Part One: Financial Experts Debate Recession, Wedding Industry Finds Love

We didn’t need the world’s richest person, Warren Buffet, to tell us that “people are already feeling the effects (of a recession).” We feel it every time we fill a gas tank or buy groceries. But when he continued with “It will be deeper and last longer than many think,” he had our rapt attention.

While economists and politicians may stand by statistical measures to deter or promote recession talk, the National Bureau of Economic Research’s (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee assigned with raising the recession flag has declared the undeclared U.S. recession should end by September 2008.

An awfully pale recession may be good news for people in the unemployment lines and at the gas pumps finding job hunting to be a financial chess game. The combination of recent record jumps in the unemployment rate and crude oil prices is leading more and more Americans to seek employment solutions that offer more than just a paycheck.

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Lisa Gorman has a passion for creating distinctive events. Her attention to detail, style and quality, always tailored to the client’s vision, is her professional trademark.

Before launching Memory Makers Events in 1999, Ms. Gorman spent over five years coordinating special events for non-profit groups and community theatre.

She has planned dinners for 15 to 1,500 guests, coordinated high-end weddings, arranged store and restaurant openings in Indianapolis and planned corporate events as well. Along the way she has acquired a keen understanding of what makes an event special: persistent attention to detail coupled with creativity, sensitivity to the needs and wishes of the client, and an insider’s knowledge of available venues and resources.

A graduate of the University of Toledo, Ms. Gorman lives in Indianapolis. “My education and experiences opened doors and presented opportunities in many different directions, but my love for making the ordinary memorable always led me back to this chosen career.” At Memory Makers Events, she focuses all her creativity and effectiveness on planning unique occasions for her clients.

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