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-Amy
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I just got confirmation that Lance Gray of My Life In Print will be writing an article about the Heritage Makers line of memory books! This is too cool. No word on when yet, but if you want to stay informed bookmark our rss feed below. I'll announce it right here when the article goes live.
In the meantime check out Tasra Dawson's excellent book on scrapping.
Mark Kingsdorf's blog over at The Queen of Hearts has quickly become one of the blogs I like stopping by to see what's new every morning over coffee. Today he has something posted that just floored me. Check it out!
OMG! Here is a gift for those beer drinking groomsmen in your bridal party, the bottle opening belt buckle! Yes it is a belt buckle and a bottle opener. I really don't konw what to think of it except laugh. You can order them at Sheplers.
One of the things that drives me nuts about this industry is that after spending $20,000, $50,000, $100,000 or more on your wedding very seldom is there anything left to show for all the money you spent. Yes you will have your video and your photos and maybe a cake cutting set or your champagne glasses, but really there isn't anything useful left. Cake sets and champagne glasses tend to end up on a shelf displayed, not touched again till the next generation. You gown is boxed up and unless you do a Trash the Dress it won't see the light of day again. My mom is yelling at my sister to wear hers but honestly it's old, ugly (in my opinion, sorry mom) and not a modern design. My sister has found her own gown and I am sure any future daughter of her's will do the same.
So I am always happy to discover something that actually has an every day use outside of the wedding day. This is too cool, in this months Bride's Magazine the Tigerlilly line of headbands has been named Best of 2007. The cool factor is that Tigerlilly's headbands once used at the wedding can be used again and again as a choker or a necklace. And they are so pretty! I love the Fiona which is what is in their Best Of picture.
I have never gotten into scrapping. When my sister destroyed one of my favorite family photos so that it "fit just right" into a page she was making without checking to see if we still had the negative to make more copies, was the end for me.
Then today I stumbled across this site: My Life In Print! This is too cool! Lance Gray, the site's owner calls it a digital scrapbook. What you can do is scan your favorite family photos and either use prefab templates offered by Heritage Makers or create you own. From there the company will make for you at a very reasonable price a square bound hard cover book of your pictures!
Photographers charge thousands for these types of books and from looking through the site the pricing is very reasonable. And it goes beyond just weddings into all aspects of your life, the pictures can be anything you want from your memories. Check out some online samples here!
These are really cool. I'm going to contact Lance about writing an article about this for BridalFIlms.net!
If you are interested in the traditional form of scrap booking then I suggest you check out Real Women Scrap, by Tarsa Dawson. A very eclectic blog that is fun to read.
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Went to see a movie last Friday, Michael Clayton, which I highly recommend for it's terrific script and of course the yummy George Clooney. The trailers included the movie Dan In Real Life with Steve Carell. It looks like it may be funny, my date said it looked like a chic flick. I may have trouble dragging him to it. :-( But towards the end there was this fantastic song. I spent part of the day tracking that song down, playing hookie from an article I'm writing for the site. And I found it! This is a great song. Here is Peter Townswend and Let My Love Open The Door. Enjoy!
In my opinion wedding consultants, coordinators or whatever you want to call them are a highly under utilized resource for planning a wedding. So many of the common problems could be avoided if you just had a consultant. I also love reading their blogs.
Mark Kingsdorf, owner of The Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants in Philly, has some excellent advise if you are having an outdoor wedding. Hire a DJ company to provide sound reinforcement for your ceremony! Check it out here!
An issue near to every woman is Breast Cancer. This is of course Breast Cancer Awareness Month and many companies are offering special products that a portion of the proceeds goes to research. I just found one from the Riedel company.
------------------- Riedel Toasts Breast Cancer Survivors Through Rosé-Colored Glasses
For the third year, Riedel has created a special, limited edition glass to benefit Living Beyond Breast Cancer. The Pink Vinum Rosé glass with its soft pink stem and clear bowl will be available beginning May 2007, just in time for rosé wine season. "This year we decided to create a rosé glass as the interest in and consumption of rosé wine has risen and is being enjoyed from the start of spring through Thanksgiving," said Maximilian Riedel, CEO of Riedel Crystal of America.
