We can’t believe how 2018 has flown by! Where on earth did the time go? We went through ups and downs and had major growing pains. There were certainly challenges throughout the year as we began to shift our focus from just wedding planning and coordination to full service event planning and design. It was rough at times but we stayed true to our core mission and values and all the hard work has paid off tremendously for our team here at Inspirations by Gina.
Here are some of our highlights for 2018:
Photo Credit: Christine Glebov Photography
What an amazing and action-packed year it has been for us! We had an opportunity to provide personal flowers for a number of San Francisco City Hall weddings and coordinate weddings and events in the San Francisco Bay area. We were also no stranger to travel this year, jet setting to South and Central America, coordinating and designing a wedding in Anderson Valley (near Mendocino) and traveling to New York for design meetings for events in 2018 and 2019.
Photo Credit: Molly Gilholm Photography
It was an honor to make a number of TV appearances on Good Day Sacramento, first appearing in the summer to discuss wedding planning and wildfires and the second appearance this past month to talk about Kwanzaa and weddings. In addition to the TV appearances, we were very estatic to have one our weddings featured in the spring on Park Winters blog! All the media love has been a huge blessing and we are humbled that our work has been recognized regionally and not everyone has this opportunity to be featured.
Our industry peers recognized us by nominating us for various awards such as the Sacramento A List “Best Wedding Planner” category in which we made the top 10 planners in the Sacramento, The Rising Tide “20 on the Rise Award” and “Intrigue Floral Design Awards 2019”. We thank you and are humbled that our peers felt we deserved this type of validation.
Photo Credit: Meagan Lucy Photographers
December was an amazing month in which we designed a huge holiday window display at Sparkle Bridal Couture with the holiday theme being Kwanzaa. We are truly humbled and blessed to witness such positive reactions to our window display and it has helped our community here in Sacramento have discussions about what the principles of Kwanzaa are and how we can live these principles each and every day.
Floral and event design was a huge part of our success in 2018 and we cannot wait for what 2019 has in store for us.
We would like to thank all our clients, creative partners, venues and media outlets for such a fabulous 2018. We certainly could NOT have done it without you and here at Inspirations by Gina, we would like to say “Here is a toast to you because you are fabulous”!!
