Bridal Films| Wedding Blog

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

www.WeddingGrooves.com

I am excited to announce the newest feature to help you with planning your wedding reception, here at BridalFilms.net: Wedding Grooves!

Are you having trouble deciding on what song will be your first dance song? Don't know what to dance with your father to? Stumped on that special song for Mom? Then Wedding Grooves is what you want to check out! Using YouTube streaming, you can surf a list of the most popular songs in the categories of First Dance, Father & Daughter Dance, Mother & Son Dance and Bridal Paty Dance. Once you decide you can also go to Amazon.com to buy the album or surf over to iTunes and download the single!

I am very excited by this new feature, it's been a lot of work and we're still working to expand the music selection but already there is a lot of excellent songs! Over the last several days I've relived a lot of music videos I had forgotten about and seen some I've never viewed before. YouTube is such a wonderful resource for memories! Check it out, and share it with friends.

-Amy

Image copyright McDonald Studio

Labels: first dance, iTunes, Reception, wedding, Wedding Grooves, YouTube

Friday, October 12, 2007

Night Of The Twister

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!

-Amy

Labels: new article, Reception, tornado

Sunday, September 23, 2007

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

Friday, August 3, 2007

Place Card Ideas

Looking for a unique way of displaying your guests place cards than just laying them out on a table in rows. Martha Stewart has a few ideas, as she always does.

For an outside or tent reception run some clothesline and suspend the cards from clothespins.

IF you are in a hall, set them on a flower bed. In this picture they are resting on Carnations with a foam core interior.

Labels: Marth Stewart, placecards, Reception

Friday, June 8, 2007

Interesting Introduction Idea

Over at The Best Wedding Reception Ever blog, there is an interesting idea for introducing the bride and groom at the reception. Check it out!

-Amy

Labels: Reception, The Best Reception Ever