Events UK

I attended the show on Tuesday and met some great people and made some great contacts. I also met up with Laura Guest, she was another student on the wedding planning course and now runs her own business LG Weddings in Walsall. We shall be working together on various projects which will be great.

It was my intention to attend over two days but baulked at the carparking fee of £8 per day..I am sure that the sound of me screeching "How Much?" echoed across the whole of Birmingham. I felt that it was a bit of a cheek charging for a trade fair when the parking was free when the Autumn Fair was on. I walked miles too as the shuttle bus seemed to run infrequently from the North Carparks. I also had to return to my car at lunchtime to empty my huge Autumn Fair bag into the boot so that I could collect more brochures etc. I attended one talk and really wanted to attend more but I was tired and my back ached, I was exhausted when I returned home and yesterday was still recovering.

I spent part of yesterday chatting with Elizabeth Graney about her new ventures and sharing tips about wedding fairs and how to organise them. Elizabeth is brilliant and so knowledgable about all sorts of things and she doesnt know it but she inspires me to do better. We also talked about a student on the Planning course who has been driving me insane and I was starting to feel harassed because as soon as I went onto facebook she would pop up in chat straight away and ask me the most ridiculous questions about the course - it became very draining. Actually I am wondering why this woman is even bothering with the course because she is struggling on the first two assignments which are all about her - it is the same for everybody we have to talk about why we are doing the course, what we expect from it, any experiences that we have had..assignment 2 expands on that. This person constantly pesters me and feels that I should be doing her work as well as my own. I had to resort to emailing my own tutor who passed my email to the Institute and they also advised me what to do. In fact when she next popped onto chat, I had to tell her to speak to her tutor and that I was too busy as I had my own assignments to write and a business to run - funny when I pointed her in the direction of the spelling and grammar checker on Word she stopped talking to me altogether (hurrah). What was particularly galling was that I had spent 2 hours talking to her about what a report was and after simple explanations about what was needed for the task she then goes and asks the exact same question on the diploma group and got the exact same answer that I gave her from one of the tutors. Now those of you that know me, know that I will help anyone and those that get help from me don't harass me all the time and it never gets to the point where I feel as though I am being stalked. Having had someone cyber stalk me in the past which caused no end of problems for me and the police had to become involved because it was so bad...I don't particularly want that to happen to me again because it is quite frightening. Thankfully this student has been removed from my own group and banned permanently as well as being removed from my friends listing - she has my personal email address but its easy enough to block her so her emails just to go the deleted items box.

I am feeling a lot more positive about the wedding fair this coming Sunday - I have been advised that I am being fed and watered and today I confirmed that there will be a tablecloth on the table so I don't need to take one (I have a lovely, pretty net curtain that I was going to drape on the table but I will take it just in case). So far today I have chatted to Laura who suggested that I don't do a price list for people to take away but do a couple of sheets about what a wedding planner does and what I would do for them and let them take that but keep the price list for them to look through.

I also have to work on this advert for Perfect Wedding magazine - the deadline for copy is tomorrow. My mate Sal has suggested that her dad could look over my advert if I am struggling so I emailed her last night so hopefully he can cast his expert eye over it and make some suggestions - her dad used to the adverts for cadbury's - only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate, tastes like chocolate never tasted before. I adore the flake adverts. I used to like the girl in the poppyfield with red hair because being a red head myself it was unusual to see red heads advertising anything.

Oh shucks...I need to think about a bite to eat and clean my teeth again as I have a dental appointment at 2.30 - I don't fancy driving there (the roads have changed) and the 2 mile walk from the bus stop will do me good. I could get the train but I hate trains and don't like the stairs at the stations.