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As mentioned in a previous blog entry, Angel Springs Event Center will be featured on an upcoming episode of "The Wedding Planners" on WE tv. We recently heard that the episode is schedule to be broadcast on September 7, 2008 at 10:00 pm local time on WE tv(Suddenlink channel 179 – Time Warner channel 28).
The show, which was filmed in March, is about wedding planners and the tasks that they undertake while designing and successfully managing a wedding and reception.
The wedding planners highlighted in this episode, Kathy Millen and Vivian Miller, own Austin Wedding Planners (www.austinweddingplanners.com), one of Austin’s premiere wedding coordination companies. They were contacted by the show’s producers about being the subject of an episode and initially turned them down. Millen said “We were just so busy that we didn’t think we had the time to spend.” The producers persisted and Millen and Miller agreed to the project.
Millen contacted Anthony and Norma Beissner, the owners of Angel Springs, to see if they would be interested in hosting the production crew during an upcoming wedding at Angel Springs. “There are so many nice venues in the Leander / Cedar Park area that a bride can pick from the beautiful Hill Country to Lake Travis. There is something for everyone. One of our favorite venues is Angle Springs Events Center,” said Millen. One of the reasons that the producers chose to tape the wedding at Angel Springs was because of the scenic and secluded Hill Country setting.
About one and a half weeks before the actual wedding there was a full day of taping background material at Angel Springs. The TV production crew set up a studio in the ballroom and used it to tape interviews with the bride and groom. They also staged meetings with several of the other wedding vendors involved in their reception. It was a rainy day, so they taped some scenes outside to heighten the drama. Anthony Beissner said “We gave a tour of our outdoor wedding ceremony site to the couple and the wedding planners. The director said that showing the nervous reaction of the bride would make good television. Thankfully the weather was perfect on the actual wedding day.”
Beissner said he was amazed at how much was involved in filming. “We had never been involved in anything like this before. The day of the wedding there were two full film crews shooting the show while we still had a wedding ceremony and reception to manage. However, the crews stayed very low key – they knew that the focus that day needed to be the couple that was getting married.”
Laura and Ross Davies, they newlyweds, seemed very pleased with the results of everyone’s efforts. Their wedding involved over a dozen wedding vendors, from catering and cakes to photography and videography. The job of making sure that all of these companies seamlessly performed their jobs to produce a synchronized end result fell to the wedding planners. Because Laura and Ross are both swim instructors Laura chose a wedding theme of “water”, and the Austin Wedding Planners made sure that the many wedding professionals involved in the event stayed true to Laura’s vision. All of the vendors involved in the wedding really went the extra mile to support the project.
Almost everything went smoothly during the reception, but there were a couple of small hiccups. These really highlighted the reason couples choose to make use of a wedding planner. Miller said “We take care of issues behind the scenes so that the couple and their family never know about them.”
We invite you to watch the show and the let us know what you think!
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