The Longest Day

"Twenty-four photographers. Twenty-four hours. Two teams. But there can be only ONE winner."

WPPI is right around the corner. What is WPPI? It is the mega of all conventions for photographers in Las Vegas. Why would a wedding planner care about WPPI? Well, all the great photographers will be there and the parties are fabulous. I only go for the networking and parties, I couldn't tell you squat about F Stop this or white balance that...but I can find tons of great industry friends. Since we do a lot of destination weddings, we like to use photographers from all over...

I've been watching episodes of "The Longest Day" .  At the end of this project, the winner earns $3k for their charity.  Click above on "The Longest Day to watch from the beginning.  You can watch the final product here:

You will recognize many of the names here:  Robert Evans, The [b]ecker, Joe Photo, Amber Horlitz, Dane Sanders, Brook Todd, Jasmine Star, Jessica Claire...the list goes on.  Here are my fave parts of the final product and I know you will enjoy them too:

• Robert Evans, Mr. Tom and Katie himself...and his awesome equipment bag, uh, I mean sack
• the [b]ecker with his 1's and 4's and bouncing light off the fat aunt - new fave words "Foof and Buttery"
• Dane Sanders Fast "Crack" Photography book - we need one for wedding planners
• Jules Bianchi and her gummy bear white balance solution
• the Mike Colon spoof was very very funny...can't wait to ask him about his reaction
• And please, can I send my personal photos to Kevin Kubota!?
• Bambi Cantrell can carry her bling
• And lastly, don't miss Brook Todd busting a move on stage, then off...

Wedding & Event Alphabet Project

So, I stumbled across this website: Project Alphabet. And i've done my own little twist to their idea and will be blogging about it. We will be posting our favorite wedding things that begin with a certain letter in the alphabet. Naturally, my instinct is to begin with the letter A, but I am going to start with the letter S. I love shoes - which is explains the "shoe" label on a wedding planning blog. Keep a look out for Alphabet Wednesdays....

"S" is for shoes and style. Go all out and wear some awesome shoes under your fabulous dress.

Have you considered a wedding in Tuscany?

This fall, Gabriella and John will be married in the beautiful hills of Tuscany. The above picture is what it looks like now, but they say it will be beautiful and green in the early Fall like below.

Many people think destination weddings are too expensive, but depending on some of your priorities for your budget, it may not be out of reach. Gone are the days with ballooning guest lists, insane quantities of food. Today's bride is focused on intimacy, delicious food and drink. As we see a downturn in the guest lists, I have found that dollar to euro, many of our weddings are costing the same, whether it be on swank affair on the San Antonio Riverwalk or in the hills of Tuscany.

a HOT video short

This is HOT. When I say hot, I mean smokin'. Engage is a fusion of high quality video and photography. I've been hearing about it for a couple of weeks now and my friend and colleague, Carlos Baez of Miami shared this link and the following video.

For all our international brides, we must consider this fusion team.



And this was all shot with the Canon 5D Mark II!

Holiday colors for your event

I know when you think of holiday events, or weddings during the holidays, clients really struggle with the color scheme because they don't want it to look like Christmas. Red is a beautiful and dramatic color. Here is a way to use red without the obvious Christmas comparison.

My favorite blogs

Part of being a good blogger, besides blogging with frequency is given kudos to fellow bloggers.

So here is a list of blogs I read with frequency. Some of these are related to events, but some aren't...so you will seem some crazy stuff here.

Gossip blogs. None other than Perez Hilton. I used to check others out, but Perez has really blown up and actually improved over the last year, so Mario Lavandeira: good job.
Here is a tip - Perez lists a lot of cool new music my ears would have never heard of except for his blog.

Wedding blogs:
The Wedding Bee
The Bride's Cafe (look for a feature on us soon)
Southern Wedding Style
Planning Forever Events
Parisian Party
Life Mosaics
Blu Door Studios
Photography by Vanessa
Perez Photography Blog
A Magical Affair
The White Box