Thursday May 6, 2011

Yesterday at my internship it was just Stasia and I in the office, something that has never happened before since I started interning there. My only task while at work yesterday was to stuff wedding invitations for an upcoming wedding this October. Because I have done this before I was able to use my knowledge and I actually ended up finding a mistake that would have been a big problem if I did not point it out. In each wedding invitation there is a RSVP letter that can be sent back to everyone at Exquisite Events. On these RVSP envelops there should be a stamp so that the guest going to the wedding do not have to buy their own stamp. After stuffing about 10 wedding invitations it hit me that there were no stamps on the RSVP envelopes, I was a little cautious to tell Stasia that she had missed the stamps but it was something that needed to be said and she was happy I told her when I did.

Around 3:30 Stasia left the office leaving me by myself at Exquisite Events. This was nice feeling because I could be more relaxed and it also felt nice to know that Stasia trusted me with closing up the office.

Tuesday April 26, 2011

Today at my internship I did a variety of different things. I started off by editing the invitation mailing address and the rehearsal dinner mailing addresses. The client sent us the guest list of everyone they wish to go, I had to change the names from Bill and Jane Geary to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Geary. Next I had to go through and update the prospectus for an upcoming wedding. Lynell had made the edits and I had to go through and change what she wanted, updating the prospectus is very important for exquisite events so that they know the progress they have made and what they still need to do. Next I had to go through the main contact list that is also connected to Stasia's Blackberry and edit the contacts so that their is no overlaps of names or companies, and that all of the information attached to each contact is correct.

Tuesday April 19, 2011

Today during my internship it was just Lynell and I in the office so there were not any distractions or a lot of people coming in and out of the office. I started my day off by updating the prospectus for an upcoming wedding this June. Stasia had gone through the previous prospectus and made some edits and then I went in and changed what she wanted. This is always exciting because by updating the prospectus I am able to see how Stasia and the client are knocking away at making the clients wedding everything they are looking for. Next I went through the vendor contact list and continued to add the emails of all the contacts. Even though this task of going in and adding each email is tedious it is extremely important because it is necessary to have every form of communication ready when trying to get in touch with the vendors.

Tusday April 12, 2011

Tuesday for my internship I worked on putting together photographs that would be featured on the website Stylemepretty.com. On the website when you click on the Exquiste Events Portfolio link, six pictures now come up that I chose from 3 different weddings. Next went through the vender contact list that I had been working on for the past two weeks and made updates from Stasia and Lynells editing. It was definetly a productive day at work and hopefully my next day at work will be too.

Thursday April 7, 2011

Yesterday at my internship I did not work more on the wedding photographs for the website, but I did work on tasks that were equally important and just as fun. I started my day off by creating a hard cover book to be displayed at a venue site in Palm Beach and also as a promotional piece to show to possible clients. The wedding that was displayed in the book was a wedding that took place at the venue site in Palm beach. It was my job to go through all of the pictures of wedding and pick and choose what pictures should be displayed in the book in a way that tells a story. I then had to go back in and design the way the book should look, the boarder for the pictures, the way the pictures should be displayed, and also include the color tint of the pages that the photos would be placed on. I used a great website called mpix.com to do all of this at a low price. Next I had to design post cards using pictures from the Palm Beach wedding, and a wedding that took place at Mount Hope Farm in Bristol. This task was challenging at times to make all the pictures fit together in a collage like way, and even though it was a challenge it was still fun to put together the post card and the book.

Tuesday April 5, 2011

This past Tuesday was an exciting day for me at Exquistie Events. I started off by stuffing the anniversary cards that I had designed at the beginning of my internship, I am hoping that when I go into work next time I will seal, stamp and send them out. My next task was also exciting. Lynell gave me the responsibility of going through past wedding photographs and picking and chosing the photographs that will be placed on the website, and the order of which they will be placed. I also had to come up with a creative way to display the color pallate of each wedding. I still have a lot more weddings to work through, so hopefully I will also be working on that the next time I go to my internship. This past weekend there was also a destination wedding in Bahamas that Stasia was flown down for, I personally did not have much involvent in that wedding but it is still exciting for me to see how much one can travelwith a career as a wedding planner.

Tuesday March 23, 2011

Yesterday was my first day back at my internship since I went to Key West for Spring Break. I was excited to get back into the routine and see all of the other girls. However, Stasia and Kelli (the tent design boss) were both out of the office so it was just me and their assistants Lynell and Casey. My day started off with stuffing a few save the dates and bringing them down to the post office to be sent out.



For the rest of the day I continued to work on the master list of contacts and companies that I had started before Spring Break. The list is broken up into different categories from accomodations to musicians to hair and makeup. With every contact or company listed on the sheets Lynell gave me I had to compose an Excell Spreadsheet to organize all of their informatin that I had to find. For each contact I included there website URL, the name of the contact at the company, and the phone number of the contact or the company. This list is not close to being done at all, if I'm lucky I might be half way finished with composing it. So I am guessing that I will be working on that when I work on Thursday.