A Montreal Fairytale in the Making!

LOVE IS IN THE AIR!

For the past 8 months I've been heavily involved with a new not-for-profit organization called Love Share Events. This group consists of event industry professionals who believes in collaboration, promoting one another and paying it forward in our community.

Since March we have been hard at work launching our group. After countless hours of meetings and preparations, our big launch finally took place on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the new venue, Espace Canal over at Restaurant L'Ambroisie. Love Share Events collaborated with the team at L'Ambroisie to launch their new room and our new organization. A buzz has surely been created in town and many events industry professionals were invited to share in this special moment with us as we launched our organization and announced our free Wedding Giveaway.

Here is our Launch Party Photo Album. Photos by Wanda Malfara Photography and James Paul Correia Photography. Enjoy!

The free wedding giveaway Contest has also launched a couple of weeks ago on Saturday, September 21, 2013. Are you a couple who have been engaged and have experienced a life changing event which prevents you from continuing with your plans? Then this Contest is for you! Don't forget we also accept nominations. The members of Love Share Events will be collectively donating the wedding to this couple to make their fairytale dreams come true!

Since the launch of this Contest, we have had a couple of mentions in the media. We invite you to take a look at the West End Times Newspapers' online version of the printed article "Engaged Couple in Distress Will Win Free Wedding" as well as listen to the interview with Dr. Laurie Betito on CJAD800. Mariage Quebec and Hotel 10 have also blogged about us! We are thrilled to have gone such a long way and have overcome so many obstacles to be where we are now. This is only the beginning! Do follow us on our social media networks to stay up to date with all our latest happenings. You will not be disappointed in hearing all about what we have in store for our community and the things we do to pay-it-forward!

If you're a vendor in the event industry who wish to join our team to promote one another and to pay-it-forward in our community, go ahead and send us your member application! We look forward to having you on board with us.

              

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Featured WPIC Alumni of the Month

Thank you for the feature, WPIC!

Written By: Kim Choy, WPIC


Caryn Lim studied fine arts in college and then went into Education at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.  Upon graduation she started her wedding business immediately.  In 2003, she was approached by three different couples for help with their wedding.  She says, “They saw something in me that I didn’t know I had and to this day, I’m forever grateful to them for helping me discover the talents in me!” She had never done a wedding before, but decided to take them on.  Read on to see where those three weddings have taken her to this day!

Caryn found the Wedding Planners Institute of Canada's Course through Google!  Prior to taking the course, she had planned conferences, summer camps, fundraisers, drama productions and church anniversary celebrations.  She has always loved the decorating aspect of events much more than the planning.  She has made her specialty in the industry wedding decorating and handmade invitations however, she wanted to take the WPIC Course to educate herself more in the wedding industry.  As for that stationary part of her business, her love for making handmade Christmas cards for friends and family each year slowly turned into a wedding invitation service to go along with the decorating.



Since starting out, Caryn has made her business full time in just two and a half years.  Caryn confesses that she didn’t have any solid plans on how she was going to conduct business.  She just jumped right into creating her company without any business or marketing plans.

“I just went with the flow, but believe me, that’s not a wise thing to do!”

Caryn suggests to new planners getting into the industry to not just jump in with no plans like she did.  It is very important to make goals for yourself, get out and meet new people, volunteer your time and find every opportunity you can to gain experience and make contacts.  She also says to never see fellow wedding planners as competition, everyone should be working together to grown each other’s businesses!

“With time, I am learning how to do business the right way”


Over the years, Caryn has become to love the final moment when everything about the wedding comes together.  All of the photos in her website gallery were all taken by herself, this is when everything in the room is set and ready for the big reveal to the bride and groom.  “Taking those photos is the moment for me!”  Her favourite part is being so appreciated by the couples for her hard work.  Even though it is her responsibility and it is in the contract, every couple is still so surprised to see the reveal!

“Taking those photos is the moment for me!”

Last year, 2010 Caryn’s company came in contact with over 200 couples!!!  Caryn explains that even though each job has its own stress and obstacles, she loves how happy her job makes her feel!  She loves that couples see the value in her work and have her be a part of their wedding.
Caryn can’t recall how she came up with her company name A Timeless Celebration Wedding & Events Inc.  She explains, “A lot of times I come up with ideas and designs in the strangest places and random moment.”  Her business card was designed by herself after she had a dream about the way it should look.  She woke up, fired up Photoshop and went to work!

“Another time, an idea came to me when I had my head down and blow drying my hair in the morning!”

Caryn’s partner, best friend and sister, Gloria is definitely someone she would not be able to live without!  Gloria joined A Timeless Celebration Wedding & Events Inc. last year and has since taken a huge load off of Caryn’s shoulders and become the greatest asset to the company.  Gloria now oversees the Montreal branch since Caryn’s move to Toronto to open another branch!

