With pen in hand, I headed to Wichita for the WedPro2011 conference.   This is a chance for all of the wedding professionals to get together and get the latest information on how to make your wedding day experience fantastic!!  It is also a time for us to geek out, in a sense, let our hair down and have a little fun.  As a photographer, I am sad to say that I didn't actually take any pictures at this event...I was too busy writing down tons of notes!....note to self....take laptop next year!

It is also a great time to network, get to hang out and gossip with the people that I do know and get to meet and great some of the people that I don't know. 

One of the speaker that was there was Susan Southerland, who is one of the foremost experts in the wedding industry.  If you are interested to find out what type of bride you are, I have a treat for you!!  They have a quiz for that!!  They seem to have a quiz for everything now days!!  It really does help you in the process of planning and making all of those decisions that brides make.

  



Visionary Bride

Savvy Bride

Bewildered Bride

Functional Bride

 



 Another one of the speakers, and my personal favorite, was Peter Merry.  He has been helping couples create fun and entertaining wedding receptions since 1992.  He had my attention from the beginning.  One of my favorite topics that he spoke about was call the Starbucks Effect.  Did you know that there are 88,000 ways to make specialty drinks!!  For those of you that are not coffee drinkers, there has to be something there that you like, with those odds...come on now!!  He is also the author of The Best Wedding Reception....EVER!!  This is a definite must read for anyone about to get married.  His time is running short of making it on Oprah and having his book and her must read list! 

Hopefully I have entertained you a little, my creative writing skills are a bit dusty.  Blogging is a new chapter in my life and business and a little something that I also learned from my adventures at the conference.