Welcome to our “Day within the Life” collection! We characteristic marriage ceremony and occasion planners from all over the world with many various ranges of expertise. If you need to be featured, obtain our questionnaire right here and e mail your responses and pictures to information@plannerslounge.com. We’re excited to characteristic Linda Fondulas of Odyssey Occasions.

Identify:   Linda Fondulas

Enterprise Identify & Location:  Odyssey Occasions

Years Working within the Occasion Trade: 40

Years Proudly owning Your Occasion Planning Enterprise: 5

Web site: https://www.odysseyeventsvt.com

Fb: https://www.fb.com/odysseyeventsvermont/

Further Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/odysseyeventsvt/

What’s your typical day like?

I do business from home, and although I do know it’s not “greatest observe,” someday round 7:30 AM, the very first thing I do—after a number of workout routines, downing a dietary beverage, feeding the kitty, and grabbing a cuppa—I examine e mail for brand new inquiries and/or reply client-based mail. Sadly, I’m a grazer, so I decide all day, and if my chef-husband decides to make lunch, I eat that as effectively!

How did you get began within the business?

For nearly all of our lives, my husband and I’ve labored collectively managing or proudly owning eating places. We met in a university Shakespeare class, and since we wished to turn into writers, we thought being in a transient enterprise would afford us the chance to journey and achieve fodder for our writing. Our first jobs had been as servers, however we are able to’t assist ourselves, so we ended up managing eating places, and eventually proudly owning a restaurant for 29 years. A hurricane put us out of enterprise.

What conjures up you?

Having no youngsters of my very own, I really like being round younger folks! It helps me keep (or at the least really feel) youthful. On the different finish of the spectrum is Martha Stewart, who has been a task mannequin for me.  I can’t cease studying all about marriage ceremony developments, do’s and don’ts— and whether or not or not I agree, I learn for various views.

What are your favourite on-line assets for what you are promoting?

Planner’s Lounge was instrumental in my segway to marriage ceremony planning! Since I additionally work with my husband in his enterprise educating cooking, I don’t have the time I want to take pleasure in blogs, and so on., however Pinterest is all the time a go-to.

Apart from marriage ceremony and occasion planning, how do you spend your time?

Cross-country snowboarding in winter and mountain climbing the remainder of the 12 months are my essential actions. Now we have a big property, so there’s by no means a downtime in land upkeep. Along with property upkeep, gardening within the shoulder seasons and wildcrafting for mushrooms in our forest are different pleasing pastimes. Although we don’t journey as a lot anymore, the south of France, Italy, and the West Indies had been favorites. I attempt to learn in-between actions, however it’s arduous to seek out time…. Creating table-scapes for invited friends or for cooking courses has all the time been a love.

Linda, thanks a lot for sharing your story and a day in your life. In case you are a marriage or occasion planner and want to be featured, obtain our questionnaire at present and e mail it to us together with a photograph. For those who aren’t certain about being featured, take a couple of minutes to learn the way it may also help what you are promoting. 

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