Our best wedding show ever!

Wow! What a night!

The signature green couch made the trip, as always. And check out some new, huge gallery wraps! Special thanks to Derrick of Creative Look for photographing us. Check him and his chica April at the end of this post.

Smokin'!

Sizzlin'!

Smilin'!

Guest books!

 

Flowers by the inimitable Daffodil Parker.

My typewriter I just retrieved from my childhood bedroom. Note the beads I glued on in order to make it feel like a computer keyboard.

What the heck is this?!

Oh! It's selenium-toned peanut M&M's! Your party is guaranteed awesome if you have these babies!

As promised, Derrick and April from Creative look. They're fun!

Signing portraits #32B and #33!

Two more signing portraits, at a special location--the Wedding Planner and Guide bridal show!



Steph was going to the wedding expo anyway, so we went ahead and brought a contract in for her to sign. Now we have the matching half to her fiancé Kevin's signing portrait last week!




We were excited to have Christi and Mike sign up right there on the spot. Can't wait for your engagement session, you two!

And we're back!

Awesome wedding expo, y'all! Our new and improved booth seemed to be a hit--we gave out three times as many pricing brochures as we thought we would! Our pricing brochure this year was actually a scroll, rolled up and tied with a ribbon. Special! We got some nifty new furniture, new albums, and a new, larger booth, yow! If you missed this one, be sure to come and see us at the June show.



The booth transformation, before and after. Check out the previous blog post with the sketchup for a bonus comparison!




Our li'l style sheet of booth details. Notice the magic ingredient, as always--Peanut M&M's! I don't know what it is, but we always have a successful booth when we have these tasty treats!

Sketchin' it up!

Getting pretty excited about the Wedding Planner and Guide show this weekend! I had some fun making a 3-d model of our booth in Google Sketchup, an awesome (free!) program I’ve never used before! It was incredibly helpful since we don’t actually have the space in our studio to do a real mockup of the booth. We have a double-size booth this year, so we didn’t really know what we were going to do with the space, and this helped us figure out exactly how to use it, and where exactly the Enigma would be most effective.  Come to the show and see how the 3-d model compares to real life!






I don’t know who that guy is, he’s just a standard guy who automatically shows up in your first sketchup. Helpful for scale, you see!

The Enigma!

Ladies and Gentleman! Yonda Photography is pleased to introduce:

The Enigma!!!

We fell in love with this six-foot beast at first sight, and knew that it would be the perfect keystone for our wedding expo booth. At first we tried to figure out what it was for, then we realized it was deeper than that. Bigger. To put it succinctly, the Enigma is a mystery wrapped in a riddle surrounded by a ten-foot fence of awesome! Look for it at the corner of our booth at this weekend’s bridal fair in Madison at the Alliant Energy Center. We are booth #813, on the main aisle near the fashion show runway. We also have a pretty excellent pricing scroll you can have, too!

Wedding Planner and Guide Din-Din Results

We attended the Wedding Planner and Guide annual shindig last night at Bellini’s in Madison, and had a blast as always. Our effervescent sales rep (and Girl Scout cookies hookup) Dana was there, as well as a bunch of photographers and other wedding vendors. I was psyched when I won $20 for answering a trivia question right (who was the U.S. President when Wisconsin was officially given statehood? See below for the answer!)

Check these wacky pix of us from the photo booth they had at the party. Woo hoo!





Trivia answer=James K. Polk. Thank my They Might Be Giants obsession for helping me out on this one! (They have a song about Polk.)