Focus on the Future

Last March, the first official job Allie B Photography had was for the WVU Center for Civic Engagement's annual conference and this March we celebrated one year with shooting the conference again.  This year the theme was "Focus on the Future" and it was held at the Lakeview Resort in Morgantown.   The keynote speaker was Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic chairman and head of many democratic campaigns including Hilary Clinton's latest run.  He also ran for Governor of Virginia but was defeated.  Terry was quite a character and Tim actually wants to read his book, which says a lot about the stories he had to tell.  Here are some images from our time at the conference. =]

Terry McAuliffe speaking Friday night

Student Body President gave Terry a Mountaineer thanking him

WVU Students volunteering at an after school program

Playing parachute with the afterschool kids

Students learning from a workshop

THE GREAT BRIDAL EVENT!

On March 7th, Crown Marketing/ Crown Event Rentals put on a bridal expo at Elite Sports Center in Parkersburg and we decided to make it our first bridal show.  I kept calling it our "coming out" party or Allie B's Bar Mitzvah.. Tim and I spend all day meeting and greeting brides and grooms and chatting it up about what we do for weddings.  It was a total blast!

We have had an overwhelmingly positive response to our work and couldn't be more excited to get going on wedding season this year!  We started out 2010 with five as a big goal, we hoped we could book 5 weddings and I am very very excited to say that only one week after The Great Bridal Event, we have met that goal! We have five wedding contracts on the books for 2010, from May-October and several other couples currently looking over our offerings. We still have open dates for 2010, so check with us if you need to save a date.

Big THANK YOU to Keith and Michelle McClung of Crown Marketing for putting on the show and making it great! The turnout was spectacular.  Also, big thank you to Tina Nichols of Real Life Photography for taking a few pics of our booth.  Can't forget to thank my husband and his brother for building/moving and tearing down our setup and being awesome in supporting this huge journey into bridal shows.  My husband Tim was wonderful at the show, greeting all the couples and making sure I wasn't overly exerting my 9 month pregnant self.. which I am sure I did anyway, but it was totally worth it! I love you all!

Goofin' off before the couples came in..

Engagements and products

Wide shot of our set-up, yes that is my real couch at home. I love it.

WVU Center for Civic Engagement..

Where you can have it your way.. but don't get crazy!

Timmy & I are headed off this weekend for our 2nd annual trip to the CCE conference.. This year's theme is "Focus on the Future" which seems appropriate with all we have going on in our lives!  This is my friend Brett's big annual conference he is in charge of at WVU and last year we had a blast with the CCE staff and are looking forward to our trip to Morgantown tomorrow for more shenanigans and photo lovin'..

Here are a few images from Capitol Convergence last year!

Capitol Convergence 2009

Reflection of Capitol 

Banquet

CCE Staff

Brett & I, working hard =]