Happy Valentine’s Day
In the 2010 movie Valentine’s Day couples deal with the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day.
Can Cupid finish his work by midnight?
For you, the happily engaged, Cupid has already done his work. You’re in the throws of planning the greatest celebration of your Lives. The pressures and expectations of this planning crop up all the time.
What you want, is what you want, when you want it. How we see this at ChicagoWeddingDJs is: “What can we do to make your entertainment shopping, choosing, planning, and creating process as easy (and as fun) as possible.
Let’s look at Valentine’s Day. Does he get you a gift? Will she give you a card? A poem, nice dinner, flowers, chocolate, leisure/lounge wear?
If it’s a dinner out, you’ve got to make plans. Research the restaurant, or call your favorite and make sure there’s a reservation. If it’s the work week, we’ve got to get out of work, run home get ready, or run straight to the restaurant and switch into lovey-dovey mode.
But here’s the thing. You’re planning a wedding, you’re excited, you’re thrilled about being with each other. On top of all the pressure and expectations of your everyday life there are the pressures of planning the wedding.
And in Life, anytime you set your mind on something you have a focus about it. In every task you do focus on excellence and not just Passing. Don’t focus on perfection (Stop chasing perfection and settle for excellence).
Because when you focus on excellence your chances of acheiving it are better than when you focus on just OK average mediocre. You know there’s someting better in Life.
That’s why you fell in love, that’s why Cupid’s arrow struck and why you are giving this gift, and sharing the joy, of your love with the world.
Awesome Things on My Mind
I love photobooths.
I especially like to see how they let people have fun.
Anything you do to get people enjoying themselves pays big all night long.
It’s OK if you don’t have a photobooth at your event.
A party without a photobooth is still a great celebration and a fun night for them.
When you add a the crazy, silly, sexy, romantic element of people getting cozy in a photobooth:
-it allows people to stay longer, and HAVE MORE FUN.
But it has to be the right style photobooth. NOT open air (that’s not a booth, it’s a photographer with a backdrop). NOT a photobooth made from pvc pipe and my next door neighbors old Canon digital camera. NOT a photobooth so big you get lost in the pictures.
A real photobooth let’s you sit down. It squeezes you in just enough to make it cozy, cute, and crazy.
A real photobooth gives you a custom print out right away and the pictures are fantastic.
Chicago Wedding DJs can help you get the MOST out of all the sweet fun at your wedding.
So, as I said, I love a photobooth. Especially when we it’s the REAL THING. 
In the spirit of photobooths. I found this picture really cute:
Something old, something new: Food trucks for weddings
Donesha Aldridge/ MEDILL Pecan and Charlie's is a new food truck that is catering its first wedding event in April.
At Chicago Wedding DJs we’re always looking for new ideas to share with you. This is out of the box (well really out of a truck), creative, unique, quirky, and fun.
Story URL: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=199777
Story Retrieval Date: 2/3/2012 12:22:09 PM CST
Several wedding blogs have mentioned that Chicago natives are looking for inexpensive and creative ways to celebrate that special day.
“People are looking for more options to explore,” said Molly Schemper who works for Fig Catering. But, Schemper said Fig’s traditional catering business has not decreased even though this new trend has arrived.
“We’ve actually increased every year,” Schemper said. “We haven’t noticed any differences since the food trucks have popped up.”
The Slide Ride, a food-truck service, has done several wedding events, and their business can be found under unique services on The Knot, a wedding planning website for Chicago brides.
“Sometimes they want us to do the late night snacks after the reception,” said Nida Rodriguez, owner of The Slide Glide food truck. “Sometimes they hire us to have appetizers in between the church service and the reception as well so their guests can have something to snack on while they wait.”
Rodriguez said The Slide Glide has even done full wedding receptions. A unique thing about her business is that the servers are on skates.
Netta Stella and Colleen Gallagher started Pecan and Charlie’s Mobile Cupcakery, their food truck business, four months ago. They said the trend is not only for weddings, but for party events as well.
“We did an office party for Halloween and the clients had two other food trucks there set up outside for people to come and get whatever they wanted,” Gallagher said.
Stella and Gallagher are scheduled to make cupcakes for a couple in late April. This will be their first wedding event.
“People want something fun and different.” Gallagher said. “I think that’s why they are choosing food trucks now.”
Bride-to-be Alison Bullock is planning her wedding for next spring, but she hadn’t thought of having a food truck to cater.
“The thought never crossed my mind but it sounds interesting,” she said. Bullock said it’s something she might consider, but her family wants a traditional reception. However, Bullock doesn’t want to cross the idea out totally.
“I definitely want to have cupcakes at my wedding,” she said. “Chicago has a lot of food trucks that I know serve really good desserts. I’m definitely open to that.”
“You can kind of do your own sampling by just walking up to the truck and tasting the different kinds,” she said.
That’s one of the benefits of using food trucks for catering, Gallagher said. “With a traditional catering service you have to schedule and make an appointment with a bakery and then go from there.” That’s not necessary with a food truck.
One of the stigmas brides have is that a food truck can’t accommodate large numbers.
Not so, said Stella. “One of our biggest events was for 500 people.”
An upside that sometimes is a determining factor for choosing a traditional caterer is for the staffing. “A lot of food trucks don’t coordinate rentals or have a staff with full service access,” Schemper said.
Rodriguez said they hire services to help out when they have to do full events with their food truck.
“It’s a great alternative to traditional catering that hasn’t always been there,” Rodriguez.
Food trucks are a unique way to include that “something new.”
Top Wedding Pin of the Week
Yummy!
I like this idea. It’s my top wedding pin of the week on Pinterest.
It’s great to have a place to put your Chicago Wedding Inspiration.
You could also do these frames at home!
You don’t often see cake tables decorated like this.
It’s nice to have a table (the gift table) with old wedding pictures, old family portraits.
What’s really nice about this is the color scheme. Do you like it?
Are you more likely to tell it like it is, or to hold your tongue?
Frankly I don’t really know what “it” is, so it’s kinda hard to tell it.
I think I’m pretty good at listening to the deal and then giving a rational response that people can appreciate and maybe use.
I think too often people think “telling it like it is” means they can be careless with their communication.
Doesn’t help anyone, does it?
Now THAT’S tellin’ it like it is.
from a Chicago Wedding DJ
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