Free Wedding Photography Seminar for Couples-Local Photographers Offer Tips for the Ideal "Photo Finish"!

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierges' fabulous photographer friends, Artistic Imaging and Write Shot are hosting an informational seminar for couples to give you the 411 on what you need to know about making informed and confident decisions about your wedding photography.

See the Press Release Below...

THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION A BRIDE FACES IS WHO TO MARRY.THE SECOND IS HOW TO HIRE THE RIGHT PHOTOGRAPHER TO DOCUMENT HER WEDDING

Experts offer free workshop educates brides about wedding photography 37/60 The Wedding Photography Workshop for Brides, offers 37 serious recommendations in 60 minutes, guaranteed to help brides:

• Save money
• Save time
• Maximize their wedding photography experience, regardless of their budget.

Las Vegas wedding photography studios Artistic Imaging and WriteShot have partnered to develop this educational workshop to all brides, many of whom feel overwhelmed by the myriad of wedding photography options available.

“There will be no sales pitch, at all. This is purely an opportunity for brides to learn and get answers to their questions, regardless of their budget,” says Adam Frasier, Artistic Imaging. According to Natasha Chornesky, millennium brides are smart and regardless of their budget, they’re looking to learn as much as they can about maximizing value before they commit to any particular wedding vendor, especially photographers.

Las Vegas has many talented wedding photographers. 37/60 is designed to benefit all brides, regardless of whom they eventually hire as their wedding photographer.

“We’re reaching out to empower brides with real information, so each one can make decisions that best suit her distinct needs,” says Chornesky, WriteShot.

The Saturday workshop is scheduled for August 28th, from 10‐11 am and is limited to 10 participants. Though it is free registration is required. Call (702) 465-5700
for more information on location and other details.

About Artistic Imaging and WriteShot
Artistic Imaging’s Owner/Photographer Adam Frasier has been a professional wedding photographer for over 7 years. Frazier is the Founding President of the Las Vegas chapter of Wish Upon a Wedding.

WriteShot’s Owner/Photographer Chris Cozzone has been a professional photojournalist and wedding photographer for over 20 years. Natasha Chornesky Owner/Photographer has been shooting professionally for four years. Chornesky is the Founding Vice‐President of Las Vegas' Wish Upon a Wedding.

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

Love These Fun & Stylish Las Vegas Wedding Invitations

Image & Invitation Created by Tifany Wunschl of Gourmet Invitations

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge LOVES these fabulous and stylish invitations from my dear friend and stationery designer extraordinaire, Tifany Wunschl of Gourmet Invitations in the Detroit, MI area.

A fun, intimate and personal wedding deserved a very special design and stylish take on the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign and Tifany delivered. I loved the way she incorporated the black leather as a nod to her client's love for bikes.

Most of all, the take on the "What Happens in Vegas....Stays in our Hearts" made me smile!

Check out more of Tifany's images and her description of this invitation here.

I love working with Tifany for the ingenious and creative work she does. If you will recall, Tifany designed the gorgeous invitation and other pieces for the "Return to Desert Glamor" photo shoot I did earlier this year for Style Me Pretty. You can see that here.

She also designed my fabulous new logo and business cards as well as a fun, modern and stylish invitation and reception suite of designs for Elizabeth and Andy's wedding last year. See that here.

Do check out more of Tifany's "Gourmet Invitation" styles on her blog which she updates regularly.

Celebrate Today and Everyday with Love, Life & Style!!

Wedding Concierge & Dragonridge Country Club Welcome Sasha Souza June 3, 2010

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is thrilled to be the highlighted planner for this very special event and delighted to be welcoming, along with my friends at the beautiful Dragonridge Golf and Country Club, award winning Wedding Designer and Planner, Sasha Souza.

CALLING ALL BRIDES, WEDDING AND EVENT PLANNERS!!! Don't miss the Champagne Reception and Book Signing by Sasha Souza of her latest book, Signature Sasha: Magnificent Weddings by Design.

