Iron Brides reading fans – What a Weekend!

What a weekend…..is about all I can say! From Thursday til Sunday, it was run, run, run….BUT FUN, FUN, FUN! The Iron Brides Producion team attended NH Film Festival events with a friend, Portsmouth host, and aspiring young actress, Hilary Warburton. We met a number of people who love their jobs in the film industry. Friday took us to the Sheraton Inn in Portsmouth, where we auditioned 30+ people for various contestant positions (brides, hosts, entertainment), had host contestants work with brides and entertainment people in compiling their own skits and ended up with 5 or 6 by days end, and also had some pumpkin painting and Halloween costume pictures created. This information will be available to the public by week’s end. Everyone did a fabulous job!

As auditions begin to come to a close soon, it is going to be time to sift through audition after audition, qualifying each one of them, in the selections for 8 brides and 2 hosts….’Twill be an emotional day!

Saturday was a catch up day…Did get to the Haunted Park at Canobie Lake in the evening….COLD!

Sunday was off and running again, as we headed north for The Lakes Region Bridal Show, sponsored at The Castle in The Clouds. What an absolutely wonderful way to round out the weekend! The weather was perfect, the location and view – absolutely breathtaking! The Lakes Region Bridal Show and ALL of its participants – absolute professionalism depicted through the entire day. Many, many, many thanks to Kathi and her husband, as coordinators of the Lakes Region Bridal Show and Magazine, in allowing us to also be participants and for a job WELL DONE. In speaking with people there, they all said that they felt the event was well attended…..great job!

A tour of the Castle in the latter part of the afternoon was intriguing! One of the assistants to “the Castle” took us on tour of the Castle and WOW, is all I am going to say. IF you have the opportunity to visit a location as intriguing in history, story, and location, The Castle in the Clouds is AN ABSOLUTE MUST!

My daughter, Julia, came out for the weekend and to also attend the show as it is her very first show in beginning wedding preparations for late next year. She said the brunch, the atmosphere, the information given to her – was very instrumental to her. She asked a host of questions to the girls of Andrea’s Dress Shop, the cake demonstrator, and of others. She was happy to have attended and thought the view was likened to the Blue Mountains in the Adirondacks, however, there is no castle at the location she is thinking of….but there is a fire tower! (LOL)

Three or four of our already auditioned bridal contestants were also participants of the bridal show, as well as three new online auditioning brides. In all, we added 13 new bridal auditions to our portfolio Sunday….communication does pay off!

Well, it is off on another adventure this afternoon as George, Jeff, and I travel north to meet with venue properties and their management in what I hope to be as the location of our Iron Brides television production. MORE on that later!

Thank you to all for such a terrific, informative weekend!

Later!

Joann

Next Audition? The Sheraton Inn in Portsmouth, NH

Calling all Want-to-be Bride, Host, Concierge, and Entertainment (musician, comedian, and magician talent) Contestants…… the Iron Brides film crew will be at the Sheraton Inn in Portsmouth, NH on Friday, October 17th, from 2PM – 8PM. We will be creating video tapes for the above mentioned auditions and then posting them on the You Tube Website. If you HAVEN’T had the opportunity to check out MANY of the auditions already posted, go to www.youtube.com/ironbrides to see who is there….may be someone you know!! Bring your ideas, props, fiance, pets, tricks….whatever you feel will give you the audition you are looking for. Here’s your chance to tell New England what makes you the Iron Bride! Got some really cool ideas for Skits? Please let me know by emailing me at joann@ironbrides.tv
Thanks!

On the 19th of October, we will be attending the Castle in the Clouds hosting gala of the Lakes Region Bridal Show, in Moultonboro, NH. That will be a fabulous event. I have never had the luxury of A) attending any form of bridal show or event, and B) having a beautiful wedding.

Yes, I have been married, and due to circumstances beyond MY control, well, you can probably figure that one out … I was married in a log cabin in a rural area of central New York on Valentine’s Day, 23+ years ago, by a Justice of the Peace. For that moment in my life, it was what I wanted. Why? well, I had never envisioned a big wedding because we would have been paying for it as a couple, and we couldn’t afford it. Anyhow, that was another chapter in my book of life that I will close….thanks! However, to go through the process again, I WILL do things much differently : )

On a much brighter note, my daughter, Julia, is planning on driving out from Albany, NY to attend the show in Moultonboro. I am excited because I haven’t seen her in 8+ weeks or so as she attends college in NYS. As far as the Lakes Region Bridal Show, I have sent in her registration. NO…..Julia cannot participate in the NH Iron Brides TV Reality Show, however, she asks how the production is progressing and has been a subscriber to You Tube and My Space, helping to strengthen the popularity on the SUNY Albany Campus…..Way to go, Jules!

More information on the Auditions in Portsmouth later!

- Chow