Congratulations to our Co-Director of Photography and one of our top photographers: Julie Proudfoot!! She has been slotted to be Vice President next year to the Detroit Professional Photographers Association. She will be President in 2012-2013!!
Julie has been involved with the DPPA for years volunteering, promoting and assisting the board. All that hard work has definitely paid off, but it is not all work. Julie enjoys the DPPA because it’s a chance to interact with other photographers, learn from speakers, and just make new friends.
To top it off recently at the Professional Photographer Association convention Julie took home the 1st Place prize in the Wedding Category and 1st in the Children’s Category.
We would like to thank Julie for putting in the extra work to better herself and her craft. Congrats Julie!!
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You would think brides have enough on their plate, but a new wedding trend that has been popping up on the internet and on bridal TV is brides creating a significant amount of their wedding decor by hand. Invitations and place cards have been popular DIY items in the past, but this new trends adds jewelry, centerpieces, corsages, bouquets, favors, and many more into the mix.
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Engraved Hawaiian Rings: Hawaiian couples often wear specially engraved rings decorated with their spouse’s name.
ring represents loyalty, love and friendship. Usually, this is used as an engagement ring, but can be used as a wedding band as well. It is also often given to someone in order to represent any kind of devotion, including friendship.
Turkish traveler determined to know whether his wife was cheating on him. The ring was unable to be reassembled if the women removed it from her finger. Puzzle rings can be made from 4,5,6 or as many as 24 thin, odd shaped pieces that when put together in the right combination is made to look like one ornate ring resembling Celtic knot work.
ld. Gold is considered a “respected” metal that is worn by Hindus only on the upper half of their bodies.
Last weekend we hosted our 5th annual company wide party: DJs Gone Wild!! Each September we truck all of our staff, DJs, Videographers and Photographers up to North Port, Michigan for a 3day/2 night thank you celebration. We rented out the North Port Bay Retreat, a beautiful 22,000 sq. ft. escape on 6.5 acres of West Grand Traverse Bay.
The weather could not have been better. Our days were filled with golfing, kayaking, yard games, and lounging in the sun. As the sun fell we fired up the bar-b-que, got the campfire rolling, and cranked up the music.
There was billiards, ping-pong, dancing, karaoke, and non-stop laughing. It was an amazing weekend for the entire Mike Staff Family and a great way to say thank you for all the hard word and time our staff has invested in the last year. GREAT JOB TEAM!!
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I hear some shaking their heads profusely in disagreement. But, lets be honest. Everything that is good about this film has absolutely nothing to do with its wedding or wedding scenes. Who accepts McDreamy but needs to divorce McSloppy but then ends the film by punching McDreamy’s mother? It is too confusing, and ultimately too corny enough to buy. I actually adore this film (which is why it is so low on the list) but the wedding scene makes me want to RSVP with regrets.
This film is also low on the list because … I am very much aware that no one watches this film expecting anything more than a raunchy romantic comedy that includes more sex scenes and shock factors than good acting or beautiful wedding scenes. To be fair, the movie is funny, but is by so far the worst of the three in the “American” series … and not one to watch when you want a respectable wedding film.
I don’t remember what this movie was about … because I fell asleep! This movie included every single thing needed to make a bad movie: bad acting, bad dialogue, boring plot. All three combined to create a character whose life was so pathetic she had to hire a date for her sisters wedding … and we didn’t care.
This movie was made already… it was called My Best Friend’s Wedding … and it was done 10x better than the gender reversal take on this awkward situation, that barely worked the first time! For goodness sake, you would know if you were in love with your best friend BEFORE he/she got engaged, and if you didn’t you are an idiot and should keep your mouth shut, not attempt to make TWO movies on the subject.
There are films like Runaway Bride … The Wedding Planner … who no one could argue that they are chick flick, romantic comedies, girly films to their cores. But, at least they attempted (at times succeeded) at tackling larger themes. Its not just like someone realized it was wedding season and decided “hey, I have billions of dollars at my disposal, lets call two big actresses and make a movie that is about announcing wedding season … make sure it has no plot what-so-ever.” Bride Wars was purely a propaganda film for the wedding industry. I would like to take this moment to say: We don’t need your help, the wedding business is booming without the help of your horrible films! Bottom line: I am never going to get my two hours back I lost while watching this movie.