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FS Weds: A Wedding Showcase at Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore

Meet Baltimore’s most talented wedding
professionals, including photographers, videographers, florists, make-up
and hair artists, planners, cake decorators and many more! 



Luxuriate in special areas, including the Beauty Bar
by the Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, a Groom's Lounge, and a
Mother-of-the-Bride Room, and enjoy the opportunity to win luxury prizes
raffled off throughout the afternoon.



2014 FS Weds
Exclusive VIP Luncheon

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Enjoy first access to the wedding showcase, a fabulous
swag bag to take home, a multi-course luncheon (including wine and champagne pairings) featuring renowned wedding experts and a first-class fashion show.



SCHEDULE

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VIP Luncheon at 11:30 am

Wedding Show at 2:00 pm



TICKETS



VIP Luncheon & Admission is  USD 85 per person
(all inclusive)

General Admission is USD 25 (all inclusive)


MEET OUR EXPERTS



Marcy Blum,
Marcy Blum Associates


Marcy Blum has been creating wonderful, memorable, magical weddings and
events for 27 years. Her sane and humorous approach to entertaining in
general and weddings in particular has made her an internationally
sought-after wedding and party planner. Marcy is credited with being among
the first to offer couples elegant, fun and stylish alternatives to the
cookie-cutter wedding.



In addition to her work as an “eventiste,” Marcy is
also a sought-after speaker and consultant for businesses in the wedding
and special-event field. Marcy has contributed to many publications, and
the third edition of the bestselling Wedding Planning for Dummies,
written by Marcy, was released this year. She has been a guest on Oprah, The
Today Show, The Nate Berkus Show, Good Day New York and The
Early Show. She has also been a guest on several party planning shows in
Japan but has no idea what was said to her.



Julie Sabatino,
The Stylish Bride



Since 2004, Julie Sabatino, founder of The Stylish
Bride®, has been helping her clients with all of their fashion needs
surrounding major life celebrations. She has cultivated an expertise in all
there is to know about fashion and shopping in New York City, and has
relationships ranging from the most exclusive boutiques to Seventh Avenue
showrooms. This access allows her to customize a look for the most discerning
client. She is committed to delivering the most luxurious and productive
experience to her clients. Her career in the fashion industry started as a
result of having difficulty finding her own wedding dress. She looked in vain
for someone to help her, and the idea for The Stylish Bride® was hatched.



After getting married in 2001, she decided to leave her
job at Solomon Smith Barney and study at The Fashion Institute of Technology,
where she graduated in 2003. Still in love with the wedding industry, she went
to work for the bridal designer Amsale at their Madison Avenue boutique. While
there, she worked with brides every day and realized that they needed the same
non-biased help that she had a few years earlier. So she launched The Stylish
Bride® in 2004, and has loved working with her clients ever since. Julie lives
in Manhattan with her husband Michael and her two children Annemarie (5) and
Teddy (3).


Sade Awe, Founder of The Bridal Circle

Sade Awe, founder and owner of The Bridal Circle, combines her unparalleled passion
for weddings and all things luxurious with her savvy entrepreneurial flair
and distinctive creativity. Initially, an illustrious career as an Enterprise
Resource Planning and IT Solutions Consultant for Fortune 500 companies found
Sade assisting with ERP implementations and streamlining Human Resource
business practices for over a decade. Eventually, however, the realm of
luxurious weddings wooed Sade’s imagination, revealing her true passion for
collaborating with other vibrant creatives to curate unique, bespoke,
one-of-a-kind weddings.


With the creation of The Bridal Circle, Sade makes herself available to brides
across the globe as a personal concierge, ensuring that the weddings of
their dreams materialize before their very eyes. Spurred on by a mission
to create a seamless partnership with clients and to provide superior and
insightful service, Sade has revolutionized the luxury wedding industry.
Her desire to provide only the most exquisite products from the most
celebrated designers and artists within the luxury community has sent her
to the far ends of the earth on a quest for the ultimate in wedding
glamour. As a result, brides have only to search within the parameters of
The Bridal Circle itself to encounter the best the world has to offer.



When she’s not networking with her elite wedding
partners, blogging, pouring over sumptuous photos, attending fashion shows
or assisting brides with their opulent wedding plans, Sade loves to
travel. Gorgeous hotels and resorts, couture boutiques, golfing and
treatments in some of the world’s most luxuriant spas, are some of Sade’s
greatest loves. A self-proclaimed foodie, Sade finds a good glass of
Moscato impossible to resist, and although she delights in dessert wines
and ice wines, she insists she’s hardly a wine connoisseur- she just goes
for the sweet stuff!



A graduate of Chicago’s Loyola University with a degree
in communications, Sade is a former resident of London, Amsterdam and
Brussels. She now resides in Frisco, Texas, with two adorable children who
keep her perpetually entertained. Her daughter, 5, is a mini fashionista
and makes sure Sade stays at the peak of stylishness, while her son keeps
her laughing with his mimicry of her British accent.



Kim Forrest, WeddingWire



A self-described “wedding nerd,” Kim writes about all
aspects of wedding planning on WeddingWire and Project Wedding, from etiquette
to décor to fashion. Kim has been writing about weddings for nearly a decade
and has been quoted as a weddings expert in The New York Times and Washington Post.
Before WeddingWire, she held editor positions at Brides.com, Brides Local
Magazines
Washingtonian Bride & Groom, and
Washingtonian.com.

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