***THIS EVENT IS COMPLIMENTARY AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC***

Sasha Souza Events is considered among the top event design and coordination companies in the nation. She recently took on role of Founding President of Wish Upon a Wedding, the only wedding wish granting non-profit couples facing terminal illness. Sasha is also the event planner on the Style Network TV show "Whose Wedding is it Anyways?"

At this exclusive event she will be available to sign her new book; also available for purchase. For more information, visit www.sashasouzaevents.com or call DragonRidge Concierge to confirm guard gate entrance @ 702-614-4444 between 9am-5pm.

Books may be pre-purchased @ a special 20% savings for only $40.00 prior to May 15th 2010. Books purchased after May 15th will be the regular retail price of $50.00 plus tax. *No Purchase Necessary*

Thursday, June 3, 2010

5:30pm - 7:30pm

DragonRidge Country Club

552 S. Stephanie Street

Henderson, NV

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Redefining the "Perfect Wedding"...Again

 Bride Lauren truly enjoying her wedding day with her friends
Image by LorenzFoto

  

My friend and super-fantastic Wedding Planner & Designer, Sasha Souza just recently posted on her blog, Sparkliatti, about making the madness stop when it comes to the "Perfect Wedding" rhetoric & other "catch phrases" that encourage less than gracious behavior. 

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge wrote about this myself quite a while ago on my blog and I can't think of a better time than now to re-post my views and stand with Sasha, and many other wedding colleague friends on this subject. It IS important!

Here is the post (I made some revisions) from March, 2007.

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My good friend, Andy Ebon, who is a marketing specialist for the Wedding Industry, posted on his Wedding Marketing Blog, the problem with using that overly cliched term; "Perfect Wedding" in advertising to brides.

From Andy

"Just for laughs, I ‘Googled’ the phrase "Perfect Wedding". Sadly, it received over 1 million results. That’s a lot of people living in the fantasy land, either believing or creating unrealistic expectations..."

I could not agree with Andy more! And,unfortunately, the majority of those search results are generated by wedding & bridal media propagating the myth. You know who you are! 

I don't like it one bit! It's deceptive because the "Perfect Wedding" is unattainable.

Asking for and expecting perfect brings undue amount of stress and STRESS IS a BEAUTY KILLER! Look at the faces of those "Bridezillas" who expected perfect on their wedding. They will have to endure the results with images of their tired, sour, sad, mad faces when they could have been joyous and glowing, knowing their day was not about "perfect" but happiness in confirming their life together with the person they love the most.

I never use the term "Perfect Wedding" in conversation with brides or in my literature. If you tell me that is what you want, truthfully, I may not be the planner you are looking for. I am a very accomplished wedding planning professional but I can not and will not promise you a "Perfect Wedding".

But, I will promise you this. If you allow yourself to relax, trust in yourself, in the tasteful details you choose and wedding professionals you hired (with the guidance of your wedding planner), you will find it much more enjoyable to go through the entire wedding journey, the wedding itself and the next day when your new life going forth together with your partner begins.

And down the road, those special little unplanned, spontaneous and surprise moments of your wedding day; the ones that made you laugh and cry and smile, are what you will always remember as being "Perfect"!

Celebrate Your Day with LOVE, LIFE & Style.

Style Me Pretty: "Inspiration to Reality" Las Vegas Style

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge and friends had a simply fabulous day on Wednesday at a photo shoot bringing this "Inspiration Board" to life.

I am a member of the Little Black Book of wedding professionals on Style Me Pretty, one of the most popular and trend-setting wedding blogs that appeals to both brides and wedding pros for it's gorgeous images and attention to the details in their writing.

Style Me Pretty has a tool where you can enter the "Style Circle" free and create "Inspiration Boards". If you don't want to make one yourself, you can spend hours admiring all the amazing boards that readers have created. There are so many ideas out there from so many creative brides to view. It's hard not to get "inspired"!

