I’m thrilled to say that Ben Vigil Photography is now an official sponsor of the Pure Fashion Show (www.purefashionshow.org).

“Pure Fashion is an international faith-based program designed for girls grades 8-12 to help young women re-discover and reaffirm their innate value and authentic femininity.”

It’s all about purity, fashion, modesty and dignity. How cool is that!!!

Ben

More Valentine’s Day fun!! Here are some more stats I just ran across, curtesy of The Wedding Report

These stats are for Atlanta, GA (30308):

• 4,810 estimated weddings (30308 only)
• Total wedding cost: $31,500.00
• $2,164.00 on Wedding Attire
• $2,747.00 on Wedding Ceremony
• $1,298.00 on Wedding Favors & Gifts
• $1,336.00 on Wedding Flowers
• $2,044.00 on Wedding Jewelry
• $1,084.00 on Wedding Music
• $3,125.00 on Wedding Photography & Video
• $16,093.00 on their Wedding Reception
• $951.00 on Wedding Stationery
• $662.00 on Wedding Transportation.

The total estimated Georgia weddings in 2005 was 53,960!

Ben

The first of a couple Valentine’s Day posts. A fellow photographer posted this on his blog that I thought you brides-to-be might find interesting…

Here are some interesting wedding statistics according to a recent article published on CNNMoney.com:

• weddings cost an average of $27,852
• the average age for a bride is 27, for a groom it’s 29
• average household income for a bride and groom is $74,000
• engagement period average is 14 months
• 2.3 million Americans will get married this year
• each weekend will see 44,230 weddings (that’s a lot of photographers! )
• there will be 380 million wedding guests
• 16 % of all couples are choosing a destination wedding — a 400% increase in the last 10 years!
• the average cost of a destination wedding is $25,806 with an average of 63 guests
• 15% of all proposals happen in the month of December
• this year only 30% of all weddings will be paid for entirely by the parents of the bride while 32% of brides and grooms pick up the tab themselves
• 99% of the brides were proposed to (does this mean 1% of the grooms were proposed to????)
• 81% of brides will take their husband’s last name

Ben

A few days ago I got wind that Christian Living Magazine (www.christianlivingmag.com) had arranged a photo shoot for a story on the Pure Fashion Show (www.purefashionshow.org). So when you’re not the photographer, what’s a guy to do?

Simple. I shot the shoot.

Special thanks to Robin the photographer who was a real professional and a good guy to boot.

Take care and see you at the Pure Fashion Show!

Ben