Caryn says of her sister and partner, “We work very well together, we think alike and we complement each other in our strengths and weaknesses”.  Caryn says they think alike so often that they will often show up in the same colour without coordinating prior… (We do that in the WPIC office too!!!)  Caryn’s parents have even made deliveries and ironed sashes, friends have helped with heavy lifting and the assembly of invitations.  These people have greatly helped Caryn be to where she is today!


Caryn has launched four companies and websites thus far:
-          A Timeless Celebration Weddings & Events Inc., 2005 – Montreal & Toronto – decorations, linen, and centerpieces
-          My Wedding Feathers, 2010 – Online Clients in USA & Canada - dedicated to feathers and feather centerpieces
-          Touch of Love Invitations, 2011 – Online Clients in USA & Canada – invitations and stationary
-          Bellus Oil Portraits, 2007 – Online Clients in USA & Canada – 100% hand painted oil portraits

So why did Caryn create all of these businesses?
She wanted to create a place that clients could come to, to be efficient with their time in planning their wedding.  “It’s less work for brides and grooms to come to us for multiple items and once they work with us on their invitations, they know that they can trust us with their wedding décor and also wedding day coordination!”

Caryn’s dream for 2011 is to continue to create beautiful weddings for all clients.

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Featured on Milni's Blog

Thanks Milni for the feature on your blog! Our first feature of the year!

Said “I do!”

But don’t know what to do?

A Timeless Celebration Weddings & Events Inc. can certainly take it from there!

Read the Feature.

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SOLD OUT!

All 50 of our gift certificates on Shopcorus sold out within 2 days! Thanks everyone for your support. Stay tuned to Q92 starting Monday for our mention!



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Always the bridesmaid: Rules and etiquette of being a bridesmaid

Canada recently has a new magazine called Bride & Groom Canada. They are based in Quebec and we have the honour of being interviewed for an article called Always the bridesmaid... Rules and etiquette of being a bridesmaid. We hope you'll enjoy the article and thank you to Jennifer Cox for this opportunity!

Please click on images to read the article.

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Get Married Sassy Site Award!

Hello readers! I am in Malaysia at the moment and having trouble fighting off my jet lag. So here I am, online and working at 3:08am, Thursday. What great news I received in my in box!

Caryn,

Get Married has been a huge fan of your blog for quite some time now. We enjoy reading your unique and inspirational posts. It is easy to tell that your site is a labor of love.

We are very excited to award you the Get Married Sassy Site Award! Your blog is Smart, Awesome, Savvy, Stylish, uniquely You, exuding SASSY! We congratulate you for an outstanding blog with creative and fun content.

With this award comes outstanding benefits to you and your readers. As a sassy site award recipient you will be placed on a preferred blogger list giving you premier access to Get Married news before anyone else. In addition, having our award on your site will further your site’s sass (no pun intended).

Thank you so much for being a terrific site, and let us know of any other bloggers who you think deserve this award so we can check them out.

Best,

Wendy Corenblum

Communications Manager
Get Married

3980 DeKalb Technology Parkway, Building 700, Suite 700
Atlanta, Georgia 30340


Wow! We are honoured! Thanks so much Get Married!
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Your Picture Inside a Diamond, Forever.

Please visit their new website: http://www.gemory.com/

Gemory LLC is pleased to announce the launch of the Memory Diamond, a diamond embedded with the picture of your lasting memory using nano-photographic technology. The nano-photograph is injected inside the Memory Diamond using Gemory's proprietary DiamondPure process. The nano-photograph is invisible to a naked eye and can be viewed using GemmaView, Gemory's proprietary portable viewing device.

(PRWEB) September 9, 2009 -- Gemory LLC is pleased to announce the launch of the Memory Diamond, a diamond embedded with the picture of your lasting memory using nano-photographic technology.

Following the introduction of its limited edition of "The Michael Jackson Diamond", Gemory is now offering everyone the opportunity to have their own customized diamond.

The Memory Diamond comes in three sizes (0.15, 0.25 and 1.0 carat). The stone is a natural, round, colorless diamond. It is conflict-free and comes with a certificate from Gemological Institute of America (GIA).

The nano-photograph is injected inside the Memory Diamond using Gemory's proprietary DiamondPure process. The nano-photograph is invisible to a naked eye and can be viewed using GemmaView, Gemory's proprietary portable viewing device.

The Memory Diamond is a unique, sentimental gift for all occasions such as anniversary, wedding, birth, and graduation.

The Memory Diamond can be ordered via Gemory's new website with a streamlined 3-step ordering process. A customer can easily upload a photo to see a preview, choose the diamond size and complete the order.

Gemory also offers the Memory Diamond through its network of jewelers.

For more information, visit Gemory website.

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Weddingbells Feature!

We are honoured to be featured in the latest Spring & Summer 2009 issue of Weddingbells! Look for us in the Montreal/Ottawa/Atlantic Edition of the Weddingbells magazine on Page 415!



I just realized our awesome photographer friends are also featured in the same issue on the very next page (416)! Congrats Tim & Ange from Tim Chin Photography + Design!

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