Thank you to all who participated in the great Inktastic giveaway! The randomly chosen winner was commenter #11, Ally.

Ally said: “I love the tote bags and v-neck t-shirts. My bridal party would love those for our lake bachelorette party!”

Congratulations, Ally! Enjoy!

Some words from Heather…

“Just a few weeks before their wedding in Chicago, Stacey and Steve got a nice workout running the world’s oldest annual road race together: the Boston Marathon. We collaborated on a time line for the wedding day, making sure to allocate time for creative photography around the city before their wedding ceremony began.

Stacey and Steve’s wedding was at Chicago’s beautiful Garfield Park Conservatory. It is a luxurious tropical paradise that is made up of a multi-room greenhouse that provides a lush setting that is fragrant, just like a resort in the islands. The event was catered by Jewell Events who also designed the cake. Their wedding ceremony was done by Ron Crowley-Koch, Chicago’s “married Catholic priest.”

If you’re not already familiar with TOMS shoes…TOMS is the One for One company that gives a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair you purchase. TOMS is launching a brand new line of espadrille wedges. The shoes are comprised of lightweight fabrics in various colors and prints. These wedges would be great for the beach bride, the philanthropic bride or a bride who’d like to forgo heels for more comfortable wedges. Or of course, get a pair or two for your honeymoon. You can check the wedges out here. TOMS also has a wedding styles line as well as a vegan line.

]]> http://www.trendsettingwedding.com/2010/06/toms-wedges-for-your-wedding.html/feed 2 http://www.trendsettingwedding.com/2010/05/a-vintage-warehouse-engagement-session-in-chicago.html http://www.trendsettingwedding.com/2010/05/a-vintage-warehouse-engagement-session-in-chicago.html#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 20:42:51 +0000 kristine http://www.trendsettingwedding.com/?p=1628 This fun vintage-inspired engagement session was sent to us by Photographer Heather Parker. The engagement session took place at Architectural Artifacts, a large antique showroom (featuring other treasures as well!) in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood. What a creative location for an engagement session / photo shoot. Very cool.

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

- Take a look around the site.

- Leave a comment on this post with your first name stating what your favorite item(s) is and what you’d use them for.

From women’s and men’s shirts and bags, to baby and pet products, Inktastic has you covered. Planning a bachelorette or bachelor party and want custom shirts? check. What matching shirts for your bridesmaids? check. I’ve received both this raglan tee and this handle tote bag, and I have to say the print quality is great! So check it out.

In no earlier than 2 weeks, the giveaway will be closed and the winner will be chosen randomly. So don’t wait to comment. Good luck!

As Miller + Miller stated:

“While discussing with Monica, their urban Chicago engagement session,she mentioned that they’d first love capturing a few softer photos at a nearby park where Tomás proposed and discussed incorporating their bikes in the engagement photos. Tomás said he can hardly live without his bike while living in Chicago – it’s a huge necessity even in the Winter months for him in getting around. After a bike through the park, we transitions M+T’s shoot’s focus into our popular high-fashion engagement photography style. We loved the intensity we captured of M+T, the day’s perfect sunset, urban locations, train tracks, graffiti wall and industrial looks, they all came together so well during this session.”

The International Home + Housewares show recently landed in Chicago. We were invited by Hoover to visit the show, where we had the opportunity to Hoover’s new products – with our readers, brides and grooms and those looking for great registry items in mind.

We narrowed down our favorite vacuums for you:

Have hard floors? Cleaning hard floors is easy with the FloorMate. We saw this vacuuming, washing and drying cleaning machine  in action and it was impressive. Spill something on your floor, it cleans (with solution and the great SpinScrub and grout brushes) it and dries it. Then all you do is empty the liquid.

For all pet lovers and pet owners, there is this great vacuum that comes with attachments for easy cleaning. So sweet and precious Fido and FiFi don’t have to worry anymore.

Some of you may be tight for space (and who couldn’t use more space in their closets?). For that we recommend this, which is cordless at that.

It was a great couple of days. We met the Hoover Reps and PR team as well as some other bloggers and internet media writers and enjoyed a great dinner at Chicago’s Hub 51, accommodations at Affinia Chicago and a nice little welcome gift–black Bearpaw slippers to wear indoors on our newly cleaned floors.

It’s National Raise Awareness Week! And, what a great cause Wish Upon a Wedding is. For more information and to see how you can be considered or help, click here.