The glass will be sold in sets of two for $49.80, attractively packaged as a pair in a black box adorned by the pink ribbon synonymous with this important cause. Riedel will donate 15% of the proceeds from the sale of this glass to support those dealing with the devastating diagnosis of breast cancer and life beyond.
Ladies, Brides.com has a contest going on based on the upcoming movie 27 Dresses starring the beautiful Katherine Heigl and the yummy James Marsden. Plot: After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
Modern Bride and their website Brides.com is sponsoring a contest based on the movie, their "Always A Bridesmaid" you tell what is great or not so great about being a bridesmaid.
Anyone who has read the majority of this blog probably realizes I'm sort of on a crusade for wedding video. Photography is a top 10 priority, but so should be video. Well it is nice to find someone with like thoughts; Kelly McWilliams at the Weddings by Socialites blog has an excellent post about video.
Ms. & Mrs. has a new product, the Bridesmaid's Survival Kit. They are the producers of the original Wedding Day Survival Kit which has been very popular with brides. Check it out.
Sounds like a bad TV movie, doesn't it? ;-) Well on August 11 in Culver, IN the tent errected for the wedding of Laura Schrage and Christopher Campbell was knocked down and deposited in a nearby lake. With only two days till the wedding wedding coordinator Cynthia Basker lead a team of talented wedding professionals in recreating a week's worth of work in two days. You can read about it at our sister site, Michiana Weddings!
You never know just how handy that wedding video may be. It may just help catch a crook!
October 2, 2007 (RIGBY, Idaho)- An Idaho wedding crasher is charged with helping herself to more than just a piece of cake. A home video of Sciara and Charles Dougherty was taken at their wedding in Rigby, Idaho.
While the unsuspecting bride and groom enjoyed their first dance, an uninvited guest was captured in the background trying to blend in. Kim Cooper reportedly introduced herself to friends and family and even helped decorate the bridal car.
It wasn't until the newlyweds discovered dozens of gift cards and envelopes with cash missing that they considered the uninvited guest a suspect.
"We said, 'What if she took them?' Then we thought, "No, nobody would do something like that, that was our day, that's all about us," said Sciara Dougherty.
Cooper was caught cashing in the gift cards at various stores. She's charged with burglary
I know, I know, this is a photography, video, entertainment site, but I'll talk about what I want to talk about on my blog.
Cynthia Basker of Celebrated Events in South Bend, IN is my favorite wedding coordinator. Her creativity is just breathtaking. Presently I am working on an article for our sister site Michiana Weddings about a tornado that nearly destroyed a very elegant wedding in Culver Indiana. Cyndi was hired to make the event go off flawlessly at the Culver Military Academy and on Wednesday night, 2 days before the wedding everything they had done up to that point in decorating the 3 tents that comprised the reception facilities was destroyed by a twister. Cyndi had 2 days to recreate a weeks worth of work and pull off this wedding and that is exactly what she did.
But the article is not the point of this post, what is is the clever ideas I saw in some pictures I go from Burns Rent All to use in the article. Cynthia for this wedding created chandeliers of Plexiglas, candles and flowers that are just too cool!
Then over the head table they created a canopy of Plexiglas, rose petals and candles with pink light hitting it, that was mirrored on the table below.
If you are like me next year isn't getting here fast enough so we can find out what happened with Mr. Big and Carrie. But after the wedding pictures leaked last week, I just want to run up to Sarah Jessica Parker and say EAT SOMETHING! Has Sarah gone anna? She is pretty close to it in my opinion.
And I hope that wrinkled mess of a gown isn't the future of high fashion. Blah! Maybe a healthier looking person would make it look better... No I doubt it, especially with that feather head dress.
This is a bad flashback to the 1980's, without the Cinderella sleves.
Amy Taylor is Editor and Chief of Bridal Films, Michiana Weddings and their respective websites and publications. Her passion for all things weddings started with "helping my sister plan her dream wedding"
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