It’s that time of year again!  Time to think about what we will be getting your significant other for Valentines Day.  Why not a family portrait session, or couples session?

This is the perfect time to get those family portraits that you’ve been meaning to do!  Also, why should engagement style photo sessions just be reserved for couples that aren’t married yet?  Why not show everyone how much in love you are with your spouse by showing off awesome images of you together?

Starting today through February 28th all portrait sessions are free if you pre-purchase just $300.00 worth of prints.  Call our office at 1.888.MTN.WEDD or  email us at jason@bluemtnphoto.com to book your session today!  We do have a limited number of slots available, so call and schedule your appointment as soon as you can!

This Thursday, January 28th we will be exhibiting at the bridal expo from 3PM-8PM at Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood, SC.  We haven’t exhibited in a bridal show in 4 years!

We hope that if you are in the Greenwood area, you will come out to the show.  If you come, stop by our booth, say hey, and enter a drawing for free engagement session.

Today we completed an upgrade to our e-store at www.bluemtnphoto.net.  This upgrade makes the store a little more user-friendly and allows for more options.  Now instead of having to click on every single image to be able to see it up close, you can now just hover the cursor over the bottom-left corner and it will enlarge it automatically without having to click on the image.  This will save people time as they are browsing pictures.  You can now also add pictures your favorites folder from the thumbnail image without having to click all the way into it.

There’s also various upgrades on our end too which I won’t bore you with, but they do allow us to better serve our clients.  We are very excited about this new upgrade  and we’re  proud that it allows us to serve our clients even better.

Jason

We are excited to announce today the start of our family portrait special that we are running this summer!  Starting today, with a minimum $300.00 pre-purchase of prints we are waving our session fee.  This is a savings of $275.00!  

Our Summer family special is only good from now though August 8.  Call our office at 1-888-MTN-WEDD or email Jason at jason@bluemtnphoto.com to book your family session with us.  

This will be our best family portrait special that we will run this year.  We can come to the lake, your home, the golf course, or anywhere else that’s special to you and your family.  

Limited spots are available so book your session soon!

We ran a Winter family portrait special a couple months ago, and it was a success.  We’ve had many other people contact us asking us when we were going to do our next special.  Well, the wait is over!

From today through May 1, we are waving our regular session fee of $175.00 with the pre-purchase  of $200.00 worth of prints.  That’s not even the best part of the special!  If you pre-purchase $600.00 or more worth of prints from us, we will double your print credit!  So if you pre-order $600.00 worth of prints, it becomes $1200.00 in print credit!  

We’ve never offered anything like this before.  With wedding season upon us, and other scheduled portrait sessions, slots are very limited.  If your interested, you can call our office at 1-888-MTN-WEDD, or email us at jason@bluemtnphoto.com.

We only require the minimum pre-purchase of $200.00 in print credit to hold your portrait date.  

Contact us today to book your family session with us!

Jason

I’m sorry I’ve been a way a bit.  I’ve just been trying to catch up on some things  before we get into our wedding season that starts in 2 weeks.  Starting next week we’re gonna be putting up some more weddings, engagement sessions and bridal portrait sessions that haven’t been blogged yet.  

We will also be announcing on Monday our new Spring family portrait special!  We have had many requests about when we are offering our next special.  Tune back in on Monday for that.  

Jason

I don’t claim to be an expert on anything, much less writing or wedding advice.  However, we are very blessed to be a part of a couple dozen weddings every year, and we can definately share our experiences with you to help make your wedding planning and wedding day run as smooth as possible.  

Last year I wrote an article that appeared in a couple of places about the benefits of hiring a wedding coordinator.  I re-edited it some and decided to post it here on our blog. 

 

5 Reasons to Hire a Wedding Coordinator

In the beginning stages of planning her wedding, most brides ask the question “do I really need a wedding coordinator?”  Our answer is yes, you absolutely should.  The question should really be “why wouldn’t I hire a wedding coordinator”.  

On average a wedding takes 250 hours of planning time.  It’s 2009!  Who possibly has that much time to dedicate to planning a wedding!  This is reason #1 to hire a wedding coordinator.  You really do need a professional to help you sort through vendors, and plan your special day.  Any professional wedding coordinator will have existing relationships with caterers, florists, DJs, photographers, videographers etc.  They can help you sort through the madness of choosing wedding professionals.
Did you know that some wedding, and wedding reception sites actually require you to have a wedding coordinator?  They have learned from years of experience that having a coordinator on board makes things flow much smoother!  This is reason #2.
You’ve waited your whole life for this day.  You deserve to kick back and relax, and you shouldn’t have to worry about sweating the small stuff.  This is reason #3 to hire a coordinator.  A good coordinator will have everything under control. They will organize the wedding day for you, so you don’t have to worry about a friend or relative having to do it, and they will tell you when you need to cut the cake and have the first dance.  That way you are never wondering what you suppose to do, or where you’re suppose to be next.  
How creative are you?  How artistic are you?  Do you know how to tie all of those cute little bows on all the chairs around the reception table?  This is reason #4 to hire a coordinator.  They know how to do these things.  Even if you do know how, you’re gonna be a little too busy on your wedding day to worry about that.  Hire a coordinator, and let them take care of these kind of details.  
Most brides that hire a professional wedding coordinator, say that they were able to enjoy their wedding day more so, than if they would have tried to do everything themselves.  This is reason #5.  You get married one time.  That’s it.  You have one shot to get it right, one shot to enjoy your one time day.  You deserve to leave it in the hands of a professional.
At this point you’re probably thinking, “OK, I know I should get a coordinator, but I’m not sure that I can afford one”.  Most coordinators offer full wedding coordination, or just day of wedding coordination.  It doesn’t always cost as much as you might think. If you decide that you can’t budget for the full planning package, at least hire a coordinator to help you, and be there for you on your wedding day.  It can make a world of difference in how you remember, and how much you enjoy this once in a lifetime day.  
Jason

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Hey everyone!  I just started using Twitter a couple of months ago.  For those of you that don’t know what Twitter is, it’s a social media website where you can update the status of what your doing at any given time.  Kinda like Facebook updates.  I actually have my Twitter updates automatically appear as my Facebook updates.  

For those of you that would like to read more about what Twitter is.  Click here.  

You can follow me on Twitter by clicking here.

Jason

So I realized today that I haven’t even mentioned that we’re in a new year yet! Shame on me! I’ve been so busy with traveling with my family, working on this new blog, and other photo related work I really hadn’t thought about a New Year’s post.

I don’t typically make New Year’s resolutions. Not because I don’t believe in them, but more because I tend to not do what everyone else does. I am not typically a crowd follower, so I just don’t do it. I do have personal and business goals though. I will share those on a later post.

I love January because everything starts over fresh and we can really start focusing on the 2009 weddings. This year promises to be the best year for us so far! We do still have a few Spring dates left, but not many. We really hope to go ahead and finish filling up this year’s schedule this month and next. January is our biggest month for bookings every year!

Jason

So now we are pretty much finished with our new blog except for adding links to our friends.  That means we get to blog all of our 2008 weddings on here now!  

So starting tomorrow, and for the next couple of weeks, we will be blogging daily all of our weddings and other portrait sessions that we have failed to blog over the last 6 months.  I probably have enough where I could blog everyday for a month and still not put up everything.  

Starting tomorrow, you will see either a wedding, engagement session, bridal portrait session, pics from my family, or whatever fun pictures I choose to add on here.  Either way, stick around.  A lot of fun stuff is coming!

Jason