My wedding

What does my wedding have to do with my professional skills? Isn't it a private event?

Sure, but I think it demonstrates important aspects of my personality, among which the soft skills that are needed in the professional world.

Organizing the event

I got married in august 2022. My fiancée and I spent more than a year preparing the event. We are proud to report that we organized everything by ourselves (booking the place, the church, the caterer, the various service providers, etc.).

Even though we organized everything ourselves, we did not cut back on what we intended to do. We had more than 300 people at the church, and still 110 at the evening meal. We were helped by a lot of friends, and the scout community. The whole week-end was a great success, with everything going smoothly according to plan, or perfectly handled by the friends to whom we had delegated the organization on D day.

Even better! We have managed to keep the costs way below 20,000€, the mean cost of a wedding in France, by carefully selecting the location.

We also took care of the carbon footprint of our wedding, in accordance with our ecological convictions.

If think that organizing my own wedding at age 21 demonstrates some important soft skills:

• organization: because a wedding requires a lot of work, sometimes up to 1 year well in advance.

• communication: because you have to be very clear in telling service providers what you want

• decision making and being realistic: the most common problem with self-organized weddings is planning thousands of things, not clearly stating what you want and and having to sort things out at the last minute. I think we have been very realistic with my wife, which enabled us to take a full morning of pause before the wedding, as things went so well!

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