Happy Labor Day!

I hope you're all enjoying your 3-day weekend. Mark and I aren't doing much that's out of the ordinary. He's at school laboring away on test reviews while I am at home doing "business stuff." We know you're all jealous. :)

Mark's second board exam is quickly approaching (as is his birthday (see the counter down below on the side bar). I guess we're going to have a little soiree for him (despite his telling me on countless occasions that he didn't want a party for his big 3-0 birthday). So, it's going to be very informal - we're inviting friends to join us on Friday of this week at the O'Hana grill down the street from our house for a dutch-treat birthday dinner. We'll supply the cake and ice cream...and, of course, the birthday boy!

Other than that, on Saturday of next week (Mark's actual birthday if you're doing the match), we plan to attend our church's Talent and Treasure auction. We've even donated a couple of items - 2 hour long massages from Mark and 3 hours of wedding and event consulting from me. Exciting stuff sure to garner at least a few dollars for the church!

On Sunday the 10th, I have my next bridal show. I'm approaching it from a different standpoint and hope it will be a bit more successful than shows past (which haven't been too bad, really). Speaking of shows past, I was supposed to meet with a client this weekend. It has been pushed back to Mark's birthday as well which is just fine. There's another potential prospect I need to get back to as well. At this next fair, my focus will be to schedule as many actual appointments as possible. I have something up my sleeve to at least get them interested in stopping by my booth. ;)

Other than that, I have just been sending out information about my company and it seems to be driving traffic to the website. I've also received a ton of traffic from a wedding planning article that has been published on Wed Plan.net which I've linked the post title to. :) What's super duper about this is that they actually chose my article to send out to brides in their monthly newsletter so now, brides and other vendors from all over the country are learning more about my business. How cool is that? I've even made a few new contacts from it. Pretty neat stuff!

Today it will be more of the same for me...emailing clients and entering more vendors' info into my wedding planning software. It seems that I'm meeting people faster than I can get them in my system, but sooner or later it should start to dwindle. I actually really enjoy the meeting process much more than the inputting so keep them coming! :)

Hope you all have a great week!