Take a look at the feature article in Women's Post, copied below:
Follow Friday: Event Planning 101
by Sara Mahmood
In between booking venues, caterers and entertainment, these event planners still manage to sneak in a few tweets.
@DeeDeeNewell (DeeDee Newell)
DeeDee Newell is a certified wedding planner, certified staging professional and an associate of Travel Professionals International. She has over 15 years of event planning experience and is the founder of WeDDings Jubliee Planning Services, a company that plans anything and everything to do with weddings – proposals, engagements, showers, weddings and more – around the world. DeeDee has been featured in the Toronto Star, on Breakfast Television, and on msn.com. DeeDee also runs her own blog where she gives out wedding advice (like how to avoid becoming a bridezilla and how to plan an eco-friendly wedding), reviews hotels, and makes wedding trend predictions. She tweets about wedding etiquette and tips for making sure your wedding runs smoothly. She also tweets wedding news, big sales, and lets followers know when a new blog post is up.
@candice_alison (Candice Chan and Alison Slight)
Candice Chan has been working in the fashion industry for 8 years since graduating from Ryerson’s School of Fashion. Over her career, she has been involved in advertising campaigns, retail space design, and event production among other things. She has appeared on Breakfast Television, Entertainment Tonight Canada, and Fashion Television as a style and retail expert. Candice was also co-chair of FGI Night of Stars Gala in 2008, Canada’s most prestigious fashion industry event.
Alison Slight is also a Ryerson School of Fashion alumnus and is a certified event and public relations professional. She is also the former general manager of Platinum, a luxury event agency in Dubai. In the United Arab Emirates, she managed many extravagant events, including a private showcase of Louis Vuitton custom-order pieces and the only Christian Dior show in the Middle East. Alison has organized multi-million dollar events for clients in the fashion, jewellery, private banking, and automobile industries.
Although Alison and Candace met while studying at Ryerson, it wasn’t until 2010 that the two ladies started Candice & Alison Luxury Event Management. Their company manages private affairs, fashion shows, extravagant weddings, and more. Together the two ladies head their company’s Twitter account, posting links to fashion news, coverage on events they planned, and pictures of their favourite clothes and accessories.
@LindsayMogford (Lindsay Mogford)
Once upon a time, Lindsay Mogford attended a disastrous wedding. The bride and groomed planned the wedding themselves and pretty much anything that could’ve gone wrong did – the florist sent the wrong flowers, the caterer was late, and there wasn’t enough bartending staff. Lindsay went on to study professional wedding planning and became a certified wedding planner and consultant through the Wedding Planners Institute of Canada. She has spent the last 10 years honing her wedding planning skills and has worked for Good Gracious! Events in the States, managing small and large weddings and celebrity events all over the world. For the past two years, Lindsay has also been teaching at the Wedding Planners Institute, educating students on the importance of her career and the impact they have on their clients. Her tweets show how much she loves teaching at the Institute: she’s always tweeting about how much fun she’s having. She’ll also post inspirational quotes and information about wedding planners to her Twitter account.
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