Bridal Show!!

Oh my. Oh MY. OH MY!! I’m really looking forward to getting my feet wet and participating in our first Bridal Show!! It’s this Saturday at the Civic in The Dalles. The event is from 10-3:00 with a fashion show at 1:00.

I’m reading up on ways to make your booth reflect your business, what brides are looking for, what kind of give-a-ways to have, etc. etc. It makes my head spin just a little bit! Ok. It makes my head spin a lot!

My biggest challenge is decorating the booth! “What??” you say, “How can this be? You decorated the hotel!!”

Cat’s out of the bag now!! In actuality, I had a vision and then connected with the talent to make the vision come to life!! I can describe in words what I like but to actually put together the pieces to form that vision . . . . well, that stresses me out! I can plan a wedding or event just perfectly and love doing it! To me, that is not a challenge. Arranging flowers, that’s a challenge that should be left to the professionals! Looking for great photograph shots = professionals! Decorations = professionals.

I like to think I am good at seeing talent in other people and then connecting with them. We’ve been blessed to have people in our lives with plenty of talent and a desire to help us move forward with our vision. It’s like a symphony. All the players have valuable talents. They are like our photographers, florists, invitation designers, planners, etc. The conductor, now THAT’S who I relate to. Take all that fabulous talent and bring it together in a wonderful performance. That’s my kind of thinking!

Where is my first cellist or my second flautist? Where is my booth decorator? Fortunately I have great colleagues who are giving me all sorts of ideas for the booth. It amazes me the ideas they spout out. It’s remarkable to me and seems so easy for them!! Lucy, who owns Lucy’s Informal Flowers just tossed out three ideas. JUST LIKE THAT. I was stunned and loved every one of them! My, that’s talent.

Anyone want to decorate our booth??