We recently connected with Allen and Mary Guerra and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Allen and Mary thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you walk us through some of the key steps that allowed you move beyond an idea and actually launch?
From Engaged to Married was born after Allen officiated their daughter’s wedding. Our daughter said “Dad, would you officiate our wedding. Allen prepared an amazing ceremony and everyone was crying tears of joy. It was that weekend when the idea of being a wedding officiate came about. Allen felt that this was something that he needed to do, but how. Allen’s entrepreneurial mind was set in motion. Over the next six weeks research was done on how to officiate weddings professionally, where to find couples, the importance of social media, and of course, setting up our very first website. When Allen sets his mind to something, he is unstoppable. All along he was inspired by the love of his wife, Mary, who showered him with faith and support. It didn’t take long to find couples for who Allen could write his magical ceremonies for their wedding day.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
Our whole brand is about creating and officiating a wedding ceremony inspired by our couples. What sets us apart from our competition is that our couples have a married couple writing a ceremony for a couple getting married. Every ceremony is personally written by Allen and Mary and every ceremony takes at least five to six days to write, and often more. Ceremonies are not written all at once. Ceremonies are written over time so that we can make sure the perfect words are selected for what they mean. Today’s couple doesn’t want a long ceremony which makes creating a shorter ceremony the most challenging because there is only a short amount of time to tell the couple’s story and make it the most meaningful part of their wedding day. Our ceremonies are meant to help our couples feel emotion and intimacy so that they are surrounded by love.
Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?
Allen’s business partner is his amazing wife Mary. no business can be successful unless you have a partner that sees the long-term vision of the business. What makes things even more amazing is just a few months after starting From Engaged To Married, Mary made this her full-time job. Her focus and drive propelled us farther than we could have imagined. Her social media prowess and warm smile and personality let our couples see why Allen fell in love with her.
Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?
Understanding the power of social media and how to let social media to allow our couples to find us, was a lesson we learned over the past years. We learned that showing potential couples who we are and what we do allows them to meet us in such a way that by the time we have our first conversation it is like talking to an old friend.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.fromengagedtomarried.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fromengagedtomarried/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fromengagedtomarried
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fromengagedtomarried
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/FromEngaged
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqbCcqR6o1KqeMqjV0B5Q_g
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