Thursday, February 23, 2012

A Day in the Windy City

Like I mentioned before, my MOH and former college roommate visited me last weekend to get a bunch of wedding stuff done and just hang out. Part of the reason we picked that weekend was because I had scored some free tix to the Windy City Wedding Show (I'm pretty sure everyone in attendance had scored free tix by the way. I wouldn't recommend ever paying to go to a bridal show because they were begging me to get my free tickets even after I'd already gotten some).


I went to a bridal expo last May and wasn't that impressed with it, but I heard after the fact that it isn't that great of an expo in general, so I had high hopes for this one. The only problem--I'm about 4 months from my wedding day with almost everything booked and planned. So I had virtually no reason to be there other than wanting to do these things while I still can--I'll only be "the bride" for another 4 months. Woe is me.

This particular show was held at Carnivale, an extremely cool restaurant in Chicago that I had been wanting to check out. And now that I've seen it, I want to check it out for realsies, because it was amazing inside:

Personal pic

My bridesmaids said it looked like a restaurant I would design. I want my future home to look like this!

Personal pic
Here they are when we first got there. We sadly didn't get a pic of all 3 of us.

Oh wait, yes we did!

Image via the photo booth sponsored by Party Photo Booths
The guy MADE ME pose like that. I swear to gawd.

There were a lot of cool things to see at the show, like wedding dresses on headless mannequins...

Personal pic

...sweets table setups (complete with free samples. Holy cakeballz were there free samples!)...

Personal pic

Personal pic

 ...fake Styrofoam cakes with cool designs on them...

Personal pic

Personal pic

Personal pic

...Some centerpiece and flower ideas...

Personal pic

Personal pic

...and I just really liked this table cloth:

Personal pic

And here's a bunch of strangers milling around:
Personal pic

We all enjoyed the show a lot, but since we had no vendors to book, we didn't end up spending a lot of time there. We took some pics, posed in the photobooth, tried some cakeballz, and entered a few raffles. I also got a coupon for a free makeover from Mario Tricoci, which I'm super excited about, and everyone got a free copy of The Knot Chicago, which basically made the whole trip worth it.

No wait, this made the whole trip worth it:

Personal pic
We saw this on the way home from the bridal show, and for some reason it filled us with such joy that we were moved to tears. I think we were just delirious from partying too hard the whole weekend. But seriously, what are the logistics of this? How does it work?? And why?

Have you ever been to a bridal show? Was it helpful to you? And was anyone at the one at Carnivale on Sunday??

No comments:

Post a Comment