Bridal Spectacular Show August 20, 21 Reminder.

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge wants to remind all of my readers and all those of you planning a wedding; whether you are just starting the process or in the process, to check out the Bridal Spectacular Show this weekend.

Location: Cashman Center, 850 North Las Vegas Boulevard.

Show Dates: August 20 and 21, 2010 ~Friday 6 pm to 10 pm Saturday 11 am to 4 pm

If you have been watching the "MORE Show" on Fox 5 News, you probably have seen a glimpse of some of the exciting things that await at the show. But there is SO MUCH MORE (pun intended) including fashion shows, giveaways, and most of all, the chance to meet many of my creative wedding partner friends in person.

Registration is $10.00 online and $15.00 at the door.

You can get more information at their website www.BridalSpectacular.com

And, courtesy of Bridal Spectacular, here are some excellent tips to help you get the most of your bridal show experience and get your planning on the right track.

10 Tips For Attending Bridal Shows

1. Register online and save time at the door. If you do not register online, make sure you register when you enter. Registering will allow you to receive special money saving offers and receive free gifts and opportunities to win Big Prizes.
2. Create a temporary e-mail to be used while you are planning your wedding. That way you can delete it when you no longer are interested in receiving special offers or hearing from vendors. The amount of offers you receive at first may seem overwhelming, but take the time to read them or you may miss out on some very good deals.
3. Bring adhesive address labels, if you have them, or print some up on your computer. This will save you a lot of time when you register for prizes at individual booths. Most exhibitors will want to know your wedding date, so add that to the label.
4. Make sure you get your Bride and Groom-to-be-stickers when you register in order to receive special attention from the wedding pros.
5. Walk down every aisle and collect any information you are interested in and take it home to look over again at your leisure. Most large bridal shows will provide you with a large shopping bag as long as you register when you enter.
6. Bring your credit card or debit card to the show in case you want to book any services or hold a date. Some of your best discounts will be given at the show.
7. If you are attending the Bridal Spectacular, it is Las Vegas' largest bridal show, so come prepared to spend at least 4 or 5 hours to include time to see a fashion show and visit with all the wedding professionals.
8. Bring your fiance' with you for at least one trip to the event, then go again with your Mother and girlfriends. Going twice allows you to really take in everything you need to see.
9. Ask lots of questions, that's what the vendors are there for. They want to help you and you are under no pressure to buy from them, so find out everything you need to know.
10. Parking at Cashman is $4.00 CASH, there are no ATM machines until you get inside, so bring cash for parking.
11. Wear comfortable shoes and have a great time!

Have FUN at the Bridal Spectacular and Celebrate Today and Everyday with Love, Life & Style!!
Tracey

New "Crystal Velon" Product Rocks Your Table!!

Printed "Crystal Velon" on a "Ghost Chair"

Crystal Velon on Glass table and Ghost Chairs,

Design & Photo By Bobby Taylor of Taylor Creative, Inc.

(from Robert Fountain Blog)

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is LOVING the new "Printed Crystal Velon" product from Velon Design's Event Designer extraordinaire, Robert Fountain. This is SO GENIUS!!

I first saw this amazing product at The Special Event Show this past January in San Diego and it was one hot topic product that everyone was buzzing and "twittering" about.

This amazing product comes in rolls that can be applied directly to vases, plexi-glass or glass furniture like the plexi table & "Ghost Chairs" you see above to create dining environments (or centerpieces with a "vase wrap") that are the height of STYLE!!

This would not be your average wedding reception table my friends. I JUST LOVE IT!

"Printed Crystal Velon" is the next step in the evolution of Velon Designs. They took regular, boring tent and wall draping plastic or "convention tafetta" as it's called in the "biz" to a whole new level by printing incredible stylish designs on them allowing tents and spaces to go very affordably from just nice to FABULOUS!

Velon Designs worked with Taylor Creative Inc. to create this dining table conceptualization of how the clear printed material works.

Taylor Creative is a national event furnishings rental & design company that has some very cool products like the table & chairs you see above (the "Crystal Velon" was applied to the furniture).

Fortunately, they have a location and representative here in Las Vegas! LUCK ME & LUCKY YOU that we have such incredible access in Las Vegas with so many amazing resources and talented wedding professionals and I look forward to working with them and others to help my clients create fabulous personal spaces & environments to host their wedding celebrations with these unique and creative products.

Have a Stylish Weekend!

"3.2.1 and Your Love is On...THE AIR" -Check out Faux Show.com!

Image first seen at Springwise.com

Ok, just when you think there is nothing left to the personalization market, Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge finds this very cool idea on one of my favorite brilliant idea sites; Springwise.com!

