We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Bridget Green. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Bridget below.

Alright, Bridget thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

In 2017, I obtained my real estate license. After passing the real estate exam I signed on with a Keller Williams office and began learning to become a Realtor. In January of 2018, I decide to leave my full time job and focus completely on being a full time Realtor. I really wanted learn a new profession and make my mark. Little did I know the lessons and rewards I would learn from taking such a big risk.

Let’s start with an eye opening realization. Being a self employed/entrepreneur requires a completely different mindset then the mindset of an employee. As an employee you go in at your set start time, leave at the end of your day, pick up where you left off the next day and you know you will be receiving a check every two weeks.

Being self employed/an entrepreneur…no sales…no check….period. You can put in the work but that doesn’t mean that the work you’ve done will generate sales. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. And there are things you may not like doing but it’s a part of the learning process. I started mentoring with a couple of the top Realtors, learning from them. In my learning I was having a bit of a difficult time with the sales part of it and that came from the fact that I wasn’t confident in what I was doing. I asked the Realtors I was working with if I could be their Open House Agent, working their open houses for them.

Little did I know that that request would lead me into an entirely different profession. Being an open house real estate agent opened my eyes to decor and design. Colors, patterns, textures, unique furnishings, accent decor and creative freedom. Being an open house agent also was a training ground for hosting events. I was in love and had found what I would later have a passion for and didn’t realize it.

For five months I was a full time Realtor, but it was in the third and fourth months that I had the realization that I may need to return back to my former full time job. The bills was backing up, seriously backing up, but I felt like leaving was giving up on my dream. Oh, how wrong I was, sometimes our dream morphs, twists, turns and evolves into something completely different but we have to be open to allowing that to happen. I went back to the job I had left five months earlier. This return taught me another lesson…humility and learning that sometimes during your journey you might have to backtrack to get back on track.

My lessons from taking this risk:
1) If you don’t take the risk you’ll never know that you have gifts, skills and abilities within you that will only come forth if you take risks.

2) Getting out of your comfort zone and taking risks stretches you in the most amazing and challenging ways. Once you do it you’ll never be able to go back a “comfort zone” mindset.

3) Give yourself grace. You are stepping into the unknown. Be okay with the fact that you are learning something new and be kind to yourself. A part of learning is making mistakes. We all had to crawl before we could walk and walk before we could run. Learning something completely new is no different. Whatever new skill or profession you are learning follows those same steps.

4) Be humble. Understand there are things you do not know. Listen more than you speak. Ask questions and more questions. Seek out mentors both in person and through books and videos.

Bridget , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am an intimate event creator, designer, host and floral designer. I love bringing people together for evenings of conversation, laughter and fun. Being an open house real estate agent led to a dream that I had always had of being an event planner.

November of 2019, that desire to get out of my comfort zone came roaring back so I started asking myself a lot of questions about what I wanted to do with my life. And had I done all that I wanted to do with my life or had I done what other people wanted me to do? Those answers led me to enrolling in a Project Management course in January 2020, to learn basic project management. I finished that course two weeks before the shelter in place orders came down. During the shelter in place time I started looking at event planning courses, and in January of 2021, I enrolled in Schoolcraft Colleges Event Planning classes. Michigan was starting to allow small weddings. My instructor was a florist and a baker who does wedding and corporate events work, so I approached him and asked if he needed help with any of the weddings he had booked. He said yes, and in April of 2021, I started working with him and being mentored by him.
I completed the course and continued to work with him and learn from him until September of 2025.

Also while still taking classes, I started hosting small intimate supper club events to get my feet wet, and because I felt there was need. People were craving connection and face to face conversation. A few of the events featured live entertainment and a few were just dinner and conversation.

I was doing this in addition to working with and learning from my instructor, primarily assisting with large weddings and corporate events but every now and then he would have a small wedding he needed help with, and it was the small events that sealed it for me. Intimate events were what I had a passion for, while at the same time making the decision to pursue floral design. So in May of 2024, I enrolled in Macomb Community College’s Floral Design program to pursue becoming a floral designer.

That passion for small events and bringing people together led me to an opportunity to partner with a friend, Farheen Gill who I had met through a She Hive entrepreneurial cohort. In March of 2024, we launched Cozy Vibes Silent Book Club at Blue Hat Coffee in Downtown Farmington. Farheen handles the social media side of the house and I had the events set-up and meetings with different venues in Downtown Farmington to discuss opportunities to host our book club meet-ups at their locations. Cozy Vibes Silent Book Club is what some like to say is an introvert’s books club. No assigned books. No questions and no homework. Just an hour to an hour and a half of silent reading with a little introductory conversation at the beginning of the meet-up and at the end you can decide if want to keep reading or chat with others in attendance about what they are reading.

Also in 2024, I began to receive inquires from friends who were DIY brides asking if I could help them with parts of their Micro weddings. Thus requests led me to learning more about Micro Weddings and assisting them. That led me to launch Your Elegant Moments, LLC, where I assist the DIY and Micro Wedding brides who may have specific needs they need assistance with. They know what they want and may have decided a full on wedding planner is not in their budget, or they know there is no need for a full wedding planner, That is the creative service I provide for brides.

What set’s me…I love what I do. There’s something about small intimate celebrations with your family and closest friends. That celebration can be minimally classy and elegant or elegantly over the top because of the size. You can design it however you like without breaking the bank.

I’m most proud of taking the risk to step out of my comfort zone to learn not just event planning, but also about the design components as well, i.e., pipe and draping, tablescape creating, balloon design and floral design. I wanted to learn and continue to learn more and more about not just events planning but all those special touches that make for a memorable event so when I speak with my clients I am knowledgeable about those things. In addition to using that knowledge in the events that I create and host outside of Your Elegant Moments.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I had to unlearn the notion that your dream will be exactly the way you thought it would be. I’ve learned it’s an ever evolving journey and just because it doesn’t look like you originally envisioned doesn’t mean your dream is gone, or that it’s any less than what you dreamed. It may have evolved into something much larger than you could have ever dreamed or imagined. Open your hands and allow it to evolve. Enjoy the process. Enjoy the journey.

My backstory…In my wildest imagination I never would have thought that taking a leap of faith to become a real estate agent would lead me into becoming an event planner, event designer and floral designer. Sharing this with you fills me with gratitude that nothing is impossible.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Creating something where people can leave whatever is bothering them or the stress of the day or week behind for a period of time. When you see someone relax before your very eyes and see the smile on their face and in their eyes, it’s such a rewarding feeling to know that you were able to make that happen. Even if it’s just for a moment.

Contact Info:

• Website: Your Elegant Moments.com…..coming soon
• Instagram: @youreleganmoments…coming soon