Wedding enthusiasts!
The time is drawing near for a once-in-a lifetime event – ‘The Wedding Diva” Linnyette Richardson-Hall, is coming to Trinidad and Tobago to deliver what I’m sure will be 2 fabulous workshop days, sharing her wedding planning expertise with professionals here! The workshop is being hosted by Xceptional Events Limited in collaboration with Accent Events Limited.
Linnyette is the Founder and CEO of Premiere Event Management, a Baltimore-based wedding planning and event management company. The company specializes in creating elegant, fun and personality-oriented events for their clients. She has been in the wedding industry since 1993 and to date, she’s planned hundreds of weddings and events. She’s also one of the featured consultants on the hit reality television series, "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?" which airs weekly on the Style Network.
Despite being based in the USA, Linnyette has journeyed to the Caribbean in the past for work; most recently to the islands of the Grenadines to film an episode for the Style Network's show about destination weddings entitled "Married Away". According to her, “We spent a week filming and producing a marvellous wedding for a couple who lived in the United States, but the bride was born and grew up on the island of St. Vincent, so it was her wish to be married there!”
And as you know, there are six degrees of separation between well…anybody and a “Trini,” so it was no surprise to find out during our chat that while Linnyette doesn’t have any lineage that comes directly from the Caribbean; her brother-in-law as well as several of her good friends and clients are from Trinidad. So, she enthusiastically told me that she has been "indoctrinated a wee bit to the wonderful food and sounds” of our island home!
Of course, Linnyette and I also got to chatting about our favourite 2010 wedding trends and she revealed some of hers –
1. The use of unusual colour palettes
2. A resurgence of using uniquely satisfying "comfort foods" and;
3. The notion of making the wedding celebration "personal," so that it truly reflects the bride and groom!
You can read some of mine here: http://trinidadweddingscom.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html
and you can see that Linnyette and I have trend #1 in common!
Business-wise, though, I asked Linnyette what she thought were some of the ways that local wedding planners could differentiate themselves from other planners. She told me she thinks that “wedding planners should market their wide array of wedding-specific knowledge and superior networking resources/abilities to potential clients. In addition, they should hone in on their abilities to multi-task and manage a highly emotional event with sensitivity and professionalism.”
Well said - I couldn’t agree with her more!
If you don’t want to miss this power course with Linnyette that’s happening on July 6th and 7th and the Hilton Trinidad, please visit this link for more information and to download the registration form:
http://www.trinidadweddings.com/WhatsNew/TWEvents/tabid/91/Default.aspx
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