I just realized that I have less than a week left here at the Great Southern Restaurant Group. This realization has generated many emotions, or perhaps it is delirium, as I near my 10th hour in the workday. Either way, I am truly sad to wave goodbye to such a wonderful four months.
What is an internship and what is the point of one? Technically, the purpose of an internship is to gain hands-on experience in the field of work you are interested in pursuing. Realistically, in the field of public relations and marketing, there is a plethora of positions to shadow. Lucky for me, I sought a pretty fantastic one!
What I Thought Would Happen
To give you a background on how I came about interning with Shelley Yates at The Fish House would be the polite thing to do.
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We have all seen the show “Say Yes to the Dress” on TLC. Like every girl, before I was engaged I dreamed about my wedding: the perfect dress that I would wear walking down the perfect aisle, in the perfect church, to marry the perfect groom! I have seen too many episodes of that show to admit but one thing I took from all those women in all those shows—I was not going to be one of those brides that listened to everyone from their cousin to their best friend to the future mother. I did not want to sit in a room with my friends and family clouding my thoughts about what I truly wanted in a dress! Everyone knows that when we go to a movie and watch the previews, suddenly we all become professional movie critics, telling the person next to us which movie is a bomb and which one you can’t wait to see. Well, woman in dress shops suddenly become Tim Gunn from “Project Runway” looking you up and down like you are a complete wreck! Well, no sir. That’s not for me!
So there I was in Puerto Rico—total time engaged less than 24 hours—and I looked at my fiancé and said to him I was going to grab us some drinks. As I walked out of the hotel, lo and behold, across the street was a beautiful bridal shop. I thought, “Oh, what the heck! I’ll just go in for a look.” No harm in that, right?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s finally happening. Yours truly, party planner extraordinaire, is taking the blissful dive into matrimony. You are all probably thinking how easy the planning of such an occasion might be for me, considering that is what I do!
Well, friends, if you think that, you would be wrong. Okay, so yes it is easy for me to know who is going to make my cake and who is going to do my flowers. I have seen lots of work done by the amazing women none other than Shannon Pallin from Fiore and Betty Weber who makes the best cakes in town. Catering, of course, will be taken care of by the masterful chefs here at the Fish House (we’re keeping all of the vendor venues local). Sounds like I have a pretty good plan, right?
Well, that isn’t the half of it. From booking the church to picking the wine and music, it can all get very overwhelming. Not saying it can’t be done, but the last thing a bride wants to worry about on her wedding day is whether the DJ shows
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I just realized that I have less than a week left here at the Great Southern Restaurant Group. This realization has generated many emotions, or perhaps it is delirium, as I near my 10th hour in the workday. Either way, I am truly sad to wave goodbye to such a wonderful four months.
We have all seen the show “Say Yes to the Dress” on TLC. Like every girl, before I was engaged I dreamed about my wedding: the perfect dress that I would wear walking down the perfect aisle, in the perfect church, to marry the perfect groom! I have seen too many episodes of that show to admit but one thing I took from all those women in all those shows—I was not going to be one of those brides that listened to everyone from their cousin to their best friend to the future mother. I did not want to sit in a room with my friends and family clouding my thoughts about what I truly wanted in a dress! Everyone knows that when we go to a movie and watch the previews, suddenly we all become professional movie critics, telling the person next to us which movie is a bomb and which one you can’t wait to see. Well, woman in dress shops suddenly become Tim Gunn from “Project Runway” looking you up and down like you are a complete wreck! Well, no sir. That’s not for me!
