The Lunch Club Podcast
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The Lunch Club Podcast
Salt and Veil: a Bridal Collective
Join us on a journey into the enchanting world of weddings as we sit down with Aubrey from Gracefully Bloomed. Discover how her passion for fairy-tale moments led her from crafting flower crowns to becoming a pivotal force in the wedding industry. Alongside Aubrey, we celebrate the launch of our brand-new publication, Salt and Veil, dedicated to inspiring both vendors and clients to create unforgettable, magazine-worthy weddings. With our upcoming launch party on January 7th, we invite you to share in the excitement of this new chapter filled with integrity and accountability.
Uncover the vision behind Salt and Veil, a bridal collective that seeks to break free from industry stereotypes. We discuss our commitment to showcasing only the most reputable vendors who truly care about their craft and clients. This isn't just a business venture—it's a passion project aimed at authenticity and nurturing the artistry inherent in Utah's wedding scene. Listen in as we share our creative journey, discuss plans for a podcast and blog, and reveal how our unique brand identity, inspired by Utah's Bridal Veil Falls, is set to captivate and inspire.
Hello you guys and welcome back to the Lunch Club Podcast. I cannot believe we are releasing this episode, mostly because this was a big fat joke about a year ago the idea of starting a new publication here in Utah. But I'm not going to spoil any of the details. In this episode. Aubrey from Gracefully Bloomed and myself are going to dive into how we met, became friends, what motivated this new business venture and our goals and aspirations, with, hopefully, the help of all of you amazing, talented people. We are so passionate about this and excited and we just hope that that shows through all of our efforts and work. Now, before I say anything else, I want you to open your phone right now, open your calendar and add Tuesday, january 7th, 6.30 PM, 20 and Creek venue in Sandy to your calendar. Cocktail attire is encouraged, so if you love a good excuse to get dressed up, just like me. This is going to be a fun opportunity. We are hosting our launch party, which will mark the start of us actively posting both on our blog and social media account, and we want to celebrate with all of you guys. Our theme for the night is a look into 2025. We have some amazing vendors participating to get you excited and inspired for this upcoming year of beautiful things, and we're just so excited. So please come. Please message us if you have any questions, if you want to participate at all. We would just love to hear from you Now. Without further ado, let's get into it.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the Lunch Club podcast, your go-to for all things weddings. Our mission is to inspire clients and vendors to create magazine-worthy weddings. We are taking you behind the scenes, sharing insights and vendors to create magazine worthy weddings. We're taking you behind the scenes, sharing insights for vendors to run thriving businesses and clients to feel confident dreaming up the perfect day, from trends and tips to contracts and collaboration. Grab a seat. We are here to share it all. Okay, guys, I'm so excited. I'm here today with Aubrey. This is our first podcast episode together, the first of many, um. But before I spoil all the things that we have to say, um, aubrey, give us your introduction about you, how you got into the wedding industry and any fun little things about you.
Speaker 2:I am Aubrey of Gracefully Bloomed, which I have had running for very close to 10 years now. That's crazy. It boggles my mind. Time flies, time isn't real.
Speaker 1:It's, yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 2:I started that business so tentatively. I started it just doing like flower crowns that I made for myself and my mom because we went to Disneyland and I wanted to get cute. And after doing that a couple of times I thought, oh, maybe someday, one day, somebody will want to buy these. So I had my friend who was a makeup artist help me set up an Instagram.
Speaker 1:Cute and um, just in the world of Instagram yeah, that was easier than you think it's so much easier. I'm using quotation marks. Marketing, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Quotation marks, marketing oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Instagram, yeah, right, it does itself. Yeah, and I just like grew a little bit at a time because I like change but I'm scared of change. Yeah, and I second-guessed myself with literally every step that I took.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I second guessed myself with literally every step that I took. Yeah, so you know to say it's been 10 years really should be broken up into segments, because for the first couple of years I only did flower crowns yeah. Then I wanted to start doing bouquets and I didn't feel comfortable doing anything but those two things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and just a little bit more, and then yeah, grew and got more comfortable and more confident. Did anything draw you to the wedding industry? Is there a reason that you love doing weddings specific rather than just kind of these more one-off pieces Like what draws you in about the wedding world, and do you have any like I don't know, yeah, like any backstory with that specifically, or it just kind of went there um.
