DIY Friday Feature

(Picture taken from DIY Bride)

Our Friday feature today is about the doing it yourself option for your wedding. Many brides do this now for many reasons. It may be reasons due to financial, sentimental, one-of-a-kind or simply just making it home-made and completely to the couple's taste.

We at ABW are avid twitter stalkers of the bridal industry and love eying new products, websites, trends and pretty much anything about the industry. Today, we found diybride, based out of San Jose, California and even though they are not an Arizona company their website is very resourceful none the less for any wedding anywhere.

We're glad we did our research on them, their website features many resources for "Do It Yourself" projects from the cake to sewing the gown. They even have books for sale, which is a great to carry around with you while you wait for appointments or prefer to read books instead of staring into a computer screen.

Happy surfing! This website will keep you entertained all day and once you are done reading you will most definitely want to start many of the projects by the weekend.

Company: DIY Bride
Website: http://www.diybride.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/diybride
Books: DIY Bride Crafty Countdown, The DIY Bride (40 project for your ultimate one-of-a-kind wedding)

A Thoughtful Treat

Photo taken from Fairytale Brownies -www.brownies.com, Father's Day is just around the corner : )

We received a box of treats today unexpectedly from our wonderful friends at the Prescott Wedding Walk and as we were about to choose someone at random for our Wedding Wednesday feature, this may be all about desserts today.

We were curious when the packaging read Fairytale Brownies and thought there would be no way the brownies could have survived a trip through the Arizona heat, but it did.

We opened up the box and it was well insulated and even had a ice pack, but the box of brownies didn't get wet from the condensation due to the careful wrapping around the ice pack. I think we were more impressed with the packaging then the actual treats.

But everything from Fairytale Brownies was well done, there was even a little note that read:

Caring for your Brownies: Fairytale Brownies are always guaranteed fresh upon arrival. If you can resist eating all of them in less than one week, refrigerating or freezing is recommended. Brownies will stay fresh for 30 days in the refrigerator or 6 months in the freezer. Thawing takes about one hour at room temperature, or remove the wrapper and microwave on low power (times will vary).

You are probably thinking that putting them in the microwave is going to blow your mind away, when they are warm they taste like they were freshly baked. I can't make brownies as good as this, so it was pure enjoyment because you don't have to spend the time making them and cleaning up the mess.

Thanks again to Cindy Reeves of Reeves Photography and Fetu at the Prescott Wedding Walk, it was a thoughtful, delicious, and the best gift for any girl or boy.

Fairytale Brownies - www.brownies.com
Phone: 1-800-Fairytale
Twitter - http://twitter.com/ftbrownies
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/fairytalebrownies?ref=ts

Wedding Wednesday feature!

In honor of Wedding Wednesday, I decided to a blog. As you can see it's been a long time coming. When you do 10 events in one week, one tends to want to take a long break from everything. But we (the Arizona Bridal Week team) is in full force again, until after the next bridal week, which may or may not be Spring of 2011.

It takes a lot of planning and we may need more people to acquire this year to be able to pull off another event next year. If you are interested in volunteering your services, help plan events or simply have a few ideas to throw our way send them to info@arizonasbridalweek.com.

We are partnering up / have partnered up with several other companies and have events this year, so all ya have to do is attend a few shows connected with companies like

Jennyvi Dizon Couture
Arizona Bridal Affair
Thee Wedding Warehouse
Lillian Lottie Couture
Ventola Photography
Reeves Photography and Videography
Angelina Rose Photography

These are just a few, there will be more to come when I get any word of more events I will post : )

Now that I have re-introduced myself again, I wanted to feature a photographer who was great to work with during the Arizona Bridal Week. Her name is Keri Doolittle and she is currently transitioning from Arizona to Colorado.

Her work and personality shows that she has a passion for life, especially when it comes to photo journalism. When you meet her you instantly feel the energy she has and could you imagine the energy she will have to shoot your wedding. When the reception is well and done, Keri will be the last person standing still shooting with her camera, capturing something you never expected to - a perfect intimate photo with your new spouse. Something that only Keri Doolittle Photography was able to capture.

Pictures taken from http://www.keridoolittlephotography.com/blog