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Went to a Wedding Showcase

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So my city has this thing called The Wonderful Wedding Show, and I went yesterday.

They had Randy Fenoli from Say Yes to the Dress, and I heard he was great but I missed his presentation.

They had all kinds of vendors and fashion shows and stylists there doing hair to show off their skills. It was pretty amazing.

Things I learned:

People actually put birds in cages above their tables, which makes me gag a little because birds fling poop out of their cages.
Brides love cake samples.
Limo buses are VERY expensive.
Some vendors can be ridiculously pushy.
My venue's prices went up by like, 20 bucks per head.
Magicians are a new trend at weddings.

Since our wedding is in April, we've already booked a lot all of our vendors (that's a new realization for me, and it's scary) so I guess I just went for the experience, but in the process entered a TON of contests for free honey moons, the chance to win $10,000.00 and I played Plinko and got $200.00 off our DJ so it was totally worth it.

Side note: Thousands of brides in one room - no thank you.

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Re: Went to a Wedding Showcase

  • amelishaamelisha member
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    Omg, one of my old friends from high school emceed a wedding show this weekend and took a picture with Randy that I saw on Facebook this morning and I kind of freaked out, haha. I bet it was the same event!

    Hope you had fun...I've secretly kind of wanted to go to one of those because I bet it's BSC, but I don't know if I can handle it. I might try to go to one just for the weirdness and just not give my info out to anyone. 

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    I actually found my photography at a wedding show and so far we are really happy with him.  The experience can be sort of overwhelming, and it's not something I would want to go back to just for fun, but I think if you know what you want it can be really helpful.
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  • climbingsingleclimbingsingle member
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    2015 wedding trends - bird poop and magicians! 
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  • raissyraisraissyrais member
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    Live birds in cages? That spells catastrophe to me. And magicians...that could be cool I guess but it can't be the kind of magician that would perform at a 5 year old's birthday party. I want magic. Real magic!
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  • loveislouderloveislouder member
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    raissyrais said:
    Live birds in cages? That spells catastrophe to me. And magicians...that could be cool I guess but it can't be the kind of magician that would perform at a 5 year old's birthday party. I want magic. Real magic!
    The poor guy handed me a deck of cards to do something with, and I accidentally dropped them all.  It turned into 52 pick up and I don't think he appreciated it. He was expensive!! $500 for 2 hours!
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  • PellegcmPellegcm member
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    loveislouder said:
    Side note: Thousands of brides in one room - no thank you.

    Amen. I went to a huge bridal show when I first got engaged and it was overwhelming and not something I wanted to do again. Absolutely horrible. I went to a smaller one a little later which was better because it wasn't as crowded and they had actual food samples, not just cake. FI and I aren't huge cake people, but we love food. 


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  • loveislouderloveislouder member
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    Pellegcm said:
    loveislouder said:
    Side note: Thousands of brides in one room - no thank you.

    Amen. I went to a huge bridal show when I first got engaged and it was overwhelming and not something I wanted to do again. Absolutely horrible. I went to a smaller one a little later which was better because it wasn't as crowded and they had actual food samples, not just cake. FI and I aren't huge cake people, but we love food. 
    Honestly, the fat girl in me was like YAY MORE CAKE but the logical, need to fit in the dress side of me was like Why is no one sampling carrots.
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