Speaker 2:I, when I was doing just flower crowns, it was for whoever wanted something pretty, whoever wanted to get dolled up, you know. And then the more options that I allowed myself to create with, the more it kind of placed me or led me towards weddings got it, and this was a natural yeah, but like my love really developed as I did it more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love a good fairy tale. I loved being able to add a voice to the story of a day where someone is supposed to be just like the happiest of happies and deserves to be it's meaningful work.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh gosh, so much. I love to create something that feels beautiful and that really sparks something specific to that person, yes, and takes a part in this monumental day where they are so deserving of being the main character and just having a beautiful moment, one after the other, and just adding something to the mix that makes it even more of a beautiful moment for that person okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna cover our mini, our mini episode of, uh, how we became friends. Um, just so you know, today is actually the first day we've met in person, but we've been Instagram friends for, I would venture to say, a couple years.
Speaker 1:Just friends on Instagram, responding to stories, commenting on each other's stuff Right, actively talking with each other, yeah kind of just knowing each other in the industry but just not really having an opportunity to really cross paths. But probably it was over a year ago, um, actually, no, well, I think it starts back a couple years ago. There was we'll just summarize it with some drama amidst the wedding industry and some unethical things happening, and we are both people that we're not afraid to call something out when it's wrong and.
Speaker 1:I think that's like our core bonding thing. 100% of behavior that we share is like if something's not acceptable, we're not going to be quiet just to appease someone about it. So we both shared things on our stories about what was going on and and then that was kind of it. That was, I think it for a while, but I think I recognize like, oh, that's really cool, she's also willing to speak out and speak up about something that isn't right in this industry and what's happening, um, and then probably a year ago, kind of the same lines of just things happening in the industry. I think generally the nice way to put it is just people not getting the credit where credit was very, very, very due, um, and I just think both of us could recognize it's an unacceptable thing to be. What's the what's the way to put it? Like making success in your business off the back of someone else without giving them a proper, you know, moment of credit.
Speaker 2:Hey, I did this with the help of yeah, this girl and I think it's important to say that it's especially when it's like the instance you're referring to. Yeah, it's coming from a place where the person not giving the credit was very much responsible Knows better. It's part of their job, to be doing what they weren't doing, yeah.
Speaker 1:Which is our tagline. That will come later. But I think we just would both be frustrated and I think, because we're both confident in just like I've said, like calling things out when it's not right, we would comment, we would send DMs, kind things. It started it was months of kind reminders. Hey, you tagged the wrong person here. Hey, you didn't tag me at all. Hey, I saw this feature from a month ago. I would love if you credited me and I think both of us were very we were frustrated to each other, but very kind, because I think, generally speaking, the best way to get change is to be nice about it. You give someone the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they didn't know. I totally understand you know. Maybe this person is new. But after a few months, I think both of us were like this is crazy, like this is insane, that it's clearly we can find whose work it was. It doesn't take us very long. Why is it this person's job?
Speaker 1:and they're still not doing it, and it's the same thing happening over and over and over and the promise of change, and then just feeling like you know, and then I think I'm also, I, I think we're both this way, right, I think it's hard where I'm like, well, I don't, if this person does this all the time, I don't want to give them more of an opportunity to to get success from me and my work. And so it became this like, well, man, I don't want to interact with anybody who's going to behave this way.
Speaker 1:And so I think being motivated to submit things to any publication because it was happening so often everywhere it just started to feel like that wasn't an exciting part of the business, which I think for so many artists that's a big, big milestone in a career.
Speaker 2:To be published, and heartbreaking too, because in the past that was a very validating and exciting experience that we strove for a big yeah like a.
