Vow Muse is Judging a Vow Writing Contest!!

A couple months ago, we found Art Vows on Twitter. They create a work of art from your vows to be displayed and enjoyed in your home in celebration of the commitment you made on your wedding day. It's a beautiful idea and Vow Muse had to try to get in on the action!

Because if Art Vows makes the vows look beautiful, shouldn't Vow Muse make them sound beautiful? That's another topic altogether, but in the meantime, Art Vows has been kind enough to ask us to judge their exciting vow writing contest!

Running from April 27 through July 6, 2011, nearlyweds from all around the country can submit their vows for a chance to win a free Art Vow or a $1000 grand prize to be spent, undoubtedly, adding the finishing touches to their wedding. And Vow Muse will be the judges since we're the vow experts!

We're really excited to read some heartfelt vows and we look forward to the difficult decision of choosing weekly winners. A warm "thank you" goes out to Michael from Art Vows for inviting us to help in this fun project!

See contest details at wildfireapp.com, or find out more information about Art Vows on their website.

Wedding Faire Follow Up

Last weekend's bridal faire at The Ranch at Little Hills was really fun; Alicia and I had a great day meeting brides/grooms and their families, handing out Vow Muse information, and generally enjoying the sunshine of the beautiful day.

The Muses at their decorated table.

We made friends with some other nice vendors, and we hope that some of this year's couples at The Ranch give us a ring to help them give someone else one. That was an awesome double word meaning, booya.

The signature VM typewriter.

The Ranch seems to be a really great venue, with expansive grounds and a beautiful forest setting. It only just started hosting weddings last year and is growing exponentially in popularity already. The ranch books at a reasonable price, so we're not terribly surprised to see that couples are clamoring to reserve their special day here!

Here are a few pics of the San Ramon venue during the bridal faire:

The ceremony area.

Some other vendor booths for the bridal faire.

The reception area with built-in giant white tent.

Wedding Faire!

This Saturday Vow Muse will be a featured vendor at the Wedding Faire at The Ranch at Little Hills!! A small but excited group of nearlyweds is expected to turn out on this wonderful weekend to tour the venue, taste sumptuous samples, and discover the vendors that often help with events and weddings held at The Ranch.

We're really excited to set up shop and strut our stuff to this Summer's brides and grooms; this will be our first wedding faire feature as vendors! We love to talk all about the services we offer and how exactly we work with clients to craft the perfect wedding vows, ceremonies, and speeches to make their wedding run as smooth as silk. And, we've been known to occasionally write the impromptu haiku as well...

Invitations a la Vow Muse for this weekend's Bridal Faire!

We're really glad that the invitations we made for this event a few months ago were a success in reaching their destination and look forward to meeting the staff at The Ranch and all the upcoming brides and grooms!

Podcast on Hindsight Bride

Every week we try very hard to reach out to at least a few special vendors, bloggers or websites that we think have great content that mesh with our message and our business model. We approach these fine folks and request to be guest bloggers or to be the subject of an interview or giveaway on their site. Last week I contacted Christie from HindsightBride.com to see if she was interested in posting about us on her blog, and she responded with an unexpected counter request.

Christie is working hard to pick up the slack in the wedding podcast market and has begun a series of planning-related audio interviews with select wedding vendors and brides/grooms. She thought Vow Muse would make a great topic for a podcast (we agree!) and kindly invited us to participate in a Skype interview this weekend.

I have to say that I was a bit nervous as I'm more comfortable expounding the virtues of Vow Muse via written means, but I think the interview was pretty solid. I can get a bit verbose, but Christie had a lot of fun and interesting questions lined up, she kept the tone casual and conversational, and we totally hit it off chatting before and after the interview.

It was super fun to talk shop with another person in the industry; I really look forward to seeing our podcast up on her site! Thanks so much, Christie!!! :)