For the class that I am in that required us to make a blog, the prof encouraged us to make this blog about something that we are interested in. I sat in class and asked myself, “Well… what ARE you interested in?” Movies, sure. Music, yeah. Things that everybody likes. But being as that I plan on making my career in event planning, I decided to make the majority of my blogs about just that, planning events. I’m no professional by any means. This will just be my ideas and opinion about current trends and eventually, something more professional will come out of this.
As I mentioned in my first post, I am currently working on planning Texas State’s first bridal show. I was very fortunate to be put in this position, and very lucky to have found the Student Event Planners Association. A girl named Aubri announced in my Media Law class that she had founded a group on campus that would focus on event planning. It was like a lightbulb went off in my head. Prior to that day, I was very wishy washy about what I wanted to do after graduation. So, I went to the first meeting and was very excited and eager to get involved since it was my last year in school. I interviewed for a position on the Texas Wedding Day planning committee, and was selected. At first, the process didn’t seem hard at all. Find vendors, get them to come, and advertise the event. Simple enough.
Yeah right. One of the hardest tasks of the planning wasn’t finding vendors, it was finding vendors that were willing to come. We have met our goal, and even have people asking to attend. We have to turn them away since we are full of course, but it’s a good feeling knowing that there is more interest.
I was put in charge of promotions for the event. Basically, getting the community to attend. We could have all the vendors in the world, but it means nothing if no one shows up. So right now our main focus is advertising. Flyers, newspaper ads, quad days at school. The whole deal.
Now the event is 3 days away and things are starting to pick up. With a whole list of things left to do, I am learning a very valuable lesson about how to stay organized, and that is to write everything down. Everything. If not, things will slip your mind and get lost along the way. We have been planning this event since September and I am so excited to see how it works out.
The rest of my blogs will have my planning advice, ideas etc that i’ve had. For this first blog, I just had to give a little publicity to Texas Wedding Day :]
