Shout out to Prime Time Party Rental, who has featured Your Dream Day as a preferred affiliate on their website for wedding and event planning. They offer fabulous deals on chair, tent, linen and table rentals and we love working with them on Dayton weddings.Monday, October 26, 2009
Shout Out to Prime Time Party Rental
Shout out to Prime Time Party Rental, who has featured Your Dream Day as a preferred affiliate on their website for wedding and event planning. They offer fabulous deals on chair, tent, linen and table rentals and we love working with them on Dayton weddings.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Open House at the Dayton Bridal Connection today!
Be sure to visit us at the open house at the Dayton Bridal Connection today from 1 to 5 p.m. Free cake, free food, free chocolate, music, dove releases -- lots of fun for couples to be!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Got Wedding Stuff -- 2/17/2010
Yesterday, I met with Pam Vitale at Country Club of the North to discuss the details for the next "Got Wedding Stuff" event, which will be held at CCN on 2/17/2010 from 5 to 9 p.m.
We anticipate roughly 100 vendors will be exhibiting at the bridal cocktail, so you can chat with them and learn more about their services. The event will feel like a wedding cocktail reception. A fashion show will showcase the latest and greatest in bridal attire. A silent auction, which will be loaded with generous gift certificates from local wedding vendors off their services, and lightly used wedding items such as dresses, jewelry, shoes, centerpieces, favors, unity candles, guest books, garters, and other accessories, will be at the event for all brides. (At the last event, more than $50,000 worth of items were donated! A bride won a $1000 brand new wedding dress for $50!) We're also planning to have other games and activities, such as a dollar dance with a local celebrity, to add fun to the festivities.
Cost will be $5 per person and includes one drink ticket for those over the age of 21. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Lupus Foundation and all brides will certainly benefit from the fabulous deals at the auction! Lightly used wedding items and gift certificates may be pledged on the website and dropped off on 2/16 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on 2/17 by 3 p.m. All donations to the silent auction are tax deductible. (Gift certificates only may be dropped off to Your Dream Day before 12/31 for a 2009 tax donation.) We'll get the items up as they are pledged and dropped off, so check the site regularly in the weeks and days leading up to the event. We encourage brides with lightly used items left from their own weddings to donate them to this event!
This event will be presented in sponsorship with Your Dream Day, Country Club of the North, Finch Rental and Party Pleasers. (We are still tying down the details for the fashion show, and PSAs with the local television media. Radio ads will start running in February.) If you are a vendor and interested in exhibiting or donating to the event, please call me and we'll get you signed up.
We anticipate roughly 100 vendors will be exhibiting at the bridal cocktail, so you can chat with them and learn more about their services. The event will feel like a wedding cocktail reception. A fashion show will showcase the latest and greatest in bridal attire. A silent auction, which will be loaded with generous gift certificates from local wedding vendors off their services, and lightly used wedding items such as dresses, jewelry, shoes, centerpieces, favors, unity candles, guest books, garters, and other accessories, will be at the event for all brides. (At the last event, more than $50,000 worth of items were donated! A bride won a $1000 brand new wedding dress for $50!) We're also planning to have other games and activities, such as a dollar dance with a local celebrity, to add fun to the festivities.
Cost will be $5 per person and includes one drink ticket for those over the age of 21. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Lupus Foundation and all brides will certainly benefit from the fabulous deals at the auction! Lightly used wedding items and gift certificates may be pledged on the website and dropped off on 2/16 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on 2/17 by 3 p.m. All donations to the silent auction are tax deductible. (Gift certificates only may be dropped off to Your Dream Day before 12/31 for a 2009 tax donation.) We'll get the items up as they are pledged and dropped off, so check the site regularly in the weeks and days leading up to the event. We encourage brides with lightly used items left from their own weddings to donate them to this event!
This event will be presented in sponsorship with Your Dream Day, Country Club of the North, Finch Rental and Party Pleasers. (We are still tying down the details for the fashion show, and PSAs with the local television media. Radio ads will start running in February.) If you are a vendor and interested in exhibiting or donating to the event, please call me and we'll get you signed up.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Oh, the wedding television shows....
I met with our bride for October 31 yesterday to go over her schedule for the day of her wedding. She started talking to me about Bridezillas episode she saw over the weekend and how much the show scares her. She said, "I don't want to be like that on my wedding day. Please don't let me be like that!"
Here's what you need to know:
1) The show is entertainment. They are real brides, but it's entertainment. The girls are hamming it up for the cameras.
2) They get a free 3 day honeymoon for exploiting themselves on national TV and $2500.
3) Remember the segments are edited. It may not have happened exactly how you see it on the show.
4) The producers always throw one wrench into the wedding. They call the vendor and tell them not to show up, or create some type of drama. It doesn't just happen.
That being said ... it is a real wedding....I guess that piece of it is real!
Here's what you need to know:
1) The show is entertainment. They are real brides, but it's entertainment. The girls are hamming it up for the cameras.
2) They get a free 3 day honeymoon for exploiting themselves on national TV and $2500.
3) Remember the segments are edited. It may not have happened exactly how you see it on the show.
4) The producers always throw one wrench into the wedding. They call the vendor and tell them not to show up, or create some type of drama. It doesn't just happen.
That being said ... it is a real wedding....I guess that piece of it is real!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
We've been blogged!
How exciting! Brenda from Best Wedding Sites has blogged a pink wedding that we designed in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. She was looking for examples of pink weddings and I sent her this one that we did at Cox Arboretum. I love her blog, it's a great source for inspiration for me! What an honor to actually be featured in it!!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Alterations Nightmare Resolved
It breaks my heart when one of my clients calls me up in tears because her dress doesn't fit properly. Usually this happens twice a year. She's purchased her dress and the bridal shop that she bought it from refers her to a seamstress. She picks up the dress the week before her wedding and it doesn't fit right or its a shoddy alterations job. Then I get a phone call from the bride, in tears, and we have to find someone else at the 11th hour to repair it. Ironically enough, it's usually 1/3 the price of what they paid the first person! Sadly, it happened today for this coming weekend's bride. Luckily, we were able to schedule her a fitting for Tuesday and her dress should be done by Friday. Phew!
I tell my clients to purchase their dress at the dress shop and then to ask me for a referral for their alterations. I have 12 preferred seamstresses that literally run for a 100 mile radius, right up the interstates, for their convenience. Unlike the dress shops, I do not get kickbacks from them, so your cost is a lot cheaper than going through the bridal shop. And, they have an excellent track record of their work with our clients.
I tell my clients to purchase their dress at the dress shop and then to ask me for a referral for their alterations. I have 12 preferred seamstresses that literally run for a 100 mile radius, right up the interstates, for their convenience. Unlike the dress shops, I do not get kickbacks from them, so your cost is a lot cheaper than going through the bridal shop. And, they have an excellent track record of their work with our clients.
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