As many of you know, I am an ambassador for the custom website company, Livebooks. Livebooks designs sites for more than just photographers because they are the perfect solution for many professionals needing an elegant, custom website with a very simple back-end that allows them to change their portfolios on the fly. In fact, Livebooks provided the website for the Luxury Wedding Summit, Engage!10.
When Livebooks invited me to attend Engage!10 on their behalf this past week, I jumped at the chance. Not only was it taking place in the gorgeous Cayman Islands, but among those speaking and in attendance were wedding industry greats such as Colin Cowie, Darcy Miller, Millie Bratten, Carley Roney, Sylvia Weinstock, Randy Fenoli, Marcy Blum, Cindy Novotny, Sean Low, Todd-Avery Lenahan, Simon T. Bailey, Michelle Rago, Todd Fiscus, Christy Weber, Blair deLaubenfels, Marilyn Oliveira, Susan Moynihan, Angela Desveaux, Tatiana Byron, Jennifer Stein, Jill Meister, Two Bright Lights and Jo-Anne Brown. It was incredible to be able to not only learn from such industry superstars, but to genuinely form friendships with many of them.
A few of my most memorable moments:
Being inspired by Cindy Novotny, Carley Roney & Darcy Miller’s presentations
Swimming with the stingrays with Randy Fenoli
A downpour in the middle of the first night’s beach party
Dinner hosted by Colin Cowie
Hanging out in Marcy Blum’s room with a small group of people late into the night, talking about the future
Sylvia Weinstock snacking on Blackbeard rum cake with us at the airport
Wanting to focus on networking, I did not bring my camera with me to the conference. I did shoot a lot with my iPhone and was constantly updating my Facebook page.
Here are my iPhone shots of the beautiful locations, amazing details, crazy generous goodie bag, inspiring speakers, new friends & the stingray adventure!!
Beautiful photography I want to go there!
Jules… Great meeting you last week! I love all your iphone pics ; ) Come see us in Chicago soon.