“You’re invited….

Dallas Wedding Photographer, Catie Ronquillo is looking for 3 couples who are recently married (<10 years) for a Day After Session for a photography project focusing on marriage/married couples.

A Day After Session is a casual portrait session in wedding attire. Perhaps you didn’t have time for many portraits on your wedding day. Perhaps your wedding photos didn’t turn out the way you expected. Or maybe you just need a reason to put that wedding dress back on and strut your stuff again. WHY NOT?! Most of all, it’s a chance to just have fun with your spouse. These make great anniversary gifts!

Couples will receive a complimentary Day After Session with Catie Ronquillo and (1) 8×10 print.

If interested, please submit the following to catie@catieronquillo.com

• Your name and your spouse’s name
• One photo of you and your spouse
• Your favorite story from your relationship (i.e. how you met, a funny story, a romantic story, or why you love your spouse. Please keep your story under 500 words.)
• What you love most about your spouse
• Wedding anniversary
• Why you’d like a Day After Session
  

As a thank you for your participation, couples will receive complimentary 1hr Day After session with Catie Ronquillo and (1) 8×10 print.
Digital Negatives/additional prints are available for purchase.
Sessions to take place between 9/2010-12/2010 in the DFW Metroplex. Couples are responsible for photography/location fees, if any.

Note:
Couples can be expecting or have babies/kids, but children will not be photographed.
Couples will be required to to sign a model release.”

In honor of Father’s Day, today’s post is all about Dads and their responsibilities in the wedding planning process. As the Father of the Bride, you might think your only role is writing checks. Well, think again. Here is your cheat sheet to everything you need to know to make your little girl’s wedding a dream come true:

PreWedding:

• Along with your wife, host an engagement party
• Contribute to the wedding budget
• Help the couple decide on sites and/ or make other big planning decisions
• May help choose a hotel for out-of-town guests and reserve a block of reduced-rate rooms, create maps to be included with invitations, or anything else couple asks for help with
• Rent your own formalwear (talk with the couple if you’re to coordinate with wedding party)
• Help pick up out-of-town guests from the airport; may also arrange transportation to and from the wedding (vans, bus and so on)
• Typically travel to ceremony with bride

At Ceremony:

• May escort your wife to her seat directly before a Christian ceremony begins; walk your daughter down the aisle in a Christian ceremony; in a Jewish wedding, walk with your daughter and wife and stand under a huppah
• Walk in a recessional with your wife in a Jewish wedding; in a Christian wedding, escort mother of the bride out after wedding party

At Reception:

• Greet guests in a receiving line
• May be announced with your wife
• May make a welcoming speech
• Sit in honored place at parents’ table
• Toast the newlyweds after best man makes his speech and groom responds
• Do father-daughter dance with bride
• May take care of vendor balances at the end of the reception

Postwedding:

• With wife, may hot a postwedding brunch

Source: The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner by Carly Roney and Editors of The Knot

A father is his daughter’s protector and the most important man in her life up until the day she has a husband. You’ve watched her grow from a little girl who needs you into an independent woman. Take joy in these responsibilities and cherish every moment you have with her.

In the unfortunate situation where there is no father, the bride may chose her favorite male family member to take over these roles — a brother, cousin, uncle, etc.

This post is dedicated, in loving memory, to my father, Fouad Y. Michael (1936-2003) and my brothers, Steven and Charles, who stepped in.

Photo by Amaya Photography

If you know me at all, you know I love weddings, ice cream and cheese (we’ll come back to the cheese part later). So, when I first learned that my favorite childhood ice cream shop, Marble Slab, catered for weddings it was like a dream come true!

Ice cream at your wedding is something different and fun that your friends and family will really enjoy. Whether you want a Sundae Bar or a Portable Slab, your guests will be in ice cream heaven as Marble Slab dishes out the freshest ice cream in the world.

Visit MarbleSlab.com/Catering to learn more and contact your local store for availability.

This is me at age four. Innocent and pure, already fantasizing about the perfect wedding and the faceless perfect groom to come.

I love weddings because for that one special day, the bride gets to live out her childhood fantasy. She is the center of attention, the luckiest girl in the world, a princess. It is the one day where anything goes. If the bride wants a fountain filled with cheese, she gets it.

I love weddings because each one has so many intricate details that define the bride’s personality. The style, the colors, the music, the candy chosen for the favors – it could be based on a family tradition going back hundreds of years or a four year old’s dream. A wedding tells a story. It represents one couple’s true love and two families coming together to become one.

I love weddings because I tear up every time a bride and her father begin to walk down the aisle. A wedding is a lot of priceless moments that seem to go by in seconds, but will last a lifetime. You dream about these moments and how they will happen. And then they happen and you re-play how wonderful it was over and over.

I love weddings because, even if you have no idea what you want yours to be like and can’t remember ever playing dress-up, a wedding is more than a dream come true and perfect, well-thought out details. It is the day you marry your best friend. It is the best day of your life.