Couples planning a wedding in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky and Dayton are so lucky. In the past couple of years, several hundred wedding specialists: caterers, florists, wedding coordinators, photographers – everyone you might need – have formed an extremely powerful networking web.
About 200 of us got together last Wednesday, July 14, A NIGHT OF NIBBLING: Wedding Vendors for Charity at the amazing Leapin’ Lizards Art Gallery. The event featured 4 of the area’s foremost caterers who vied for “Best of The Evening” title: Eatwell, A La Cart, Bensons, and Creations by Melody.
We all sampled their dishes and voted for our favorites, paying $5 for each ballot. We collected quite a bit of money, of which 100% went to charities designated by the caterers. Donations were made to Lighthouse Youth Services, Cincinnati Parks, USO-Operation Enduring Care, and The Greenacres Foundation Equine Center. The charities benefited, and the vendors had a blast.
As an added bonus my dear friend Tracy Bellman (T-Bell as I know her) of Tres Belle Cakes provided some delectable cupcakes. The incredible Jeff Martin of Le Sucre Bakery entertained us all by deconstructing a traditional wedding cake Jackson Pollack style. It was something to see.
Special thanks to Mark and Sam Roberts for capturing some amazing footage.
Are you a guy? Are you in love? Have you been thinking about popping the question to a special someone, but want to make it memorable? NOW’s your chance. From now until December 31, 2010 anyone who books a wedding with Lifetime can have the marriage proposal filmed by us absolutely free. As an added bonus we will include one of the professional photographers listed here on our blog to shoot the proposal with us. Restrictions do apply, so please call or e mail me for all the details. Offer available to NEW clients only.
Below is an example of what we can do when we combine everything together.
This year the Lifetime team decided to put together 2 different promos for the 2010 season. This is the 1st & shorter of the 2. I am blessed enough to captured some truly incredible moments in people’s lives. The following clip is from one of my favorite couple who’s production was shot late last year, Theresa and Jeremy. During the bridal prep I was a “fly on the wall” and noticed Theresa’s mom deep in thought as she helped her daughter put on a necklace. After I watched what I had captured, I had an idea. I asked Theresa for some pictures of herself and her mother from the past. I then found the perfect music and left almost all of the live audio in place. You can feel the emotions starting to build here.
There will be more to follow on this amazing couple soon.
enjoy,
We booked a wedding today b/c the bride was scared to death of her churches very strict rules for photography & video. After I told her we know the parish priest, the church coordinator and she saw 2 different productions from there with her priest actually doing the ceremony, she was sold. “I love that you’ve been there before” she told me. “I feel like I can relax about this”. We now like to invite you to look to your right and try our Lifecasting search feature. (See white box). There’s a lot to see!
Type in anything: your ceremony or reception location or a florist you’re considering. Maybe you’d like to see your photographer in action with a B&G, simply type in their name and hit enter.
If you don’t find what you’re looking for, then feel free to check out our updated location list on our main website. If you see anything you’d like to preview, please contact us and we’ll be happy to mail you a finished DVD production from there.
There’s also some of our absolute favorite wedding peeps listed to the right that we know will make your wedding day a huge success.
Like many people I have become somewhat addicted to Facebook. I’ve gotten reacquainted with people from 25 years ago. People I went to both grade school and high school too. One of my favorite parts about this new community is the ability to stay in contact with past and present brides. It was one year ago today that Lifetime was a part of Anna and Dave’s wedding. I love this couple and as you’ll see in their Wedding Trailer below, it was easy to do. They just love life.
They also had one of our best moments ever captured on film when they saw each other for the first time that day.
Happy Anniversary you two:)
enjoy,
~mp
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I met with a bride and her mom this week and they asked me an interesting question. “Do you ever get emotional doing weddings. Absolutely, in fact I balled like a baby editing this trailer. I have a daughter myself and have mentioned here before, I will be a total emotional wreck on her wedding day I’m sure.
Izzy and Dan had the dream team at their dream wedding. Steve Lyons did the photography, Doug Baker was the DJ along with an incredible band. The entire event was masterfully coordinated by Elisa Mackenzie at Elegant Events by Elisa and held at the fabulous Drees Pavilion in Covington, Ky.
The Lifetime team felt that this was such an amazing trailer, we did a re-edit for out newest opening on our website.
“Lifetime Video “VOTEDBEST “Wedding Videographer in Cincinnati by The Knot Magazine for the 2nd year in a row. The ONLY Cincinnati Wedding Videographer to have achieved this honor two years running.”
We’re very pleased to announce that we have again been selected as a 2008 Pick for The Knot Best of Weddings magazine, a coast-to-coast, by-brides-for-brides guide to the top wedding sites, videographers,photographers, florists, and more in over 40 key cities across the United States published by The Knot Inc. (www.theknot.com), the #1 wedding website and most trusted wedding resource.
The Knot conducted its second annual survey of over 20,000 recent brides to capture detailed feedback on every business that couples hired for their wedding celebration.
A sincere thank you to all our beautiful Knot brides for voting us #1 once again.
Matt Pine
Dan Shallenberger
Mark Fortner
Greg Burnett
Deborah Hanna-Baker
and the entire Lifetime staff:)
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