Do you remember when you were little and you got your first box of 64 crayons? 

MY STARS—the variety!  The colors!  Everything from burnt orange to blue-violet, and of course the ever so coveted gold and silver.  Gold and silver were

like the Boardwalk and Park Place of crayons.  After only having eight colors before, gold and silver were what the rest of those painfully ordinary colors aspired to be. Oh the possibilities!  You get that gold crayon and you go to town—and I mean you get your money’s worth out of that gold crayon.  Everything is gold:  trees, flowers, people, cars.  You name it.  Soon, it loses its luster, because it’s being used so much, and just doesn’t seem natural.  There is a time and place for everything, and after all—you can only have so much gold.

I have found this to be true in the wedding industry, too.  Someone comes along with a hot idea, concept or piece of advice. Everyone wants to try it, do it, to be it.  In some instance, it works for the picture.  A little gold is nice as an accent.  Other times, all your client wants is a plain ole blue crayon.  Blue, albeit a far more common color has many uses and many beautiful shades.

Don’t forsake who you are for the next shiny thing:  you’ll deprive of us of the true you.