Behind the Scenes: BJ Smith

Whereas Leslie, Jamie and myself are what we call "lead" planners, the people who are the face of You're Invited, we MUST have a support staff of reliable, smart, fast thinking, witty people to back us up at events. And we have one heck of a staff!

Meet one of our our secondary planners. B.J. Smith...Many days, she's been a total Godsend to me. We love B.J. and are so happy to have her back after a brief hiatus! What clients don't realize is that while we take on their stress, we can have a few stressful moments ourselves. B.J. is that gal that I just have to look at and she knows what I need from her at events. I swear she can read my mind :))

B.J. has been with the You're Invited team since January 2007. I knew her in a previous life and found out that she was interested in helping with events. Her background includes Marketing and Graphic Design but she also enjoys Fashion Design. She has assisted with the choreography and music selection for high school fashion shows and co-directed two shows at Johnson County Community College.

B.J. also helps out at Branches & Twigs Floral Design, which is a great asset to have onsite when we have a large floral set up.

Thanks for all you do B.J. Smith!

Welcome Back to Heather at Botanica Floral Design!

A warm "welcome back" to the KC wedding industry to Heather @ Botanica Floral Design! Heather and You're Invited go way back to when You're Invited first opened it's doors in 2003. She even supplied floral arrangements for our first kick off event. Heather took some time off from doing weddings, but is now back in the floral design business. We look forward to working with Botanica again very soon! In the meantime, enjoy some images of her work from some of our previous weddings together. Don't forget to check out her blog at www.designbotanica.blogspot.com

Vibrant Colors for Spring Wedding & Personal Party Favor Touch

One of Jamie's first weddings was and outdoor ceremony and elegant reception for Noor and Jitan at the Simpson House. Noor had a wonderful array of colors and really wanted an elegant setting for her guests. She selected a very talented florist in Michelle at Bella Designs. Noor and Jitan also did something that we really push our clients to do with the small elements of the wedding. Their party favors were Krispy Kreme donuts, picked up fresh that day by Jamie!

This is new...

So, this is a bit new for the You're Invited ladies. We've decided to add a blog to our site. We can't promise that we'll be able to keep it up all of the time, but it will be fun trying!!! I'll post some photos from our spring weddings. We had quite the variety!

The great thing is that we are able to work all over the city. We're not married to an area or a budget, so we get some flexibility.

I will also try to add some info about our secondary planners. They keep Leslie, Jamie and myself on mark during the wedding day. We can't love them enough!