The concept of the "Inspiration to Reality" shoot is for a team of wedding professionals to select an "Inspiration Board" that we love and bring our own twist to bringing that inspiration to life.

We chose this "Feathers & Fur" inspiration board created by Chiara and I can't wait for Chiara to see what we have put together. I know she and all of you will LOVE IT!!

Some of the Las Vegas creative dream team members that made the magic happen are Chelsea Nicole Photography, Naakiti Floral Design, Gourmet Invitations, Couture Bride and our amazing venue, Springs Preserve.

Stay tuned for the gorgeous results and a list of the entire creative team in a few weeks on Style Me Pretty for the big reveal.

Celebrate Your Day with Love, Life & Style!

Some "Wedding Wisdom" for Us All

Jacket Cover Image of “Wedding Wisdom” book

Including image by photographer Jasmine Star

SOME "WEDDING WISDOM" FOR US ALL

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge highly recommends to you, my readers this new book authored by well known professional Los Angeles based Wedding Planner, TV personality & author, Mary Dann-McNamee, and created with Leila Khalil, wedding publicist and owner of her PR firm, Be InspiredPR, also in L.A.

The book is called “Wedding Wisdom: An Insightful Approach to Wedding Planning and Life”

Whether you are a newly engaged couple just beginning your wedding planning adventure, in the throes of planning an upcoming celebration or a wedding professional (but planners are the focus), this book is for YOU.

Mary offers, with an easy writing style and personal antidotes, her wealth of life and wedding/event planning experience & wisdom to help you properly prepare (practically, mentally, physically and spiritually) for the planning ahead (be it your wedding & marriage or your wedding business) so that you can completely enjoy the exciting journey you are about to immerse yourself in over the course of the next year and years ahead.

It’s an easy and fun read with many life lessons that can’t be repeated often enough or translated often enough, as Mary so aptly does, especially when it comes to planning such an important life event as a wedding.

Advice on how we should express “Thank You” as often as possible (in person, by phone, by card) and being grateful to all those that give you their time, their talents, their passion and their love, up to and including the wedding day & every day in business and in life a habit that will pay you back & forwards in dividends.

And Mary’s advice (and I will agree 100% with her on this) not to forget to thank yourself by taking care of you, being fair to yourself, expecting great things but accepting life’s way of adding its own special touches to your plans and loving the results anyway.

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.-Bertrand Russell

I don’t think this quote could be more perfect to describe what “Wedding Wisdom” is about and I am sure Mary & Leila would agree. It was inspired and created by their love, passion and desire for this great wedding business and to share and pass on to you, those values and their wisdom to help inspire you to create a successful business, a beautiful wedding and a beautiful life worth celebrating every day!

Thank you again for the gift of this book Mary and for the wonderful inscription.

You can purchase the book "Wedding Wisdom" right here. Enjoy it and...

Celebrate today with LOVE, LIFE & STYLE!

I am Thankful

As 2009 is coming to a close and today is Thanksgiving, it's always a time to reflect on what and who we are thankful and grateful for this year.

2009 has been an interesting year for me and for Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge, filled with every emotion in the book, highs and lows, progress, setbacks, achievements, revelations and so much more. I am Thankful for all these things.

I had some truly wonderful couples that I collaborated with this year that gave me such joy over the time we planned and celebrated their weddings and were a constant reminder of why I love my career!! I am Thankful for all of you.

For the opportunity to help me see with a fresh perspective, what it is that I love to do and why, I am thankful.

I had the opportunity to work with some of my favorite local Las Vegas wedding professionals this year. Truly dedicated, talented and passionate people who always make me look good. I can't do what I do without a great group of people like you. I am Thankful to all of you for making the magic happen.

I had the opportunity this year to take a leadership role in an exciting new professional organization for Wedding Planners and Professionals and be part of creating a higher standard for the wedding profession I love. For the opportunity to have inspired some along the way and be inspired and supported by some amazing people I look up to, I am Thankful.

