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For the second year, we’re very happy to be a part of the Perfect Wedding Guide Bridal Show in Raleigh. There will be an amazing selection of vendors and fantastic information for you and your friends who are getting married! Please drop in – if you need tickets, please let me know! It will be Sunday, April 11 at the Marriott Crabtree Valley. And, I’m taking guesses on what color scheme I’m going with this time… you might be surprised! After several months of planning and three long, hard, but fantastic days, we raised over $31,000 for Brides Against Breast Cancer! Over 40 brides found their dream wedding dress this weekend. Many more came to see if they could find their dress. Even if they didn’t find it, I hope they had fun and enjoyed the experience. Maybe they even learned something about what they are looking for. On Sunday morning, a lovely woman named Joan came in. She is why we do this each year. She has Stage IV Breast Cancer, which has spread to her bones. Making Memories is granting her final wish – to gather her family together and give her daughter a beautiful wedding at the beach. Joan is kind, sweet, and a true inspiration. You can meet her here.
It is a lot of work, but I can’t wait to start planning for next year! Let’s beat the record Atlanta holds and bring in over $51,000 in 2011!
We do stil need a few volunteers for Sunday late afternoon into evening to help load the truck, so drop me an e-mail if you can help out. Hope to see everyone there! Catherine I was reading some other blogs – which I do all the time and I found this. I think some of them are spot on, but personally, I LOVE LED lighting. That having been said, candles are warmer… Enjoy! I had so much fun this past week at the Association of Bridal Consultants International Conference! I think I’m finally catching up with everything that needs to be done! I met so many nice people and learned so much that it’s going to take some time to share everything (and that’s a good thing!!!). The highlights for me – and they are BIG ONES!! – I won!!! What, you ask? Two things. First, I am now the Association of Bridal Consultants’ Rising Star for 2009! I did win the yearly award and I was very, very excited to have my good friend and mentor Char Hein present me with the award. I don’t have a picture. Yet. I’m questing. Then, the same day, my name was drawn to have VIP seating at the Woodland Garden Luncheon. With Sylvia Weinstock!!! And, yes, I have pictures of that!
See!?! She also tweeted while at lunch – she was showing me her Blackberry Apps!?! – and the geek that I am, I took a picture of her while she was tweeting. Then, I came home, screen captured her tweet, and voila!
I didn’t have the guts to ask her to say with @CatherineKatz in her tweet. Boy, I should have! The very nice lady on the other side of Sylvia is Janice Jackson from Elegant Events by Jan. She was just as thrilled to be seated next to Sylvia as I was. Sylvia is very knowledgeable about the wedding business overall and gave us some very good advice about building our businesses. We were so very fortunate to speak at length with her! I had mentioned Fall in Love with Indy a couple of days ago and said I’d talk a bit more about who I will get to meet there. I am extremely excited to get to hear Sylvia Weinstock speak! She is a phenomenal baker – called “The Leonardo Da Vinci of Cakes” who will be speaking about the importance of the wedding cake. I’ll bet you can remember a lot about cakes you like at weddings. How pretty they were, which ones tasted fantastic (or not), because it is the last thing you eat at a wedding! I am counting down the days until I get to learn from some fabulous people! Catherine One week from today, I’ll be in Indianapolis at the annual Association of Bridal Consultants annual conference. I just received an e-mail from ABC that is making me very excited to be attending. I will get to see people I worked with in Colorado, meet industry greats, and get fantastic ideas! I’ll bring back as much as possible to share with the local ABC members who couldn’t go to conference this year and hope to have lots of insights and beautiful pictures to share with you! This week, I’ll tell you a little about who is going to be there and what I get the opportunity to learn! I can’t wait to Fall in Love with Indy! I was very fortunate today to go to a great luncheon at a brand new wedding venue in the area. I’m not telling you the name just yet, because my friend and fabulous photographer, Dajuan Jones of In His Image Photography is sending me some of the pictures he took today. I can’t wait for you to see this beautiful new facility! So, even though the site isn’t quite done, I can’t wait anymore to share the news! A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter from the Association of Bridal Consultants (ABC), naming me the Cele Lalli Rising Star Award winner for the second quarter of 2009. The award honors the memory of the retired editor in chief of Modern Bride Magazine. Lalli, a long-time ABC supporter, died in 2002 in a tragic car accident, a few years after her retirement. She had been editor of the magazine for 32 years. She was a great friend to ABC and a strong proponent of education and professionalism in the industry. As a quarterly winner, I am now eligible for the annual Rising Star which will be presented at the Business of Brides, ABC’s Annual Conference, in November. I am very proud to be a part of ABC and even more so to be recognized for industry excellence! So, now, Cherished Celebrations is an award winning company! To borrow from the Energizer Bunny, the website update is still going! There have been a couple of delays, much to our dismay, but sometimes, you just have to roll with it. We’re hoping to have our announcement go out at the end of the week. That would mean the site will be done by then. So, check back soon! |
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Only a week left until the Brides Against Breast Cancer Gown Sale! If you’re looking for a wedding dress, please come check it out! You can get a designer gown at a fraction of the cost from a store. And, the best thing is that all proceeds go to grant wishes for men and women with Stage IV breast cancer.
