#1: Andrea Hawkes - 10 Years of Business Success Creating Sustainable Bridal Fashion and A Journey of Personal Resilience and Recovery

LOVEMYDRESS.NET // Love My Dress is a popular Wedding Blog, Wedding Directory, Shop and now, Podcast. Every week, we share real weddings and beautiful editorial content with a focus on bridal fashion, suppliers and venues. We also share some great thought provoking insights and opinion pieces and I'm passionate about shining a spotlight on the many small creative businesses who work within the wedding industry.
The Love My Dress podcast has been created for anyone planning their wedding, for all wedding business owners and everyone interested in the world of creative business entrepreneurship, whether you're deeply involved in the wedding industry, on its periphery, or are just generally curious.
This Podcast will offer a fresh perspective; instead of covering a different aspect of wedding planning each week, I'll be engaging in conversation with inspiring business owners, creative visionaries, and talented entrepreneurs. Together, we'll explore topics ranging from weddings and business to personal life experiences that have influenced the careers and professional lives of my guests.
I feel really driven to raise this industry and the many wonderful businesses and people who work within it. To me, these individuals are truly remarkable and epitomise the joy of life when a creative career path is embarked upon. I also want to fill that void that I believe mainstream and legacy media often neglect. I'm dissatisfied with how the press often relegates weddings to mere fillers for their columns, and I'm weary with newspaper articles that undermine the value of weddings, solely promoting budget and high street options. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with these choices—I feature many such weddings on Love My Dress. However, budget and high street are not the only options. There is a vast community of creative talent who are worth the money they charge and I want to help my audience understand the reasons why.
I want to lift the lid and take a deep dive into what it’s like to be a wedding business owner and entrepreneur. I want to honour the community of incredibly talented British designers and dressmakers who are preserving time honoured craftsmanship. I want to champion the photographers, videographers, planners, stylists, flowers growers and florists, stationers, cake makers, beauty specialists, celebrants, entertainers and many more, for creating magic and memories.
I also want to remove stigma around issues dealt with every day by creative business owners, like mental health, business burnout and financial difficulty. And, on the the end of the spectrum - I want to make it cool to talk about and celebrate business successes.
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