Happy birthday to us.. Happy birthday to us...
A word for
the writer: Jaime Valdes-Riench, owner of Travel & Events with Style and
Destinations With Style
I can’t believe it! We are officially 10 years old. We made to be 10 Years With Style!!
What a honour it is to announce our companies’ birthdays. In some ways it has felt like it happened in
a blink of an eye, yet looking back and going over the memories is puts me into
a state of awe of all the ground we have broken to get to this point. Our humble beginnings where nothing more than
Jorge and myself looking at each other and saying, “So are you ready?”… us
plugging our noses, and jumping into the deep end! I personally have been doing travel for wow…
19 years and counting? But these past 10 years have been full of sweet
successes and a few bitter learning hurtles.
Every one of them ending with a happy ending of course!
When Travel & Events with Style first opened it doors to
serving its guests, it was a business model almost unheard of, especially for
our little city of Winnipeg, MB. I am a
firm believer that most things are meant to be and every day is a gift ready to
be unwrapped. Every milestone we passed
where truly moments to remember always.
Hard or easy, they are what gives us experience.
When Travel & Events with Style was created, the goal
was to merge the love of travel with weddings.
Destination Weddings where starting to grow and to have a firm that
offered the travel agency and the wedding planner firm under one roof only
made perfect sense. As time went on, we
as a company started to notice the areas of challenges for our couples. We then added services such as Officiant
services to be wed prior to departure, wedding invitations, wedding websites,
and really, the list always seems to grow.. we now even have fitness?! And a
destination wedding magazine, book and bridal show?! What?! We
are pinching ourselves! We can honestly say that when a service is added on, we educate
ourselves in that area to offer our guests our very best. The best part of passing this 10 year
milestone is that we have now have had the chance to grow our relationships
with amazing suppliers around the world! One thing we have always strove for was to
keep our company couture and boutique.
The only way to offer service that is beyond status quo is to keep the
quality with hands on, personalized service.
To everyone who has stuck by us thorough these years, to
every client that has honoured us as being our guest, and to everyone we have
met along the way, I Jorge and I want to say, Thank you. It is a blessing we are here doing what we
love and YOU all where a large part of it!
Salud!
Jaime Valdes-Riench & Jorge Valdes