To my friends whom I have known forever and those I have met recently that already feel like lifelong friends; for being there not only to shake my hand, but to offer your shoulder on good days and not so great days. I am SO THANKFUL (and now I'm getting all "ferklempt")!

For the opportunity to live another year, sing another song, dance another dance, G-d and for the health of all those I love to live, sing and dance with, I am Thankful.

To have two wonderful countries like Canada (where I was born & raised) and the USA to call "home" is a blessing & I am Thankful to all those that so bravely protect my right to enjoy them. To live in a totally cool, fabulous city like Las Vegas is pretty nice too.

And finally, and most importantly, to my husband, my parents, my brother, my "girls"(the nieces, "daughters", my grand dogs), you are my light, my strength, my support system, my cheerleaders, my everything and to CELEBRATE MY LIFE AND MY LOVE with you, I am so Thankful.

To my readers, for reading, being patient and sticking with me, I am Thankful!

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday where ever you may be and Celebrate your Thanksgiving with LOVE, LIFE & STYLE!

The Wedding Concierge will be "Engaged"!...in Luxury Wedding Business Summit

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is so excited to be a part of my first "Engage" wedding business summit for the Luxury wedding market.

This, the 4th version of the conference is called "Engage '09 Encore" and what fabulous Las Vegas resort could be more fitting to host this event than the Wynn, Encore Resort Las Vegas?

I am so happy that the creators of "Engage" Rebecca Grinnals and Kathryn Arce of Engaging Concepts, based in Florida, have brought this event to Las Vegas. It shows that this fabulous city that I love so much and now call home is definitely on the radar when it comes to celebrating weddings in style as only Las Vegas can! Thank you Rebecca & Kathryn!!

Some of the luxury wedding industry leaders such as THE Cake Diva herself, Sylvia Weinstock, the editors and owners of The Bridal Bar, Southern Weddings Magazines, Get Married Magazine, INSIDE Weddings, Randy Fenoli from "Say Yes to the Dress" on TLC, some of our my favorite Luxury Las Vegas venues and more to network and share ideas about the wedding industry and how to keep moving forward to keep our businesses and industry on the leading edge and relevant to you...our brides & grooms.

It's going to be an incredible and memorable event from October 12-14th and I know I will come back full of great ideas and the creative sparks will be flying.

You can follow me on twitter @lvwedconcierge or do a search of hashtag #Engage09Encore for all the buzz & pics from all attendees.

So Welcome to all my wedding industry friends to Las Vegas!! I can't wait to meet old friends and new and share our fabulous city with you.

And I look forward to sharing pictures and thoughts when I return with all of YOU!

Celebrate Your Love & Your Life!

Tracey

Vote for the Wedding Concierge!

Lara McCullough who writes one of my favorite blogs called Ready 2 Spark has become a great social media friend as well an inspiration to me and many other event industry colleagues.

Lara spearheaded and brought together a community of Event Professionals, better known by the has tag #EventProfs, on Twitter to chat and share ideas on a regular basis and it has been a huge success! So much so that we now have our own Blog Awards.

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is especially excited about this since my blog, "Diary of a Las Vegas Wedding Concierge", was selected as one of the 6 finalists in the "Wedding Blog" category!

I am honored to be among some pretty fabulous company of many other bloggers and wedding professionals I know and admire so this is truly an honor.

I would be so appreciative if you would consider voting for me and thank you for your support. Also, if you are a wedding/event professional and are familiar with any of the bloggers in other categories, please show your support to them as well and make these Blog Awards a great success overall.

Here is the link to vote for Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge in the Wedding Category.

Thank you Lara!

Celebrate Love & Life!

Wedding Concierge Vintage Accessories Pick is "Top 5" Inspiration on Vintage Inspired Blog!

My new friend Candice Bradley of Dolcissima Events in LA and author of the fabulous vintage loving S'Wonderful & S'Marvelous blog, included Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge in her "Top 5" Vintage Inspirations Contest" for my "Decor & Accessories" submission inspired from one of my absolute favorite decor sites, "The Paris Apartment".

