Redeeming Wedding Show Prizes

The day after the wedding show, my fiancee and I attended two "cooking classes". At the wedding show there were lots of vendors and we could sign up for raffles of prizes. So later in the we got the first prize winning phone call. They said we had won a two night stay at a hotel and a $25.00 gift card for a restaurant. In order to redeem the prize we were supposed to attend a meeting the next, which we did. The next day we got a second phone call saying that we had won a cooking class and another two night stay at a hotel of our choice. We thought that we were either very lucky or that maybe those "prizes" were not real. The only way to find out was to go to those meetings. My fiancee scheduled them both on the same day, one at 6pm and the other at 8pm. When we got to the first one, it consisted of a presentation on an "amazing" set of pots and pans that you can use to cook food without adding any oil or water. The concept is a good one, but the price is not! We have an expensive wedding ahead of us, and spending $2400 in pots and pans is not in our plans. So we redeemed our gift, a voucher for a two night stay at a hotel and left to the second appointment of the night, the cooking class. That "class" turned out be everything but a class. It was another presentation of a company who sells expensive pots and pans that do not need water or oil to cook food. So we set through the presentation, which turned out to be exactly like the other one, even though the pots were slightly different and the companies were not the same. Once again, after the 1 and a half presentation we redeemed our 2 night stay voucher and the gift card. We left without spending $2200 on pots and pans. We are going to be using those vouchers for our "mini" honey moon, the real one will be in December.

Wedding Shows

The week after I went wedding dress shopping with my friends, we went to a bridal show. There were five of us, my fiancee and I, his brother and wife, and his mom. I don't if you've been to a bridal show or if you even know what that is, neither did I. The show was at a hotel and they had all types of vendors and they also had two shows, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, in which they were showcasing wedding dresses and bridesmaids dresses. Before and after those two shows there was a host giving away gifts. So he would ask for random things such as tic-tacs, skeleton keys, a CD, and so on. Well, it so turned out that between the five of us, we had almost everything that he was asking for. The first thing that he called for was somebody with a hole in his sock, well my fiancee had that!!! So he ran to the stage and showed his sock. I am not embarrassed to say that because you are about to find out what he got for that: a coach bag!!!!! Yep, a $250.00 coach bag for having a hole in his sock! Like I mentioned before, because we had a lot of the things that they were asking for, we got a lot of gifts: a free 3 hour photo booth for the wedding, a discount voucher for the DJ, a discount voucher for rentals, and a free bouquet! On top of that, we had a lot of fun running up to the stage (we are very competitive!). We are looking forward to the next show in June!