Bridal Show 1st day done!!

Wow, that first day of the bridal show was awesome. I met some really great brides yesterday. This show is a lot different from the bridal show in January. In January it seemed like most of the brides just got engaged in the holiday season and were very non committal. That combined with the fact that the economy was heading in a downward spiral, left most of the brides very reluctant to book a lot of their vendors since a lot of them didn't know if they would still have a job or not. Yesterday, on the other hand, we met a lot of brides that wanted to come into the studio and wanted to book consultations on the spot!! That was very exciting!!
Yesterday was very interesting in that we got a lot of inquiries for upcoming weddings for the later part of this year and even some in September. That's less than 2 months away!!! The July show, historically, has been the show where we book mostly Spring weddings, but this weekend we've talked to many brides about weddings coming in in less than 3 - 4 months!! This is very unusual. I would speculate that the economy has something to do with this.
Another interesting this I noticed yesterday was the smaller number of vendors at the show!! There were noticeably less photographer vendors there, which I guess is a good thing, less competition. The economy has definitely affected everyone's business.
Hope to have another great day at the show!!
Trung