Well folks, the time is NOW!!! After a month of photographing awkward/ugly sweater holiday photos, it’s time to announce the winner!!! This contest was so much fun and made me laugh more than ever. I loved showing up to a session and not knowing what was in store!! Some of my favorites were the Home Alone photo with Buzz, his girlfriend and their cat, and of course the Christmas Vacation “Sh*tters Full” …actually, I loved all of them!! Who am I kidding!!!  It was certainly a challenge to come up with awkward poses…and overall just making everyone look pretty silly! But it was all so worth it because I know many people have been laughing with us the entire month!! So who is the judge? Well, judging has taken quite a few twists and turns. But it was all worth it!! As previously announced on my blog, I mentioned that the judge of this competition was located in California…. WELL, I was trying to get Ellen Degeneres to judge the competition! After several emails, confirmation was never received in the time frame needed so I had to move on!! Maybe next year, Ellen?!?! After several email exchanges, News Channel 13 Phil Bayly agreed to judge the competition –but management over at the station felt differently…so that didn’t work out either.  Clearly everything happens for a reason and I couldn’t be more excited to announce that, as of this morning, TREY WINGO, Co-Host of ESPN Sportscenter, agreed to pick the winner of the competition!!!

Here are some FUN FACTS on the competition:
40 is the number of participants/contestants
$1,275.00 was raised for charity (which has been MATCHED by our generous winner below!!!!)
1,215 is the number of votes that came in for the People’s Choice Award
34,535 is the total organic number of people reached through Facebook from this competition
2,305 is the combined total of likes on all the participating images
365 is the number of days until next year’s winner is announced!

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Ok, Now let’s start out with the People’s Choice Award! You voted and here are the results!!! Sweeping out the competition by more than 5%, the People’s Choice Award goes to……… The Holiday Redneck Fishing Trip!!!

THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER
The winner of the competition receives a styled photo shoot with TWP and Styled by Randi, a copy of my new book, and most importantly, they get to choose the charity in which TWP will donate! So, without further ado and thanks to the help of Trey Wingo, I present to you the winning photo of the 2014 Awkward/Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest!!! The team at The Old Daley on Crooked Lake and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!!!

THE CHARITY: THE UNITY HOUSE OF TROY– FOOD PANTRY PROGRAM
I am BEYOND excited to announce that The Old Daley on Crooked Lake has chosen to MATCH the donation of $1275.00 bringing the total donation to $2550.00!!!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for your generosity!!!

THE RUNNER UP
A special shout out and thank you to Chuck Custer of the WGY team for choosing the runner up!!! In Chuck’s words, “A perfect blend of family dysfunction, too much booze, religious conflict, self-absorption and no shortage of ugly sweaters.” Thank you Chuck!!!

FOR THE CONTESTANTS
To download the large digital file of your competing photo (or outtakes!), CLICK HERE! If you have any trouble accessing your file, contact tiffany@tiffanywayne.com

NEXT YEAR
For those that missed out on the competition this year, don’t worry you can compete next year! Happy Holiday’s!!!

XOXO,

Tiffany