Speaker 1:I just want to, you know, get included in in a print issue of something and all of that, and I think that's kind of where we both were like man, this is not only just frustrating, it's just really sad.
Speaker 2:Like this we want better, because we saw it fall yes, and we saw continued issues.
Speaker 1:Now, obviously, obviously, everyone deserves, you know, second chances and whatever. But I think we kind of got to a point of the how hard can it be? Until probably a month ago, I think, for me the catalyst was my husband said, like just do it like, because I think a year ago I posted just frustration, both on my personal page, on my business page actually, of just like man. It just makes me sad that this happens in our industry and it happens just all the time. I do it even still where I won't credit the makeup artist or you know whoever made a beautiful cake, because you know I forget and that's my bad, and I think I want to be better and be a better example of like hey, this wedding did not happen just with me and the planner. There were so many moving pieces of you know, venue and rental items and catering and if you're in the industry, you're aware of that.
Speaker 2:You know that there are multiple people involved.
Speaker 1:There are so many unsung heroes and people making these happen and I just think we know better.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I think for me watching it happen continually all over the place, like not just in one single scenario, just everywhere scenario just everywhere of like man, like I just want people to be seen and I want people to be celebrated and I want them to be, you know, patted on the back of like well, that was a beautiful job that you did, and I don't want someone to have to work tirelessly to convince someone that they're valuable.
Speaker 2:I just want them to be noticed yes, you know, and also on the business side of thing, not just the person side of thing who's like you're amazing and you deserve to be applauded for how amazing you are? Yes, but we are also business people, so we want to see other business people given the opportunity to grow and to reach a larger audience and have a bride out there see. Wow, that's a gorgeous cake. Who made that cake? I'm going to need a cake.
Speaker 1:Yes, for sure. So, yeah, I think my husband joked with me a couple of times. A few other vendor friends of mine joked like ha ha, like if you did want a publication like I would, I would, you know, subscribe and whatever. I was like ha ha, that's so funny. Truthfully, I actually looked into buying more than one publication that in the last couple years has switched ownership, that they've posted, that they're in transition, and I looked into them, but I really just felt like the value of what I would pay was like I just think I could maybe build something with a little bit more of an integrity that I know is intact, that maybe starting from the ground up is really just the best way to go Right, instead of buying in and trying to, you know, build back up or fix all these things, to just start right and start on the right foot.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, yeah, my husband, again about a month ago, was like why don't you just do it? You keep joking about like how hard is it? Because I'd be like, oh my gosh, it's happened again like how hard can it be? And he's like why don't you just do it? Like, really like what do you? What would it take, you know, and I was like, well for sure, I don't want to do it alone. There's no chance that I will do it alone.
Speaker 1:I think there's something to be said on like being held accountable, and obviously this isn't my full-time job running a publication right we have our own business yeah so, yeah, I reached out to Aubrey and said like okay, like I'm getting serious actually, like are you interested? And what was your like? What was your initial internal response, I guess?
Speaker 2:oh, I couldn't type yes fast enough, which I was actually surprised you were. And I was surprised that you were surprised, because I'm like we've joked about it how many times?
Speaker 1:but like really like this is biting off a lot yeah um, but yeah, I think we kind of just started we. We function solely on voice memos if you've met me you'll know that, like, that's the only way I function, like, if you're texting me, like I will voice memo, because I try to speak to text but it just does not no, my phone it doesn't work and I'm like I can get so many more ideas out quicker and I'm a verbal processor.
Speaker 1:So we just kind of started shooting ideas back and forth like well, what would it look like? What do we want it? What's our goals?
Speaker 1:and I didn't think, think we had to say like what our goal was, like we both just knew like we want to highlight talented people and we also, on the flip side, do not want to support people that are not having other what's the word? We don't want to support people, either, that are not treating clients well or other vendors If you are being slimy and you're taking people's money and just not showing up for the event. You're not someone we want to highlight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we want to highlight the vendors who are genuine, safe, reputable people.
