Event Planning: My Dream Job

Here’s a picture with mostly the same things I’ll be eating this year from Thanksgiving 2020. Somehow I didn’t take a single of any food on Thanksgiving last year?! Yikes! This year I’ll be having that same TJ’s roast, a hopefully less salty recipe of homemade stuffing (it was rough that year), and a vegan version of this same easy mashed potatoes recipe.

Maybe someday, that’s what I think at every wedding or party I attend. I also subconsciously find myself helping the photographers with shoots, staring at the Wedding Coordinator to watch what they are doing, and paying special attention to every little detail of the decorations. As I’ve gotten older, the weddings I have been able to go to early and help set up at have been the one place I feel in the zone or as they say it, in the “flow state”. I can easily loose track of time and at the end of it I’m exhausted and immensely happy.

I am hoping to slowly dip my toes into this field. I got to throw my sister a bridal shower and help set up at her wedding both about a year ago. It was very enjoyable for me on a familial level since it was my little sister and also very personally rewarding. I also has the privilege of helping set up my brother-in-law‘s wedding last fall and had a couple of people tell me that I had to figure out how to make this as a career happen. My sister in law told both my husband and I that she had never seen me like that before and I that looked totally in my element.

What’s been holding me back is that it’s a difficult field to get into with a family. Or maybe that’s just my excuse for being scared to put myself out there and try my hand at it. Most events and showers are on the weekends, which means my husband would be around to watch the kids for the most part but it would mean we wouldn’t get to spend family time together. I am still in the discovery phase of this, talking to some people who do it and paying more close attention when I am at events and weddings to try to catch more of the aspects of this job that you don’t see at face value.

If you are reading this, and would like to either offer me advice about this career, or would be interested in potentially choosing me as a coordinator, please reach out and let me know!

Below are some pictures of the shower I designed and set up for my sister.