Bernadette Peter’s Eyelashes…

I’ve talked about my wedding before, but lemme tell you something else about that wedding… I DIY’d the eff outta it.

Before we even started planning the wedding, Matt and I agreed that we’d rather serve hot dogs and be able to invite more people than have some fancy meal for less friends.

Matt and I both love our friends like they’re family and it was important to us to not leave anyone out.

But we also didn’t have an endless budget to blow on one party.

So we got scrappy. 😬

And we did end up serving hot dogs, but you already knew that. 🌭🎉

I also made my bouquet out of old comic books. Matt’s dad collected comic books so it seemed like the perfect way to have him at the ceremony in spirit.

But really when you DIY something, you never really “do it yourself” right? You usually need support.

I know I did. We called on our amazing community of family and friends to help us pull it off…

• My high school students helped make tissue paper flowers for the tables
  
• My old roommate Kris was the videographer for 150 bucks plus beer and hot dogs
  
• Our friend Tess (who has the byline for that pic of me and KC and our Big Gulps) offered up her beautiful historic home for portraits before the ceremony
  
• Krystal (who I have a matching $22 friend tattoo with) left the set of Mozart In The Jungle and flew down from New York to do my makeup which is how I ended up with Bernadette Peter’s eyelashes
  
• Matt’s buddy Jake took a break from photographing punk rock shows to photograph our wedding

It’s an amazing feeling to know that you don’t have to do it all yourself. To know you have a community around you that really cares about you and wants you to succeed.

It’s like they say…

Do people really say that?

Maybe it’s me… I’m the people who say it. 🤪😂

Anyhoo… when it comes to your business, do you have supportive people you feel you can reach out to when you need it?

The thing about me is that I love helping people. And I love thinking of scrappy ways to get stuff done.

I want to be available to you when you’re troubleshooting something in your business and offer up a quick, easy, scrappy solution.

When I say “quick and easy” I don’t mean it in a sleazy sales page kinda way.

I mean it in a “What’s the easiest way to get more eyeballs on your business” kinda way.

When you really get down to it, running a business is literally just:

👉 I have this thing… Do you wanna buy it?

The “Online Marketing World” is always trying to overcomplicate it to sell you stuff you don’t need.

But what you really need is space to experiment, a network of people who support you, and a way to get more visibility without having to post on social media all the freaking time.

It’s what we do inside The Playhouse Collective.

And can we just change DIY to DIWF? (do it with friends)

Executive decision made! 💥👊