Big Day Event Productions

We really enjoyed planning and producing Randy Cohen’s Ticket to the Limit book signing.  Randy and 30 Austin CEO’s were gearing up to take the 1/2 Iron Man Challenge.  This party was sponsored by Rudy’s BBQ, Chinatown, Fion Wine Pub, Mr. Gattis, Alon Bernstein and Randy Willis.  Randy Willis brought a slew of talented artists to perform.  Stephanie Saxon, Alon Bernstein, Lance Keltner with Drew Tichnell, Lance Kotara, George Devore and A.J. Vallejo!  The event was held at the Ticket City Headquarters where The Zone broadcast their afternoon radio show.

Thank you Luis Cuellar for taking these pictures!

Big THANK YOU to Cuba Libre, Kerbey Lane, Jersey Bean Headbands, Breast Cancer Resource Center, Austin Toros, and Heal in Comfort for all your help at our 3rd Pink Party!

You can purchase pictures from Daniel C Photography at – http://danielcphotography.smugmug.com/

20% of your purchase will be donated to our foundations!

My amazing photographer friend, Andrew Sterling, took these amazing pictures for Belle Saison Bridal.  These are some of my favorites…

Did I mention he was AMAZING?

We had our 1st (of 5) Austin Pink Parties last Thursday.  Thank you to Paradise Cafe, Daniel C Photography, Limbo Jewelry, Jersey Bean Headbands, Kerbey Lane Cafe, X Rated Vodka, Jewel Magazine & Tahni Handal for helping us make this event a success!  Proceeds benefited Race for the Cure Team – For Cindi, Healincomfort & Breast Cancer Resource Center.

We raffled off gift certificates to Barbara Ann Kelso Salon, Taffy Box Custom Jewelry, & Chinatown Restaurant Downtown.

Tahni sang a beautiful song she wrote and dedicated to all those who have been touched by Breast Cancer in some way.  Our next Pink Party will take place 10/8 @ Imperia Restaurant.  For more information please visit our BLOG.

Thank you to Danny C Photography for capturing all the great moments of our event!

The wedding of Yogi and Robert Strait.  Thank you to Ron Parks for these amazing pictures!  This event was planned by Lauren Snow.

KC and Rachel Leinen were married May 23rd, 2009 at the always amazing location of Star Hill Ranch.  This was an eco-friendly wedding with catering provided by Whole Foods.  Personal Flowers were provided by Bea of McFail’s Florist located on Barton Springs Rd.  Centerpieces were designed by KC and Rachel and included potted succulents that were given away to family and friends at the end of the evening.  Guests enjoyed Amy’s Ice Cream bar and wedding cake by Lucy’s.  Here are some pictures from the event.  Thank you to Whitney Lee Photog

ENJOY!

We were hired by Dan Dillard of Amplify Financial to help plan the Pink Slip Festival. The purpose of this great event was to invite unemployed families of Austin to enjoy a night of music and entertainment offering $.25 hot dogs, $.50 sodas and beer!

Entertainment included the bands:

The Kimbo Band

The Authors

The Beaufords

Exit Wonderland

We assisted in booking entertainment for the kids including:
Big Don
Mystery Inc (The Mystery Machine with the gang from Scobby Doo!)
Opus One Music
We also assisted in promoting the event with local media. Here is the story Fox7 covered on the festival
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This epic picture now reigns as “the most time spent editing one picture” in the eyes of Eric Doggett.  And what great eyes he has.  His vision and creativity helped produce what has to be the best picture BDEP has ever taken!!!

We were wondering why Eric had us each show him our “cat walk” over and over again.  Now we know.  (Maybe ABC could use some more “Desperate Housewives”?

For the 3rd year in a row, BDEP is forming a team for the Susan G. Komen race for the Cure. Our team’s name is FOR CINDI in remembrance of our friend Cindi Lazzari. We will be promoting our team with a “pub crawl” that will take place in the weeks leading up to the race. Not only will we be raising money for the foundation but we will also be raising money for “Heal in Comfort”. “Heal in Comfort” is a company that has designed shirts for women who have undergone surgery due to breast cancer. http://healincomfort.com/HIC/AboutCherDesigns. We will be raising money to provide cancer patients this special shirt.

The race is November 1st. Please join our team by going to:  http://www.info-komen.org/site/TR?team_id=114624&fr_id=1240&pg=team

Well if you have a kick ass photographer like Eric Doggett (www.doggettstudios.com) you can do this!  I came up with the shoot idea while having lunch at Santa Rita.  I grew tired of our previous magazine ad mainly because it did not really set us apart from our competition.  It looked just like all of the other wedding planer’s ads.  Look for this ad to be premiered in the Bachelor Issue of Austin Monthly.