Love & Sunshine Destination Wedding Conference. Speaker Spotlight

The Love & Sunshine Destination Wedding conference shines the spotlight on their esteemed speakers. Rick DiCecca; Richard & Julia Markel; 

Rick DiCecca

Rick trained in Commercial Art and Technical Illustration. After graduation, his passion for drawing, painting and sculpture and his natural appreciation for beauty led him to his career as a professional makeup artist.

Rick’s first assignments were in advertising, doing makeup in print and television campaigns for top beauty companies. Rick soon began conducting his own beauty clinics in luxury salons around the country and launched several makeup lines for Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s. Rick continues to collaborate with leading photographers and luxury beauty brands around the world, including his personal appearances that are extraordinarily successful with both clients and the media and as a master teacher helping to educate and train makeup artists in the US and internationally.

Rick holds a Guinness world record with Estee Lauder. Most lipstick applied (303) in 1 hour.

  

Rick has been featured in national and global magazines including Elle (Canada), Glamour (US), Harper’s Bazaar (Malaysia), InStyle (US) and Harper’s Bazaar (US), as well as on national television shows such as The Today Show, The Martha Stewart Show and iVillage Live.

A master of what he calls “real beauty,” Rick is steadfast in his belief that every woman can be beautiful. He’s worked with world-renowned actresses and supermodels-including Joan Smalls, Teresa Palmer, Heidi Klum, Maria Menounos, Cindy Crawford, Iman, Hilary Rhoda, and Liu Wen among others. Rick relishes the most enjoyment from working with “real” women – with real lives, kids and time constraints – making makeup work for them on their own terms, giving them the tools and know-how they need to look beautiful every single day. He’s most proud of his work helping those women battling cancer feel like supermodels in their own right.

Richard & Julia Markel are the founders of the Association for Wedding Professionals Internationals. (AFWPI) The oldest international association that caters to all categories of the wedding industry).  They are also the owners of MarNel Productions, and have produced Bridal Expo – which is service-marked in California.

Being an avid networker, Richard brought bridal show producers from around the country together in 1996 and founded Bridal Show Producers International.  He is a nationally recognized authority on the wedding industry. He was a guest on two of CNBC-TV's business shows,  was interviewed by the New York Times about wedding sites on the internet, interviewed by Time Magazine about the wedding business and assisted People Magazine with their Wedding Special Edition.  

Richard was one of the first to notice the hot wedding date 07/07/07 and bring it to the media's attention. He is currently assisting Cosmopolitan Magazine on a wedding-related article. He was guest speaker at Mobile Beat's 1st national DJ conference and has spoken at conferences in Hong Kong & Singapore. Richard has sponsored and assisted in many national trade shows and a few outside the US.

 Julia  has provided services - and consulting - to wedding professionals for the past 25 years.  She has lived in California most of her life, but grew up in Arkansas, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Education.  She received her journalism training at California State University, Sacramento.  She has presented wedding marketing seminars in the U.S. and worldwide for the past 20 years.  She is the author of “More than Just a Pretty Booth: The Complete Guide to Get Bookings from Bridal Shows,” and has written several articles on the same topic

See you at the 

Love & Sunshine Destination Wedding Conference

Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, FL

www.LovenSunshine.com