As Mindy Weiss has said to many of us in the wedding industry, we all have the “disease to please”. We are addicted to helping others! Whether it be to guide couples in planning their big day or assisting wedding businesses grow and thrive- many of us love to give! Wedding professionals revolve around making the bride [...]
From early on in our lives, we’ve been taught that’s it is very important to be self-sufficient. So it’s not surprising that as wedding businesses owners we strive to be the boss that has all the answers. If you’re in that position now, you know I’m completely right when I say that being the boss [...]
As a bride, with the amount of blogs and magazines, not to mention sites like Lover.ly, there is more than enough inspiration to make your wedding absolutely stunning! But what do you do when you are caught between wanting the latest trends but also hoping to make your wedding timeless by incorporating traditions so that [...]
In the Be Inspired office, Mumford and Sons can be heard playing pretty much everyday! We all even went to see them in concert when they were playing on their Railroad Revival tour, so needless to say we’re big fans! They are amazing! One of their songs, “Awake My Soul” (if you haven’t heard it, [...]
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a long time. Well, actually I think about it every day- with people I meet, coach, and admire. Some people have been in the wedding and event business for years. They’re experienced, they’re connected, they’ve been published, but yet how come they feel like they aren’t at the [...]
A while ago I came across an advertisement in a magazine that really struck a chord. It talked about how the internet is fantastic but how magazines aren’t losing their clout and impact. I love the internet and all the wedding blogs we have at our finger tips. However, there is no question that I [...]
Seth Godin’s ability to articulate thoughts and feelings makes him one of my frequent reads, and some time ago one of his blog posts really struck a chord. I am reminded we should always associate ourselves with people who bring us up and not pull us down – in the real world AND in the [...]
Sometimes we get hasty and way too flustered when someone in our market is doing something we don’t like. You know what I’m talking about, right? Your colleagues or your competitors start to parade through the blog world and the streets of twitter with their fancy announcements. I know it can be hard, but don’t [...]
Once you have discovered and embraced who you are in the wedding industry and what it is you stand for, then comes the real test: Trusting in it all. Trusting ourselves really causes such conflict it seems. We want to do what we are “supposed to do” or what the best move from an [...]
Happy labor day weekend everyone! I hope everyone is having a relaxing long weekend and having fun with family and friends Sometimes doing nothing is GOOD for you! How backwards does that sound to us? We’re always pushing ourselves to better our business, use every working minute of the day we can, and are often [...]
