While every bride who wears one of our designer wedding gowns is a VIP, it’s extra special when an employee or their partner chooses to wear one of our designer wedding dresses on their special day! 💍 Did you know more than 25 Essense employees wore one of our bridal gowns on their wedding day over the last couple of years?! It’s always so fun to see how the Team Essense brides showcase their unique style and personality through their bridal look. From ballgowns to column silhouettes, everyone truly stunned in their own way- check out some of our beautiful brides for yourself! hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
We’re winners, baby! 🏆 Our UK Team took a trip this week to Bridal Week in the bridal capital, Harrogate, and had the honor of accepting awards for Best Supplier of Gowns over £3k for Martina Liana and Best Customer Service at the THE RETAIL BRIDALWEAR ASSOCIATION LIMITED (RBA) Awards gala! It was incredible to be recognized and voted on by UK retailers while bringing our suppliers and retailers together for a very special evening. It’s always a pleasure to see our store owners and bask in the beauty of Bridal Week. Check out our team celebrating below 👇 hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
We’re in the news! 🩵📰 The Kansas City Star stopped by our U.S. Headquarters to check out Elevate: A Bridal Style Summit and got a glimpse into all the bridal magic that Team Essense brings to KC! They also chatted with Co-Owner and Chief Creative Officer Martine Harris about why she and husband Wayne Harris chose Kansas for their global bridal company’s U.S. Headquarters. Keep reading to find out what sets our people, company and culture apart! https://lnkd.in/grtQ-fRP hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
Recently, we welcomed more than 500 guests from over 300 bridal stores from across the globe, including Australia and the UK, to our U.S. Headquarters in Lenexa, Kansas for Elevate, a Bridal Style Summit – an event unlike any other in the industry! This one-of-a-kind event featured opportunities for our bridal partners to: ✨ Shop the newest bridal collections ✨ Attend incredible training sessions with our Essense Training Team ✨ Experience hands-on learning from our Essense Experts about best-in-class industry topics ✨ Mingle with our team members and other bridal business owners ✨ Learn tips and tools to help them elevate their business ✨...and so much more Thank you to all the amazing attendees for helping us bring our first-ever Bridal Style Summit to life and making it such a success! hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
Let’s hear it for our summer 2024 interns! 🙌 Our interns spent the summer learning everything Essense of Australia while flexing their skills within their departments, attending company-wide events and soaking up all the bridal vibes! They have made every moment count this summer from steaming gowns and designing veils to creating fresh content and spending time behind the scenes of photo shoots. Thank you to Addison Jett Briley Everhart Sydney Elmore Madison Illig Ella Hedin Kenedi Kelso for all of your hard work! We can’t wait to see what’s in store for you. hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
✅ Connect. ✅ Empower. ✅ Inspire. ✅ Week 1 of hashtag#ElevateBridal Our U.S. Headquarters was electric as we welcomed hundreds of bridal stores from across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia to shop our newest collections. From fashion shows to training sessions and hands-on learning, to mingling and networking with the top bridal stores from around the world, we could not have asked for a better way to kick off this new season! Who’s ready for hashtag#ElevateBridal Week 2?! 😍✨ hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
We love a good theme, especially when it celebrates our global offices and cultures! 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 Every couple of weeks, we let loose and open our Cafés across our global offices for a Fridgey- a themed Essense-style happy hour! Over the last few months, we shined a cultural light on our offices in the U.S., Australia and the UK by hosting Fridgeys to learn more about our friends from across the globe. Despite our distance, we strive to stay connected. Through festive snacks, sips, trivia and tunes, our employees experienced the countries where their peers live, work and play! Stay tuned for our next celebration, where we’ll be recognizing our amazing team in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
At Essense, we love celebrating our people. That includes recognizing milestone service anniversaries for our global team members! This year was especially memorable as we celebrated nearly 50 milestone anniversaries, ranging from five years to 25 years – with 19 of our employees having been with the company for more than a decade! Congratulations to our incredible team members! We’re so grateful for their service and the impact they’ve had on Essense over the years. A special shout out to Melody Smith for 20 years of making bridal magic! hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
And the Emmy goes to... 🏆 We spotted Danielle Pinnock, an actress from hit TV shows, “This Is Us,” “Ghosts” and “Young Sheldon,” wearing a luxurious black off-the-shoulder gown by Martina Liana. She stunned in Style 1608 as a presenter for the Daytime Emmy Awards. In fact, she even landed on several best dressed lists! 😍 Thank you to Della Curva, a bridal salon in Southern California, for getting Danielle red-carpet ready! hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business https://lnkd.in/gv8de8up
A special Essense welcome to our new interns! 🎉 These six talented interns, Addison Jett, Briley Everhart, Sydney Elmore, Madison Illig, Ella Abigail, Kenedi Kelso, joined our U.S. Headquarters last month, kicking off another year of our summer internship program. Coming to us from a variety of backgrounds, they bring incredible insights from universities across the Midwest! Our interns are already getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse into our dreamy world. From helping with our collection launches and creating social and video content to assisting with design development, marketing and everything in between, they are discovering and learning about all things bridal! We are beyond excited to have these amazing interns on our team. We can’t wait to see how they continue to shine throughout the summer! hashtag#fashion hashtag#culture hashtag#business
