UPDATE: The giveaway is over, and a winner has been picked! Thank you so much to everyone who entered!
I’ve thanked them multiple times, but I must thank Curious and Company for all of their hard work on my new branding and website. As the website crept closer and closer to going live, I began thinking about a promotion or giveaway that I could do to help promote the launch. I reached out to some local Chicago wedding vendors and was thrilled that so many of them were willing to help out! After a little brainstorming, I’m thrilled to announce my website launch giveaway!
Swag:
One lucky winner will receive all of the following:
- Engagement session or a couples session with Chicago wedding photographer Steve Koo, along with a DVD of usable, edited high-res images and personal reprint rights
- A 1-on-1, 2-hour makeup bag makeover session with Chicago’s premier makeup artist, Sonia Roselli
- 20% off credit for any Sonia Roselli products purchased on the day of the 1-on-1 session
- 2 hour planning consultation with wedding planner Charlene Liang of Sweetchic Events. At this consultation valued at $300, discuss color schemes, decor, vendor recommendations, etiquette, logistics and all things wedding-related.
- $150 gift card for jewelry designed by the fabulous Erin Gallagher
- 100 custom designed thank-you cards from Kelly at Keg Design
- Something for the guy: Two $50 gift certificates towards services at Halo for Men: Chicago’s Premier Salon for Men and a Halo for Men t-shirt
All together, it’s more than $1500 worth of products and services! There will be one lucky winner; you don’t have to live in the Chicago area and you don’t have to be engaged to enter, but it would sure make some of the prizes easier to use!
How to Enter:
There’s 3 ways to enter, and every person is allowed to each of these 3 ways, giving yourself up to 3 entries!
1) Comment on this blog with a valid email address. IP addresses will be monitored to ensure that no one creates a ton of fake email-addresses to enter multiple times. Don’t try to sell me viagra in your comment or it’ll probably get screened as spam.
2) Follow me on twitter @stevekoo1 and tweet this exact phrase, including the link at the end:
I just entered the @stevekoo1 Steve Koo Photography Giveaway to win $1500 of products & services! http://bit.ly/mnXVEs
If you’re already following me, no need to un-follow and re-follow. If your tweets are protected, I won’t be able to see them and count your entry.
3) “Like” Steve Koo Photography on Facebook here and post this exact comment on your own personal wall, including the link at the end:
I just entered the Steve Koo Photography Giveaway to win $1500 of products & services! https://stevekoophotography.com/everything-else/website-launch-giveaway
In the wall post, you must tag “Steve Koo Photography”. so that your wall post also appears on the Steve Koo Photography wall. UPDATE: So for whatever reason, tagging Steve Koo Photography on your personal wall posts isn’t showing up on the Steve Koo Photography wall. Until I can figure out the problem, in addition to posting on your own personal wall, please post the same text directly on Steve Koo Photography wall to make sure I can see your entry. I apologize for the inconvenience, and I’m working on fixing it!
That’s it! The giveaway ends at midnight central time on Friday, June 17, 2011. A winner will be randomly chosen and notified via email, twitter, or FB, depending on how the winning entry was submitted.
More rules after the break; in the meantime, start commenting, tweeting, and Facebooking!
Other Rules:
Prizes are non-transferrable unless you receive explicit written consent from the service/product provider that you may transfer a service. You may not use any of these giveaway prizes towards already-contracted services or products. (For example, if you’ve already booked Steve Koo Photography for your wedding and have an engagement session scheduled, you may not use the prize in order to receive a refund for contracted services. You will instead receive an additional session that you can use may use before or after the wedding!) All prizes, except for the gift certificates at Halo and Erin Gallagher, must be redeemed by the end of the 2011 calendar year unless you receive explicit written consent from the vendor that the deadline may be extended. Every person is allowed up to three votes according to the methods described above. Anyone who violates any of the rules will be disqualified at the discretion of Steve Koo Photography, who is administering the giveaway. The giveaway is open to anyone over the age of 18. You don’t have to live in Chicago to enter, but if you win and you don’t live here, it gives you a reason to take a trip to the windy city! :) All services will be rendered in Chicago unless otherwise specified. You don’t have to be engaged to enter – you can be married or single, too! Winner will be selected by random number generator and notified. If Steve Koo Photography does not receive a response from the winner within 72 hours, another winner will be selected randomly.
I love the new website, Steve! Adam and I are looking forward to working with you!
Great new website – love the green!
I want to win!
