Just Sit Back and Enjoy the Ride

Once upon a time, I left my career path of some 12 years as a manager of a coffee shop.  I loved my work but I woke up one day needing something more.  Unaware of where exactly I was supposed to go at that point, I took a year off work and focused on planning my wedding and trying to figure out where my new path would take me.

My new path started, in fact, while planning my own wedding.  I was a VERY DIY-minded bride.  I have been raised by an extremely crafty and talented mother and my creativity level is kinda chart topping (not to brag or anything), so it was only natural that I would take on all of the décor choices and special touches for my wedding.  Even doing so, I knew the day of the wedding I wanted to sit back, relax (as much as possible), and have the most fun one person could have.  I accomplished all those things.  How you may ask?  Yes, I am meticulously detail-oriented and fabulously on top of most things handed to me.  But the real reason I could achieve my laid-back wedding day was by hiring a day-of wedding coordinator.  I think of all of the money I spent, having a day-of coordinator was by far the most worthy of every cent spent.  I got to relax at home before my wedding hanging out with my bridesmaids and family.  At the wedding, sure things went wrong, but I barely knew about any of them because I had someone to step in and lessen the magnitude of any potential issues. 

Now fast-forward to a few days after my wedding...the day-of wedding coordinator that I used for my wedding wrote me and said that they were impressed with my organization and details and wanted to see if I was interested in doing an internship with them.  Being someone who was living in a moment of the power of saying yes, I did just that.  Shortly after saying yes, I got to work my first wedding as an intern.  I learned immediately in working on that fabulous outdoor wedding that being a coordinator was definitely hard work.  I also learned that I LOVED it.  The next day I woke ups with blisters and a sore body, but I also woke up thinking of the dreaminess I had taken a part of the day before.  I remembered loving solving problems that could have been stressful for the couple but weren't...like the messed up frosting on their cake, the dance floor that was literally falling apart, the hundred chairs that needed to be moved around a house that had hills and valleys, and so much more.  Above all, I remembered the beautiful bride walking with me nervously down the stairs and to where her ceremony was about to begin.  I remember the father-of-the-bride giving a toast that made me tear.  And I remembered seeing a groom and bride look into one another's eyes with love radiating intensely from them.  I was forever impacted.

During that wedding season I worked on other weddings as an intern.  I saw the extravagant beauty of an Arabic wedding, the quaint feel of an outdoor home wedding, the calm in a small wedding at a traditional venue, as well as an exquisite night on a Michigan harbor.  I learned that weddings brought a level of excitement and passion to my life.  I learned that aiding in making someone's event perfect was something that brought me pride. 

This past month, I decided that I wanted and needed to push myself even further and I left my internship to embark upon a business venture of my own.  Posh Event Coordinator was then born.  I take great pride in knowing that soon my business will be providing services that will allow people to have their dream events worry-free.  In addition, I am looking forward to seeing the happiness and love in my clients eyes as they dance to their first dance at their wedding, watch their little girl blow out her candles, or prepare for their baby to enter the world. 

I am proof that sometimes the best things in life come from moments when you just sit back and enjoy the ride...when you quit trying so hard and just start embracing what is inside of you.  I am looking forward to sharing this journey with all of you.