Wordless Wednesday

Jean Tsai

Wish Upon A Wedding

I love love love giving back, being a part of something greater than myself, and planning weddings. This is an awesome organization combines all three of these things. The Colorado chapter is coming soon and I can't wait to be involved in this organzation.

Wish Upon A Wedding was founded in San Francisco, CA, in January of 2010, by a group of wedding and business entrepreneurs and is America’s FIRST nonprofit wedding wish granting organization, producing weddings and civil union ceremonies at destinations across the United States for individuals facing terminal illness, regardless of sexual orientation.

Chapters:
Wish Upon A Wedding is now boasting twenty chapters nationwide, headed by some of the industry’s most renowned leaders with plans to expand to over 40 chapters worldwide.

Presidents:
Sasha Souza, National President & SF Bay Area President
Kevin Covey, LA/Orange County
Stella Inserra, New York
Ivy Robinson, The Carolinas
Eliana Baucicault, Atlanta
Mary Alice Sublett, Tennessee
Mark Kingsdorf, Philadelphia
Saundra Hadley, Indianapolis
Heather Hamilton Sims, Houston
Shelby Tuck Horton, DC
Elisa Delgardio, Orlando
Ali Phillips, Chicago
Daniela Isabella Ferdico Fagét, Seattle

Forming Additional Chapters:
Other chapters opening soon include Boston, Colorado, Arizona, Portland, Miami, St. Louis, Ohio and Nevada. We are also planning to open to chapters in other areas depending on need including international chapters. If you wish to start a chapter, please fill out the online form for consideration.

Who Is Behind Wish Upon A Wedding?
Many influential people in the industry are beginning to endorse Wish Upon A Wedding & you can find those endorsements on the website. There are also amazing people sitting on the Boards and Advisory Panel throughout the US such as Dana Larue Stiebel “Broke-Ass Bride” {LA Chapter PR Chair}, Leila Khalil {National PR Advisor}, Beth Helmstetter {National Outreach Director} just to name a few. They would love to have you join as well either as a board member or wish granter!

How We Grant Wishes:
To qualify for Wishes, applicants must be unmarried legal citizens of the United States, over the age of 18, who have been diagnosed with less than three years to live. Couples can be granted wishes either in the chapter where they live or in a chapter of their choosing as long as they are able to make the trip.

Couples can simply apply online to request one of three wedding types:

URGENT (Up to 10 guests, in hospital or at bedside);
BOUTIQUE (up to 25 guests, in home town of applicant);
ROMANTIC (Up to 50 guests, at any WUW destination)

How Can You Grant Wishes?
As the organization is building, Wish Granters are needed in all locations. Please apply online today to start helping Wedding Wishes come true. In two weeks, Wish Upon A Wedding will be granting the very first wish. To read more about that wish and the couple please visit the website.


Danielle

Colorado Wedding Planner

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!!

WOW!! I had such a great response to the giveaway - more than any other year. As I was reading each entry, I could sympathize with each couple - I have been there. More than a couple brought tears to my eyes and made me want to be a part of each wedding day. Thank you all for sharing your stories with me. Please know that I wish I could help each and every one of you.

Now onto the winner...clearly I was not going to be able to pick a winner based on stories alone so I (well random.org, picked a number for me) randomly picked a number... and the winner is...

Emily and Jake!!

Congratulations to the lucky couple! I also have posted a TTD (trash the dress) Giveaway from a local Colorado photographer. Check out the post here.

Thanks again to everyone that entered.

Danielle

Colorado Wedding Planner

TTD Giveaway

Networking is a big part of any business, including wedding planning. I am on twitter (SCEvents) and have been able to network with many people from around the country, as well as Colorado. You are able to share about yourself and your business without leaving your house. I have had the chance to meet some awesome people and learn from them.

One of the people I recently met on twitter was Scott Stebner from Scott Stebner Photography. He has been shooting weddings for 4 years and recently moved from California to Colorado. He is continuing his photography business here. Here is what Scott has to say about himself:

"I'm a wedding, documentary, and editorial photographer who just moved out from California to marry my fiance and can't wait! While I was in California, I photographed weddings that were on TLC's Rock the Reception and worked for a number of magazines and newspapers. I also work as a documentary and relief photographer for an organization I helped start called "FCC Ethiopia" where we raise money for rural villages in Ethiopia providing them with drinking water, irrigation, technology, school supplies, food relief, and life-saving medicine. 10% of all my photography goes towards providing children and mothers with clean, safe drinking water and food supply. To date we have raised over $250,000. "

We chatted over email and he informed me that he would like pair up with Something Classic Events to do a TTD giveaway!! Scott is going to give away 5 Trash the Dress sessions!

You might be asking, what is a Trash the Dress shoot? Well let me give you a short rundown. This is fun session where you are willing to do more with your gown than you might have been on your wedding day because you aren't worried about getting it dirty. From laying on the ground in dirt to jumping in a lake, these are things you might not do on your wedding (especially jumping in the lake!!). You dress won't get "trashed" but will get dirty. I have had many brides say everything comes out when the gown is taken to the cleaners.

Sound like fun? You bet it is! All you need to do is shoot Scott an email (scott@stebnerphotography.com) with your name and email address by Sunday March 7, 2010 and then 5 winners will be randomly selected. How easy is that! I wish you all the best of luck!

Danielle

Colorado Wedding Planner

Last day for the giveaway!

I just wanted to remind you that today is the last day for our Day of Giveaway! The giveaway will closes this evening at 11:59 MST. We have had a great response so far and we are looking forward to helping one lucky couple!! The winner will be announced tomorrow! Here is the blog post regarding the contest. And no post is good without a picture.

Danielle

Colorado Wedding Planner

Wordless Wednesday

Robert Hooper Photography

Giving Back

As wedding season begins, I think about all of the opportunities I had over the past year. I have been fortunate to work with great vendors and even greater clients. Not everyone is able to have the best of the best, but they still deserve to have a great wedding. We, at Something Classic Events, feel that having a wedding coordinator is no longer a luxury but a necessity on your wedding day. That said, not everyone is able to afford a professional, experienced wedding planner so that is where our giveaway comes in. We have done this giveaway each year and I feel it is our way to give back. We are able to provide one couple with a professional planner so they are able to fully enjoy their wedding day. So without further ado, we introduce our 2010 Something Borrowed Package giveaway.

How to Enter:

Email: danielle.odil@somethingclassicevents.com and use GIVEAWAY as the subject.

Each entry form must answer the following questions:

• Your Name:
• Fiance’s Name:

• Email address:

• Phone number:

• Wedding Date:

• Wedding Location :

• Total wedding budget:

• Total # of guests expected:

• How did you choose your wedding venue? (250 words or less)

• Describe why having a wedding coordinator will make your day the best (250 words or less)

Entries will be accepted until February 28th, 2010 @ 11:59PM. Incomplete entries or entries received after this time will not be considered. One entry per couple.

Contest is not open to current clients or potential clients that have already contacted Something Classic Events. Contest is open nation-wide {if the winner is not in Colorado, they must provide travel and lodging to their wedding location}.

A winner will be chosen at random by March 1, 2010 and notified by email, then will be announced on our blog.

For exact package details, please look over the Something Borrowed Package on our website.

Good Luck!

Danielle

By entering this contest, you grant permission to Something Classic Events to use your first names only, photo, and wedding description on our blog. Winner must also consent to having a blog post written after their wedding date has past. Contact information will remain private.