Personalized Radio Shows! How cool is this? I LOVE IT! Now you can broadcast your love to the world and not only star in your own video montage or love story but you could premier in your own customized radio show too (or someone may just surprise you with it as a gift)!

For now the concept and company is only available across the pond in England, but I have a feeling it will be making its way to our shores faster than you can say "3.2.1. and You are On the Air"! 

The full description of the concept and company is below from the article on Springwise website. 

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Launched in November 2008 by two British radio presenters, Fauxshow creates personalized radio shows that put a recipient in the spotlight. Designed as an unusual gift experience, Fauxshows are most frequently produced for weddings and birthdays, although any request will be catered to. Customers pick a recipient's favorite music tracks and submit anecdotes for the presenters to read out in the show. Arrangements are then made for friends and family to call in to Fauxshow and record messages about or for the recipient. Jingles and effects are added in the final stage of recording to make the show sound as authentic as possible. Around three weeks after ordering, the show arrives on CD, ready to surprise and delight.

Fauxshow is still a tiny start-up, and the presenters welcome calls from customers to discuss ideas. Pricing is GBP 200 for a 5-song, 5-message show, or GBP 250 for 8 songs and 8 messages. Other options are available on request.

There's no stopping the personalization avalanche! And as Fauxshow demonstrates, you don't have to be a major player to get in on the game. 

Website: http://www.fauxshow.co.uk 
Contact: www.fauxshow.co.uk/contact.html

Spotted by: Jonathan Fletcher

"LA Photo Party" Photo Booth-Great Entertainment & Memories at Your Wedding!

From LA Photo Party.com

I am all about having fun at weddings and parties and finding ideas for you that will delight your guests, make your celebration a memorable one and provide great memories too. 

When Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge attend The Special Event Show last month, I found the LA Photo Party Booth and instantly fell in love with their "photo booth without walls" concept. 

I love their tag line, "bringing happiness to the people – one supersized photo booth photo at a time". 

The whole setup is very clean and modern and looks just like a studio setup. With a white only background, it lets the subjects shine. Without the walls, 10 friends at a time can get into the action and have a blast dressing up with all kinds of fun accessories. 

The camera can take a picture every 5 seconds so you get that real energy and feel of being in a photo studio. It's so much fun, adds an extra dimension of photographic memories in addition to your wedding photography. 

They print the best shot of your "session" right on the spot on high quality photo paper and they look fantastic. Custom photo frames are available as upgrade to enhance the print "favor" your guests will get. 

Bravo TV has used this LA Photo Party at one of their events as are tons of other big name companies, but this is DEFINITELY something I would love to see YOU enjoy at your wedding. 

The cost is competitive with the traditional photo booths that have an attendant and there are different packages based on number of prints and additional service and accessory upgrades that can enhance the experience even more. It's not inexpensive, but I strongly believe the value of an amazing interactive idea like this photo booth pays for itself where you and your guests can make some great memories. 

You want to make sure you also work with both your band or DJ and your photographer! Let them know so they can prepared and fine tune their performance and their coverage of the event when additional entertainment or specialized photography like this is involved. You still want your guests dancing and while also having fun at the booth and enjoying every element of the party. Photographers will want to know because then they can focus more on documenting you and your guests as opposed to posed reception shots. Your wedding consultant ,entertainment company and photographer all will assist you in planning to ensure this is done effectively so both get the attention they deserve and you get the full value and credit for being so innovative!

So, do you think you and your guests would love this idea as much as I do? Let me know!

"Twirl Talk" is a Bridesmaids Best Blog Friend!

Thanks to my friend Liene Stevens, fellow wedding consultant and blogger/author extraordinaire of the Blue Orchid Designs Blog and The Smart Planner Blog of Scottsdale, AZ I discovered this great new blog dedicated just to bridesmaids.

It's called Twirl Talk and it's all about giving the bridesmaids the attention and love your girls so deserve. Its a great site to suggest so they can get great advice on how to be the best bridesmaids a bride could have. Sounds like a win-win. 

"Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride" is better than OK in their books!

The blog features fabulous real-wedding images of beautiful bridesmaids looking sophisticated, elegant, and stylish in gowns and dresses worth holding onto while supporting their wonderful friends on the most important day of their lives. 

Also, articles on bridesmaid etiquette, beauty and more. 

Twirl Talk is the blog of Twirl Boutique in Scottsdale, AZ "Where being a bridesmaid has never been so much fun"!  The salon is stylish and pretty and the owners are sensitive to the bridesmaid experience being "serial bridesmaids" as they say on their site. I feel ya ladies! Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge has been there and done that, threw out the bad dresses!

