“Why do you do the wedding festivals?” Every year it’s a question we’re bombarded with from fellow vendors in the industry, mostly photographers since that’s our niche, but nonetheless others as well. Many of the assumptions, comments, opinions, and questions are never outright critical of Wedding Festivals themselves, but they always do tend to have a bit of a negative skew or point of view towards bridal shows, sometimes based on personal experience, sometimes based on wha

Every year since moving here, we’ve participated in The Wedding Festivals in Asheville and Greenville! It’s an event that we give a lot of credit to with helping get our business off the ground and into the presence of couples who are looking for a wedding photographer! If you’ve never been to one of the Wedding Festivals shows, the owners Colleen and Marc as well as their top notch team go above in beyond in making sure the vendors have the right resources to be successful

This story starts in eight months ago, back in February of this year, when Jenny and I, along with our awesome teammates Jenny and Bryan, were attending the Wedding Festivals at the U.S. Cellular Center for the second year in a row. As usual the day was quite a rush! Between trying to keep up with 400+ brides, handing out literature for those interested, and guest speaking, sometimes as a vendor your head can spin. Despite the whirlwind environment, we treasure events like

Last year we attended The Wedding Festivals for the first time and it was such a wonderful experience for us personally and professionally that we knew we had to go back this year! In fact, 2015 going into 2016 we were still in the transition process from Tampa to Asheville and weren’t quite sure what to expect in terms of turn out and if we would be received well by those in the market for wedding photography. Boy are we glad we decided to attend the Wedding Festivals in 2