GETTING IT TOGETHER

We finally got into the new office and there was a ton of work to get on with. My family had re renovated their businesses over the last 25 years and in those years they had collected what they like to call junk furniture, in my terms free stuff.

All the furniture and settings they had collected over the years was stored in moms factory, and after paying it a visit to see if I could use anything I nearly fell over at what I saw. It was like i was in IKEA from the 1980's and it had been all put into a room where god had picked up and shaken it up like a can of fresh juice.

After going through the whole heap of junk I got what I needed and as you say beggars cant be choosers, so I was not complaining. We were ready to start work but before that we had to conduct prayers at our office, another must if your Hindu.

I had always wanted my company to look professional and sound professional so to start up with we had designed our name cards, again without the help of any professionals, but we did get them printed from a professional company. Here is what they looked like and we were really happy.

Few other smaller things such as bank accounts, letter heads, taxation department and all the legal mambo jumbo. It was now November and we had our first 2 official clients talking to us about weddings in December. Thinking to myself should I take it??? Is it too soon??? I think back and I know I was just scared to take that step. In this industry it was you make it or break it in your first few weddings. Word of mouth is your main way of marketing and if you screw up even one time that's the end of your courier.

I am not saying that we don't make mistakes and yes everyone makes mistakes, but our motto here is how we clean them up, how do we follow up so it does not get out of hand.

So with these two weddings that I had finally decided to take on it was head down ass up and we were on our way.