New York Wedding Photographer Sofia Negron Photography Blog » Event Industry

The FUEL House, Feastivities, Offshoots and EventFX=awesome

Sofia — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:15:51 +0000

The other day I photographed a corporate event for the FUEL House, Feastivities and Event FX. For anyone that has never been in the FUEL house, you have to go check it out. This space is awesome. Two levels, white walls, marble floors, a faux fireplace and cool architectural elements. FUEL is a gallery and event space. The art always rotates and there are a ton of options to this place. Event FX can do so many great lighting elements to change the space. Gobos, uplighting, color washes; you name it, they can do it.

For this event, Offshoots did the most amazing flowers integrated with wires, planes and lighting. AND of course Feastivities made super yummy food and presented it in such a cool way. Lighted bars, hanging tables and two stewardesses to help you with all your needs.

Here are a few of the ways this team made FUEL look amazing!

cool gobos and green color washes the back room

Upstairs lounge area, the artwork looked great with the design

The fab chandelier and nice cool color wash on the lower level with pinks upstairs, I also love the hanging table

I love how they turn this staircase into a lighted table with funky flowers and treats

Here are lots more, click on the small thumbnails to see the bigger picture.

Having a little fun!

Sofia — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:28:00 +0000

The other night was huge industry wide party at Feastivities. One of my most fabulous caterer friends. They have amazing food and their space is awesome. I’d hire them just so I could go sit in one of their fabulous tasting rooms and watch all my food prepared in the immaculate kitchen.

Anyway, they had an old school photobooth and ryan estes, shea roggio and I jumped in for some pics. Unfortunately, Shea didn’t make it in the images. sorry =(

shooting food…yummy

Sofia — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:03:00 +0000

So a few weeks ago, i took a departure from my usual subject and photographed a bunch of food for a great caterer. If you are ever in Jenkintown, go to Joshua’s Cafe and have lunch and then schedule with the chef, David, for your next wedding or party. All the food is super yummy. A huge thanks to the fabulous gals, Hope and Donna from H&D Design. They did all the styling for this shoot. Just between you and me, give me a person to photograph anyday. Food is way to quiet. =)

FRESH 2008 ISES Philadelphia

Sofia — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:18:00 +0000

In March- yeah I am that far behind in blog posting- I photographed an annual event that ISES Philadelphia has done the past three years. It is a great industry trade show where a lot of the area’s suppliers, caterers, planners, florists, designers and entertainment come together and showcase their wares. They show off new ideas, the latest trends and their great food. It is a lot of fun to see what people come up with.

The fabulous H&D design and Culinary Concepts teamed up in a pod of yellow lemons, butterflies and naked statues. =)

Lighted bars

Starr Events with their yummy tacos, place settings and people clamoring for their guacamole. You have to have it!

The ever so sassy Marie Williamson, Affairs to be Remembered, teamed up with Feastivities and created a gorgeous pink pod.

Campbell Studios did a great modern pod

yummy cake with a flower made all of sugar

Toga Party rocked the house

Fortune anyone?

Harrah’s Chester Casino has a great outdoor space overlooking a track

Philly Photographers at Waterworks Restaurant

Sofia — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:39:00 +0000

Once a month, I lead a wedding photographers group here in Philly. I always learn so much from everyones input. This month, thanks to geoff’s idea, I pulled together a panel of other vendors to come and share with us. We had over 30 photographers show up. We also had some cool vendors sponsor prizes such as Pictage, Triple Scoop Music and Bludomain! Waterworks Restaurant donated some yummy snacks and their fabulous room.

Mark Kingsdorf, Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants
Larry Ott, Open Aire Affairs
Bernice Cornell, Feastivities
Dave Williams, DVideography
Sophia Agorastos, Waterworks Restaurant

We joined together to discuss how to improve the client’s experience and how we can improve the industry in general.

The biggest thing to come out of the meeting was communication. Communicate with your clients and vendors. BTW, it is better to call them your partners. It sounds nicer.

So, brides, make sure you give us a list of your vendors as soon as they are booked. If we can communicate with the caterer, the venue, the planner and know the timeline. We can tweak where necessary and also help manage your expectations. If you want to make cocktail hour and have a list of 60 groups. We can manage those expectations. We can let the caterer know that it may take an extra 15 minutes or we can let you know that we have to get to the venue earlier.

Let us know about the videographer. if we can talk with them before and prep each other then you won’t end up with a videographer in every ceremony photo. Because we’ll discuss with them before hand how it is going to work.

Your wedding professionals are also a wealth of information. They can give you guidance with other vendors. Most of us do at least 40 events a year if not more and we meet lots of people. We know how things work and can really guide you with timing, vendor referrals, lighting suggestions, etc.

Communicate. Tell us what you want, what you envision and then trust us to make it happen. If we know who we are working with then everything will run smoother. Everyone can do their job and our number one priority is you.