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All Photos are Actual Photos of The El Dorado Royale Picture in your mind your ideal honeymoon location.  If you are like most people it would more than likely consist of crystal blue waters, white sandy beaches, incredible food, amazing weather and romance galore. The El Dorado Royale is the epitome of the ultimate honeymoon [...]

Photography by~Swensen Photography Thomas & Connie were the 2010 $100k Dream Wedding Winners but weren’t married til July 2nd, 2011.  During this beautiful holiday season we thought it would be great to share highlights from their gorgeous summer wedding.  We know there were lots of engagements over the holiday & some more coming in the [...]

Photography by~Swensen Photography On July 16th, 2011 Ami and her fiance Greg were the winners of the Dream Wedding Give Away at the Summer Bridal Extravaganza at LaCaille.  Their wedding was held October 7th at the beautiful La Caille. As you can see by the images this wedding was incredible.  Beautiful design & implementation by [...]

Written by~Ami Miyatake (2011 $100k Dream Wedding Winner) Meeting with Brynn Nygren from Shutterbooth was so much fun! I have always thought that a photo booth at a wedding was a cool idea. It’s a great activity for your guests and a priceless memento for the bride and groom. Along with our photobooth we also received a guest book. I thought to myself, “What a treat!” The [...]

Photography by~Swensen Photography Written by~Ami Miyatake (2011 $100k Dream Wedding Winner) I have had the pleasure of working with Flavia, owner of Versa Artistry.  She is doing my hair for the wedding. How you look on your wedding day is a crucial aspect of the wedding.  It needs to be perfect! Who do you trust for this job? I trust Versa Artistry. Flavia has immense knowledge and background in working with hair. [...]

Photography by~Swensen Photography Written by~Ami Miyatake (2011 $100k Dream Wedding Winner) Usually wedding favors consist of some type of candy that you must prepare for yourself, very time consuming, if you ask me! Suzie Williams has a fantastic business of doing candy tables as a wedding favor, its called Smile Now Photobooth & Candy Buffets. Her staff serves the candy to your guests, that way you don’t have to worry about things breaking, or people [...]

Sugar Kisses Cakes by Design -Turia Larsen will be designing our wedding cake. What a treat! I found a picture of a cake online that I absolutely fell in love with.  I just had to have it!  I showed it to Turia in hopes she could design this beautiful cake. In an instant she said of course. That’s a piece of cake! She [...]

By Ami Miyatake ~ Winner of the Summer Dream Wedding Give Away All Photos By Swensen Photography The fad these days is for the bride to have two dresses, a formal for the wedding ceremony and a party dress for the wedding reception. Fantasy Bridal is where I found my reception dress. Upon meeting my personal consultant I was asked to fill out [...]

Photography by~Swensen Photography Written by~Ami Miyatake (2011 $100k Dream Wedding Giveaway Winner) We had our engagement shoot with Swensen photography. We chose to take them downtown at the exchange place. We were privileged to have Clark as our photographer. It was so fun! Clark made us feel so comfortable, it was  like we already knew [...]

Photo’s Courtesy of~My Utah Invitations Written by~Ami Miyatake (The $100k Dream Wedding Winner) We met with Tania she is from My Utah Invitations.com, she will be doing our invitations. We went over to Michelle Cousins house, she is our wedding planner, through Utah Events By Design. We sat down and designed our wedding invitations from [...]