Megan & Dave’s Professional Photos

A few weeks back, I posted about Megan and Dave’s wedding. Click here for Three Lights Photography‘s beautiful photos of the day.

Professional pictures by Three Lights Photography

August 2009 Fully booked

In order to maintain a quality level of service, we are no longer accepting bookings for August 2009. At least this year, I won’t have to work on my birthday (because it’s on a week day). Woo hoo! Thank you to all our clients for keeping us busy!

Wedding Planners Get-Together

It’s like with everything else in life, you don’t get together with the people you should often enough until something prompts you to do it. Liene Stevens from Blue Orchid Designs of Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ was in town and invited several of the DC area planners from the i-Wed forum for a get-together. i-Wed is an international network of wedding and event designers and has a great forum where we can discuss how to manage our businesses, share ideas, and vent after a bad day. It’s a great sounding board.

It was fun to finally meet all the ladies in real life at America in Union Station over a delicious brunch. Although we had already spent 3 hours there and the staff was ready to kick us out, I think we could have done it for a few more hours. Thanks to Stephanie Aspinwall from Ayr Hill Events for organizing this!

Front Row: Sara Bauleke (Bella Notte), Liene Stevens (Blue Orchid Designs), Andrea Hansborough (A&H Events), Isis Petrie (Posh Events). 2nd Row: me, Kawania Wooten (Howerton+Wooten Events), Maria Cooke (Ritzy Bee), Lakendra Kennedy (Affairs with Elegance) Back Row: Letetia Nicole (Simply Beautiful Concepts), Laura Auer (Wish Special Events), Stephanie Aspinwall (Ayr Hill Events)

Real Wedding: LaShawn & Harold (Part 2)

Here are some of the photos I managed to take at LaShawn & Harold’s wedding! If you missed my vendor roundup, go back to Part 1. I loved the chocolate brown, red and champagne colors. We worked hard to make the room and mood feel romantic.

Da Vincis Altar Arrangement

Escort Cards by Haute Papier

Castle Room at Ft. Belvoir Officers Club

Centerpiece #1 Da Vincis Florist

Centerpiece #2 Da Vincis Florist

Centerpiece #3 Da Vincis Florist

Favors: notice in the picture above the small square box of truffles. Combined with the small bottles of Prosecco below, what’s more romantic than chocolates and champagne?

Prosecco Favors

Cake table at Ft. Belvoir Officers Club. Cool, huh? A square table with a piece of glass lifted off and the spacing between the two is filled with petals and red beads. You can see the Potomac River in the back. Photo courtesy of my assistant, Juanice Jenkins.

Check out the sweetheart table! I just love the brown Azalea linen. Photo courtesy of my assistant, Juanice Jenkins. See the pillar candles along the window ledge? They added such a nice ambiance. If they look familiar, it's because they appeared back in March!

Real Wedding: LaShawn & Harold (Part 1)

LaShawn and Harold

Ceremony: Bethlehem Baptist Church of Alexandria

Reception Venue: Ft. Belvoir Officers’ Club (Catering Manager, Edwin Villoso).

• Advantages: Beautiful view of the Potomac River, plentiful parking, rental includes tables, chairs, and tableware
• Challenges: not Metro accessible, food & beverage are nothing to write home about, affordable, more than one event at the same time

DJ: Vincent Price from Master Production DJs. Great job! People started dancing with the first song and danced until their feet hurt! The dance floor was never empty.

Floral Designer: Da Vinci’s Florist. Good job and good value. They also had a great idea for the cake table. See Part 2 for photos.

Photographer: Kuhn’s Photography. Responsive during the planning process. Easy going during the event. Let’s wait and see what the photos look like.

Videographer: Ethan Yang from VisualSketch. Easy to work with during the event. Awaiting to see video for further comments. Ethan also works on movies so I’m curious to see how the edited video will turn out.

Invitations, Programs, Gift Tags, Escort Cards: Haute Papier. Sarah Meyer Walsh always does a great job with her paper products and this was no exception. See Part 2 for photos.

Linen Rentals: Select Event Rentals.