Reston Limousine is excited to be a sponsor in Northern Virginia Magazine’s Dream Wedding Giveaway, worth more than $75,000!

Other sponsors of the Dream Wedding Giveaway include R&R Catering, Lavender Green floral designer, Hunt Country Jewelers, Harbour View reception/ceremony venue, River Creek Club rehearsal dinner venue, Black Tie Weddings videography, Modern Wed photography, Maude hair salon, The Dandelion Patch stationers, Cupcakes Actually, and others.

Couples who are engaged to be married are eligible, and they must have their wedding for up to 200 guests in Woodbridge on Oct. 13, 2012.

Others terms include:

After registering for the Dream Wedding, contestants will be given the opportunity to provide a short statement explaining why they think they should win the Dream Wedding. Contestants will be selected from this pool of entries to move on to the video rounds. The winners for all rounds will be selected based on creativity.

The contest winner will be notified on or about March 14, 2012 using the contact information provided on the winner’s entry form.

The Dream Wedding Giveaway entry period ends Feb. 6, 2012.

The full rules and regulations can be found at http://www.northernvirginiamag.com/dream-wedding-giveaway-rules-and-restrictions/.

A limited number of participants will be allowed to enter the contest, so enter now online at http://www.northernvirginiamag.com/dream-wedding/.

Reston Limousine is partnering with Engaged! Magazine on an exciting bridal event in February that will take place at 5 — that’s right, count ‘em, 5 — of the District’s premier wedding venues!

From 5-10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5, Reston Limousine will be shuttling couples among the venues:  The Four Seasons Hotel, The Hay-Adams, The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis Hotel, and The Willard Intercontinental Hotel.

Each venue will be showcasing the works of wedding vendors, from fabulous room designs by wedding planners and florists, on-the-spot portraits by photographers, music by DJs and bands, bridal fashions modeling the latest trends, and hair and makeup by on-site stylists (first come, first served).

Couples can sample food and drink champagne without worrying about parking or transportation — Reston Limousine will be offering shuttles to each site every 30 minutes.

As if that weren’t enough to entice you, they’re also offering FIVE honeymoon giveaways with the promise of more yet to come:
The St. Regis Bora Bora
The St. Regis Princeville Hawaii
The Intercontinental Paris France (2 giveaways!)
The Ritz-Carlton Powerscourt Ireland

For more details on this event, visit EngagedMagazine.com, where you can view a video about it as well!

On their wedding day, the bride and groom joined their wedding party for a relaxing ride around Washington, DC, in a luxury limo bus, courtesy of Reston Limousine. They visited landmark locations for great photo ops.

Of the thousands of entrants in the nationwide contest, hometown couple Van Ngo and Eric Oberly of Alexandria won the $100,000 wedding of their dreams, which took place at the Ronald Reagan Building on Sept. 27. As the featured transportation vendor, Reston Limousine provided deluxe limousine service for the lucky couple and their entourage.

According to Us Weekly,

Pen pals during Oberly’s yearlong tour in Iraq, the couple are “every day people who share a very real love,” says Ngo, 28. The Army National Guardsman, 28, proposed while on leave. Her response? “Are you joking?” quips Ngo, a government worker. “But I said yes!”

Congratulations to Van and Eric, and may you have a long and happy marriage!

To view a slideshow of the Van and Eric’s Dream Wedding, visit WeddingChannel.com.

On your Web site, www.eventaccomplished.com, your bio mentions that before you became a special events planner, you were a proposal manager and project manager. What’s the background on that?

Vicky: I worked for Bechtel Group Inc, an international engineering, construction and project management company for 8 years. The last position I held there was a proposal manager, managing all aspects from bid strategy to staff coordination to proposal production, requiring a combination of creativity, attention to detail, customer understanding, business savvy, and ability to work under extremely stressful conditions. Prior to that, I held different positions in project management, managing project schedules and costs on domestic and international engineering and construction projects. While in the commercial division, I worked on power plant projects in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. In the government division, I worked on projects for different government agencies. Crazy, right? That seemed like a completely different life!

What made you decide to transition from the corporate project management to your own special events planning business?

Vicky: While I enjoyed my time in the corporate world and would absolutely do it the same way all over again, I was pretty burnt out and ready for a break. And although I found my work rewarding, I felt that they were a bit esoteric and abstract, and often times took years to complete. I was looking for something different where I could work really closely with my clients, make an impact in their lives, and feel relatively quickly the sense of accomplishment. While attending business school at George Washington University, I stumbled upon event management and the rest is history. It was a happy accident.

What’s your best wedding story that you can share with the general public?

Vicky: To pick a best wedding story would be tough! Every wedding comes with such unique back story about the couple and their families. Come to my blog and read about them instead!

Your blog, http://eventaccomplished.wordpress.com, does a great job of promoting local vendors in the metro DC area. What do you do to keep abreast of national trends and how do you find local sources for those trends?

Vicky: Thank you! To keep abreast of national trends, I read a variety of trade publications and attend conferences. I keep in touch with local vendors to see what new services or products they have to offer. I often discover new vendors at various industry events.

Your blog also mentions that you provide practical advice from “no nonsense, straight-shooting kind of women.” Would you say that also characterizes your approach to wedding and other clients?

Vicky: Absolutely. My clients are busy professionals and really don’t have time to waste. They hire me to help them save time so I don’t really see the point in beating around the bush. While I am open to trying just about anything, I am also first to tell you if I think something is tacky, is not practical, or is logistically not possible.

What advice do you give to your brides when it comes to transportation services?
Vicky: Plan ahead. I often find that couples consider transportation way too late in the planning process. By then, they have no money left in their budget. If providing transportation to your guests is important to you, price out your transportation options as you are putting your budget together. This goes for valet parking also. It’s not fun to decide last minute that you want to transport all 150 guests from Point A to Point B, on three 55-passenger buses. See what that will do to your budget at the 11th hour!

If you do provide transportation, consider the routing. For example, Old Town Alexandria’s narrow streets are extremely difficult to navigate by anything larger than a limo. Trust me. I’ve seen a stretch Hummer trying to make a left turn onto King Street. It wasn’t pretty and it took a very, very long time. Your sales reps should be able to help you with these issues. Finally, do not underestimate travel time. Allot more time than less time for traveling between places. Especially in the DC area, you just never know what traffic would be especially during tourist season!

On your blog, you called Reston Limousine your “go-to transportation company,” and we appreciate the support! What have we done to earn the honor?
Vicky: Reliable. Your drivers are courteous and friendly, always arriving ahead of schedule, and take good care of my clients. Dan Oh, my sales rep, is very helpful and responsive and I’ve been working with him for years. I can always count on him to help me solve a transportation dilemma.

Just to give you an example, we had anticipated a guest who would be using a wheelchair [recently] and had reserved a handicapped accessible bus. The hotel where the guests were staying was located on a one-way street in DC with its entrance on the left side of the street. Our bus driver called me prior to arriving at the hotel, as your drivers always do, to say that he was almost there but that it would be unsafe for the wheelchair-bound guest to get on the bus since the bus door was on the right hand side and the guest would be exposed to oncoming traffic. I didn’t even think of that! Unfortunately, the guest decided not to attend the wedding. But I’m sure that if she did, your driver would have suggested a safer solution for us.