Create Your Own Royal Wedding With Welcome Wagon

Welcome Wagon would like to invite you to attend our next Bridal Showcase, on October 3, 2011, at the Armenian Community Centre, 15 International Village Drive in Cambridge, ON. Doors open at 6:00 pm and the fashion show begins at 7:30 pm.

We offer informative displays, a fashion show, wedding planning guides, free gift bags for first 100 brides through our doors and the opportunity to win some amazing door prizes.

Admission is free for bride-to-be and one guest but registration is highly suggested. Walk-ins are welcome. To register, contact 1-877-675-8463 or online, www.welcomewagon.ca.

Limo Service Faces Fraud Charges

CTV Southwestern Ontario

Date: Friday Nov. 19, 2010 2:37 PM ET

A 36-year-old woman from Brantford is facing numerous fraud charges after complaints against Bellagio Limousines.


Waterloo Regional Police Fraud Branch investigators received several complaints that alleged fraudulent activity as far back as January 2010.


Victims allege the company took deposits for limousine service, but they were left with no service or sub-standard service.


According to police the limousines were booking primarily for wedding dates by couples both within and outside of the Region of Waterloo.


Police are asking anyone who has information or who may have dealt with the company to call the Fraud Office at 519-650-8500 Ext. 8372 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

Save the Date: Upcoming Brides' Ball

Save the date... The Kitchener Brides' Ball has been set for Friday, June 19th, 2009 - and this year, it's going glam!

The Brides' Ball will take over Elements on King Street for an evening, filling up the venue with men and women in bridal gowns, bridesmaids dresses, tuxes and sexy suits. Think 'celebrity after-party' meets The Brides' Ball.

The event will run from 7:30 pm to 2 am and include cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, dancing, the 'tiara shop' and more. An online auction of products and services donated by local retailers and wedding professionals is scheduled to go live in May. Being held downtown and on a Friday night will allow even more people to attend this year - with the guest list set at 200.
The Kitchener Brides' Ball gives women of all ages and marital status a fabulous reason to ‘don a tiara’ and feel like a princess for the night. With tag lines like ‘Wear your gown again’ and ‘Tiara’s mandatory’ the dress code of the event is ‘Bridal or Formal’ meaning bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses, ball gowns, cocktail dresses, suits and tuxedos are all welcome attire at The Brides’ Ball. "Every woman wants to wear her wedding gown again. And every man wants to play Prince Charming once in a while," says Anne Warren, Sales Director for TheWeddingRing.ca and Producer of The Ball. Warren, who is planning to wear a bridal gown, says, "After all, we spend a small fortune on a dress that we only get to wear once and we're very emotionally attached to it…" TheWeddingRing.ca had been looking for an excuse to let brides wear their gowns again when they developed The Brides’ Ball. "It was the perfect opportunity for a community of women - and their soul mates - to get all dressed up and experience a night they’ll always remember, in support of a great cause."

Tiara Shop Cocktails Hors D'oeuvres Dancing Donations Silent Auctions
Raffles & Prizes Grand Prize Online Auction Entertainment
Tuxedo-Lounge & Brandy Bar On-site Photo Booth Video to Air on RingTV
Plenty of Free Parking


QUICKER, BETTER & EARLIER BREAST CANCER SCREENING, CLOSE TO HOME
The Brides' Ball will prove there's strength in numbers. Awareness and funds will be raised for the Waterloo-Wellington Breast Centre (WWBC) at the Grand River Hospital. The WWBC is home to a regional breast assessment service and the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP), where patients are referred to by physicians and radiologists when abnormalities are detected. The OBSP service enables patients access to the new digital mammography technology, that has been proven better at detecting breast cancer in younger women, pre-menopausal women and women with dense breast tissue. By supporting the screening program and the clinic, we're able to help increase screening for all women in the Waterloo-Wellington region and provide quicker assessment for all women.

WHO
Everyone is invited - Company owners and their staff, brides & grooms, married couples, single ladies (pull that bridesmaid gown out of your closet!) and friends are welcome to don a tiara at The Brides' Ball.

DRESS CODE
Bridal or Formal. Last year's events saw tuxedos, suits, bridal gowns, bridesmaids' gowns and cocktail dresses.

TICKETS
Tickets are $30 each.
The Ball runs from 7:30 pm to 2 am.

BUY TICKETS ONLINE Click Here
BUY TICKETS BY PHONE 519-568-8007.
BUY TICKET IN PERSON A list of additional Ticket Ambassadors
will be available in May 2009.

HELP
A volunteer committee will be hitting the streets and The Ball to help raise awareness, funds, sponsors and ticket sales for The Brides' Ball and its cause. If you'd like to join The Brides' Ball team, contact bridesball@theweddingring.ca This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 519-568-8007. You can reach Event Coordinator, Anne Warren, directly at anne@theweddingring.ca This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 519-851-9889 as well.

