Since my last Topical Tuesday post, I attended three new first ever/launch type events. The most recent was yesterday’s Dream Wedding Show bridal fair in Sacramento to promote Wish Upon a Wedding, the nation’s first wedding wish granting organization for brides or grooms facing a terminal disease.
On Friday I attended the launch party for Izzy Magzine, a new online bridal magazine for unique and independent brides. I really love the theme of the magazine and have at least one bride coming up this year whose wedding might be perfect to submit for this. I was especially happy that the party was in Villa Montalvo, which had coincidentally been the site for the Wish Upon a Wedding launch party in January. The party started at just the right time, 6:30 p.m., and the dramatic sky provided a great contrast for the multilit structure.
The outside photo will serve as just a small sneak peek of the event. Inside the even had a lot of style going on, and I’ll be blogging all about the party and including many photos I took on Thursday.
The last launch event I attended last week was the Bay Area Wedding Photographers and Wedding Professionals Get Together Launch Party at Motiv (pronounced motive) in Santa Cruz. I love Santa Cruz, it’s a beautiful town, there are almost always musicians playing outdoors (my favorite was the flute player who was simultaneously jogging and playing), great places and people, and parking easily findable.
I’ve never been to Motiv before. Our well packed party took up the whole top floor private room, and we even had two bartenders pouring us specialty drinks including a chile margarita which was just the right amount of spicy. The room was a great mix of familiar faces and new friends to meet. Many of the attendees were photographers, and I met wedding planners, florists and DJs as well. Everywhere I went people were smiling talking and happily posing for photos.
If you are a wedding event professional, please join us for our next get together, on Thursday April 1, 2010 (seriously) at Vbar at Hotel Valencia.
The last two Topical Tuesday photos of the week, were just finds that I found were very funny. The first one was on a truck I saw in the parking lot for Motiv. I’ve always loved this saying a lot, and the particular way the condition of the sticker and the truck is, really drives the amusing slogan home.
The second one just cracks me up. It caught my attention at a Burger King in Vallejo off the 80E where I stopped for a quick breakfast on my way to Sacramento to support Wish Upon a Wedding at the bridal fair. I noticed it as I’d just attended the Silicon Valley NACE meeting, “Pairing Port, Wine and Chocolate” a few weeks ago. While I’d never considered these food items as paired in the same way, it does make a bit of sense and is so unique that I uploaded it to my Facebook page and even had one person asking if this was a real photo, it sure is.
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