How I Did It: Celebrity Event Planner Diann Valentine’s Business of Love

Event-planning entrepreneur Diann Valentine has taken her dream of mixing business and love and made it a reality filled with celebrity clients and business success. Valentine’s journey spans from modest beginnings as a teenage wedding planner to  becoming the creator of lavish multimillion-dollar nuptial experiences for the likes of R&B icon Toni Braxton

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Famously known for sparking the “Tiffany blue” wedding color craze and incorporating exquisite details such as a fish tank dance floor, Valentine prides herself on catering to the client to design events that are both awe-inspiring and unforgettable.

BlackEnterprise.com caught up with the author and host of WE tv’s I Do Over on making a living centered on amour, her secrets to business success, and why event-planning is about more than just throwing a party.

 

(Produced by Janell Hazelwood; Videography and editing by Melissa Johnson)

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