Jessica Carrillo of Art & Soul Events is joining us to talk about style, crediting your fellow wedding pros, and how Instagram changed everything for us.
This episode’s drinks: white wine
Topics we covered:
- Pin-up style and how I stumbled onto Jessica’s work
- How Jessica got into wedding planning via beauty school, film school, and real estate management
- Why I love Jessica’s style
- The importance of giving love (and credit!) to the wedding vendor team
- Why you should tag and list the vendors in Instagram
- We revisit officiant erasure
- The importance of acknowledging the individuals who help the couple along the way
- How we decided to share our personal lives and behind the scenes tidbits online
- How Instagram Stories changed the game for Jessica
- Why we value connecting with our couples as people matters so much
- How we keep boundaries between our public lives and our personal lives
- How Jessica adapts her boundaries as a creative entrepreneur
- Why you don’t need to show your “hot mess” to keep it real
- How Jessica landed the job with Miss Rockabilly Ruby because of Instagram and Pin Up Girl Clothing
- We discuss how technology is a great tool and horrible master
- We talk about Jarvis (my phone) and the apps I use to enable single-tasking
- How we can help each other as wedding pros so we can all be acknowledged
- The brilliant way Jessica connects all the vendors by tagging all of the wedding pros the day after the wedding
- How officiants/celebrants can help make a wedding planner’s life easier
- Why it’s so important to be nice and check in with our fellow vendors as well as our couples
- Why limiting the scope of what you do in a contract is so important
- How part of our job is to educate our clients
- How Jessica’s style is a blend of masculine and feminine elements, texture and color
- The way we avoid the “hungry at midnight in the cereal aisle” and “starving at The Cheesecake Factory” experience when we give couples choices
- Why I rail against the idea that the ceremony doesn’t matter
- Why Jessica feels the wedding ceremony is the most special, memorable, and life-changing moment of the wedding day
- How the wedding really does change things
- Why we love our jobs so damn much
- “You know it’s good when you made the officiant cry!”
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