It is 4 p.m. on Sunday April 29th 2018. We arrive at the “Bastille Loft” three hours before the evening starts. The preparation is going well; every partner involved in the event is busy trying to decorate their booth to receive participants in the most welcoming way possible. We are setting up our little manikin, ironing the clothes that will be exhibited and we finalize the making of our mini catalogs while having a bite of a ham sandwich. However, the work part is not the only important thing to consider! Relations are as important! So we have the delight to discuss and richly exchange with the friendly designers of @tea.notes, who are very inspiring people through their kindness and gentleness, not forgetting the great designers of @charlesetlucie, who are as much inspiring through their goodwill and creativity (a special shout out to them for having the great idea of creating a ladder made of hangers to help me hang one of our dresses ! 🤗...Someone just had to think about it!). That being said, enough talking cause time is flying and the reception is about to start. We must hurry if we want to be ready on time.
The guests are arriving one after the other and fill the room little by little. It is a rainy day but as the “Multitude” team promised, you just have to enter the room to have some sunshine. That promise was largely kept because the sun was indeed present and a very shiny one! The bartender who is always in a good mood offers cocktails with summery flavors and the buffet is filled with salty canapés and sweet goodness. There is something for every taste here!
The evening is in full swing and the guests are continually strolling around the booths. They are questioning the event’s partners about the event with a lot of interest. Discussions are rising; people exchange friendly smiles with the most polite greeting and one can hear bursts of laughter with live music playing in the background along with accents as “groovy” as the sweet voice tone of the singer, the beautiful : Eellen (@eellen_official) !
Time seems to be frozen and we will like for it to last because this amazing moment is a new step in our entrepreneurial adventure! Our hearts are filled with gratitude towards the passion our guests demonstrate for the cause of the less fortunate and if that can be combined with a personal interest, that is even better! New bonds have been established, new contacts have been made, countless business cards and our catalogs are distributed but time has come to say goodbye! The flock of guests gradually decreases although we have a hard time making them leave because they seem to feel so much at home 😁 ! A saying does say that “there is an end to everything” but we keep smiling because according to our beliefs, “Better is the end of a thing than its beginning”, so it is only a matter of time until we experience these delightful moments again.
What else is left to say? Just big thank you to the “Multitude” team (@challenge_multitude) for putting their trust in us. We will never say it enough, it is once again the proof that “you go faster by yourself, but you go further with others”.
Stay tuned ! 😉