Speaker 1:I think publication is so hard because there's this whole you know, like I want to be a preferred vendor, um, and obviously there's so many ways that a publication makes money, and I think that's the other thing. I'll just interject here. We're not starting this to make a billion dollar company yeah, I don't think either of us have.
Speaker 2:We're not planning on making any money.
Speaker 1:I mean, if we can make some money at the end of the day, great. But that's not our goal, right? We're not starting a money-making business. This is a I would say, a passion project is the best way to put it. Um, but I think you know people get so caught up and how can I make my business money? And so this idea of preferred vendors comes up, right, like you pay to be highlighted, but it's just never really sat super well with me personally just being like on my end, like I don't want to pay you to recommend me.
Speaker 1:I want you to recommend me because you recommend, like because I have given you a good experience and you want your bride to also have that. And so I've always felt that with preferred vendors, that when brides you know are like, well, they're a preferred vendor, I should be able to trust them. And then, yeah, like there was an example a couple months ago of I'll just, I'll keep it, I'll keep it vague, right, this is not a roast podcast at all. We I do have class, believe it or not. I have hard time sometimes, but there was someone in the catering industry who has been on Good Morning Utah, who has worked with influencers, who's a preferred vendor in multiple publications, who has multiple times to brides where they'll take their money and then they bail the day of the event and they don't show up and then they block them and never return their money. Like basically a scam.
Speaker 1:That's 100% a scam and the issue is that it's so hard for a client to recognize because, yeah, this girl's got 20,000 followers and, again, she's on good morning utah and she shows up for her influencer events, but she's not showing up for her day-to-day clients and and I just feel bad that things like this happen all the time with vendors that you know they're highly sought after and they're you know, they're published in all these places and I just think I want to make sure that not only the people that we're featuring are, you know, talented and amazing, but they're also, like, going to show up for the job and good people who deserve to be recommended right
Speaker 1:because I mean, sure, if someone does a great job, I just for me. I don't ever want to work with somebody who's going to do something shady to somebody else. I don't think that's how life works. I'm not the karma police, but if I can try to right or wrong like I, I want to do better. So I think that's like a.
Speaker 1:Also, a big cornerstone for us is like doing the right thing and being a reputable, a genuinely reputable source, that's we're not just taking anybody's money and you know we'll recommend anybody even if they've never done an event, not to say that people who haven't done an event yet are aren't talented, but I think there's something to be said of like you need to work hard and prove that you're gonna do a good job.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Yeah, because we want to do well by the whole community, and that includes both the vendors and the brides. So you want to be able to be standing shoulder to shoulder with someone who you feel proud to be associated with and in good standing with. But we also we wedding industry can be tough. We wouldn't be staying in it if we didn't feel strongly about helping someone have you know, this beautiful day.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so then, now, this venture that we're on with Salt and Veil yes, we would be doing a huge disservice both to our fellow vendors and to the brides to whom we are trying to give all of this information, and to the brides to whom we are trying to give all of this information If we were highlighting anybody who said oh, yes me, please include me in this. Yes.
Speaker 1:I agree. I think I would pivot again to like our next. I think you know I should have probably formatted how many cornerstones that we have because there should only be like four.
Speaker 2:But I think there is.
Speaker 1:So you know just that we, we want to credit people, we want to work with people and highlight people that are going to be honest. That's another thing that we're really excited about. It's like I don't care if this is your first wedding. If you did something beautiful and inspiring, like we want to highlight it. I just think that, especially here in Utah, brides can feel a little bit timid in doing something different, and I don't know if that is Utah specific, but I used to sell wedding dresses specific, but I, I used to sell wedding dresses, and I would see people come in and they would show me someone's photo an influencer and say, like I want, I want this exact. They wanted the same exact veil, they wanted the same dress, they wanted the same flowers, same color palette, because it's really easy to just, you know, like, yeah, this is what I'm seeing. Great, you see, that I like that, I want to do it, let's do it. Um, but it would make me kind of sad, because I'd be like man.