Below is the write up from Candice. Make sure to see ALL the GORGEOUS winning inspirations she chose. Thank you Candice for including me in your "Top 5" inspirations! This is S'Wonderful & S'Marvelous indeed!

**Best Vintage Inspired Decor & Accessories**

"Odyssey Frame"from The Paris Apartment

Submitted by: Tracey Kumer-Moore, Planner {Las Vegas}
http://www.lvweddingconcierge.com/
http://lvweddingconcierge.blogspot.com

My Vintage Inspiration is "The Paris Apartment", and her blog as well, http://parisapartment.wordpress.com/. I adore this site and I visit it often. I just adore going through the Boutique and all the vintage inspired products; gorgeous accessories (which could provide stunning stylish touches at a wedding and enjoyed many years after or great bridesmaids gifts), art deco and "rococo" furniture, chandeliers, mirrors, lucite furniture (swoon), textiles, stationery.

Thanks Tracey! We LOVE The Paris Apartment, too! Such great vintage inspiration not only for weddings, but for home decor as well! Tracey also added these S'WONDERFUL ideas for the use of some of these items: "The Chanel Photo Frame" - great for escort card or gift table decor. Art-Deco Vanity Tray is great inspiration for tray passing cocktails." Here are a couple more photos from The Paris Apartment

"TPA Deco Vanity" from The Paris Apartment

"Deco Vanity Tray" from The Paris Apartment

Luxury Las Vegas June Issue Focuses on Weddings

Current June 2009 Issue Cover of Luxury Las Vegas Magazine

Do make sure to pick up the latest issue of Luxury Las Vegas Magazine which is geared entirely towards weddings. Fab decor and some of the best restaurants, floral designers, venues and more (many who I have had the pleasure to collaborate with).

If you aren't in Las Vegas to enjoy the beautifully published magazine in person, you can check out their website which has some of the features online. Luxury Las Vegas.com always has the 411 on the very best of fine living in this great town. Trends, dining, entertainment, shopping and more. It's one of Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge's favorite daily reads! 

Have a Stylish Weekend!

Your Wedding Day Magazine Party, LA-Video Party Recap

Video by Russell Fowler Studios

Last month, Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge had the pleasure of attending an amazing party in Los Angeles for the Spring 2009 Launch of Your Wedding Day Magazine at the Ebell Club, Los Angeles; a venue that is synonymous with the Hollywood Glamor era. 

It was an incredible evening with the very best of the best in the south west and California wedding industry and I was so excited to be a part of it, as well being a marketing partner with Your Wedding Day Magazine (which you must get your hands on-IT'S A GORGEOUS publication!!!)

This party was over the top with an elegant garden decor to welcome us and delicious cocktail designed by the Ebell, Los Angeles featuring my new obsession, Ventura Limoncello. 

The piece de resistance of this event, the drop dead gorgeous "Marie Antoinette Gone Modern Ball Room"  was the result of the magic spun & designed by my very good friend,  Jeannie Ward, The Wedding Jeannie. 

The other rooms, featured an opulent & sensuous "Bollywood" Room & henna plus a totally chic "Le Discotheque" room. Of course, I danced all night to the DJ-live entertainment fusion sounds of 11H Entertainment. You have to let me book these amazing people for your event & YES, they travel!

It was one of the most amazing industry events I have been to & one I will remember for a long time. I am sure Your Wedding Day will have a great time trying to outdo themselves for the parties for their upcoming issue (which will have some exciting surprises) but I'm not telling:)

Enjoy the fabulous video recap of all the party fun above and you might just see Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge and friends at the very end having some fun at the LA Photo Party Booth which is a total blast & I totally want to book them for a wedding (hope it will be YOURS)!

Check out the Your Wedding Day Blog (& you will want to stay tuned to this blog in the near future for some other exciting information regarding yours truly!) for more info, phenomenal images by CherieFoto (and decor ideas galore) of the event and links to all the great event designers and sponsors of this fabulous event.