The team at TheWeddingRing.ca and The Brides' Ball are encouraging every local business, retailer, wedding vendor and member of the community to take part in the event. There are endless opportunities to give back, either by attending or by sponsoring The Brides’ Ball or by running promotions in-store with proceeds towards The Brides' Ball event efforts.

If you have products or services to donate to the event, the online auction, the silent auction or more, please contact us!

The Bride's Ball is produced by TheWeddingRing.ca
Wedding Ring Inc. (also known as TheWeddingRing.ca or ‘The Ring’) is an Ontario-based media company that has been in business for nearly six years. The Ring interviews and reviews wedding vendors and trends from London to Toronto, offering their information free of charge to brides – online at TheWeddingRing.ca and in print in Bridal News Magazine. The Ring has a large membership of brides, with several million page views a year to their website. Their corporate office can be reached at 519-568-8007 or 1-877-203-3338 of by visiting www.theweddingring.ca

The Brides' Ball is co-produced by Pure Potential Weddings.

Wedding Gown Ugly

Like every other woman, I have had different visions of wedding gowns dancing in my head from time to time. When I was younger is was more princessy or trendy, mid-30's more classy and now days none existent (keep getting nasty frogs, no Prince Charming!).

Anyways, I have had two occasions to help a bride pick her wedding gown. The first was with my cousin. Imagine 6 women piling into a mini-van and making the trek to a bridal warehouse. While 2 people assisted the bride, 3 people rummaged the warehouse seeking the bride's dream dress. After 3 hours, the actual dress was something that the bride initially refused to wear--strapless. But other than that it has everything she wanted and the price too good to pass up. We knew we had the right dress because she kept preening in it (unlike all the other dresses where she looked in the mirror and was ready to take them off within 30 seconds!). By the way, I found that dress--bragging rights! The second occasion my good friend, her mother and I went to a local bridal salon renown for its incredibly great customer service and were absolutely pampered. The salon owner found the perfect dress. How did we know? The mother and I agreed the bride would get emotional. After trying on 5 dresses, the bride broken down crying over this particular dress. She really felt like a bride in it.

However, sometimes you have to wonder, where do the gown designers get their inspiration or the gall to produce something of absolute beauty or some over-the-top tripe?

No bride wants to look at her wedding pictures 24-72 hours later and cry, "Why didn't anyone tell me --I look hideous!".

I am looking for opinions. If you know of other wedding gown nightmares, please provide the picture and your comment (g-rated please, kids will be looking at the post too!).

Think of this as a community service announcement: what not to where on your wedding day!

A Memorable Bridal Show

Welcome Wagon hosted Cambridge’s Bridal Showcase on October 6, 2008 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. The venue, the Armenian Community Centre provided an elegant atmosphere with more than 20 exhibitors available to assist guests with every aspect of wedding planning. The audience was delighted to have our event emceed by none other than Adele Newton, of 91.5 The Beat.

Admission was free, and included exhibit displays by participating exhibitors, wedding cake sampling, free gift bags for the brides-to-be, a thrilling fashion show, many exciting door prizes and the Grand door prize of a 5-hr “Girls’ Night Out” Limousine Service courtesy of Brentwood Livery.

We wish to express our gratitude to the following exhibitors/services that helped our wedding show become a wonderful success:

91.5 The Beat
A Moment In Time Bridal Boutique
Armenian Community Centre/Paradise Banquet & Catering
The Bay
Brentwood Livery
Cakes by Christie
Cambridge Hotel & Conference Centre
Cambridge Times
CH Candle Making
Complete Video
Dave FM
Designed by Mere
Feelings From The Heart Wedding Chapels
Global Wealth Trade Corp.
Golden Triangle Printing
Home Interiors
Investors Group Financial Services Inc.
J/P Associates
Mary Kay Cosmetics
one2one photography
The Perfect Wedding Guide
Re/Max Twin City Realty Inc.
Spin Doctor Productions
Table Charm
Tuxedo Royale

The Cambridge Event Coordinator, Susan Casey said, “This event was a great way for future brides to meet a variety of exhibitors and learn a great deal about the local wedding resources available, all at one location.”

If you wish to register as a bride-to-be at one of our future shows, please visit online, www.bridalshowcase.ca, call 1-877-675-8463. If you would like more information about becoming an exhibitor for the 2009 Bridal Showcase in Cambridge, kindly call Susan directly at 519-658-0687 or email suezavon@sympatico.ca.

About Welcome Wagon Canada
Welcome Wagon is a community-based service which welcomes new arrivals and contacts new parents, brides-to-be and new businesspeople with information on local businesses and services. The Welcome Wagon organization has over 1200 Representatives across Canada. Since 1930, it has served over 500 communities. For more information about Welcome Wagon Ltd, please visit their web site: www.welcomewagon.ca.