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The 2nd annual bride’s ball was a success.  Many attended, won prizes, danced the night away, donated lots of money, ate great food provided by great vendors… SUCCESS!  All involved (and I know I will forgot to mention everyone) donated a lot of their time, money, effort for a great cause – The Grand River Hospital, breast cancer screening.  For some of us, we know all too well what cancer (breast cancer) can do to a person and so on Friday we were encouraged once again to get ourselves checked.

Here are a few of my favourites from the night!

For those of you who are wondering who puts this great event on???  It’s Anne Warren and her amazing team from The Wedding Ring.  Anne’s the one who interviewed me for MY REVIEW on theweddingring!  She’s fab and so is her daughter (you know I’ll never forget her Anne!! She was too cute!) ha!

Christine Martin from Pure Potential organized the event and brought her own GLAMOROUS style to it!

We were going to try and get some nice shots of the ladies walking to the Ball… but downtown Kitchener is under construction!

Elements nightclub let us GLAM up their venue for this event!

Mmmmm what’s a party without cake or sweet treats??? Thanks to Sweet Sweets, Too Nice to Slice, and whoever else who provided all the yumminess! Our tastebuds LOVED you!

Seriously Ida, your cakes are amazing!

Ladybug Bridal in Guelph provided the dresses on display!  WOW!

Kim from The Creative Bride was looking hot that night and helped make the place look hot too!! Kim, your decor and flowers were beautiful…

I wasn’t the only photographer on site… Paul & Anita from Images with Attitude were running the photo booth!

Here’s Kim in her gown that I wanted to snatch from her!

Because of the dark nightclub lighting… I was in search for any kind of dramatic light.

A few more thank you’s to Etched in Time for videography and to the guy who kept the people dancing, DJ Kyle from planet goodtime!
And last but not least THANK YOU for those who came out to support the Grand River Hospital!

What an amazing event! Before I head off to shoot Adam & Melissa’s wedding… I thought I’d share one from last night’s Ball.
And as always, more to come on this!

Hey friends, there a few things I wanted to share with y’all (ever since my Houston trip… I’ve managed to use y’all at least once a day!!)

First, I’ve recently been reviewed on The Wedding Ring!! It went up this week and I’d love for you to click HERE, check it out, and give me some feedback  For those of you who don’t know, The Wedding Ring is “…changing the way brides plan weddings…”. It is a great place to find all the help and resources you may need to plan YOUR wedding. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. I personally like the tips&tricks section!

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I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

I just had one of the craziest, but inspiring weekends… so I thought I’d share it with you!

I have an amazing friend Angela who has been putting on this sweet girls conference (Perfectly Flawed) for the past 4 years.

This years theme was “Awake” – emphasizing that we can BE THE CHANGE; one person CAN make a difference.  She asked me to share some of my story of doing missions work in Africa and how that affected my decision to be part of an awareness rally on Saturday (The Rescue of Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers).  Story after story, we were all inspired to actually do the things that make our hearts jump.  I was telling my girls that sometimes it feels like there’s SO much that can be done and it can be a LOT overwhelming – but if we each do a little… it will make a BIG difference.

One of my favourite parts of PF is the fashion show that they put on.  The wonderful Lisa heads this up with tons of help from her youth girls…  Here are some photos from this “modest is hottest” show

This is the very talented Angela

The girls makeup was soooooo amazingly done!!

Don’t you love the feathers on their eyes

Everyone who made it happen…

Dearest Sarah, I’m so happy that I was able to sing with you this past weekend! You rock!

The very talented sisters… Lisa & Gloria.

Thanks to the lovely Laura for snatching my camera and taking the next two photos of me, Angela, and Sarah singing it up!

Let me encourage you to find an organization that you believe in… and help support it.
Here’s a really amazing one that I learned about this weekend. Check it out! Oppurtunity International

Justin and I had an awesome opportunity to learn from [b]ecker last week (http://www.beckersblog.com).  He’s a fabulous photographer from Southern California who has helped so many other photographers get to where they’re at today.  He shares so openly about his successes with his business and truly wants that for those who want to work for it!  He also co-founded the [b]school where photographers all over the world meet up and share ideas and help each other out!

Anyway, we had a GREAT day.  He talked for hours… then he did a short shoot with Justin & I (since the models didn’t show up), then he took headshots of us…

I learned so much and feel so inspired!

He’s quite the funny guy

Here’s [b]ecker taking a headshot of Emma Smallbone of barebonephoto

Another new friend… Sandra Regier (mother of 5 – I know can you believe it… I’m still shocked!!)

David Biesse and [b]ecker chatting it up

I’m pretty sure Dave just showed [b]ecker a shortcut in photoshop Definitely worth a hug!!