It's taken me a while to get to grips with the whole Internet social media and blogging scene to be honest, and I'm embarrassed to say so. I have a love hate relationship with Facebook generally and didn't quite get the micro blogging of Twitter let alone blogging! (I never had a diary when I was a child)..for the past 12 months when networking with other Wedding & Event professionals to inform them of my services I've been asked numerous times...
''Have you got a Facebook page, are you on Twitter...what's your Blog address???''
WHAT!! I've always seen all these forms of media as a way to connect with friends and not a tool for business therefore I kind of lost my way in my panic of ...
''I gotta get me a blog...and what the hell is a #tag!!!''
I became a technological ostrich and hid my head in the social media sand. It was all a chore to me which resulted in me writing blogs that made me sound like a whinging Minnie who's constantly annoyed and on her soap box preaching to noone like those that you see up at speakers corner, and linking my Facebook business page to my Twitter so I was killing 2 birds with 1 stone (not one of my favourite analogy's but an apt one in this situation)
I immerse myself in other peoples blogs in my social time and enjoy every minute perusing their pages and LOL ing at quips and cheeky lines, becoming all emotional at tender moments captured in beautiful images and agreeing whole heartedly with advice. Why wasn't mine like theirs??!!.....It wasn't until I spoke to a couple of friends who told me that I needed to write about what I like and some advice written on Kat Williams' 'Rock 'n Roll Bride' blog that a metaphorical removal of blinkers happened.
I am a slushy romantic at heart and love the wedding industry and I am passionate about what I do but that doesn't mean I have to get all ranty and in ya face about it. That's not me! So when I saw the poster pic above ''Love is the new Black'' I thought .... yeah that's more like it Gayle....I'm not going to try and jump on the same band wagon as the other wedding blogs out there but it is my main client base so there will be alot of wedding and bridal influences BUT with my florist twist (I hope!)...so...ahem....fanfair please...welcome to my new Blog :) ... may it inform you more on the pleasures in my life and career.
Gayle xx
(ps ...I may still get a little bit ranty at times though )
Photo credit - Gayle Evans
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