Monday, February 9, 2009

Thank You

2009 Bride's Choice Awards presented by WeddingWire | Wedding Cakes, Wedding Venues, Wedding Photographers & More

C Squared Events has been voted to receive the Brides Choice Award for 2009 from Wedding Wire.

BETHESDA, MD – January 28, 2009 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is excited to announce the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards(TM). This year’s winners represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which consists of over 100,000 local wedding professionals nationwide.

In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews.

“We are excited to launch this annual award program to honor high-performing vendors based solely on the experiences of our WeddingWire community,” according to Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry. WeddingWire would like to congratulate this year’s winners!“

Recipients of the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards will be notified via email during the first week of February. A list of the winners from each region will be available directly from the WeddingWire homepage for all visitors to view. Award recipients will receive a badge to place on their business websites and blogs to showcase this honor.

For more information on the Bride’s Choice Awards, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

About WeddingWire, Inc.
WeddingWire is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding vendors. WeddingWire enables engaged couples to search, compare and book over 100,000 wedding vendors nationwide, from wedding venues to wedding cakes. WeddingWire also offers an online community and a suite of cutting-edge planning tools, including wedding websites, all at no charge. For wedding vendors, WeddingWire provides free online management tools creating the only market opportunity that gives businesses control over their clients, reviews, leads and performance. In addition, WeddingWire has partnered with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) to provide its network of local vendors and online wedding-planning tools in the Weddings section of www.MarthaStewartWeddings.com. For additional information, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

Here is a copy of the press release being sent out specifically for C Squared Events:

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that C Squared Events has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!


In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. This year’s recipients represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 100,000 wedding vendors from across the US. That means C Squared Events is one of the very best Disc Jockey.

Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews.

“We are excited to launch this annual award program to honor high-performing vendors based solely on the experiences of our WeddingWire community,” according to Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry.”

C Squared Events would like to thank our past clients for speaking on our behalf and helping us win the 2009 Bride’s Choice Award!

I would like to offer my own Thanks to every one who made this possible, from Jessica and Ryan who first reviewed me on Wedding Wire, to Coyote Hills for supporting me when I started my own Company, to every client both past and present and to my Wife for always supporting me in whatever I do.

1/10/09 Johnelle and Scott Opal

Waaay behind in the blogging duties but this story needs to be told.

Johnelle found me online at weddingcompass.com while she was stationed in Iraq. I have dealt with brides that were planning their wedding out of town but this takes the prize for longest distance. Her wedding was in Simi Valley which is so close to my home town of Oxnard. Since New York wasn't too far away Simi Valley isn't too far away. Most of Johnelle's wedding was planned online, I think she definitely liked my online planning site.

I finally got to meet Johnelle and Scott a couple weeks before the wedding and I instantly fell in love with both of them. They are just this couple that you feel good knowing that they are together. They are High School sweethearts that followed each other into the Army, Scott is in Intelligence and Johnelle is in the medical corps. Johnelle has a good portion of her family with Latin heritage which means a lot of people dancing to Elvis Crespo. I love Suavemente, so much in fact that when Johnelle's mom asked me to play it again at the end of the night I was more than happy to oblige.

At the end both Scott and Johnelle were extremely happy and that makes it all worthwhile. Scott and Johnelle are being transferred to Washington so they won't be going back to Iraq. I don't know if I ever thanked them for risking there lives so I could keep the profession I have chosen.