Carolina Inn Bridal Show!

We hope that everyone's 2009 is getting off to a great start! The Carolina Inn Bridal Show is coming up this Sunday, January 25th from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. in Chapel Hill. We are so excited to be able to showcase our business at this years show and we are looking forward to meeting all of the brides. There will be some great show specials so make sure you stop by our booth and our table display. The afternoon will be filled with great ideas, food, drinks, and most of all great vendors. See everyone Sunday!

Cool New Stuff for Our Brides

We have so many fun new products and services for our brides this year. The first of many, is our completely customized wedding websites. Since so many of our brides and their guests are from out of town, we have teamed up with WeddingWindow.com to provide a fantastic website resource for our clients.

WeddingWindow.com offers you the greatest number of features available for a custom wedding website including:

• Unlimited pages


• Unlimited photos


• Color & photo selections to match your wedding theme


• Free email addresses


• Site wizard assistant


• Personal Blog with RSS feed


• RSVP tracking


• Customizable "Save The Date" E-Cards


• Create Direct Links to other sites, such as Hotel or Gift Registries


• ............and so much more!

Because we want you to check out all of the features of this fantastic resource, we are offering a FREE TRIAL to help get you started. Consider this your first wedding gift from your Kate Foster Productions, wedding planning team!

Happy Planning!

I can't believe it!

This is really just going to be a short burst of astonishment that it's already into January. I honestly felt like the holidays flew by in such a whirlwind that I hardly got a chance to catch my breath.
Regardless, I am so excited it is January. It's my favorite time of year, as our calendar is filling up with new clients. I love getting to meet all of the new brides and hearing about the creative and exciting events that they visualize us creating for them!
2009 is going to be the best year for Kate Foster Productions, and all of our amazing brides. Thank you for choosing us to be a part of the most special day in your life. It is an honor!

Best Wishes,
Kate

We Have a Permanent Home

Kate Foster Productions is so excited to have a new permanent office and production location.

Located in the heart of downtown Raleigh, our new offices boast three contemporary conference rooms fully upfitted with flat screen T.V's, presentation boards, Power-Point projectors, conference call capabilities and more! All designed to better service our out of town clients.

With our new location, comes a new office number. You can now reach us at

919.256.3678

Betty Freedle our new Front Desk Manager will be greeting your call and we are really excited about the addition of her to our team.

Information about an Open House will be out in the next few weeks, so we will keep you posted!

Kate Foster Productions, Ltd

410 N. Boylan Ave

Raleigh, NC 27603

Trend Watch: Signature Send Offs

Coming up with new and creative ideas with our clients is the favorite part of my job. No aspect of the wedding is left untouched when it comes to personalizing your wedding day.

If you are a bride planning your own wedding, don't get burned out before planning your send off. This final farewell can be filled with energy and excitement for your guests as you say your goodbyes. So show your pizazz!

Some unique send offs that we have created for previous clients included:

Feathers: Spring wedding tree & bird themed wedding

Waxed leaves in fall colors: Fall wedding with a wheat and leaves theme

Glittered Snowflake Confetti: Winter wedding with a snow white theme

Most recently one of our clients faced a unique challenge for their Fourth of July wedding when their venue did not allow for sparklers. KFP put together their own "ticker-tape parade" send off complete with noise makers, American Flags with little bells attached and Red,White & Blue confetti! The Bride and Groom were quite the stars in their own parade and it was a beautiful success!

Our New Logo

We are so excited to introduce the new logo for Kate Foster Productions, Ltd. Our focus with the new logo was to announce the 1 year anniversary of our floral division. While our number one focus has and will continue to be our complete planning services, the floral division was a natural evolution for our company.

So many of our brides hire us for our creative ability to infuse personal details throughout their special day. A major part of the design aspect is floral decor and unique, affordable flowers is always a number one request. As a result, we brought on flower extraordinary, Demitris Faison, to help bring the artistic vision to life at a shockingly affordable price.

The beauty of our floral division, is that not every bride may choose to work with us from a planning perspective, but they are welcome to secure us for their floral needs.

We have worked with floral budgets from $500 to $19,000 and our portfolio continues to grow! We will continue to update our website with images from current events, so check back soon to see our incredible work.

Do you already have a florist? No problem, we are still proud to work with all of the talented floral teams around the area and want to recommend the best fit for our clients. We will be happy to point out some of the work from the artists at Fresh Affairs, Dogwood Tree Floral Design, Trebella and more on our website.

August 17th Bridal Show

It was definitely a busy weekend for KFP. Rachel McClure was one of my very beloved interns working with me this summer. As a senior at NC State, Rachel was required to complete one large scale project as part of her internship. I chose the August 17th Bridal Show as her project.

Rachel underwent the challenge of working through design concepts with me and bringing the entire vision to life. I think most people would be surprised how much time and effort it takes to create a booth for a simple five-hour event. Rachel spent weeks doing research on an initial design concept that I requested, that unfortunately was simply not feasible. After starting completely over, she spent another two weeks bringing together all of the details. The final week of the bridal show, she had to devote her attention full-time to completing this project.

After all of the errand running, fabric sampling, flower ordering, sign printing, printing and RE-PRINTING, it finally all came together in what I believe was a beautiful display. Rachel accomplished the challenge of hearing a vision and bringing it to life for her "client".

All of her hard work was supported by our entire team the weekend of the show and I must thank everyone for their hard work and support. Thank you to Demitris for his continued creativity from the KFP Floral Division, thank you Lilly and Dan for your install help and thank you Melanie as well.

Our thoughts and best wishes go out to our team member, Cat Coley, who has been blessed with expecting a little one, and is experiencing the joys of morning/afternoon/night sickness :). We wish you a swift trimester and look forward to having you back with us soon!

Great work team!