Speaker 1:there's just so many other ideas out there, though, but people aren't really seeing them, and so they're just like oh well, I keep seeing this one girl's picture float around, right, any you know, publication or a bunch of people's instagram feeds, and so I think we're kind of excited on like hey, like just submit something beautiful, submit something different or moody, or you know something that's we're kind of excited on like hey, like just submit something beautiful, submit something different or moody, or you know something that's we're not seeing every other day, just because I think that, again, like everyone's work deserves, yes, to be shared if it's great, and so that's kind of something I think we're gonna be holding each other accountable on, like we want to find beautiful, unique, you know, pieces of content.
Speaker 1:I had a photographer message me today and she was super excited and she said, like what's, what's the vibe, like, what kind of pieces do you want? Which I was like that's a great question, but it made me sad that it was like okay, how do I tailor right what I'm submitting to your, to your, you know, publication?
Speaker 2:instead of just showing what you're excited to show. That's what I want to see.
Speaker 1:What are you proud of, what? What made you excited? And I think kind of a goal for us is like we want to get brides excited about like oh, I saw this really kind of different thing and I'm I would like to try that instead, but also for vendors to feel motivated to try something new and have a place that's going to be excited with them over this different thing that they did, or just something that was genuinely gorgeous and stunning, regardless of if we're seeing it every day, when this has only been, you know, back end stuff to this point, but even down to the logo design, you know how do we make something that doesn't feel like?
Speaker 2:oh, this is their vibe, a space that allows you to show the different thing, yes, and draw in the person who's truly attracted to that specific thing and is not just kind of the cookie cutter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that might tend to happen, for sure, I think we even had a conversation because as florists um I talked about this on my stories the other day I'm really particular about color, and so I have to be very mindful of the photos that I'll post on my feed, because I don't want to have an unrealistic expectation for a client on what actual colors roses come in, or whatever it might be, um, and of course I'm trying to create an overall aesthetic. You know which.
Speaker 1:It's annoying that you have to think about that, but like you just do like yeah subconsciously, um, and so we kind of had a conversation like oh well, like do we need to be mindful of that, just because that's what we're so used to? And it was really fun conversation. I thought to be like you don't know, like let's, it doesn't matter what your editing style is, it doesn't matter if you are super, super dark, moody editing style versus very bright and vibrant. Sure, our feed might look a little bit crazy sometimes. Yeah, and we'll try to keep it consistent in a mood right In the winter.
Speaker 2:We'll try to post, you know, all of our winter colors and kind of follow somewhat of a trend.
Speaker 1:But yeah, we're not looking for anything specific, just something beautiful and fun. It's kind of our, our goal absolutely um, okay, I'm curious, do you want to share some of our name struggle of like man? That's, I think, maybe one of our pain points too, like what are we gonna call it right? There's like a thousand. Yes, we won't even name them. It starts with utah, and then there's just like fill in the blank, fill in the blank.
Speaker 2:So that was a journey and it was so important to us because, again, we wanted to present something that felt have and the real beauty and genuine, like artistry, of what we want to show. Yes, so it was. It was a journey. I mean, I don't even know how many like names I sent you different ideas of, and they were all really fun.
Speaker 1:I think our general was like we wanted to give this like, oh, like kind of allure, like you know, make people curious about it, instead of like oh yeah, I know exactly what this is gonna be right and fill in the blank before you've even you know ventured into our little publication here, I have a really good friend, Johanna. She's been on the podcast before. We love Johanna. Yeah, she's the best you guys.
Speaker 1:She's in California right now and I'm just praying for the day she'll move back to Utah, but she was nice and she actually came back to Utah for like three of my events to help me in freelance for me. It was a nice thing for her which help me in freelance. For me it was a nice. It was a nice thing for her, um, which was fun, because I actually shared this like okay, I'm doing this, what do you guys think? To my freelance team, you know, and they were so excited, which was so nice of them.
Speaker 1:Um, but I think I I had taken her a couple ideas, so I was like, hey, these are the two that we're really toying with, what do you think? And she actually said, hey, what about salt and veil, a bridal collective? And I immediately was like, oh, I really like that. I just think it's it's not so on the nose of like oh, okay, so you're gonna be like a girly little you know right I kind of liked this, like a little bit more of a, a moody vibe like I don't know if that's what it is.
