Well, February is the month of Scotland's biggest wedding shows, one in Edinburgh the other in Glasgow, both organised by QD Events, and the weekend just gone was the first of the two at Edinburgh. Along with the famous catwalk shows there's over 200 leading specialist wedding companies exhibiting their products and services covering every category imaginable...it was definitley the place to be this weekend!We were exhibiting for the first time at the show and were quite excited at being offered a key stand on the main corridor leading to the catwalk show. We set off in the snow early Saturday morning, grabbing a coffee from Costa to sip on the way, and arrived about an hour and half before the doors were due to open giving us plenty of time to get set up.
The show attracts over 4000 visitors, and despite the snow the number was up by 200 compared to the previous year for the Saturday. And Sunday was even busier! I have no idea how many visitors we got to our own stand but we certainly got through a lot of promo cards and took tons of requests for my Wedding Photography Information Pack, which I finished sending out yesterday. Going by the enquiries from the show and also those coming through my website, 2010 looks set to be a very popular year for getting married. 2008 was very busy for us, this year has seen a little lull, possibly due to the uncertain financial situation, but 2010 looks set to boost right back up!I got chance to chat for a few minutes with some of the other exhibitors too. It was good to see Lee Live, hot from his 2008 VOWS Award win. Lee is one of Edinburgh's top singer/dj's and we've worked a lot of weddings together and we were both exhibiting at the recent (smaller) wedding fair at The Point Hotel. Scott MacGregor from The Point was also there, The Point having a stand at the other side of the hall. It was quite advantageous because Scott uses one of my StoryBook albums featuring one of my weddings from The Point to promote the venue to prospective brides and grooms. After being suitably impressed they invariably ask him who the photographer was so he just points across the hall to my stand and over they come. Big smiles from me! David Ho wasn't situated too far from me either. David is a fellow photographer based down in the Scottish Borders. One of the thing we both have in common is that our wedding albums are quite different from those of our fellow photographers. Most wedding photographers rely on album creation software which is preloaded with templates and you simply have to drag and drop your images into the predesigns. Both David and myself have the skill to work from a blank canvas and create our own designs based around the photographs, as opposed to the other way round, which makes our albums exclusive and unique. Many of the top Scottish venues had stands there too so I left Diane looking after our stand during the quiet periods and did the rounds saying hello to the wedding planners and co-ordinators I work with throughout the year. I was also was 'forced' to sample some of the varied wedding cakes from the wedding cake makers, but don't tell Di!
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All in all it was a great show and now I'm busy making arrangements to meet up with the brides and grooms who visited us to discuss their plans in a little more detail. The next wedding show for me is going to be Melville Castle on March 1st. Come along and say hello if you get the opportunity.
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