Lindsey Felsch

[How did she become a wedding planner?]
So, I have always had a background in either project management or event planning. Any job that I’ve done has an event planner portion. But I originally was in the corporate side of it. So, I worked for a hotel actually, at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Lake Tahoe, California, and I was doing meeting planning. So, I was doing corporate meetings, annual meetings, incentive trips, stuff like that. And I loved doing it. It was so much fun. However, there wasn’t a lot of creativity. For me, that is something that is really important. You know, as a wedding planner, you get to have that freedom of creativity, obviously by being advised by what the bride and groom want. But, you know, you can really get creative with it. And in corporate, you know, you have to deal with brand guidelines and, you know, strict budgets, and there wasn’t a lot of creativity. So, you know, I started actually doing both at the same time. Which I still do. So, I still am involved in the corporate world of event planning. But I also still do weddings, which still brings out my creativity side of my brain, which I really love and enjoy doing. And like I said before, no two weddings are the same. So, every single time I get to, you know, really try and think out the box and bring personal touches about the couple, their relationship, where they live, into their day in different components. And that’s kind of how I fell into it is, you know, wanting to be able to express my creativity a little bit more outside of the corporate world. So, my girlfriend, Allison Keasal, she actually purchased a wedding company a couple of years ago, and she kind of hit the ground running. She started the first year with 24 or 26 weddings and realized that she overbooked herself. And we had worked together in the corporate industry at the resort that I was speaking of, at Squaw Creek, and she reached out and was like, “I need help! I can’t do this alone.” So that opened a door for me, and I kind of fell into it with her and we’ve been working together ever since. And it’s been a great working relationship and it’s been so much fun to have another person to feed your ideas off of who has also been on the corporate side and has now seen both sides of it as well.