Tuesday, January 25, 2011

2011 - WeddingWire Announcement

St. Louis, MO – January 25, 2011 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce that Mirage Photo has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Wedding Photographers!

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

Mirage Photo stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Mirage Photo for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that Mirage Photo is among the very best Wedding Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

For more information, please visit our website at www.mirage-photo.com.

For more information on the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011, please visit WeddingWire.com.
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WeddingWire.com, the nation's leading technology company serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 local wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers to wedding cakes. WeddingWire also offers an online community and a suite of cutting-edge planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire provides free online management tools creating the only market opportunity that gives local businesses control over their clients, reviews, leads and performance. Businesses that join the WeddingWire Network appear on WeddingWire.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com (NYSE: MSO), ProjectWedding.com and Weddingbee.com (both part of eHarmony), and Celebrations.com (part of the 1-800-Flowers family of brands, NASDAQ: FLWS).

Friday, November 5, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Lunch with LaRussa

We recently had the honor of photographing a business luncheon for Woodbury Financial Services. Tony LaRussa spoke to the attendees of the conference along with invited guests. Hearing Tony speak of the past baseball seasons was so interesting, his candor and openness was unexpected. Even more impressive was his take on leadership and moving teams in the right direction. Part baseball guru, part Anthony Robbins. The cardinals are fortunate to have him in their dugout.

We were able to meet a lot of great people that day. A great big shout out to D'Shannon (one of the coolest make-up artist in the greater Saint Louis area), who kept us entertained with her barking at the A.R.F. donation station. The guests set a new record for donations to Tony's charity from previous years. I hope that money will go to a great lengths to help the Animal Rescue Foundation.

If you get a chance, check out D'Shannon's fantastic work at her website http://www.dmakeupartist.com/

Many big thank you's to Tony for hanging around afterward and signing autographs and taking pictures with everyone, inluding the photographers.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Let's make some "gourd"geous photos together.

Mirage Photo is going to be at Rambach Farms Pumpkin Patch on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 to do family photo sessions. Call us at 636-577-1074 to schedule your appointment. We only have space available for another 4 or 5 families (depending on the number of peeps in the family). It is not too early to start thinking about those family Christmas cards or giving the gift of portraits for the upcoming holidays.

Bring your little pumpkin out to our little pumpkins and we can create some unique and wonderful fall photos that your family will cherish.

The session fee is going to cost $50.00 and we are going to keep it simple on you from there. No complicated packages and no hassle ordering. You want a different pose in each print, just ask. We are offering 3 photo packages that should cover all of your gift giving needs this year,

Package 1 is $40.00 and includes, One(1) 8x10, Two(2) 5x7's and 8 wallet sized photographs.

Package 2 is $50.00 and includes, Two(2) 8x10's, Four(4) 5x7's and 16 wallet sized photographs.

Package 3 is just $60.00 and includes, One(1) 11x14, Three(3) 8x10's, Five(5) 5x7's, and 16 wallet sized photographs.

Skip all that and just purchase the CD with all images we shoot, along with a copyright release so you can make your own prints and custom holiday cards for only $150.00. That's a bargain at twice the price!!!

For directions to Rambach's in the Chesterfield Valley and to book your appointment, call Samantha at 636-577-1074.

Friday, August 20, 2010

The Grand Prize Winner Is.............

OK OK, enough stalling...
The grand prize winner is, (drum roll)
Sarah Gresoski!!
I cannot believe my favorite drinking bride won!! Lucky number 22 was the magic number. Give us a call at 636-577-1074 or send me an e-mail at shawn@mirage-photo.com to collect your prizes!!

I have another contest in the works for next w...eek. I will post an announcement over the weekend with more details so if you have not won yet.... have faith, and hang on just a titch longer. We are cooking up a great contest for next week.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010


Jake and Nickie are our next winners. Congratulations. They were a really cute couple with a summer 2011 wedding scheduled. I totally remember this couple. You will be receiving $1000.00 off any of our wedding photography along with 4 rounds of golf from the Landings at Spirit Golf Course in Chesterfield. I hope you are half as excited as we are to be giving out the prizes. I am already looking at our calendar to see when the next wedding show will be held so we can do this again. Until then, we are having the grand prize drawing on Friday so please hang with us for a few more days.
Prize winners simply need to call us at 636-577-1074 or e-mail me directly at shawn@mirage-photo.com to collect your prizes.

Monday, August 16, 2010

The Name is Bonds, Chanel Bonds.


Chanel is going to receive $500.00 off any of our wedding photography packages plus a fantastic Bridal Anklet Bracelet along with $50.00 off of her fiances Gold or Silver wedding band. The jewelry has been graciously donated to us by our unbelievably good friends at Indigo Jewelers in Saint Peters, MO. I highly recommend everyone stopping by or calling the owner, Michael Menger. You will NEVER get better customer services or better prices for quality than you can get at INDIGO. http://www.indigojewelers.com/