Ep 024: Events Beyond the Ordinary: Crafting Your Unique, Whimsical Celebration with Personalization, Play & Puzzles

In this episode, Candise Shanbron and Justin Cernitz interview Krista Jones, a professor of animal sciences and a veterinarian, and Dave Bristol, a creative individual passionate about personalized and unconventional wedding experiences, who have combined their unique backgrounds to create Whimsically You, a business dedicated to providing personalized, unconventional wedding experiences. Krista believes that traditional weddings often need more personalization and represent the unique personalities and interests of the couple. She aims to incorporate the couple's hobbies, history, and individuality into their wedding celebration. On the other hand, Dave believes in creating a business that aligns with one's lifestyle and values, and he finds fulfillment in connecting with people and providing them with meaningful memories. Together, they aim to bring playfulness and creativity into weddings and other community events, challenging the conventional norms and offering a more personalized and unconventional approach.     Here are the takeaways from this episode: -       The importance of innovation in the wedding industry offering couples a chance to break away from traditional norms and infuse excitement into their big day. -       The significance of perseverance and balancing business growth with personal values. -       Why open and honest communication is essential for resolving conflicts and maintaining a successful partnership. -       How marketing and educating potential clients on the advantages of selecting your business holds particular value when introducing innovative concepts to the market.   Quotes:   " I think traditional weddings are wonderful if that's what people want, but I think oftentimes we fall into these patterns of just doing things the way it's expected to be done, as opposed to thinking about what really represents us and who we are and the kind of celebration that we want to have. And so we definitely wanted to bring in a lot of our sort of unique history and personality and our hobbies and things like that, and a lot of ourselves into the wedding.” - Krista Jones   “The goal is we can keep having it be fun as it grows and develops, as opposed to turning it into a thing that has to work because we're vitally dependent on it. And then maybe we get a little too wound up, we get a little too anxious, we push too hard, something like that because we don't want to stop being fun.” - Dave Bristol   “I've made a lot of changes in my life. I've been a musician, I was in software, blah, blah, blah, and even things like healthy eating or exercise. You can make a drastic change and throw yourself at it and I just don't believe it's sustainable. Whereas when you make these incremental changes, you make it a process that's enjoyable, then it just becomes this part of your life.” - Dave Bristol   “You have to have a lot of adaptivity, right? As we play test ideas, we have to come back, revise them. We have to sort of constantly be thinking about new things and managing these projects on a timeline, making sure we're able to deliver them, all of those kinds of things.” - Krista Jones   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices