Bless The Bride

Bless The Bride. May she be inundated with spam she neither invited nor requested!

So it seems that what they don’t tell you when you go to these bridal fairs is that when you inevitably enter the main competition to win free stuff like receptions (because why wouldn’t you want to get a $20,000 gift certificate, if you couldn’t abide the vendor in question you could just sell it for a profit), you open the flood gates to numerous bridal suppliers who want to sell their wares door to door, so to speak. A couple of weeks ago now, The Boy and I went out to Blacktown Bless The Bride Expo cause it seemed a good idea at the time and over the past couple of days we have been inundated with emails and letters.

Since they have all started arriving at once, I am guessing that the organisers of the expo held onto the competition entries for a defined period of time, perhaps to give a head start to any company you had already entered into negotiations with as a result of the day. They have obviously now sold or perhaps even given their list out to the various suppliers however since we have had reception venues, photographers, celebrants and florists etc contact us to offer their specialised services. They all hope we had a “wonderful time” at the expo and, just in case we have not yet secured the type of service for our wedding that they also can offer, they would like to forward their “expo only special” for our consideration.

Well, considering that we are planning a church service for our wedding (and were we not, we are personally friends with 2 registered celebrants / pastors), we will not actually be requiring the services of another celebrant for our day. I am of the opinion that drycleaners who charge you a premium merely to clean a dress they assume you’ll never wear again and put it in a box are both a waste of money and a waste of space. Unlike everyone else out there, I am looking into alternatives to paper stationary that would require hours of me cutting myself and gluing my fingers together in order to create each individual invitation and the absolute last thing I want for my wedding album is something in the guaranteed to date “magazine style”. Apart from that, if we didn’t follow up your services at the time, we’re probably not going to now, and in retrospect I only came away from the bridal expo with sore feet and a couple of bags full of pamphlets that have been sitting on the dining table since I brought them home.

Thanks anyway.