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Friday, September 28, 2007

Why Men Love Bitches, the book

I was looking through our Amazon reports and this book came up

as having been purchased a dozen times off our links. I have never heard of the writer? Anyone know anything about this book or Sherry Argov?

Book description:
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Contending that some women are "too nice," comedian and radio show host Sherry Argov has written Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship. "I'm not recommending that a woman have an abrasive disposition," Argov writes, "The woman I'm describing is kind yet strong. She doesn't give up her life, and she won't chase a man." Her sassy book is filled with scenarios and advice aimed at making women subtly stronger and self-empowered. Argov's principles, which range from the farfetched to the downright absurd, include "If you give him a feeling of power, he'll want to protect you and he'll want to give you the world" and "A little distance combined with the appearance of self-control makes him nervous that he may be losing you." The book, which has already been featured on The View and The O'Reilly Factor, should make waves with its controversial view of relationships.

-Amy

Labels: Books on Relationships, Why Men Love Bitches

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Trash The Dress!

We have a new video streaming on Bridal Films TV! Our friends down in New Orleans at the Wedding Planning Experience had a show all about Trash the Dress back in August. We are now broadcasting the show on our 24 hour internet tv station.

I'll let Julian St. Pierre describe it to you:

"Post Wedding Photo Sessions?"

If you missed our August 26th TV Show here's your oppurtunity to view it at your leisure. The response has run the gamut of emotions - just as the clips run the gamut. Each segment is a depiction of the bride's personality and vision for her final product. You'll see traditional New Orleans locations - the French Quarter - St Lous Cathedral - Jackson Square and then you'll see the extreme - South Louisiana swamps where we dealt with spiders and alligaotors PLUS the final segment shot in a place... Well let's just say it's the most "extreme" music video we've (Studio Vieux Carre ) has ever created.

Thanks to photographer Julia Bailey for inviting us to capture her sessions, Urban Earth for their floral contributions and John's Tuxedos for providing the tuxedos.

The Origin: The sessions Trash the Dress sessions originated in Nevada where a local photographer facing challenges with his bride not wanting to soil her dress during her formal photo shoot prior to her wedding day. He suggested that they do the session "post wedding day" which allowed them to become very creative with the locations and the situations he could put the bride in and the birth of the "Trash the Dress" parties evolved into what you're going to view here. These are the first TTD sessions held here in New Orleans.

Click here to go to Bridal Films TV and enjoy a New Orleans Trash the Dress session. The video will repeat about every hour and a half.

-Amy

Labels: Bridal Films TV, New Orleans, The Wedding Planning Experience, Trash The Dress

The Key To A Really Successful Reception

With the summer passing into memory I thought I would share with you one of the things I have noticed attending weddings this year. If the reception is a full blow party with dancing, the success of the dancing portion is up to the bride and the groom. As with any function, the guests of honor and the hosts set the tone for any function, but most especially the dancing at a reception. Do not get me wrong, the quality of the entertainment is as important and by some degree more important because if you hire the wrong DJ, band or orchestra for your reception, then there will be nothing you can do to salvage the evening.

But if you have chosen the right entertainment that plays the music that clicks with your guests and you then how much the success of the evening is is up to you. By this I mean that if you as the host/guests of honor/bride and groom do not get up on the

dance floor and dance every so often then the party will be far less than it could be. The most successful wedding receptions I witnessed this past summer were the ones where the bride and groom nearly lived on the dance floor for three or four hours. The host/guests of honor/bride and groom set the tone that their guests will follow. If the entertainment is good there will be dancing, but not nearly as much or as fun as when the bride and groom are participating on a regular basis. If you are outside smoking or do nothing but talking to people around the room then that is what your guests will do. If you are up on the dance floor on a regular basis then your guests will follow you onto the dance floor.

So even if you think you have two left feet, if you are having a band/orchestra/DJ for your wedding reception, then get up on the dance floor and have fun! Your guests will do the same and you party will be all the success that you dreamed it would be!

-Amy

Special thanks to River City Productions and McDonald Studio for the pictures.

Labels: band, bride and groom, dancing, disc jockey, orchestra, Reception

Thursday, September 20, 2007

This is so cool!

Our intrepid Brian Peterson emailed me these links to check out this morning. This is so cool! Panorama views of a specific time at a wedding! If you scroll up in panorama #2 you can see the bouquet in the air even!

Panorama 1

Panorama 2

I'm surprised more photographers don't offer this, in fact Jensen Wedding Films is a videography company.

-Amy

Labels: panoramas, photography, videographers

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

You Get What You Pay For

Ladies, if you are going to hire a vendor, don' t hire the cheapest one you can find! As a friend of mine says, the ones who under price the market know their value and by willingly underpricing the market their services are usually worth nothing in the end.

I attended a wedding in Chicago this weekend. The identities are changed to protect the guilty. ;-) Stacey went all out for her wedding. She contracted the best country club reception hall she could find. Hired the best florist, the best pastry chef, had a cake that was to die for. The wedding was gorgeous, the reception a fantasy from a dream. The photographer and videographer were from hell! The photographer claims to have had 20 years in the wedding industry but evidently never learned to bring backup equipment. His digital camera died during the formals after the ceremony. He declared he he had to run home and get a backup and would see everyone at the reception. We did not see him again until the cake had been cut nearly 4 hours later.

The videograher was something else. They showed up 1 hour before the wedding as they were contracted to and beside setting up their equipment, they did nothing until the wedding started. Lost was the bride arriving by carriage. The groom arriving with his frat brothers. They actually carried him into the church. No with this videographer he started filming when the processional started.

At the reception he filmed the introductions, the toats, the cake, the first dance, the father daughter dance, the mother son dance, then sat down during the bridal party dance and did nothing and sat there for another 2 hours until the bouquet and garter tosses. Oh and I noticed when the frat brothers serenaded the bride, his camera was pointed at the floor. This took place between the bouquet and garter tosses so it wasn't like he wasn't standing there!

So he missed Stacey dancing with her grandfather, John dancing with his grandma. Stacey's mom dancing with her new son-in-law and the list goes on and on. At one point during the reception I asked Stacey what he was hired to do and she said "film everything". She was really too preoccupied to notice my hint and nothing was ever done. And after the photographer went missing in action I didn't have much of a heart to say anything. Maybe it's my bad for not saying anything but when you are a guest what is the proper thing to do.

This wasn't a cheap wedding, their budget was $50,000 but i the end, two of the most important services, the ones who document the memories, Stacey went cheap on. The photographer was $950 and went missing for 4 hours and the videographer was $500 and didn't do anything, missing tons of memories.

-Amy

Labels: cheap wedding vendors, photographers, videographers

Monday, September 3, 2007

What happens when...

A bunch of the bridal party/guests/band at a Philly wedding get stuck in the elevator?

Dave Williams one of the best videographers in the nation, shares that in this outtake.

It's too funny!

Labels: Dave Williams, stuck in an elevator, video

Thieves in California

Brian just posted on his Ask The Expert Blog about two thieves who have been hitting California Weddings and stealing the equipment of the photographers and the videographers. Please check out his links to images of these two thieves and if you have seen them, contact your local police!

Labels: Thieves in California