Speaker 1:It's just a little bit Moody artistry, very like ooh, salted and Veil. I also thought, obviously it's like a, not like Salt Lake you know, is our capital here in Utah. So there's kind of obviously tying in the Utah. But we didn't want to be in the Utah box of like filling in, like oh so LDS Brides and oh so you know it's going to look all the same.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I just think that you do kind of conjure up an idea when you hear Utah wedding.
Speaker 1:There's a connotation to Utah, which isn't necessarily bad, but like I don't want to be in a box, but it doesn't suit everybody, Don't put me in a box. So it was kind of like, well, let's you know, tie it in and then veil in and then veil.
Speaker 2:Actually that was funny, obviously like veils. But provo canyon has bridal veil falls right, which is literally, like you know, bridal veil looks like a bridal veil and I just thought that was kind of fun too, of this like oh, I think it's just kind of a sweet like yeah kind of a good combo, because we had been playing with like lace, pearl, veil and then things like salt for Utah, honey for Utah, yeah, just kind of trying to combine.
Speaker 1:And then I loved a bridal collective because that's kind of where it fills in the blank of like okay but what is this? Because we're not doing just you know Utah and then fill in your choice of a wedding word Right, which tells you right away what it is. So I think that was our biggest concern was like well, well, how do we make it clear, like, what this is?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's not a boutique, you know, because and we had played with a couple of different variations of bridal collective, like utah bridal collective, bridal collective I think everything just felt overdone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, too, it was like we're just gonna get lost. They're gonna type into their, their Instagram and find someone else's thing, which isn't, again, not a bad thing but like we want to be noticed, we want to be found easily. So I think a bridal collective is a perfect term, too, of like we're a group, we're just a group of people in the wedding industry, whatever that might be. Like you are welcome here, and so, yeah, we got really excited.
Speaker 2:I think I, like you are welcome here, um, and so, yeah, we got really excited. I think I sent it over and we were both like, yeah, yeah, just immediately.
Speaker 1:That's the one that fell in all the blanks and spaces and um, so we've been super excited about that. I think this.
Speaker 2:That very night I went and bought the name and, you know, got all the all the legal things taken care of, because you know that I like to do things by the book, um, and we did the Instagram and the email to make sure like okay, this is ours.
Speaker 1:We have it, it's, it's here. And that's when we were kind of quiet about things, so we had things for sure, locked in um. Okay, why don't you just kind of summarize with, um, the last little bit of what are our plans, what are we going to tackle and what is our focus? So, for right, now for right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm I'm so excited, so we are launching in january. Yes, um, that's when we'll start posting you right, I guess we kind of have had the soft launch, you know yeah, we're, we've announced it yep, we've it. We've like made the Instagram page public, even put a little post on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just something to show, so you know we're real, we're awake, we're here, yeah.
Speaker 2:So we're going to have the podcast, yeah, where I'm going to be starting a blog for Salt and Veil, which I love. Yeah, you're a word yeah she's a I love writing. I always have. I've got background in publication and creative writing and which was really important.
Speaker 1:I'm just gonna interject here. I was like, listen, I made it to like three years of college and did not leave with any kind of degree and if you combined all the prereqs I took, it was a very niche wedding industry like uh degree, but it didn't exist at the time. So, yeah, I didn't even know this yet about you but you were like well, I actually do have, yeah, I do know a little bit of how to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's got some background, so we're not just totally chat gpt our way through this right, I will actually just we are not doing a chat gpt blog, um, because I've read some of those and I'm like that was chat gpt oh yeah, no, I mean, how can we say that it's so important to us that we have this genuine experience?
