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| - hmm, hopefully I am reviewing the right thing...I am not sure if I was at the Bridal Fashion Debut or the Bridal Expo or the Phoenix Bridal Fashion show... there were SO many people, SO many wedding dresses, SO many people handing me photography brochures....it all became a white, fuzzy, bedazzled, blur.
However, I am sure that I was at a wedding event at the Phoenix Convention Center.
The fashion show was fun, and at the end, all the models through plastic flower bouquets into the crowd. Each bouquet = a prize. I am not sure what the prizes were (could have been a $5 coupon or a gold ring) because even though I caught a bouquet (it landed on my face), someone from behind grabbed it, scratching my face and shoulder with her untrimmed nails. "You just scratched me!" I told her. She didn't care, she was too busy jumping up and down with glee. So, if you sit through the fashion show, be very careful when they throw the bouquets. You may be seated by a hungry animal with claws.
Speaking of hungry, there was a variety of food vendors there sampling their popular wedding dishes (pulled pork, tacos, beans and pork, pasta, bbq pork, pork on rice...I guess pork is popular). There were also a few vendors passing out wine and margaritas. The problem was the cup sizes - they were so small! I recommend bringing a flask, or two flasks, depending on how well you handle crowds.
I was looking forward to sampling wedding cake (I am not getting married, but one of my main duties as MOH is sampling wedding cakes, and I take that job very seriously). But there was only ONE vendor sampling cake! And it was mediocre cake at best, with icing that tasted like it came from the grocery store. I am not dissing grocery store icing, but no one wants to look back at their (expensive) wedding pictures to see their mouth covered with grocery store level icing. No, they want to want to see the best cake they ever tasted with icing they dreamt about for years, being shoved into their mouth.
There was also one vendor sampling mini-cupcakes. Honestly, they looked so....mini.
But, considering at times the event was so crowded that the aisles resembled more of a mosh pit than a walk-way, I understand that it is hard to serve delicate samples of cake. And just imagine - if people were willing to claw face over plastic flowers, it would be a blood bath over delicious, beautiful cake.
The Phoenix bridal show/expo/debut did offer a lot of good deals, heavily discounted dresses, raffles, and chocolate kisses. If you can handle large crowds and a little a violence (or, if you just really like pork), it is a worthwhile couple hours if you are planning a wedding.
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