A bride visits Snaps in the South photo booth at the iDo Bridal Expo in Bossier City, Febuary 2024. Planning a wedding can be both exciting and overwhelming. The iDo Bridal Expo coming to Shreveport-Bossier plans to provide a one-stop shopping event for all things wedding to make planning fun and easy.
The one-day, three-hour event will be filled with wedding vendors, expert advice, the latest trends, and inspiration to help you plan your big day, plus exclusive deals, door prizes, giveaways, and grand prizes. Here are some reasons you don’t want to miss out: There will be prizes and giveaways. Kristi McDonald, one of the owners of the told The Shreveport-Bossier Advocate, “A lot of people are going to win a lot of stuff,” she said.
Prizes are given out at the iDo Bridal Expo in Bossier City, February 2024. At the Expo, over $10,000 in grand prizes will be given away. There will also be giveaways worth $250 and up, like wedding cakes from bakeries, travel agent packages, and DJ packages.
There are also door prizes valued up to $250, like luggage, pots and pans, and gift certificates. The first 100 brides through the door will be given a swag bag filled with goodies from all the vendors. There is a buy-one, get-one free until Aug.
21 with the code BOGO24. You’ll have the opportunity to access special deals and join in activities like cake tastings, photo booths, and listening to music, all while meeting numerous vendors to help you create your perfect wedding. “There's really, anything, everything that could be related to a wedding,” she said.
“At our last show, we even had realtors and we had banks and all the things you don't think about as a new couple that you're going to need,” McDonald said. The Expo will also have some food trucks as well as non-bridal related artisan-type pop-up vendors. Brooke & Bre Bridal booth at the iDo Bridal Expo in Tyler, Texas.
Who should attend? “It's for the brides, but it's also about having fun and making memories. So we're saying, the brides and your bridesmaids, or the bride and your mom. It's a fun, relaxing day.
We’ve had grooms come too and they're like, ‘Oh my gosh, we can get all this done in one day - let's do it.’ But it's mostly for the girls,” McDonald said. The iDo Bridal Expo will officially launch the on Aug.
25, which is an online directory they have created on their website with the same idea as The Knot or Wedding Wire, except focused on our local small businesses here, she said. “It has brides from here. It has wedding vendors from here.
All of your money, time and effort is very personalized so that we can support the businesses here,” she said. It’s not too late to sign up as a wedding vendor or pop up vendor for the Expo. Vendors can .
Any vendor that participates in iDo Bridal Expo in 2024 can create an iDo Bridal Network profile at no charge. The iDo Bridal Expo will be Sunday, Aug. 25, from 12 to 3 p.
m. at the Bossier City Civic Center, 620 Benton Rd., in Bossier.
Early Access Ticket holders ($30) get admission beginning at noon. General admission ($20) begins at 1 p.m.
or at the door..
