“The more that you travel, the more you learn.”
Dallas Vickers is an event and wedding planner working from Myrtle Beach. She explores the importance of learning how to deal with stress at work and the role that a healthy work-life balance plays in those stressors.
About
Dallas Vickers is an event and wedding planner working from Myrtle Beach. She attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, but she sought out an internship in Myrtle Beach because of family connections. While event planning can be a high-stress and high-pressure business, Vickers focuses on a healthy work-life balance and the importance of knowing your professional community.
The community surrounding event planning is very tight-knit and people are always willing to help and collaborate. Many people within the even planning world know each other, as many of them have interned for Sarah McCall, the CEO of Stunning and Brilliant Events: “Everyone knows everyone. We all help each other out.”
Dallas manages many schedules, creates budgets and handles “high emotional and energy events,” such as weddings. She handles this stress is an ever-present process that is done through on the job experience, “I’ve learned a lot about how I handle conflict and how to properly handle conflict.”
As an event planner, she explains, “our clients want to see that we’re fun people. They want to see that we’re going on vacation and experiencing things and doing creative things”. Dallas says that it is important to find that balance, but it is a personal journey to find it.