Great photography, great blog, great giveaway!
Nice website indeed!
Love the new website! I hope I win!
Love the website! Fingers Crossed that I win! :)
I am already married, but bring on the free stuff!
I would enter this just for the free session!
Oh goodie! What an awesome, amazing giveaway! Pick me! Pick me!
Great website and awesome giveaway!
Happy New Website, Steve!
We’re in St. Louis, but we would come to Chicago for this!
Well, I’d clearly deem this a good excuse to take a trip to Chicago! Duh.
What an amazing giveaway!
Great website! We can’t wait for you to shoot our wedding.
Oh I wish we weren’t already married! I’m still entering! :)
Love this giveaway!
Congrats on the new site! Looks great!
Great website!
I want to win!
Congrats on the new site & branding!
Love the website!
The website is great!
Everything looks great! Beautiful!
What a fantastic giveaway! Fingers crossed that we win!
I hope I win!
Website looks great!
congrats on the new site Steve! Thanks for the love! xo
What an amazing giveaway!
Congrats on the new branding! It looks great.
Congratulations, the website looks fantastic!
Steve,
I like the website really much! It looks really professional and clean. Looking forward to meeting you during engagement session.
Love the web site?
Your work is so great steve! I love the new website!
Like the website, love your work!! Can’t wait to work with you!!!
Fingers crossed that I win!
Such beautiful work and such beautiful website!
Excited about the giveaway!
I’m so excited about the giveaway! I hope I win – your work is gorgeous!
Great new website! And very excited about the giveaway! :)
Congrats on the new site…your work looks fantastic!
Glad to come across your site. Always love reasons to sneak away to Chicago, thanks for the giveaway!
Good luck with your business! Looks like you’re up to a great start!
Ooh! I am up in Madison but would come down to Chicago for these lovely prizes!
You are so talented! Love your photography – love the new website! Congrats!
I love your photography – I’d enter for that alone!
Yay, I’m not far from Chicago at all! Great giveaway!
Pick me for free! I loved looking through the website!
Great site!
You take beautiful photos! I heard about you from one of your past clients (Kristy) and her wedding pictures are gorgeous!
Oh WOW. Love your photography! My mom’s family is from Chicago, so I’m down there a lot. I would definitely love to win this contest – it would help me out sooo much with my wedding plans!
I hope I win – your work is beautiful!
This is such a great giveaway!! Thanks!!
I’ve heard great reviews about you! I’d love to win! Good luck with your new site!
Yes please.
Your work is beautiful! Congratulations on the new website, too!
Pick me! Pick me! I’ve been looking through your weddings all morning – so beautiful and fun!
Not sure if you wanted separate comments to let you know, but FB and Twitter links are complete!
This is such an amazing giveaway and it would give us a chance to visit Chi-town!
I tweeted! Here: http://twitter.com/#!/nella22/statuses/78906298493702144
I just Liked you on FB and Shared the message! :)
What a great giveaway! Great photos too!
great new site! the green is so happy! what an amazing giveaway!
Your website is awesome! I’d love to be entered to win, we’re getting married in November, so this would be an awesome prize for us! Thanks!
Looks so good, congrats.
Congratulations on the new website. I love your photos!
Pick me please!
It would be rocking’ to win!
and by rocking’ i obvs meant ROCKIN’!
It would be great to win something!
Nice to meet you Steve! Looking forward to the pics! And love the new website!
Great giveaway! Your work is beautiful!
You are an amazing photographer. I LOVE the website!
We’re already married, but this sounds like a package that my husband and I would love! From the photography session to salons & jewelry, it really is a fantastic giveaway!
Love the new site – Curious & Company did a great job!
Love the new site!
Love your work! *fingers crossed*
wohoo! :)
Love the new site Steve!!! So happy you’re our photographer!!!! :)
Your work is so pretty! I hope I win!
Hooray for the windy city :) Your work is great!
This is awesome! Pick me, pick me!! I just got engaged on Friday :) Would love to kick start my wedding planning with this sweet giveaway!!
Born in the city, proud to be getting married in the city in September! Getting married on a budget in Chicago is tough, but a great giveaway of any kind would help a ton :o)
What a great giveaway!!! And I love your new branding, the green really pops!
Great new site! Best wishes!
I love the new website, Steve! Can’t wait to follow the blog as well!
Fantastic giveaway packages! Thank you for putting this together!
please please please! You’re photography rocks!
I love free stuff!! YES!