Strange… someone posted a question on Google Answers for a Wedding venue in Seattle last September for a date in August of this year. They offer $25 for an answer, and there weren’t any answers posted, at least publicly. I wonder if they found someplace? It seems an odd route to go to…
This company takes your childhood pictures and takes the heads and Photoshops them into photos of children in wedding outfits. According to the testimonials, a lot of people like this kind of thing, but here are the reasons why I can tell this isn’t for me:
Anyway, I’m sure a lot of people love this kind of thing, and like the imagery that these the people getting married were star-crossed lovers, or had known each other forever. I could even imagine these having some emotional weight if the couple actually had known each other since kindergarten. I’m just saying this isn’t meant for me.
When we were at the Bellevue Wedding Expo, we were floating around a date towards the last week in August, like the weekend of the 26th. It would be far enough away to let us plan and try and get stuff done, but would avoid Labor Day weekend and presumably the increased travel costs. However, most of the people we talked to said that August was their busiest month. I guess this makes sense, given the relatively short season we have in Seattle for good weather without having to anticipate rain as much, but on the other hand, it could have been a sales tactic. If we said “Oh, maybe in November” maybe they would have said “Well, November is the busiest month for weddings.”
Well, maybe not November. Anyway, I think the early target is the end of August, possibly September, with the possibility that we push this whole thing to next Spring (when we have more money, are less busy, etc. etc.)
But I don’t get what I’m supposed to be paying for here. $60 for… the ceremony? How is this different from what is done at the Seattle City Hall?
Well, the Bellevue Wedding Expo was this weekend, and, at least compared to the Seattle Wedding Show, it was pretty much a bust. We hoped to see more representation of Eastside area venues, but the biggest one there seemed to be Bastyr, which we already knew about. I kind of hoped to see something from some of the hotels on the Eastside, particularly the new Westin in Bellevue, but the offerings were really limited. I think there were maybe two cake vendors, a bunch of photographers and DJs, and a few planners. I would say the Seattle Wedding Show offered probably close to four times the floor space, and a ton more vendors; a lot more effort was put forth by the vendors for the Seattle show as well.
There’s a list of local vendors on the site for the hosts of the Bellevue Expo here, which is nice in that it includes people who weren’t actually at the show, so there is actually a decent amount of information.
There’s a survival guide to wedding shows here. It has information specifically for the Puget Sound area, but there are some good general tips in there as well. Along with having a lot of energy, and having comfortable shoes, the only other thing I would recommend is that you not bring along your whole bridal party. At the Seattle Wedding Show, brides would bring along SO many people that they would crowd other people out of the booths. You don’t need the opinion of everyone to decide who your photographer is going to be; just bring a couple of people that you trust.
1 carat, Asscher cut diamond, F color, VS1 clarity. Setting is a platinum tapered cathedral setting. Bought at Bluenile.com. The picture doesn’t show it, but it is super sparkly.