Fat Cat wins big in Vegas!

It's not what you are thinking :)

This past week the blog has been quiet because we were in Las Vegas at our annual WEVA convention from Monday till Friday at Bally's/Paris Hotels. WEVA is the Wedding and Event Videographers Association, we have been members for 4 years. Each year the association sponsors the Creative Excellence Awards (CEA) competition which is international in nature. We have entered for about 3 years and this year we came away with a "Finalist" award in the Love Story category! I hear that we were two tenths of a point away from Bronze, or third place! The Love Story is the sample we have online on the Gallery page and is featured on our newest 2007 Wedding Movie Demo DVD! Check it out!Although we were very excited, we were a bit nervous heading up to the stage as our award was the first award presented for the night! The awards ceremony happened the opening night of the conference and we got to see old friends we had not seen for a year from all across the country and were on our way to meeting new ones! Our video was played with the other winners all week on TV monitors in what we call the "Backlot" where everyone gathers for breakfast and breaks to socialize and hang out.

The conference during the week was very informative as well, as we were busy hitting multiple seminars ranging in topics from marketing and website development to filming and editing techniques and many others. The seminars kept us busy all day from 8 am to 8 pm each night. We are very excited to impliment some new ideas and strategies into our business this year that will go hand in hand with some really big announcements we have coming up (I know we keep promising, but it's only a matter of less than a few weeks now!) The last night we did manage to squeak some time in to go to dinner on the strip with friends and we got to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower of the Paris Hotel! Here are some photos of our great time!

(Photos 1&2: Awards Night being presented our award by one of the Judges, local videographer Judy Handley. We did not know Judy was a judge until awards night when we received our award! Photo by our good friend and mentor, Danny Sayson. Photo 3: "The gang" at a restaurant inside Paris. This was a group of folks who had been to Jeff Wright's seminars of Blue Skies Cinema in California, that's Jeff and his wife Andee behind me. We had a BLAST! Thanks Jeff for putting it all together, I met some great new friends from other workshops! Photo 4: Steph and Judy posing at the Las Vegas Airport ready to head home after a long tiring week, the Weva Diva's! We missed Deanna this year for the photo, she had already made it to Cinabon! Photo 5: Steph and Judy on the way up the escaltor taking their businesses "to the next level"!