You’ve got to learn how to be the best in the business!

Recently we all were charmed by America’s best winter athletes at the Olympics.  But we all know they didn’t get where they are by showing up one day and expecting to just “know” how to be successful at their sports.

It’s the same with success in business – especially one as people-centric as events and hospitality.  You have to learn -sometimes in more painful ways than others- how to meet and connect with pwople who will help you along your way.

If there was a shortcut you could take towards that goal of being able to connect with people beyond just shaking hands and exchanging business cards, you’d take it, wouldn’t you? In that case, show up Wednesday night at the Wedding Warriors March Mixer to learn from the best about making networking your friend, not something you roll your eyes at.

We’ll be joined by Melissa G. Wilson, author of “Networking Is Dead” and she’ll blow the roof off all you thought you knew.

Plus our signature socializing, fun giveaways and Pastry Swan’s to-die for cupcakes (worth the trip all on their own!)

See you there!

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Gorgeous wedding bouquet photos

The talented Dre Naylor shot these at Yesterday’s Wedding Show at the Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs. Lovely shots. (the bouquets are pretty stunning too).DreNaylor1

wedding bouquets at a show at the Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs
wedding bouquets at a show at the Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs

 

When wedding planning, assume nothing.

Planning your wedding? Or any special event? Good rule of thumb: Assume Nothing.

Really! Nothing. Always specify (in writing if possible) what you’ve planned for, asked for, paid for, hoped for and wished for.

Especially when it comes to hopes and wishes, please please please don’t expect partners, fiancées and vendors to read your minds. Much to my disappointment (what I wouldn’t give to see inside the minds of the Mother In Laws..) people do not acquire psychic powers during the wedding planning process. Here are some examples of assuming gone awry:

Don’t say to an honor attendant going to your wedding rehearsal: “I’ll see you there” and assume you actually will. In her mind (she’s the rowdy one) you’ll see her there…perhaps after the wedding, hung over from a night out clubbing.

Don’t say to your caterer: “I love beef, so just be creative”  and assume you’ll get a lovely beef entreé, just like you imagined. Your caterer really is creative, and has always harbored a wedding planning fantasy: a reproduction of the Venus De Milo made out of steak tartare.

Have a particular image in mind for your wedding? Let your vendors know.
Have a particular image in mind for your wedding? Let your vendors know.

Don’t say to your brother, “Yes! Make a toast! Funny childhood stories and such” and then be surprised when he tells the guests about you stuffing your bra, or pretending to be ringmaster of the circus. At nineteen.

So you catch my drift. Assume nothing! Make it all very clear, and then enjoy the result of your very-well-communicated labors: just the wedding you wanted.

Be well and love well.

Dinah

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