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Friday, October 16, 2009

Engage!09 The Encore :: Wedding Business Conference Recaps

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This past week I've been in Las Vegas for Engage!09 The Encore, a luxury wedding symposium put on by the genius Rebecca Grinnals and Kathryn Arce of Engaging Concepts (pictured above).  I'll post more of my thoughts on this conference later next week, but wanted to share links to some of the recaps from the other attendees:

You can read the post by the fabulous Joy and Garrett Nudd here. I have been huge fans of the Nudds for several years and was so excited to meet them at Engage!09 in June (okay, I geeked out a little) and more excited that they came back for Engage!09 Encore this past week.

Lara Casey from Southern Weddings posted her iphone recap here (my favorite kind of camera).

Photographer Jen Domenick set up a Snapshot Studio at the farewell party at Blush nightclub inside the Wynn and you can view a slideshow here.

Juli Smith, who designs stylish wedding garters, live-blogged the sessions and you can read her take on it here.

Rebecca also announced the dates for both Engage!10 conferences next year. The Summer Engage!10 will be in Grand Cayman on June 7-10th and the Fall Engage!10 will be at The Breakers in Palm Beach on October 3-6th. Mark your calendars now so you don't double book. The Engage!10 website will go live January 10th, 2010, so keep your eye out for more information then.  Rebecca has some amazing plans up her sleeve and I am already excited for next June.

Be sure to follow both Rebecca and Kathryn on Twitter. They are truly the very best in the entire world at what they do and are a must to know and learn from.



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1 comments:

emilie inc. said...

Weehoo! What a whirlwind 48 hours! Great to see you, Liene!