No hideous collection of "27 Dresses" here. The gown collections are pretty, beautiful and yes, gorgeous with designers like Badgley Mischka and Melissa Sweet in the lineup. 

Right now, Scottsdale is the only lucky city to have a brick & mortar Twirl Boutique but you can order online and they are looking to "Twirl" their way into more cities by offering opportunities to open their unique boutique concept to potential owners. 

I would love to see a Twirl Boutique in Las Vegas! Any interested parties?

Enjoy the blog! 

TSE in 5-4-3-2-1 Minutes

A fabulous wrap-up video of the The Special Event Show from the sessions, to the showcasing events and the trade show floor to the behind-the scenes; the fabulous Michael Cerbelli of Total Entertainment, featured this very cool video by in his  "Hottest Event & Entertainment Ideas (tm)". 

The video (loving and downloading all the amazing music from it too) was produced by the fabulous Celebrity Videographer, Brett Culp. He has been featured on "Get Married" TV and his work is just gorgeous & I am head over heels with his work. Brett, call me:)! Seriously though, it would be a dream come true to work with this man.

I love the format of this video as it counted down from the beginning to the end of the event and encapsulated the energy of what TSE attendees experience. 

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge would like to thank the ever awesome Sasha Souza for graciously providing the link to the video and you should all check out her Sparkliatti blog; one of my "must-read", favorite daily blog reads. Ok, I admit it Sasha, I blog-stalk you;). 

Fab Finds from The Special Event Show

Tabletop Montage Shown Above: UL & LR by Resource One Linens & UR & LL by LaTavola Linen. Images taken by Lara McCullough from Ready 2 Spark Blog.

Fete Accompli Events: Picture by Tracey Kumer-Moore

Just wanted to begin to share some of my favorite discoveries from The Special Event I attended in January in San Diego.

The Trade Show Floor is one of my favorite parts of the conference to view up close all the new trends and amazing ideas in the event world. 

Of course, I am always attracted to the beautiful table tops, floral and linen displays and especially the amazing furniture that is available to rent for events. 

Love the table tops montage provided above by a favorite "inspiring" blogger,Lara McCullough, "Ready 2 Spark" that I read religiously and who takes a much better shot than I did of these mutual favorites.

Love the yellow and white for it's freshness and prettiness and the black and yellow for it's fabulous drama! And who is to say that you can't do drama at your wedding?

The black & white and green table is so striking as anything with black and white is with the green, and the look carried through in the chair pads and the tailored overlay. 

Finally, the picture below of the table, and the chairs and those acrylic candelabras that I WANT!  Actually, I wanted to take home the entire booth of furniture from Fete Accompli Events.  Their line of furniture rentals ranges from very ornate & palatial to modern and sleek.

If you really want to make a STATEMENT at your wedding, this is the furniture that definitely would do it for you and in smaller focused areas, it would certainly take the style quotient up major notches. 

And don't think that these pieces are completely out of reach for you. Again, because they are so striking and bold, a few pieces or at most, a lounge area is a reasonable investment and not necessarily too over the top.

Of course, if you want to go over the top with custom rentals this is some of the best product to go there and Vegas certainly is a place to bring it to that level. Your creative event team of rental specialists, wedding consultant and designer would certainly assist you in finding just the right combination of decor elements; furniture, linen, lighting, etc. to bring your style to an sophisticated overall look that will have them saying "Wow"!

Do check out the websites of the amazing linen providers and the furniture to give you product descriptions and to see stylish events where they added to the overall look of the event.

Fabulous Find-One Bridesmaid Dress Can Equal 12 Happy Bridesmaids

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge LOVES this fabulous, clever and stylish solution that can make every bride and bridesmaid happy!

Twobirds Bridesmaid is a company started by a very clever lady named Ariane Goldman who came up with the concept and design for her own wedding..

One dress, 10 different colors (and more surely to be on the way) and up to a dozen different ways of wrapping the dress to create completely different looks; halter, strapless, sleeved,  a variety of different ways to style the back. 

This is, in one word...BRILLIANT!

The dresses, made out of that fabulous combination of jersey and Spandex that travels and wears so well on everyone (including pregnant bridesmaids) is the perfect solution for a destination wedding. The dress comes in long, extra long and shorter lengths and also now a plus size and the best thing is, the dress comes in under $300.00.

When you consider how many different ways you can wear it after the wedding (yes, we have all heard that before, but this time you really would want to), that is an incredibly affordable dress!

And to coordinate even further, the company offers matching colored ties for the groomsmen!

Have a Stylish Day!