Wedding Planners’ Social Networking Happens Over Cocktails

Sure a lot of good social networking and self promotion happens online.  You’re the CEO of SEO and doing it while sitting at home eating oreos. Great! Right? Well…sometimes a girl’s got to make some friends. Live and in person – not of the facebook variety.

Where does one do this? Meet sympatico types who share your passion for the wedding/event business, and want to share idea, inspiration and business tips, tricks and advice?  Professional associations and groups are a great way to go.

 

 

 

Here in the Coachella Valley, we started a group called Wedding Warriors.  As you can tell from the name, we’re a little more rock-and-roll than your average consortium of bridal professionals. Boiled down, our mission is to educate, to build relationships with other business people, and to give back to the community. In practice, we come together to learn from each other about the business climate in the wide variety of communities that make up our region – and the best ways for small businesses to survive and thrive.  We enjoy each other’s company at some HOT parties (these are not your Mama’s COC meetings)! And last, we raise money at each of our events for a community charity. Funds raised at our April 4 gathering will benefit the music department at Palm Sprinhs High School.

So want to get linked in in real life? RSVP now for the Wedding Warriors April Spring Fling Mixer.

We’ll be celebrating the season at Palm Springs’ most colorful new resort hotel, the Saguaro. Come join in the off-line, real-time actual live, in-person fun!

Hope to see you there, party people!

RSVP

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ProFlowers got with the ProGram

FYI to all who read the blog the other day about ProFlowers, they did, in fact pull their advertising from the Rush Limbaugh show.  And they posted the following comment on our blog, so we wanted to honor their decision by passing it along to all our readers.

PROFLOWERS STATEMENT
At ProFlowers, our mission is to delight our customers with fresh and long lasting flowers, and that is our singular focus each and every day. We do not base our advertising decisions to align with any particular political view or opinion as our employees and customers are as diverse as the USA. Mr. Limbaugh’s recent comments went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company. As such, ProFlowers has suspended advertising on The Rush Limbaugh radio program.

 

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Why ProFlowers Is Embarrassing Me. (Hint: It’s Not The Terrible Arrangement In The Watering Can)

Don’t get me wrong.The pseudo-english-garden-in-a-pink-watering-can is pretty bad. But no, Proflowers.Com is making floral professionals mad by sponsoring Rush Limbaugh’s radio show despite the hideous garbage he’s been spewing. Floral Professionals cannot be lumped into one political group.  We can, however generally be united under the banner of “flowers and floral designers’ job is to make people happy.” We’re a pro-happiness bunch.

Our job as floral designers is to enhance life. To make it more beautiful, more meaningful and more fragrant. Not to spread ugliness and negativity. Come on ProFlowers, get with the ProGram.  Be pro-flowers, pro-love, pro-happiness.

How could this make you anything but happy?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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