Shafonne Myers is living her dream by helping others realize their dreams. While attending Mary Baldwin College she coordinated all social events on campus through her direction of the Baldwin Program Board. That experience helped her further develop the leadership, creative and organizational skills she brings to her clients as well as to her classroom students.

Since graduating from MBC, Shafonne founded and is president of Making Your Event Special, a top wedding and event consulting firm in Richmond, Virginia, and now Indianapolis, Indiana. Continuing her tradition of bringing people together, she organizes socials and workshops to provide couples with tips and tricks to help plan their weddings as well as wedding and event planners looking for continuing education. She also offers consultations to couples and aspiring wedding and event planners through face-to-face meetings, phone calls, emails and Twitter.

As a Certified Wedding Planner and instructor for Lovegevity’s Wedding Planning Institute, Shafonne tells her students and future planners to “Just get out there and live your dream”. In addition to her expertise, warm and bubbly personality, and meticulous attention to detail, she also offers internships to graduates of the program and helps any way she can to ensure their success.

“So often students come through the program and doubt themselves, not thinking that they can make it. It is hard, and it will be tough, but I reassure them that if they got this far, then it is meant to be,” she says.

Shafonne and her staff at Making Your Event Special pride themselves on providing superb customer service as well as helping the community and future wedding planners achieve their goals. She is the author of several articles on wedding planning, which have been featured in many local and national wedding-industry publications, and runs her own wedding blog, Divas and Weddings. She loves sharing her knowledge as well as providing real-life experience with her students, with the hopes that they will accomplish their dreams as she did.

Are you interested in becoming a wedding and event planner? Take a moment to check out a tour from Lovegevity’s Wedding Planning Institute. Lovegevity also offers a Signature Wedding and Event Design course from Preston Bailey, and a Green Wedding Planning course. Combination classes are available, too, as well as online courses. You can meet our instructors and see a list of some LWPI partner schools here.

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