Fun Chicago Wedding Receptions

It’s January and many happy couples are newly engaged. The holidays are a great time for your exciting, good news.

As you begin your planning experience you’ll start to shop for items and services you need. As Colin Cowie says:

“…it’s a first-time experience even if you’ve been involved with close friends’ or family members’ weddings. It’s completely different when it comes to your own day.”

For a conversation on DJ budgeting (you’ll hear a bride asking all the questions!).

The wedding covers a complete list of things and you will find having the list very helpful.

Here’s what Colin Cowie has to say.

Congratulations and all the best for you.

KudoSurf Me!

I’m sure you like to find places where the people you like, and the conversations you enjoy, are all together. Add to that some great food and drink, prizes, and the excitement of a new magazine cover launch and we’re in heaven.

If you are planning a wedding you might go to a bridal show or two, you’ll talk to friends and family who have planned a wedding, and you’ll want to (if you haven’t already) get a copy of the latest Chicago Style Weddings Magazine.

Some of my most favorite people in the wedding world: Andre LaCour, Claudia Antony Zompa, Jane Himmel, Dan Kownacki, Joseph Chambers, David Rothstein, Mike Dodson, AS YOU WISH – An Event Planning Company,Chicago Wedding Djs, at the Chicago Style Weddings magazine January 2012 Launch! Swissotel Chicago.

The rest of the story: join the conversation!

The surprise of the moment, the thrill of sharing the good news. It’s the start of the greatest things to ever happen in your lives.

Some of the best ideas come from the start of your planning now. Enjoy it all, it’s absolutely the best.

As you’re sharing the news, think about how you can tell this story again and again.

It does two things. It strengthens the memory for you. And it gives you a chance to connect more with the people you know. Your friends, your family, and everyone at your reception.

Set the atmosphere right with candles and lighting. Show a photo/video montage that tells your story. Bringing people closer together through the gift of your Love Story. Congratulations!

I proposed on Christmas morning. We had talked about it, but she had no idea when I would pop the question. A lot of other people knew I was going to ask. Her Dad, my brother…

Here’s wishing you a happy holiday season, and great things for you in your wedding plans!

The rest of the story: Timing, Setting, and The Words.

http://lifeandstyle.colincowie.com/notes/0086p.asp

Chicago Winter Wedding Traditions

You could be in the middle of the Mag mile, at the edge of a snowy forest. or skating in Millennium Park. These are traditions that you create, that you will return to again and again, for years to come.

Remember your wedding, create a tradition.

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Do you remember the first time you saw this movie? Pretty sweet.

Now you’re getting engaged.

You mean the world to someone. Sharing that love with us is the greatest gift. Let’s celebrate!

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Chicago Water Tower Wedding Pics

You’re planning your wedding and you have a date in mind. It might be next Spring, Summer, or Fall.

At this moment some happy, excited couples are getting ready for a December wedding.

With colors, textures, tastes, (and even sounds) to match the season.

You want a DJ that will fit all if this, and you want to feel that the entertainment is the right fit for you.

Cheers to all the December Chicago weddings. And here’s to your wedding planning.

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Daley Plaza

Planning a wedding is all about creating memories. Everything else comes second to the most important thing that matters, and that’s you having these great moments to look back on, again and again.

Everything we do to help you make the right choices is geared toward making it easy to plan those moments (in the right way, the right time, and the right place).

To help make it even easier we have a Savings of the seasons.

Reserve your date by the 26th and save $200.

Pay in full by the 27th and save an additional 10% of your complete package.

Fun Photobooth, Elegant uplighting, Name in lights monogram and more. The more you buy the more you save.

Make an appointment and get a complimentary copy of How To Create the Best Wedding Celebration.

The gratitude effect. On Thanksgiving before you walk into the door at your destination feel an attitude of gratitude.

If you are engaged and this is your first Thanksgiving together: What a wonderful time of year!

So happy for you and yours.

Video of a texting bride went viral today, as Web watchers take a moment to see the woman tap through her own wedding ceremony.

In these times, have we become so technology-driven that checking Facebook or Twitter is now a necessity, even during special occasions?

While the video was posted online back in 2009, its popularity took off only recently. The YouTube clip – published by user jimcostafilms1 and originally shot in 2008 in San Diego, Calif. – shows the bride discreetly pulling out her cellphone from under her veil and texting with one hand. Her other hand was being held by her father as they walked down the aisle.

With the bride and her father’s back to everyone in attendance, the minister continues with his opening remarks while the photographer catches this funny moment on film. “At one point, I noticed her doing it through my lens and I had to pull away from the camera to make certain I was seeing what I thought I was seeing,” he writes. Her father is seen trying to hold back a laugh and allow his daughter to do what she wants on her special day.

Maybe the text went something like, “Getting married LOL.”