Networking, Networking and a Wedding

May 4, 2008

This past Saturday was spent coordinating the wedding of a fabulous couple. Their wedding and reception was at the Rainier Chapter House (otherwise known as the DAR House) on Capital Hill. The groom is a graphic artist and they had many personalized touches incorporating their wedding logo into their pink, black and white wedding theme as you’ll see from the photos below.

Ravishing Radish provided a delicious vegetarian dinner while Judy from Tallant House baked a vegan cake – actually tasty and the frosting was incredibly yummy. Alex with Flowers on 15th provided beautiful pink flowers and even went back to his store to get organic flowers for the cake which was a perfect touch.

In other business news, I was invited by Angela Shen with Savor Seattle Food Tours to a business network (BNI) that she’s a member of. I went on Tuesday for their visitor day and it was a really great experience. Everyone was incredibly nice and supportive plus many people were excited to see an event planner possibly join the group. On Friday, I did a one-on-one session with Brian who is part of the Membership Committee for the group to see if I’d be a good fit for their chapter. I will continue to visit their meeting and hope that it will become a great resource for me to grow my business as well as learn to be a better networker.

I also had the pleasure of sitting down with Niki the owner of Blue Danube Productions and will hopefully get to shadow her for a day in May. Her company does audio and visual displays for events and from what I’ve seen and heard she is certainly one of the best in the business and I am excited to learn from her.