Show Time

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The How Charming! Wedding Event was the fourth wedding show I have participated in since starting my business in the beginning of 2008.  This year the show was held at the gorgeous Spindletop Hall.  As always, we had a great time.  I love the January show because it marks a goal for me to update our website and info for the year and we get to meet a lot of newly engaged ladies and their entourages (entouragi?).  We also got to chat with some of our wedding biz friends and meet a couple new ones too. You can check out our booth below.  We revamped it a bit from last year with a few new details and A LOT of updated photos.  The coat tree with hanging photos made a reappearance and I think it is still my favorite part of our setup.  We were in a beautiful room upstairs that matched our booth and style perfectly.    Thanks so much to Jacki and Jaime for hosting the show.

A special thanks to the new brides who stopped by our booth.  We loved chatting with you and thanks to those of you who have already emailed for more info.  We are offering a show discount for the next couple weeks so be sure to mention you are a How Charming! bride when you call or email us.  Thanks!

Here's to 2012!

This was the first time we got to use our new logo in a wedding show booth and we got so many compliments.  Shout out to Hitch Design Studio for our logo design.

Here is my Gabe.  We forgot to get a picture of the two of us.  You just have to trust me when I say I looked super cute in my black dress, Anthro blazer, and suede booties.  :)

I had a quick minute with my camera and snapped a few pictures before the show began.  There were so many amazing vendors at the show (check the show website for a full list of vendors).  Below we have Flour Girl Cakery.

Love this dress from Bridal and Formal.

Our roommates: Mint Julep Tours and West Baden.

Sherwood Design and Events

Oh, how did this get in here?  It's  Wally!

 

 

 

2011 Wedding Recap: Let the Good Times Roll

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Where does the time go?  It seems like just yesterday we were gearing up to go to California, Charleston, Illinois, shoot our first Bangladeshi wedding, and 28 other amazing Kentucky wedding celebrations.  I was so nervous about all of these new adventures (oh yeah, and we changed our name!).  Now that I am on the other side of them I am so blessed for these opportunities and thankful that each one went so well. Gabe and I just had a great time reminiscing as we reviewed these weddings. Most of the memories include laughing with wedding parties, veils blowing in the wind, intense heat, late nights of editing, and me tripping and/or wiping out while maintaining my game face.  We found a few bloopers too so be sure to keep scrolling for those.  We cannot thank you enough:

Jennifer & Donny

Heather & Jack

Jennifer & Dereck

Tashina & Josh

Jessica & Josh

Kelly & Jonathan

Whitney & Mike

Amy & Brian

Lauren & Barrett

Yasmin & Sunny

Megan & Matt

Rebecca & Jonathan

Brittany & Chris

Katie & Eric

Megan & Keaton

Johanna & Robbs

Erin & David

Courtney & Zach

Libby & Danny

Carly & Tony

Abby & Courtney

Michelle & Landon

Erin & Michael

Allie & Jonathan

Sarah & Klinton

Page & Rich

Emily & Chris

Kerry & Chris

Allison & Charlie

Rachel & Matt

Mary Emily & John

Katie & Tyler

And now for the behind the scenes.  I look a little crazed in most of them.  Oh golly.

Gabe's sweaty hot mess look.  I kinda like it.  This was at our beach wedding.  He's rocking sand-sea water hair gel.

These pictures double as ads for Canon and Shoot Sac.

Mary sandwich!

Gabe is always calm, cool and collected -

Which is a good thing because I tend to go deer-in-the-headlights by the time we leave.

Love to you all and happy 2012.  I hope you find many good times and a lot of joy this year.  May it the best year yet!

 

A Fantastic Week of Giveaways!

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It was an awesome week!  We had a blast giving away all these prizes - It was a great gift-giving start to the Christmas season. Congrats to Erika for winning the Grand Prize!  She netted 482 votes to win.  Pretty amazing, right?  And thanks to everyone who voted and participated.  It was a whole lot of fun.  We look forward to doing this again next year.

 

But We really want to thank the fabulous and generous vendors who donated their gifts and services...those of us in Lexington really work with the best vendors imaginable.  So thanks for your amazing donations to make this Giveaway Week a success.  We couldn't have done it without you!

Here is a list of them below...

2 Tickets to Jacki Allen's How Charming! Bridal Event (Check it out! It's going to be awesome)- Thanks to Jacki Allen with Jacki & Jaimeson Wedding & Event Planning

Rayna @  Always Planned for donating 3 different prizes!

The Ashley Inn

Tina @ www.bridedesigns.net

Chris @ C&A Davis Design

The Campbell House  Crowne Plaza for donating 5 different prizes!

Erin @ The Crushed Violet 

Martine's Pastries for donating 2 awesome prizes.

Simply Love Studio for donating 2 tickets to the upcoming Venue Hop (They are always a whole lot of fun!)

Cameron @ Tinker's Cake shop

Ty @ Twirl Lexington

Quinn @ Wedding Row Kentucky - for promoting us!

 

We wish you all a very Happy and Joyful Christmas.  May it be beautiful and fun and sincere.

-Mary & Gabe

Giveaway Day #5 - Last Day

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Hello!  Today is the last day for giveaways and the day when we award our Grand Prize! We had a great day of giveaways yesterday, and have another one today as well.

We are giving away:

1) Campbell House  Crowne Plaza - 10% Off The menu Price for wedding or Rehearsal Dinner

2) A print of Ashley Inn

3) A Martine's Gift Certificate - 10% off one eight serving celebration cake

4) A free trial for wedding hair design by our good friend Tina - www.bridedesigns.net

5) 2 Tickets to Jacki Allen's How Charming! Bridal Event

5) A $10 gift card to Coffee Times

And the Grand Prize!  $300 Gift Card to Honey Heart and Dinner for Two to Dudley's on Short.

Voting for the Grand Prize ends at 5pm today!

Here is the leaderboard as of 8:12am today:

1) Erika - 412 votes

2) Stephanie - 281 Votes

3) Dallyce - 104

Keep at it - Anything can happen!