Now a Bit About Me
I began my career in events during my junior year at Boston College. The year prior I had decided that I no longer wanted to pursue a business degree and instead, wanted to become a wedding planner. In 2005 that was still a relatively novel idea, and as a result, there weren't many wedding related internships available, so I took a position at a small firm putting together huge charity events for Boston based celebs like Paul Pierce and Dennis Leary.
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Fast forward a few years, I had JUST graduated from college and was on vacation with my family, including my parents who were anxious to know when I was planning on getting a job. During that trip my mother saw a show that featured Ed Libby, referenced as an event planner from New York City, “That’s what you want to do right? Maybe you should reach out to them” she suggested, as only a mother who has just paid four years of out of state tuition to a private university and now has an unemployed child, could suggest. I agreed to reach out when we got home, if she agreed not to bring it up for the rest of the trip. Our trip ended, I reached out, and two months later I learned the difference between an event planner and an event designer, and began working as an office manager at Ed Libby & Co. More than twelve years and countless events later, as a senior event producer, I’ve had, and continue to have, the privilege of learning the ins and outs of the wedding industry from the best of the best in the business, not only in New York City, but across the globe.
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As a new mom, and not too far from newlywed status myself, the idea of working EVERY weekend was no longer appealing, but neither was abandoning the wealth of knowledge, relationships, or name that I had built for myself throughout my career. So now what? I asked myself. When a friend shared her experience after a 30-minute call with a sleep consultant, I checked out the website, saw the way that they offered their services to parents who didn’t know where to begin when it came to their babies' sleep, and I thought to myself, this could work for weddings. I could use this format to help the person that just got engaged, that’s thinking to themselves “now what?” and so, here we are.
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P.S.: If you're reading this and wondering what this means for my events with Ed Libby & Co, not to worry, they're still very much happening with my normal involvement, I’m just taking advantage of the bizarre period that is the year 2020, and seeing where Now What Weddings might take me.
