Top Wedding Blogs – Selected by The Wedding Channel

Well, I’ve not added to this blog in a couple of months – summer seems to have passed me by again, and I don’t know where it went.  The Wedding Channel recently listed the winners of the best wedding blogs.  Click here…Top Wedding Blogs

 

What’s the average cost of a wedding in your area?

Here’s a website that will give you the average cost of the services/vendors in your area. Just plug in your zip code, choose the services/products you plan on buying, and you can get an estimate what your total wedding will cost. www.costofwedding.com.

 

Choosing Entertainment

Looking For A Job: The Prespective Swings
By Ken Petersen

School is over, and you enter the employment hunt.

Your resume has all the pertinent information in clearly defined sections:

-How to reach you.

-Objectives.

-Summary of skills.

-List of Education.

-Additional training.

-Certificates and Accreditations.

-Work Experience.

-References.

You know the next step in the job search is to get that resume out.

You have a great cover letter that expresses how you found out about the job opening and sets up dialogue for scheduling an interview.

You take an extracurricular class or two on job interviews.

You have practiced the interview numerous times with friends, roommates, or maybe even a few family members.

You get the call – a company is interested. It’s a company you have stock in, you speak well of to your friends, and you really want to work for this firm!

The appointment is set.

This is your big break! You have been preparing and waiting for this moment. You know your are ready; you have put in the work to make yourself the best choice for the position. It is now time to show this company you know what you are doing!

You are excited! You may even dress one step higher than appropriate for the line of work you are interviewing for.

You’re there on time – actually 10 minutes early.

You can already envision working for this firm.

The HR Dept calls you in…

The only question asked is simply, “How much do we have to pay you?”

There is no greeting, no handshake, no welcome, no offer to sit down or get comfortable, no query about anything on the resume. HR doesn’t probe about history, education, skill sets, references, or even if you are over or under qualified for the job… Just a lone question: “How Much Are You?”

You are on the spot. You are the interviewee. You need to answer that question.

Your mind runs wild, “What about my qualifications, why aren’t they asking about those? The entire labor pool is out there; and I know I am the single best candidate for this position. Is this company really looking for the cheapest labor? What if I say, ‘I want $xx,xxx per year salary.’? The next guy in the lobby is wearing tattered jeans and a stained t-shirt. He’s got a ticket for the company to sign off from the placement referral service so he can continue to collect unemployment and furthermore he’s absolutely clueless – I know he’s going to ask for less.”

Many couples that are planning a wedding unknowingly do this daily to many service providers within wedding entertainment field.

Engaged couples are at that stage in life where the job hunt is very fresh in their mind; either they are about to start the search, right in the middle of it, or were recently placed in a nice job environment.

Wedding Entertainers (mobile DJs) can be thought of as the candidates waiting in the lobby (your lobby – you are the employer). They offer a service and a willingness to work for you. Some DJs position themselves for the menial tasks. Others, the better ones, can become your right-hand.

Wedding DJs have a resume. It’s their marketing: a website, their printed materials, an informational e-mail. They have references to check such as thank you cards, happy clients to email, and reviews found online. There is a confirmable work history: ask your other vendors if they have worked with the DJ before Ð ask your DJ about the vendors theyÕve worked with. What about training, accreditations and certificates? What have they done to earn the spot in your wedding budget.

Have some fun, pay us DJs back with the same thing you are going through (or went through recently). Scrutinize. Find the right employee for your own “wedding firm.”

Reprinted with permission from the Disc Jockey News and author Ken Petersen of Rapid City, SD. Ken is a freelance writer and entertainer who can be reached at: ken@kensmilestones.com

 

Complete Music is again a “Best of” Vendor for The Knot

The Kansas City Complete Music is honored to again be voted (by brides) as one of The Knot’s 2008/2009 Best of Weddings Vendor.

 

Top 100 Wedding Blogs

Okay, how’s this for one stop blogging?  A link to the the top 100 wedding blogs.  Enjoy!

 

Complete Music End of Year Awards Party

We had our annual end of the year awards party on February 27. After dinner the staff partied on a Limo Bus for three hours.

We stopped several places to conduct a scavenger hunt. The DJs broke into three groups and had to capture various activities on camera, such as there group on bended knee serenading someone, singing “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling”, getting someone in uniform to do the “Captan Morgan” pose, and doing the Chicken Dance on a busy street corner.

 

The Knot on Facebook…Cool…

The Knot Acquires Weddingbook

The Knot Wedding Network is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Weddingbook, the most popular wedding application on Facebook. With over 400,000 active users, Weddingbook is home to the largest community of brides on Facebook, and makes it easier than ever to:

Chat with thousands of brides on Facebook
Communicate wedding details
Share gift registry information
Introduce wedding guests

And stay tuned: Weddingbook members will soon have access to The Knot’s essential wedding planning tools, content, vendor directories, and more!

 

Complete Music – Kansas City receives more accolades

Last year Complete Music – Kansas City was selected by brides through The Knot to receive the “Best of Weddings” award for 2008. We have just received another award from Weddingwire.com, in which the selction process is the same. The following is the press release:

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that Complete Music has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!

In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. This year’s recipients represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 100,000 wedding vendors from across the US. That means Complete Music is one of the very best mobile disc jockey services.

Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews.

“We are excited to launch this annual award program to honor high-performing vendors based solely on the experiences of our WeddingWire community,” according to Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry.”

Complete Music would like to thank our past clients for speaking on our behalf and helping us win the 2009 Bride’s Choice Award!

 

Let us do the worrying for you….

You’ve hired (or are hiring) various vendors for your big day, paying them to perform, organize, delegate, produce, create, and WORRY for you.  Let them do their jobs.

I meet on a regular basis with sales/catering managers in the area, and last spring I began taking an informal survey.  Everyone I’ve met with agrees with me on the following:  In the last two to three years brides seem to be more overwrought concerning their weddings, but they don’t seem to have defined reasons for worries they may have. In talking with various wedding vendors many of them have pointed out, or agreed with me when I brought it up, that the “needless” worrying may be brought about by the reality wedding programs that seem to have proliferated lately.

I think we can all agree that there’s a dearth of reality shows in general on television, and the reason they become compelling (?) to watch is the drama and stress which is created. What fun would they be to watch if everything ran smoothly?  I think that most wedding vendors would tell you that the plans for the majority of weddings proceed as planned without any hiccups. The number of smooth flowing weddings/receptions far outnumbers the “disasters”.

Another possible reason is the internet, over which good and bad information is exchanged. It’s a place to learn from others experiences, but keep in mind that the people that speak up the most (whether it be polictics, sports, weddings, etc.) are those that are dissatisfied and want to share their dissapoinment.

If you’ve hired the right people to work for you on your wedding day, all you should have to show up and they’ll lead you through the process. To quote a sales manager at a local hotel, “You don’t have to worry – I’ll tell you when to worry.”

I’d be interested in your views on this subject.

 

KC Bridal Spectucular – 1/10/09

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We have participated in this bridal show twice a year for the last ten years and this was by far the busiest our booth has ever been. We had eight representatives working the booth and the only down time was during the fashioin show. Thank you to any of you that stopped by our booth to chat and meet our staff. Our next large bridal show is the Perfect Wedding Guide show on Sunday, February 22 at the Overland Park Convention Center.