Welcome to the Bridechilla podcast. I'm your host, Leah Hasledge. Whether you're just starting to plan or you're counting down the days, I'm here to help

you stay cool, calm, and collected throughout the wedding journey. So, let's get this wedding party

started and embrace your inner bride chila. Hey, Chillas, welcome back. And today, we're welcoming

back our friend Diane Kolonovich ChChelya, who is the owner of

D.K. Events. So excited to have you back. Hi. Thank you so much. I'm so thrilled to be back. How

exciting. And so last time you were on the show, you started to spill the tea about your personal

wedding planner experience and how it actually led to your career. So let's kick off with telling everyone your kind of poor story that led to you helping other

couples.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

When I got engaged, I was currently working at some really big law firms and I was doing

corporate planning, right?

So for the marketing department, doing huge gala's in New York City,

you know, doing their educational programs, things like that. So when I got engaged and went

into the planning part, I already knew that one, I can probably do it all, but my fiance, my now

husband was like, you don't want to work that day. And I'm like, oh,

yeah, you know what? I need the help, right? Ding, ding, ding, ding. Right? So I actually

asked our photographer who I still adore and he's the best and we still keep in touch. It's really,

really fun. And we've worked together on like weddings now, afterwards which is kind of cool and he gave me

a recommendation and I trusted it and we met with them and it seemed great and they seemed on top of

things and you know I told them I'm like listen my expectations are probably like over and above this

right it's what I do I do it for a living.

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