Vendor of the Week

You can serve a delicous meaty meal to your guests without breaking your wedding budget! Albert Pit Barbecue smokes beef, pork and chicken meat over hickory wood, makes great side dishes and a homemade sauce served on the side and can set up a buffet for your guests for $8.99 to $14.99 per guest. The professionally dressed staff sets up a sharp, clean white clad buffet with silver servinig pieces to which you can add the details to match your wedding style of simple or more elegant. To help brides and grooms decide on a menu and to allow Albert Pit Barbecue to put together a proposal, Brides and Grooms that are considering barbecue for the reception or rehearsal dinner are invited to a free tasting at the Albert Pit Barbecue Catering Kitchen on April 28th, drop-in between 5:30 and 7:00. RSVP to korey@albertpitbbq.com.

Albert Pit Barbecue's Free Wedding Tasting for Brides and Grooms
3201 E Mulberry, Unit F, Fort Collins
Wednesday April 28th 5:30-7:00
RSVP by email to korey@albertpitbbq.com

Vendor of the Week

You don't think of Black-eyed Peas as being a cater but they are! We have actually made them one of the Ellis Ranch Wedding Park Preferred Vendor. We don't take saying they are a preferred vendor lightly. They have shown us not only great food, but respect to our facility, bride and groom. They are a delight to work with and would recommend them to prepare and serve food for any event for wedding.

Let Black-eyed Pea take the stress out of your wedding celebration with our full service catering department.

At Black-eyed Pea, offers their clients elegance and affordability with our delicious, home-style, made from scratch cooking and exceptional service. With pricing to fit any budget, Black-eyed Pea can take care of all your catering needs.

Rebecca Boardman
Black-eyed Pea Catering
5347 South Valentia Way
Suite 220
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
303-725-2915- Cell
303-586-8288 -Fax
catering@rmrcolorado.com
http://www.blackeyedpeacolorado.com
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Couples Party

Most brides are use to attending numerous Bridal Shows prior to their wedding. This can be an over whelming experience. So many fish in the sea, as to say, and find it hard to choose the perfect vendor.
Ellis Ranch Event Center and Wedding Park host a unique solution to this problem called THE COUPLES PARTY!! The Couples Party offers couples an evening of fun during their hunt for the perfect vendor.
Vendors are helping honor you, the bride, with an exciting and fun evening. Great time to visit with other couples, vendors, and sample food and view their products, which help make your wedding beautiful and memorable. This is not going to be another typical bridal show, but a party! There will be a gift for every bride and drawings for some great prizes. Please join us on May 20th with that special person. Bring your Mom and your Bridesmaids along too. Great time to party and find that perfect vendor for your special day. To RSVP email info@ellisrancheventcenter.com

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Vendor of the Week

Imagine your anniversary, showing your wedding album to your children, remembering the fun, the beauty and the emotion of this once in a lifetime event. At Kimball Nelson Photography, we recognize that quality photography has the ability to transport you back to your wedding day. We take the utmost care to portray your day in a manner that will show the laughter, the love and the emotion with images that you will cherish forever.

FUN

We shoot weddings because we like to have fun and weddings are fun, happy occasions. We love to work with people and we love to capture the fun of the day. We like to think you have fun with us as well!

STYLE

Our style is artsy photojournalism. What does that mean? It means we will be there to document your day in an unobtrusive, photojournalistic manner. We work from different angles, with creative lighting, to capture your day in an artsy way. We work with you to get group portraits that are fun and natural. And, we spend the necessary time with you, the bride and groom, to ensure a fantastic portrait, one that you will pass down through generations.

PROFESSIONAL

We understand the trust that you put in us to capture this important part of your family heritage and we would be honored to have that responsibility. With a decade's worth of satisfied couples, we have the experience necessary to make your wedding photography perfect.

Kimball Nelson Photography
Natural Moments - Genuine Images
970-472-1661
5408 N. Hwy 1Fort Collins, CO 80524
www.kimballnelson.com

Why Private Venue vs Restaurants

Rehearsal dinners with the family can be just as stressful as planning the wedding. Generally the groom’s family plans and pays for the rehearsal and dinner and in most cases the groom is out of town leaving the parents with no clue where to host such and important event. They don’t know anything about the local restaurants or the area.

If possible I would try and hold my rehearsal dinner at a private venue or better yet at the venue where you will be getting married.

1) Talk about convientant.
2) Private, not the general public all around you.
3) You have a chance to really visit and enjoy family and
friends in a more intimate setting.
4) Most venues will offer you a package deal making planning
a zip.
5) You have no travel time or have to worry about guest not
finding the restaurant after the rehearsal you are already
there.
6) Many cases you can bring in your own alcohol, which make
the evening less expensive.
7) Most cases you don’t need to limit numbers in attendance
8) Don’t have strangers in the background of your photos.
9) Very convientant to work with the host of the venue in your
planning due to most grooms’ parents being out of town
or doesn’t want or know how to organize such an event.
10) Great time to give your personal gifts to family and the
wedding party.

New Budget Trends

With the unemployment rate being at an all time high and the economy suffering in general, wedding venues are really starting to hear brides talk about doing more of the work themselves to save money on their special day. This can work for some brides and others this can turn into a nightmare.

I think one of the best ways to save money and still be able to hire the vendors of your choice is to consider not hosting your wedding during the peak season. I would really encourage brides to check the off-season prices… THEY ROCK! You can generally get all the vendors and venues at a reduced price.

Hosting your wedding during the off-season doesn’t mean you can’t have a beautiful and memorable wedding and reception.