Speaker 2:no shade on chat, gpt and people who are using that we love AI. The future is now, yes, but you know, we want to be able to truly have our voice in it and be doing it like fully our way. So, anyway and I love writing, so I'm excited to do that portion of it and then we'll have our Instagram, of course, and we'll be able to show off all of the amazing people, and then, after this first year, we will look into expanding our horizon a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think we're setting ourselves up to grow into some big things. So we're starting it all right with we're planning it all right with we're planning, you know, to use a website that's going to allow us options to sell tickets to things it might be in our future. We'll just keep it pretty vague, right there we'll sell tickets to events and just keep it really broad, because I think we have so many ideas we've talked a lot.
Speaker 1:We have so many ideas um, and I think everyone's goal is to see their work on the cover of a magazine, and that's our goal for somebody out there um, you know, I think too I'll just brush the. We can call it like an elephant in the room, like we yes, we are vendors and I just our vendors. Then I, just, you won't be seeing our work on repeat on this page.
Speaker 1:We're not designing a publication so we can highlight ourselves. Right, you'll see our stuff in there here and here and then, but I just want more than anyone else. Yeah, it's not going to be, because I think it's going to be ethical. I'll just say that, uh, we're going to make sure that you're not just seeing us all the time, because nobody, nobody wants that yeah, who cares?
Speaker 1:we have our own stuff for that yeah, we, we have our own Instagram pages if we're really really, really proud of something, um. But yeah, I think I'm just so excited I this wedding industry has been such, it's filled this little hole in my life that I didn't know was there in my early teen, not early teens, my late teen years what 19 gosh 18?
Speaker 1:and 19 that's when I started in the wedding industry, um, and I just felt like the wedding industry was such a happy, exciting, fun place and as I grew into those shoes of building a career, I kind of grew into this friend group of people that I would see at events and I have so many friends and I just think so many people are so, so talented and sometimes they don't even know it you know, and you're like girl that could be on the cover of a magazine, you know, and I think we want to be your hype people of, like, you did a good right, a great job.
Speaker 1:And we want to inspire brides. We want to inspire vendors to work to have this, you know. Oh, I want to be featured. Yeah, I want to be published like. We want to be that place that gives you, you know, that milestone in your career and help you get there. And we want to give brides reputable sources for good vendors to work with people who do amazing, beautiful things.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think that's kind of, at the end of the day, our main focus. And then obviously we're passionate people about the industry, so photo shoots and expos or magazines and everything in between is somewhere out there in the horizon, but we're going to start with podcast, blog and Instagram. Yeah, and we're going to see how that goes.
Speaker 2:I am so excited for this. I'm so excited to serve this community and, like you said so beautifully, just show off. I'm such a hype girl. Yeah, so beautifully, just show off, I'm such a hype girl and I'm so excited to really truly shine a light on all these people who I know, who are out there, all of the vendors, and just be able to show them off and make them feel excited to be shown off and produce that to the brides who are looking for something so amazing, like here's a place where you can find that. So that's something so amazing that you've been looking for.
Speaker 1:Yes, for sure. Yeah, well, we are so excited if you guys made it through this episode. Thank you, um, we have so many other episodes that we are in the works on and we hope that you have fun just sitting and listening to us, feeling like you're with your best friends and just getting to hear more about the wedding industry, because we could talk about this all day.
Speaker 1:So and we will till next time okay, you guys, thank you so much if you made it through this episode. You listening means so much to us. We are beyond excited for this exciting journey and we're not going to be able to do it without you and your amazing contributions. So if you haven't had a chance to find us on Instagram or to submit any work that you have from this year, past years, it doesn't even matter. Honestly, the type of work we're looking for if you missed it in this episode is really anything that you felt excited about, that you felt proud of, that you feel like could inspire other vendors or any potential clients.
Speaker 1:You can find us on Instagram. It's all one word, no spaces, anything saltandveil. And then you can email us any submissions to saltandveil at gmailcom. Please feel free to send us any DMs or emails. If you have ideas for collaborations, if you want to work together on a project, or any questions, we would love to hear from you. We really hope we get to see you at our launch party. You really don't want to miss it and we want you to be a part of this exciting mark and we'll see you guys soon.