Insider's Tips: Tip #41 - Vintage Wedding Dress

This next tip I am pretty excited to share!  I think we have seen it only a handful of times, but it is high-impact.  

 

Not too many times do we see a bride want to wear her mother's vintage wedding dress, but taking the dress and having a seamstress turn into into a short, cute party dress for the wedding rehearsal dinner = brilliant!   

 

The dress pictured below was worn for the 2nd half of the reception. The bride took her mom's dress and remade it into a short dress, so she was ready to dance the night away!

 

We have even seen a beautiful handkerchief made out of the mother's wedding dress.  

 

There are so many ways to incorporate meaningful heirlooms into your wedding day. It just takes thinking outside the box!

 

 

A special thanks to Alyson with Eternal Reflections Photography for the use of her photo! We loved working with you!

Insider's Tips: Tip #20 - Mic stand for rehearsal dinner.

Is this thing on?

 

Not only is my next tip one that can help you, as the bride, but it also makes our life easier too!  It's a win-win!

 

Ask your rehearsal dinner venue for a mic stand.  Acoustics of an empty room and acoustics of a room with 100 people in it, are vastly different.  Venues can decorate in such a way to absorb the echo that you sometimes can hear, but in doing that, it makes it harder to hear across the room.  Translation: Decreasing the echo (making voices clearer) also lowers the overall volume.  

 

It also requires your guests who are giving a toast to come up to the front of the room where everyone can see them.  And for your videographer, this helps tremendously!!  If you don't have a mic stand, people think that they can just stand up at their table and speak loud enough for people to see/hear them, while we are trying to get a camera focused on them from across the room.  

 

We are also able to plug our audio recording devices into the mic so that we get crystal clear audio on that special toast when your "never cries EVER" dad, tells you and everyone how proud he is of you, and how he couldn't have asked for a better guy than your finance.  Those are the priceless moments that we capture at the rehearsal dinner.