15/08/2022
It’s Time to LET IT GO……My Real talk as the owner of Come2Gether Weddings & Events by Kelly Neno:
I want to tell everyone where I am with Come2Gether right now… August 2022! Up until now I didn’t have a life that was particularly interesting anymore before covid as most days I was a wannabe Rhianna and I just werk werk werk werk werk! 👊🏾, but I understood that my business WAS my life and my dream job and I worked that hard to get recognized in the Wedding industry. I chose this path I worked alongside lots of high end Venues & Hotels, I was booked out 3 4 5 sometimes 6 days of the week working weddings from March - December year in year out…. I loved getting up at 5am getting home 10pm because I believed I was born to style wedding venues for gorgeous couples.
Then the other 7 days of the week I was not only a wife a mother etc I was the face of my fabulous business The busy Wedding planner, The admin assistant who created her Wednesdays as wedding Wednesday doing admin.. 7 days a week working late evenings going to visit couples or inviting them into my home to do consultations and standing at their wedding day involved fully as their decorator and / or master of their ceremonies to make Come2Gether Weddings successful ❤️
I was continuously planing, creating and organizing and then trying to keep marketing myself with social posts because while my life was NOT Instagrammable, my business needed to be ….
Then Covid struck me out of work for 14 months making our industry impossible to survive…… with nothing to do everyday no means of income no grants… it caused chaos with my booking system having to move hundreds of couples dates around… then covid struck again…… more date changes more saying no sorry I’m fully booked until 2022/2023 in 2020!
2021 saw Come2Gether return…. Few weddings here and there, which I never posted on my social media as there were sensitive times with many weddings during and after Lockdowns…
I felt I had out of date stock as I found it hard to buy new fancy stock to keep up with Pinterest….. loads of lockdown wedding businesses started or creating balloon businesses, or venues offering all in house styling etc…. I didn’t want to do outside the box I wanted my business BACK…
my mojo had definitely gone, I’d also become a nanny to a gorgeous granddaughter during Lockdown my heart melted, I looked at my life differently and thought I actually would like a weekend WITH MY HUSBAND, my Friends, My Family or an evening out or overnight sleepover with my Granddaughter….. I had so much guilt about wanting my life back my thoughts were I don’t think I have my passion for my business anymore 😢….. I’ve struggled to get myself to admit it could be the end because when I’m working with my couples or I’m planning I’m not prepared to let it go BUT…..
I’m letting go…..
I have stopped taking bookings for 2023 and have had a busy 2022 I’ve 2 more weddings left to do and a few special occasions in 2023 but no more UK weddings that’s why I’ve had to turn so many bookings away 😪
😭 thank you to all my support where people constantly just constantly recommending myself 😘 SHARING and LIKING my posts
I will however be continuing to work with my OverSeas venues in helping couples find their dream overseas wedding venues and Wedding planner’s so I will still be in touch with my wedding business and my page WILL remain active
I have a lot of stock to sell off if anyone is interested in anything at a later date…..
Sorry to have exhausted you with this very long post….. but I wanted to share why I’m going to be Closing up!
Kelly 💕