Most Popular Wedding Dates +2009

Newly engaged or know someone who was recently engaged? Love is in the air and certainly for Valentines Day. Valentines Day in 2009, will be one of the most popular wedding dates of the year because in 2009 if falls on a Saturday. I'm sure there will be some really creative ideas coming from wedding planners, cake designers, florists, etc.. It's never too early to start planning early if this is the date you want. Many wedding professionals have the date booked already.

Another popular wedding date is forecasted for October 17, 2009. Why? It's Sweetest Day...another holiday for love.

Wedding planning can be fun but it can also be stressful. Part of the stress is trying to make decisions on who to invite, what are the colors, where to get the dress, who is going to be in the wedding, who do we invite, where do we Honeymoon...ahh! The list goes on. It is important to efficiently work through who your wedding professionals will be. This is one of the most important days of your life and you should feel very comfortable with who you hire. We always encourage our clients to meet with us before they hire us so that we get to know a little about them and they get to know us and ask us questions. Vendors that are likely to be with you for a large part of your day are Videographers, Photographers and Wedding Consultants. So spend the time to meet with them and see if they have the kind of personality you can mesh with.

Patrick & Tiffany - Our Story

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We had such a wonderful experience getting to know Patrick and Tiffany. They are from Kentucky and we talked on the phone a few times and then met them in Louisville to film an engagement video we did for them, which they used as a Save The Date video. Producing a Love Story video give us more of an opportunity to connect with our couples and we really enjoy learning some of the back stories. This particular video was shown at their rehearsal party and we have also shown these at receptions as a way of introducing the Bride and Groom to each others family and friends.

Patrick and Tiffany are one of the most sincere people that we have met. They both have incredible parents and an abundance of faith that we really admire.

The wedding was held at Grace Fellowship Church in Morganfield, Kentucky on June 7, 2008 and the reception was at Camp Breckinridge Museum & Art Center. Camp Breckinridge was a really cool place and amazing story behind it. The short story is that it was a prison for German prisoners during WWII. One particular prisoner loved to paint and the Officers of the Camp asked that he do some artwork to spruce up the Officers Club a bit. The artwork was covered up with a wall fabric for a period of time and the building sat vacant for years. The building was restored and during the restoration, the artwork was discovered and research began on the origins of the artwork.

Thank you to Patrick and Tiffany and their family and friends for their hospitality while we were there.

John and Jennifer Moon
www.northernlightfilmworks.com

Keys to Successful Wedding Speeches

Keys to Successful Wedding Speeches

Author: Magriet Du Plessis

Article:
Wedding speeches can often be, particularly before the event, a
source of terror - whether you are preparing as the groom,
father of the bride or best man. Even the bride and the mother
of the bride often give wedding speeches these days.

The two real keys to success with wedding speeches are:

1. Careful preparation and practice of the content of your
speech. You can use free wedding speeches to get inspiration, as
we will see.

2. Psychological preparation - anticipating how it will feel to
stand up in front of everyone at the event itself, so that you
can get comfortable with that feeling rather than being afraid
of it.

The Content of Your Wedding Speech

The first thing you need to decide is the style of speech you
wish to give. Do you want it to be humorous, witty, romantic,
poetic, or just very loving?

There are a lot of free wedding speeches available on the
Internet and reading through free wedding speeches is a great
way to get inspiration. You are unlikely to find a speech that
you will want to use word for word, but there will be elements,
choices of wording, and ideas that will spring out at you.

Be sure to write your speech out in full and then practice it
until you can tell it like a story with your notes just for
backup in case you lose your train of thought.

Psychological Preparation Before a Wedding Speech

It is perfectly natural to be nervous when you find out you are
going to be expected to give a wedding speech. This is a very
important day for the happy couple, and it is a great honor to
be asked to speak. Naturally you want to please the bride and
groom, contribute to their happy memories, and above all not to
let them down.

Similarly, if you are the host or hostess, it will be important
to you to have the opportunity to clearly communicate your
deepest feelings of appreciation and love to the guests you have
invited to share your special day with you.

The most important thing to realize, when preparing for wedding
speeches, is that you have a very friendly audience. Unlike many
forms of public speaking, where you are faced with standing up
in front of a crowd of indifferent - or worse, hostile -
listeners, at a wedding your audience will be eager to cheer you
on.

So as you can see, there is no need to be nervous of wedding
speeches, as long as you have prepared in advance.

About the author:
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This is a great article to prepare you for toasts and wedding day speeches.

John and Jennifer Moon
www.northernlightfilmworks.com

Tessa + Evan Highlight

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This is the Highlight video of Tessa and Evan. This was a wedding held at the Westin Hotel in downtown Indianapolis, IN. We had the pleasure of filming their Love Story and this let us in a bit on how they met and how Evan proposed to Tessa. Evan is currently on another tour of Iraq.

The song used in the video was by Bryan Adams and this was Tessa and Evans First Dance song.

Thanks Evan and Tessa for being such great clients.

John and Jennifer Moon
www.northernlightfilmworks.com

Something cOOL and hIP

While at the Summer Bridal Show at the Allisonville Nursery on Sunday, we came across a really fun idea for your reception. We had the pleasure of meeting David Johnson, President of Indy Photo Booth. At the end of the day, David let us sample the booth and as you can tell, we were in one of those quirky moods. We really love this concept and we are always looking for things that are different and unique. In talking with David he said they have an authentic 1940's photo booth. We got to talking about the fact that we shoot Super 8 film and how his service adds a little uniqueness to the wedding and is vintage like Super 8. Please don't think this will replace your photographer....as you can tell by our pictures, not a lot of control over content. But hey its very candid. What we would like to do is hide one of our cameras in the booth and just let it roll as people get in. Now that would be a fun edit! Anyway check out Indy Photo Booth.

John
www.northernlightfilmworks.com
Indianapolis Wedding Video