{"id":485,"date":"2012-01-30T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2012-01-30T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T07:51:09","slug":"wedding-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/wedding-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-486\" title=\"Wedding_Clipart\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/hl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wedding_Clipart-232x300.jpg\" \/>I\u2019m in the business of booking expos and a few times a year, I get to attend expos.\u00a0 Most of the expos that I attend have booths lined with hoteliers, rental car agencies, convention bureaus and AV companies.\u00a0 But the other day, while in Washington with my fianc\u00e9e, I attended a totally different type of expo.\u00a0 I attended the Washington DC Bridal Show.\u00a0 And not a mere spectator, as a buyer!<!--more-->Oh this was quite a production.\u00a0 Scores and scores of happy new brides with their shiny finger adornments, and for the most part their mother\u2019s or their best friends, charged up and down the aisles of the convention hall.\u00a0 Few grooms were present on this day \u2013 perhaps because it was also the day of the Divisional Round of NFL Playoffs.\u00a0 But since my game wouldn\u2019t start until 4:30p, and my wedding was prospectively five months away, I thought it prudent and dare I say fun, to join my fianc\u00e9e for a once in a lifetime kind of event.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of the show was overwhelming for both of us.\u00a0 No doubt this could have been due to the fact that our wedding was just around the corner, and other than a venue, we had nothing set in stone.\u00a0 Booth after booth would add more questions than answers for us.\u00a0 More choices for vendors we knew we had to find, and more vendors for things we didn\u2019t know we needed vendors for.\u00a0 It took a few times for she and I to recollect ourselves, to process what we\u2019d seen and heard, and to reprioritize.\u00a0 We did this almost twice an aisle.\u00a0 But at the end of the day, we really think we\u2019d met our future photographer, florist, DJ, hair and makeup professionals, and even an alternative bakery.<\/p>\n<p>For us, it was about matching these service professionals personalities to ours.\u00a0 And flipping through a bridal magazine or reviewing even the best website is not going to provide this level of interaction.\u00a0 I recommend the Bridal Expo to any prospective brides (or grooms).\u00a0 Not just the grooms who began holding space at their preferred venue four weeks before asking their bride-to-be to be the bride.\u00a0\u00a0 And next year, when I\u2019m married, maybe the Bridal Expo could use a Hotel Lobbyist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in the business of booking expos and a few times a year, I get to attend expos.\u00a0 Most of the expos that I attend have booths lined with hoteliers, rental car agencies, convention bureaus and AV companies.\u00a0 But the other day, while in Washington with my fianc\u00e9e, I attended a totally different type of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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