First Wedding of the year sees The Creative Occasion Co. leap into 2023

Given that the focus of this issue is growth, it seems only appropriate that The Creative Occasion Co celebrates its first achievement since becoming public in September 2022.

The company successfully planned and styled their first wedding of 2023, their first wedding since they launched after five months of networking and business development.

On January 21st, 30 people attended the wedding at Enterkine Country House, which began with a private ceremony at dusk, followed by the party of a lifetime, with 200 evening guests attending.

“From our first meeting with Caroline we knew we had made the right decision. Already under pressure with wedding planning as we had booked a date only 4 months away Caroline lifted the pressure instantly. With my fiancé and I both working, studying and raising our family of 5 children there was little time left to plan our wedding.

“Every detail had been meticulously thought out and was completely original and unlike anything I had ever seen before. It all still feels like a dream.” www.thecreativeoccasionco.com

A focus on Food and Art to Revitalise Ayr Town Centre

Narture evolved during the first lockdown from previous projects that occupied empty properties with cultural pop-ups. The first permanent property was established as The Sourdough Bakery at 3 Cathcart Street in June 2020, ‘baking real bread to earn the dough to fund arts projects. The bakery recently won ‘Scotland Bread Bakery of The Year in the Prestige Awards. This success led to achieving a second property, the vacant Historic Lady Cathcart House across from the bakery at 22 Sandgate, where an art space was established.

Following a successful CrowdFunder campaign in 2021 during the incredibly trying times of repeated lockdowns they curated a programme of experiential and immersive arts projects, poetry and storytelling events.

Planning permission was recently granted to change the use of the art space at 22 Sandgate to an artisan café which opened in June 2022. The sit-in cafe features their handcrafted sourdough products and seasonal menu based on ethical fresh produce, along with craft-roasted coffees, loose leaf teas and more.

www.narture.co.uk

LOCAL SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER SAYS BUSINESSES SHOULDN’T SHY AWAY FROM VIDEO CONTENT

Do you recoil at the mere mention of TikTok?

Social media manager Chloe Hendrie is determined to show local businesses that short form video content is to be embraced, not feared.

“I think a lot of people are still under the impression that TikTok is for dancing teenagers,” says Chloe, who runs Fangirl Social. “When really, it’s evolved into this massive online marketing platform which is also used by many as a search engine.”

Chloe decided to share her expertise after identifying the issue faced by small business owners: as focus has shifted towards video content, people are expected to become content creators – which is a full-time job in itself.

“A lot of business owners don’t have the time alongside everything else that’s required of them,” says Chloe, “or maybe they just don’t want to be on camera. They want to run their business, not be the face of it.”

Anyone interested in working with Chloe should get in touch via chloe@fangirlsocial.com