We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ashley Huff a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Ashley thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you share a customer success story with us?
Wedding and Event Planning brings out the biggest part of my heart! I have been at events where the fire trucks are called, Grandma’s have broken their wrists and I have held it in a steady position for the ambulance to arrive, to being the moderator between family members. You just never know what you will encounter!
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Ashley Huff was born and raised in Southwest Virginia. She attended Radford University and graduated with a degree in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism with concentration in Special Events in 2019.
In college, Ashley was always decorating for every holiday and planning birthday parties, Friendsgiving’s, Galentine’s dinners, Christmas Parties. etc. She loves to make people happy and feel special on special occasions. After graduating from Radford University, she accepted a Project and Events Coordinator position in South Carolina. That is when she found S & B! Process and organization come naturally to Ashley and she loves to plan every detail. She is very passionate about taking care of her clients and exceeding their expectations. Ashley is very personable, goes above and beyond for her clients and doing whatever is needed to make the event extra special. She has a passion for perfecting details and loves to watch a client’s vision come to life.
Ashley has three pets, her kids as people may say, named Mia, Macy, and Marlin. Mia is a Papitease, Macy is a bob-tailed cat and Marlin is a mini Golden Doodle. They are Ashley’s world and very spoiled!
She loves SC beach sunrises and mountain sunsets.
Ashley loves to weight lift and finds that going to the gym is her escape from reality.
Loves Mexican food and sometimes a frozen margarita… would you like to join me?
She loves gift giving. If you decide to book with her, you will get the cutest welcome box!
Loves to travel and especially cross county road trips. She has a huge bucket list of places still left to visit including San Fransico, Niagara Falls, Norway for Christmas, Dubai and Rome.
She loves Country Music & a fun pair of boots
Ashley loves to watch Friends and as they say “I’ll be there for you”, all throughout your planning process! :)
We’d love to hear about how you met your business partner.
I met Sara McCall, our CEO, through a mutual family friend in 2021! I was working for a Hospital System in SC as their Events Coordinator and was ready to tackle more events.
I had always seen the famous S&B Hummer driving around SC as I visited in the summers and always said I would love to do what she does someday!! Fast forward to Spring of 2021, it was a crazy wedding weekend and Sara asked me to assist with one of her weddings and as you can imagine, I loved it! At the time, I was working full time and picking up events on the weekends. I helped with weekends events until I made the big decision to become an owner in October 2022. I took a leap of faith with the support of Sara and other owners to become the Nashville Office Owner!
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
PIVOT, PIVOT, PIVOT!! The famous Friends Quote!!
Wedding and Event Planning is full of pivotal moments! A few times that stick out to me in my past years have been when the cake didn’t show for reception and we sent an assistant to Publix! Another time would be when Catering’s stove went out and the food was delayed on cooking, we entertained guests with stations instead of buffet, and they never knew! Another pivotal moment would be when grandma fell backwards in her heels and broke her wrist dancing on the dance floor! Me personally, got her up in a chair, held her arm for over 45 minutes waiting on the ambulance to arrive. I actually sent her to the hospital in my favorite flats!
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