we are just so thrilled and honored at the response we received! Let's just say, the front row treated us well!

We are so excited to meet more with our couples in the coming weeks and the fabulous fall engagement shoots that are booking up faster than we imagined!

Unfortunately, in all of the hustle of the weekend, I completely forgot to pack our pro cameras to get some awesome shots of our booth. I did, however, have my little point and shoot with me. So here are a few that didnt turn out quite so horrible! So please excuse the less than amazing quality! :D

All of our giveaway entries! Can't wait to draw the winner!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Convention Center and made our show such a success! We are excited for the spring show, and can't wait to meet with all of our new brides!

Spring Bridal Fair!!!

Alrighty! I've finally gotten caught up from the bridal fair last weekend. I've spent the past week emailing all of our amazing brides from the fair and setting up meetings and consults with everyone- it's been alot of work but we are so excited from the response we have been getting!

I'm finally able to post some pictures from our fair setup- we are SO happy with how it ended up. I have to admit that it was ALOT more work than we originally anticipated, but everything turned out great and we are so happy with the final setup. We had some help from some great friends here in town and everything went off better than we could have hoped. We were incredibly sore on Sunday and could barely walk- but it was definitely worth it!

Forgive me, most all of these pictures were taken with my little handheld, non-pro camera. There was so much going on it was much easier to just whip out this little guy and take pictures then setup the big baby! So alot are blurry- we were working fast and I apologize!

Everything is inside!

Walls are going up!

Walls! We got help from Darryl and Ryan from the station, without them we would have had a REALLY hard time putting them up!

Putting up the logo! The printing place we used was very disappointing and printed the wrong colors...actually reversed them...but there wasnt enough time to fix them! Oh well, I dont think many noticed...

Hanging the canvases! They looked so great!

The FINAL setup!!! We are so happy it looked so great!

We loved these chairs!! They were exactly what we were looking for. And the zebra chest was AMAZING!!!

Our giveaway table

Our favorite album! It was so big! I was SO happy with how the silver snakeskin turned out!

We are so happy with how everything turned out and the great response we had! :D All of the hard work was worth it and we can't wait for the next one and for all of the great bride's weddings we have coming up!

Bridal Fair Planning Process!!

As promised, pictures from the last few months of bridal fair setup! All of the months of stress and everything leading up to it were worth it. We decided to keep everything under wraps until the Big Reveal at the fair because we really wanted everything to be a surprise. Alot of the decorative things and the overall design for the fair has actually been in the works since last March- we've been picking up things here and there (zebra chair! That was one of our first purchases that we sort of based the theme around!) and it all came together. Adam built our walls on a nice weekend and although we had alot of troubles with them, in the end they looked great!

This was one of the happiest days!!! Aside from the day the canvases came (I think the Fed Ex man was outside for literally 20 minutes carrying in all of the boxes!) this was the BEST day! I came home to these- our albums!!!! Apparently our cat, Minnie, was just as excited as I was to see what's inside!

One of our albums- the packaging was so cool! This was the first major order we placed with this company after going back and forth between many others over the past year. We finally took a chance on them after liking their variety and we couldnt be happier!

Our massive 8x20 flipbook album!

One of our other great albums!

Another awesome day!! Prints arrived!!!

We spent MANY days here over the past year....many trips back and forth for this and that....I think they knew us by name at the end!

And many trips with this handy guy! Ha, this is what happens when you have very small cars! Good thing we lived close!

Starting the wall building process! We used so many of these screws!

My amazing and handy Husband!!

He did such an incredible job!!

These are just some of the MANY many pictures I collected over our building/planning/designing process. I took pictures of EVERY item-- I think I was a bit camera happy with every new purchase and every new box that arrived. Haha, I wont bore everyone with EVERY picture, but these are some of my favorites.

Luckily we wont have to go through this huge process for the next fair this fall. We are really happy though with all of the work and everything came together perfectly, despite my negativity that it wouldnt! :D

emails and cruises

So today I spent the day emailing all of my wonderful winners from the bridal fair. I was in a generous mood, so I decided to extend my bridal fair specials and allow my winners to combine their winnings with these specials (they are lucky, I know).

It took a long time, but hopefully I'll get some amazing brides that are interested!



On a side note, I think we've found where we are going to go on our honeymoon. Yes, I know, I promised not to make this all about my wedding, but I'm just so excited! We are looking to go all out for this trip, since the two of us have never taken a trip together since we've been dating. We knew we wanted to visit Europe, so we were looking into Mediterranean cruises, and we found an amazing cruise that happens to leave on the date we need and hits Athens, Greece, Cyprus, Alexandria Egypt, Jerusalem and Nazareth, among other places. Personally, I wanted a tour of Italy- but he really wants to visit the Holy Land, and I do think it would be pretty cool to see the pyramids.

Though the entry requirements to get into Israel are intimidating, and I'm worried about all the fighting! People just need to get along.

welcome to the world of blogging!

So after months of procrastination, I finally figured to jump onto this blog bandwagon. I figured I was in the minority here, so why not, eh?

And what a better way to get started in the blogging world by a post full of pictures? I thought it was pretty good myself.

Anywho, we had our second bridal fair here in KC and I have to say that the turnout was absolutely amazing. It was better than anyone could have imagine and the booth turned out better than I planned.

And we were situated next to the yummy and fantastic Chocolate Picture People (yes, you read that right!), which made the day much more entertaining. I mean come on, what could be better than pictures on chocolate?! Nothing, that's right.

In any case, it was a great day. We met with alot of awesome brides and I can't wait to talk with alot of them further. We've only got a handful of 2009 dates open- so if you were one of those 09 brides interested at the fair- be sure to get an appointment set up soon!