We’re excited to share that we’ve bee awarded the Bride’s Choice Award 2009, from WeddingWire.com. This award recognizes vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds (brides and grooms) through surveys and reviews. The winning vendors have set the bar high for this competition, demonstrating excellent service and expertise in their industry.
I was completely surprised to read that Rangefinder magazine referenced Dias Photo in an article. The article was about wedding photographers using YouTube to show clients their personality. You can read the full article by clicking here. We worked really hard on the video and are very happy with the results. If you haven’t seen it, check it out by clicking here, or on our website www.portraits.diasphoto.com. The cover image was shot by Yervant, one of the best wedding photographers in the world.
9. Speaking Engagement-my first of 
hopefully many more speaking engagements, went off well this past January at Hallmark Institute of Photography. Getting past the fear of public speaking was thrilling.
8. New Website-This August was when we got the new logo and designs for the website, blog, myspace, twitter page, business cards, marketing materials etc.
7. Artist Certification-I’ve always considered myself an artist…. but now so does the city of Boston! : )
6. WPPI-My trip out to Las Vegas for the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Convention was a slam dunk. Goals were met (as well as tons of interesting people), and objectives reached. Hopefully in ‘o9 we can win some print competitions! We can only hope… I’ll keep my fingers crossed : )
5. Our Office Assistant/Editor-this year we decided to go forward with the plan to hire help. It was one of the most beneficial things we did. Getting office/editing help got albums and products to clients faster than ever before. This years weddings have been posted online about 4 days later! It also allowed us to focus our time working on the business and not in the business.
4. 50,000 hits-we just recently received 50,000 website hits since we first started keeping track in Oct. ’07
3. Getting published-we put in a lot of work this year into getting published and it paid off. We were featured in Bride & Groom magazine as well as New England Bride magazine… and on the cover of the Warren Conference Center/Henderson House brochure.
2. The promo video– it came out great and was exactly what we had envisioned
1. Our new child! Aviva’s arrival was one that will be cherished until the end of days.
