Be sure to stop by the Fine Prints booth at the Washington Bridal Showcase for fun giveaways, special offers, and sample invitations to check out. If you are among the first 500 brides to attend you will receive a one year subscription to Brides Magazine included in your ticket price. Plus, every bride can register to win thousands of dollars in gifts and prizes, including a honeymoon cruise.The showcase will be held on Sunday, September 12th from 11am-5pm at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Hope to see you there!
Washington Bridal Showcase
Dulles Expo Center
4368 Chantilly Shopping Ctr., Chantilly, VA
This upcoming season there will be 2 Winter Bridal Showcases hosted by the Washington Bridal Showcase for 2011. The 1st one will be1/16 at the Washington Convention Center and the 2nd one will be 1/23 at the Patriot Center (George Mason University), in Fairfax Virginia.
Help us decide which Showcase to be involved with by answering the poll below. Please feel free to answer even if you are not planning to attend (including those Brides that have already had their wedding). We would like to make sure that we are a part of the showcase that is most desirable to our clients.
If you'd like to give specific reasons why you answered the way you did, please let a comment at the end of this post.
Thank you very much for your feedback!
Which Winter Bridal Showcase would you be more interested in attending?
Let's face it, Brides know that there is more to a wedding than just the wedding day! There's planning, gown fittings, bridal parties, searching for the perfect reception location, selecting vendors, and so on. You can bet that with all the "wedding related" activities, there will be an ever growing folder on your computer labeled "WEDDING". It may seem overwhelming now, but years down the road you will want to look back on all the stressful days of planing and fun times out with the girls. The best way to do that is with Photo Books!
Photo Books will help you relive all these memories and may give you a few fun options to make your wedding extra special in a creative way. There are lots of great companies out there for creating Photo Books, but one of my favorites is Picaboo. Simply go to their website and download their FREE software to get started. You will find that there are tons of great features to really make your book unique. Below you will find some great ideas for Photo Books that will help get the photos out of the computer and displayed for everyone to enjoy!
A personalized "Guest Book" is a great way for your wedding guests to leave you a special message on your big day. Include pictures of you and your fiance as children, pictures from when you first met, and from when you were engaged. Trust me, you will look at this way more than you would a "traditional" guest book!
Other Fun Photo Book Ideas:
Celebrate friendship with a "Bridal Shower" or "Bachelorette Party" book.
Take her breath away with a "Proposal" book that tells your love story. Already engaged? Make a photo book telling how he proposed. Include photos that show when and where.
Have tons of engagement photos from your photo shoot? Turn your engagement photos into a stunning album. Why spend all the money and only use one photo when you can display them all!
Design a unique customized "Wedding Album" you will cherish for years to come. For a more complete album, include photos from the wedding rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception. Or, choose to focus on the ceremony alone.Placing disposable camera's on the table at your wedding? Scan the photos and add any other photos sent your way to create a wedding album from your guests point of view.
Give your bridal party members a gift book that will remind them of the special role they played in your wedding each time they read it. Include photos spanning from the day you met up to the wedding!
Relive your honeymoon again and again with a stunning "Honeymoon" book.
Jill came to Fine Prints looking for boarding pass style invitations for her formal Grand Cayman destination wedding. With a classic black, white, and red color scheme, we designed elegant and fun invitations that really put Jill's guests in the mood for a tropical adventure. One of the details we loved the most about these invitations was that Jill wanted each boarding pass personalized for the guest(s) they were sent to! To do this we had each guest listed as a passenger on their boarding passes.
This wedding invitation set features 2 boarding passes. The first pass is the actual wedding invitation and the second pass has reception and response information. Guests would tear off the perforated RSVP post card on the second pass to mail back their response. Both passes were presented in a boarding pass sleeve to complete to overall look of the invitation.
Jill was able to be a part of the creative process for her wedding invitations by purchasing the boarding passes and sleeve from us and adding her own personal touches. Working with Jill to make her vision come true was a pleasure. We love the way these unique invitations turned out! Best wishes to Jill & Matt!
What did Jill have to say about working with Fine Prints?
"I was looking for something that tied together with our destination wedding as well as our theme colors (black and white with a pop of red). After doing some research, Fine Prints offered the “entire package”. The invitations were the perfect “marriage” of beautiful, contemporary, good quality, unique with the added touch of personalization…so the choice for me was obvious. Amanda really listened to my thoughts and ideas and brought them to life! The best part is that my guests didn’t stop talking about how different the invitations were and thought is was a great touch that we personalized each boarding pass with the guests name…I even had a few guests call to respond because they didn’t want to ruin the invite by sending back the response card!!! Thanks Amanda for helping me set the initial theme for the wedding!!"
Vendor Recap - Who did you choose for your big day?
Ceremony:The Great Lawn at The Ritz Carlton in Grand Cayman Reception:Ballroom at The Ritz Carlton in Grand Cayman Bride Apparel:Tara Keeley Groom Apparel: Men’s Warehouse (purchased tuxedo) Cake:The Ritz Carlton Floral:Lion’s Productions, Grand Cayman Photography: Aaron Rebarchek from Picture Thisin Grand Cayman
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