Wow, I can’t believe we are already in 2009! Who knew 2008 had wings and could fly as quickly as it did? This year has been incredible. We expanded our retail store. Destination weddings increased this year having us traveling over 7,000 miles for five different weddings. Our staff expanded to include a new office assistant and additional setup crew. Continuing education was a big focus as we attended three different educational conferences, and a few members of our staff received floral design training.
One of our brides was selected as the “Featured Wedding” for the cover of the 20th Anniversary of Southern Bride. That makes four cover weddings for us! We also had ten weddings (count them, TEN) featured in magazines. We are waiting to hear if Grace Ormond is going to pick up one of the destination weddings, so that would make eleven. That is a record for us. We built new relationships with some amazing new wedding talents and rekindled some old. Southern Event Planners started blogging (after months of “should we/shouldn’t we”) and now we are addicted. It’s all we want to do – outside of planning the next wedding.
We have been blessed to have worked with so many great clients this year: an NFL player and his amazingly gorgeous wife, a Cardiologist (a real lifesaver) and his “should be a model” wife and their precious daughter, 12 teachers, 4 attorneys, 3 retail store owners, 2 speech therapists, 6 nurses, 3 marketing professionals, 2 chemical engineers, 2 human resource managers, 1 librarian , 1 hair stylist, and a slew of college students/new grads.
Since we started blogging late this year we wanted to go back and share with you some of the highlights. Hopefully you will find something to inspire you and make it your own.
Enjoy!!!
