About

Traveling around from place to place provides wonderful, exciting adventures, and memories. However, with so many options to choose from, the actual planning process can seem overwhelming. If the thought of planning quickly in the moment is something that causes you stress or keeps you from seeing what is out there, I would like to become a helpful resource to you. To introduce myself, I am a travel planner that began my planning journey twelve years ago in events.

To provide a little background on my career, during college part-time and upon graduating, I worked full time planning social events for college students. This was a fast paced career, but I loved it! College students can be quite picky, honest, and opinionated when it comes to how they spend their time. They need variety. Planning events within the month and sometimes even within the same week, taught me just how possible it is to create pretty much anything in any timeframe. My goal wasn’t to get the most students possible to every event, it was to fill the semesters with various styles of events every Friday and Saturday that catered to all interests. From the athletic types to video game enthusiasts, musicians, social butterflies, studious, and even to the trendy types, my hope was that everyone felt welcomed and included throughout the semesters. I wanted the students to feel like they could find an event every couple of weeks or so that interested them on campus. 

Upon moving to a different location, I then created my own event planning business. I wanted to continue the exciting and quick planning that I had been doing with the college only now on my own. It seemed like outside of the college world many worked off of a structured plan. When it comes specifically to weddings, I noticed that vendors have each developed increased pricing and a formal timeline for how things should be done. I enjoy finding ways to still achieve a beautiful event without sacrificing quality and also plan within a shorter time frame.

As I plan with and for my clients, I have found that going against the traditional timeline (by planning within a shorter timeframe) actually makes it easier to make decisions, to say no to certain elements, and look for simpler ways to accomplish the overall design vision without sacrificing quality. Whether it be a wedding, vacation, or a special celebration, you can still have a beautiful venue or destination, an intimate gathering of friends and family, your favorite foods, and decorations without the structure and pressure, and all on your timeframe. Sound unrealistic? I promise, it is doable. As an event planner faced with high prices for wedding services already charged to couples, it is difficult to charge couples for a service they could handle themselves with a little online guidance. When everything came to a quick stop during 2020-2021/2022, I felt it was time to re-evaluate what I would like to do truly. This time of thinking led me back to when I was younger and what I had enjoyed previously. That joy was travel and helping my parents plan our trips.

Growing up, I loved to spontaneously plan. I wanted to do something special for every holiday and I was determined to make a family party happen. I would create a basic itinerary for the evening and the celebration would just branch out from there. They were usually small and simple gatherings, but each one was unique and definitely spontaneous. Our family travels were pretty similar. I would be in the back of the car excitedly looking through travel brochures from the visitor centers and dreaming about working in a visitors center someday helping travelers map out their trips and locate the best sites to visit. Each of our trips would be filled with adventure and spontaneity. Fast forward, and that same excitement to plan remains. I absolutely love and value time spent traveling. Whether it be a weekend trip, a longer trip, or even a unique experience close to home, it is special time dedicated to explore, learn, and enjoy my surroundings. Through traveling, I have met wonderful people with similar interests and a similar excitement. This excitement has led me here. I have created a place here where I can help and encourage you to be your own travel planner by sharing my tips, experiences, and ideas.

While it is great to have a general plan or outline for both events and travel, you can plan spontaneously on any time frame. Regardless of what the planning professionals may advise, specifically when it comes to structured itineraries or having a back-up plan, we can enjoy each moment without stress. Let’s face it, we can find pretty much anything we need online. There are people to advise us on how to live better lives, do tasks easier, set our trends, and teach us new things. We are inspired from this immediate access, but if we rely on this information too much, we can also be left feeling overwhelmed, stuck creatively, afraid of making a mistake, and ultimately not going forward with our ideas. Amidst all of the pressures to pre-plan to the finest detail, when seeking help, we want to feel encouraged, which has led me to bring my business here to you.

We are always continuing to search for a new adventure and even though our immediate surroundings and routines may change, we still desire to find a new way to adapt, grow, discover, and explore. From personal experience, whenever I let go of the pressure to plan every detail and remove the worry about specifics of what I may or may not miss out on, things naturally fall into place. The good situations seem to present themselves and options come naturally and freely. 

I invite you to become inspired, to search, to share ideas, and to create unique moments for your own travels.