Daddy Daughter Date Nite

This past Saturday night was WBCL's annual Daddy Daughter Date Night. I actually hadn't worked this event before, but I was looking forward to it so much because it sounded like a magical evening - and I was excited to see it in action!

They asked my mother-in-law, Nita, and me to be photographers for the evening, and we said yes! So here we were going out for our big night on the town. {I had the worst hair crisis I'd had in a while, so I had to ponytail it. Good night, Irene.}

The event was held at the Landmark in Fort Wayne, and the girls at the station had worked so hard to make it a fun atmosphere. Lots of flowers and candy and color!!

 I think we had somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 dads/daughters there...this is just half the room set up!

Cute stage decorations!

I didn't get a chance to take too many pictures throughout the night, because my job was to take posed pictures of dads and their girls, so I spent most of the evening doing that! We had two lines going - Nita ran one line and I did the other, and all the dads and daughters could come get pictures taken together as a free gift for the evening.

Some girls were so young - with little tiaras in their curled up hair and big twirly dresses and their nails all polished with glitter...and some were grown up girls - still all dressed up and out to spend a special evening with their dads. It was such fun to take their pictures. Much glowing and much love passed through that line. I felt a bit like I was on the set of some movie, taking all these pictures and declaring them perfect.

They served dinner and yogurt to all the guests...

...and then Jenny Simmons gave a concert. Jenny used to be the lead singer for Addison Road, and now she's out on her own. Lynne interviewed her on Mid-Morning a while ago and we learned via Twitter, after the interview, that her four year old daughter woke up during the interview, and proceeded to throw up, and we had no idea. Jenny never missed a beat! So Lynne and I gave her the "mother of the year" award before she got up to sing...and she did a great job.

It was so sweet to see dads and daughters up dancing during some of the songs...they were so precious!!

My favorite part was at the very end, when Jenny invited all the girls to go up to the front and they made a huge choir singing This Little Light of Mine to their dads.

The room was full of dads with cell phones and tablets up over their heads, capturing their girls singing. SWEET.

SUCH a great evening. So so glad to be part of it.