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You’re invited to to The Bridal Faire presented by Carvalho Family Winery at Old Sugar Mill.

Photo by Sarah Maren Photography, dress from Miosa, flowers by Flourish and earrings from Michael Greene & Co. Shot on location at Old Sugar Mill.

We had the pleasure of shooting at Old Sugar Mill a few issues ago for our cover model feature (and I did my Trash the Dress photo shoot  there!) – so come see it for yourself at their bridal faire next week!

Here’s the 411:

When:  Thursday, July 15, 2010

Time:  6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Where:  Old Sugar Mill at 35265 Willow Avenue, Clarksburg

Cost:  $10, please RSVP to marnie@carvalhowines.com or call her at 916-744-1625

What You’ll Experience:  Meet more than 30 top wedding professionals. See floral arrangements, table displays and lighting examples. Talk to event coordinators, DJs and photographers. Enjoy food and wine tastings and live harp music from Pamela Pamperin. Raffle prizes will be awarded every 30 minutes!

We’ll be there handing out complimentary copies of Real Weddings Magazine along with our Cover Model Entry forms! We hope to see you there!

Blog Post by Editor/Publisher Wendy Sipple.

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Ok, we’re such suckers — we LOVE being blogged!!!

My friends Brandon and Kami from Sound Image Entertainment just emailed me to let me know about a wedding that they just posed to their blog…and it mentions Real Weddings Magazine!! Love that!

So I ventured over to their blog and got to check out their clients Tyler and Alicia’s wedding, shot by the talented Jodi Yorston (who just shot our cover model finalists shoot for our next issue of Real Weddings Magazine) at the Carvalho’s Family Winery at Old Sugar Mill.

We love this location — it was the locale for our cover model finalist photo shoot for the current issue. And, it’s close to my heart because I did my “trash the dress” shoot with Sarah Maren Photography at this location too!

Brandon and Kami are wonderful people, amazing wedding professionals — thanks for sharing Tyler and Alicia’s wedding with us — it looks like it was a lot of fun! I loved the songs that they chose for their wedding, particularly the theme from St. Elmo’s Fire. Congrats to you Tyler and Alicia on your wedding!

To learn more about Brandon and Kami and Sound Image Entertainment, check out their Web site: http://www.soundimagedjs.com/.

Blog post by Wendy Sipple, Publisher/Editor.

Ok, now that you’ve heard my crazy wonderful wedding story, I have to admit something: while I had a blissful wedding day, the one item that I always wished I had, was the traditional gown. I loved that my husband was so thoughtful to buy me a gorgeous ivory silk suit for my wedding day, but I never got to experience the wedding gown.

When I told my girlfriend Sarah Maren (yes, of Sarah Maren Photography, sarahmaren.com — fabulous new Web site by the way!) about my wedding story, she suggested a “Trash the Dress” photo shoot. After many months of trying to grow my hair out just a little longer (I loved my snazzy short ‘do, but I really wanted to be able to have some fab hair goodies to go with the wedding dress — yes, I know I’m vain, but hey, if I’m only getting one chance to do this, I wanted to make it just right), the timing was just right. So in mid-October, I got all guzzied up as a bride once again, but this time in a fabulous wedding gown.

The location was quite cool indeed, Old Sugar Mill in Clarksburg (oldsugarmill.com). We got to shoot in the warehouse — an industrial space with plenty of interesting photographic details.

The dress was from Miosa (miosabride.com); and fit like a dream. When I went to try on gowns at Miosa, Sanea brought this gown in and I just laughed, thinking it was WAY too small. Amazingly it fit, and fit pretty darned good! I know it sounds a little cliche, but I felt like a princess in that gown — it was THE gown.

My hair and make-up was done by the amazingly talented Raquel at Image Provocateur in Roseville (vip-cat.com). Talk about feeling glamorous! Yowza!

The flowers…in a word, stunning! Shannon from Flourish (flourishdesigns.com) made the one of the most unique bouquets I’ve ever seen –exceptionally creative and distinctively beautiful!

And, lastly, I got the oh so fab hair accessories to go in my (finally!) longer hair! Sarah and I were feeling a very “Sex in the City” vibe, and the accessories that I got from Hair Comes The Bride (haircomesthebride.com) completely fit that bill! The birdcage veil felt very Grace Kelly-ish (why aren’t more brides wearing these these days — they’re very classic and quite elegant!) but when I put the monstrous flower on the side of my head, I instantly was channelling my inner Sarah Jessica Parker (think her Vogue wedding photo shoot from the movie).

Sarah, along with her husband Dustin (sarahmaren.com), was amazing and so fun to work with! Frankly there aren’t enough superlatives to describe just how amazing these two are — they directed me in just the right way to get the best possible shots. I had so much fun and felt so glamorous — I felt like the quintessential bride. I cannot thank you guys — and everyone else who contributed to my special day — enough for everything!

For me, this photo shoot was the culmination of my wedding dream, nearly eight years after Terry and I got married, proving that it’s never too late!

If you’d like to check out our photo shoot, check out the uber-cool slide show that Sarah put together on her blog:

sarahmaren.com/slideshows/post-wedding-bridals/wendy-post-wedding-bridal-session

Ok, truly, that’s enough about me! Let’s get started on your bridal journey!