Our Salem Grand Prize Winner is…
October 29, 2009
Our winner for the Salem October 2009 Oregon Wedding Showcase Grand Prize has been selected at random from the brides who registered at the show, and she is Kazandra King of Corvallis!
Kazandra and her groom received a Carnival Cruise 5-Day Cruise Getaway, to their choice of either Mexico or the Bahamas! Congratulations Kazandra!!
Featuring Our Photographers…
October 27, 2009
One of the great pleasures of going to an Oregon Wedding Showcase is the chance to see a luscious variety of fantastic wedding photos. Each wedding photographer has a visual style as unique as their fingerprint, and the range of wedding photos displayed at the bridal show range from classic and traditional, to stunningly theatrical or heart-stopping dramatic; urban chic to down-home country.
As our brides are waiting between show dates for the next Oregon Wedding Showcase, we’re going to take a moment and use our Brides Blog featured image slideshow to present a gallery of some of our 2009/2010 wedding photographer’s own favorite wedding shots. We’re inviting all of our exhibiting photographers in this season’s shows to send us up to six wedding photos, and we’ll swap older photos out for new ones as our photographers decide to do so. So check back often to enjoy new photos in our dynamic gallery!
(Currently featured photographers include Anne Nunn Photography, Heidi Hoffman Photography, KS Photography, Monovita, Priemier NW Photography, and Ten 18 Photography)
The District in Eugene makes for a hip wedding venue!
October 22, 2009
One of the exciting wedding venues to be featured in our Eugene October 2009 showcase was The District in Eugene. A new nightclub on 13th & Oak Street in Eugene, The District offers the urban bride who wants to dance the night away a fantastic all-in-one venue for both her wedding and her reception. The District features a huge dance floor, fabulous audio and video equipment, a coffee bar, catering, decorating services, and more! For more information, visit their website at www.thedistricteugene.com or call 541.434.3387.
For brides looking for a special Halloween event, you can sample The District’s urban vibe while enjoying the first annual Downtown Halloween Costume Pooch Parade, a benefit event for Coffee for Canines, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. on Halloween Day:
Eugene Gown Sale show was wonderful!
October 20, 2009
Thank you to all of our vendors and all of our brides who came to the show — our Eugene October 2009 Oregon Wedding Showcase was wonderful! Our brides braved the wind, the wet weather, and even Swine Flu fears to turn out for the show, and we saw many a lovely wedding gown tried on (and taken home)!
Click here to see KEZI video at the Eugene Oregon Wedding Showcase, with an extended interview with Judy, and featuring some of our fantastic vendors (including Dover String Quartet, Willamette Artisans Jewelry, Exclusively Bridal and Valley River Inn)!
Why you need a professional Wedding Videographer!
October 13, 2009
A wedding video is more than a luxury! On the big-day-of, your wedding is going to whip by in one great big blur for you.. A professional wedding videographer will capture everything that happens during your wedding, and will preserve it forever for you and your family. ”A wedding video is an heirloom you can show your children, and which they can show their children,” says Jeffrey Haney of Lights in the Attic Creative Media. “We often hear from our brides and grooms that their wedding video was the best investment they made on their wedding day.”
Think of it like this: memories fade, and photos are static — they don’t capture the music, laughter, and motion that is the celebratory whirl of your wedding day. Plus, a wedding video will capture for you those special moments that you may have missed. After your wedding is all done and your friends and relatives have gone home, you have your wedding video to relive your special day. You will see the smiles & the tears, hear the laughter, and get the opportunity to enjoy all of those magical moments which you may have otherwise have missed. You will see how your parents react to you saying ?I do? –when at that moment, you only had eyes for your husband. You will see how your groom teared up when he saw you walking down the aisle — when, at the time, you were too busy trying not to cry and trying not to trip. You can watch your friends and family having fun and celebrating your union — when you don?t even remember seeing some of them there. You will see the flower girl going the wrong way down the aisle — and now you know why you heard laughing while you were waiting nervously in the hall. These memories are precious and once it?s over, it?s over. Only a wedding video will capture and preserve these priceless moments for you.
Professional Videographers seem too pricey?
If you are planning on putting a tripod up at your wedding, here are some things to consider: full bright sunlight, a crying baby, coughing, a dark ceremony, lots of beams in the reception hall. Editing itself is an art form both with the video and the audio side (take the hours you filmed and at least triple it for editing). You might not think of this, but professional videographers have dealt with these issues and know how to make your wedding video look and sound as though none of these obstacles existed. You are not going to be able to see yourself and your fiancée?s expressions or really hear your voices when you’ve only one tripod set up in the back of your wedding venue. Wedding videographers not only document your day, but create a wedding video that even strangers would want to watch over and over again.
When choosing a wedding film professional, ask questions like how many cameras do they use during the ceremony? Do they mike up the pastor and your future husband? Do they charge extra for High Definition filming? Ask to watch a wedding video filmed by the professional wedding videographer and you will see that, just like with wedding photography, videography is an investment which more than pays for itself!
Oregon wedding videographers are in the forefront of recreating what it means to having a wedding film, and Oregon is lucky to have a number of top videographers. “We are all striving to perfect our art and storytelling , and every year we are inspired by what fellow videographers are creating and what we have created,” says Jeffrey Hayes of Lights in the Attic Creative Media.
To see for yourself examples of some dynamic & award-winning wedding films, visit Tara & Jeffrey Hanes of Lights in the Attic Creative Media — and plan on visiting them at our upcoming Eugene October, and both January Salem & Eugene bridal shows!
Regarding Modern Bride magazine
October 9, 2009
On Saturday and Sunday, all of the brides who came to our Salem Oregon Wedding Showcase were told as they walked through the doors that they were being given a complimentary 1-year subscription to Modern Bride magazine.
On Monday morning, we were as shocked as everyone else to learn that the publishing house responsible for Modern Bride was immediately ceasing print of that magazine title. Having seen how eager many of our brides were at the promise of receiving their free 1-year subscription,we were mortified to hear about this! However, after some further investigation, we’ve got good news.
Instead of receiving a 1-year subscription to Modern Bride, all of our brides who register at the show will receive a 1-year subscription to Brides magazine. We think this is actually a win-win for our bride — she’ll get still receive high-quality magazine subscription, and where Modern Bride only went to press every other month, Brides is a monthly publication!
More pix from the Salem Oregon Wedding Showcase!
October 8, 2009
Here are some more snapshots from our wonderful Salem Gown Sale bridal show! These brides got to try on these gowns at the sale — aren’t both the gals and the gowns fabulous?
Below: a vignette from Simply Grand’s elegant gown sale booth:
Pix from Salem’s October Gown Sale!
October 6, 2009
Here at the OWS office, we’re still unpacking from the Salem October Gown Sale show, and prepping for the show coming up in Eugene. But here’s a couple of candid snapshots from the show!
Above: a slice of Special Occasion Unlimited’s fabulous Mardi Gras themed booth. Below: two of the happy brides who tried on (and maybe took home!) wedding gowns from our Gown Sale aisle!
