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I do!
... want that free diamond -- and I'll fight you for it!
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 30, 2009
Being a bride these days can require a good dose of tenacity and wit. Those attributes were absolutely necessary as a couple dozen brides competed for prizes at a "Bride Wars" event yesterday at Ward Warehouse.
Tanna Dang, owner of the Wedding Cafe, organized the event, stating that she "just wanted the brides to have a good time." More than 200 brides entered, and 29 names were selected to participate in contests ranging from a garter toss and table-top decorating to "name that tune" sessions and a colorful cake-eating contest that had participants shoveling cake into their mouths using two forks at once.
"The event was a spinoff of the hilarious Fox movie ('Bride Wars' with Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson) that came out in January, with brides battling it out for unreal prizes," Dang said. Prizes included gift certificates for cakes, tuxedo rentals, linen, favors and flowers.
Marlene Baldueza won a $1,000 gift certificate for a princess-cut diamond from the Diamond Specialists, which was the perfect fit. Up until then, though, Baldueza was on a losing streak. She tried to guess how many flowers were in a bouquet and failed. And she was unable to catch the winning bunch of flowers during the bouquet toss.
But persistence paid off. When asked to guess the carat size of a diamond ring, Baldueza stated 1.01 -- the true size was 1.03. "I don't know flowers but I sure know diamond sizes."
Jeanine Carino won a $300 gift certificate for a wedding coordinator from A Perfect Day. "I didn't have a planner, so that will really help," she said. To claim her prize, Carino had to participate in a relay race in which she tied a pair of groom's shoes, took a stain out of a shirt using a Clorox pen and looked up the number of the Halekulani Resort.
Not everyone received the perfect item, though. Raquel Clark won a $250 gift certificate from Mystical Sounds but had already booked a deejay. "I gave it to another bride. I didn't want to be greedy and keep it if I wasn't able to use it," she said.
All of the certificates were transferable so the brides could swap if necessary, Dang said. "There was definitely a lot of trading going on."
Being a bride these days can require a good dose of tenacity and wit. Those attributes were absolutely necessary as a couple dozen brides competed for prizes at a "Bride Wars" event yesterday at Ward Warehouse.
Tanna Dang, owner of the Wedding Cafe, organized the event, stating that she "just wanted the brides to have a good time." More than 200 brides entered, and 29 names were selected to participate in contests ranging from a garter toss and table-top decorating to "name that tune" sessions and a colorful cake-eating contest that had participants shoveling cake into their mouths using two forks at once.
"The event was a spinoff of the hilarious Fox movie ('Bride Wars' with Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson) that came out in January, with brides battling it out for unreal prizes," Dang said. Prizes included gift certificates for cakes, tuxedo rentals, linen, favors and flowers.
Marlene Baldueza won a $1,000 gift certificate for a princess-cut diamond from the Diamond Specialists, which was the perfect fit. Up until then, though, Baldueza was on a losing streak. She tried to guess how many flowers were in a bouquet and failed. And she was unable to catch the winning bunch of flowers during the bouquet toss.
But persistence paid off. When asked to guess the carat size of a diamond ring, Baldueza stated 1.01 -- the true size was 1.03. "I don't know flowers but I sure know diamond sizes."
Jeanine Carino won a $300 gift certificate for a wedding coordinator from A Perfect Day. "I didn't have a planner, so that will really help," she said. To claim her prize, Carino had to participate in a relay race in which she tied a pair of groom's shoes, took a stain out of a shirt using a Clorox pen and looked up the number of the Halekulani Resort.
Not everyone received the perfect item, though. Raquel Clark won a $250 gift certificate from Mystical Sounds but had already booked a deejay. "I gave it to another bride. I didn't want to be greedy and keep it if I wasn't able to use it," she said.
All of the certificates were transferable so the brides could swap if necessary, Dang said. "There was definitely a lot of trading going on."
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