Team – Eventistry Top 10 Wedding Planner Malaysia, Certified Green Wedding Professional

Meet Our Founders

Tell us your story. What path leads you to founding Eventistry?

I founded The Wedding Project in 2012 and The Party Project Malaysia 2 years later. Being in the event industry, I have to be very present and hands-on from planning, the setup, actual event day and the post-event follow up. It has been quite a challenge to manage the workload when I was pregnant in 2016, especially times where I have to be bed rested. When I was about to deliver my baby in 2017, I know that it would be even harder to do well in both my business and family, so it was a very painful decision to downsize the business and eventually looking into closing down the company. I remember calling all my staffs one by one into my room and tell them my decision to downsize the business. It was very difficult to release everyone.

Indeed God is amazing when one door is closed, God always opens another door for you. As I was just talking to Juvien about what is her plan after we stop operating The Wedding Project and The Party Project Malaysia, she began to share with me her dream to own a company and be a planner. That was the time when we explore the possibility of why not we partner and build the business together. So after many discussion sessions over coffee and tea, noodles and poke bowls, we finally started the partnership in founding Eventistry in 2018 and the rest is history. :)

Laverne

I have always wanted to be a wedding planner ever since I was in high school.

I started work in The Wedding Project after graduation (yay! one step closer to my dream). Like many young people, I start working on my business plan but it never happens because I always think that I am too young and inexperienced to start my own business. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. In 2017, Laverne told me she was planning to stop operating her business. During our conversation, I shared my thoughts and dream to her and this is how we started the idea of co-owning the business together. From being an employer to a business partner, I am grateful to have Laverne as my partner and look forward to the next chapter in our journey for Eventistry.

Juvien

What is success to you?

Life is made up of choices and to me, success is having the freedom to choose what you love to do. This may sound simple but what you love will keep changing all over time and having the physical, mental and financial ability to do what you love is not an easy task. Success is not the ending so it makes me working toward my dreams. As long as I keep moving in the right direction I feel successful.

Juvien

To me, success is more than just having the money and fame, it is also about doing something that is meaningful to me, doing something I believe in, what I dream and passionate about and of course excelling in those things. It is more than just gaining profit but bringing significance to the industry and community I am in.

Laverne

If you have one advice for budding entrepreneurs, what will it be?

Never forget why you started. There were ups and downs. When life gets tough and we struggle, we might lose track of our mission and start questioning about the busyness of life. That's why we should always look back at WHY we started in the first place.

Juvien

Believe in yourself and always start with what’s in your hand/what you have. Work hard, seek help from experienced people and surround yourself with a good community of encouragers, who will celebrate your successes and believe in you. Have a rest day. Haha! it’s very important because we need that rest for “recreational” because life is more than just work. By having enough rest then we will be able to create more new ideas. :)

Laverne

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