Justine Bonalewicz and her husband skipped their babymoon to attend the first Boutique Summit instead. She wanted to open a boutique called Sass and Sparkle, found The Boutique Hub on Facebook, and left the Summit with the confidence and business knowledge to make it happen.
No, that's good. My husband brought me to Rhode Island. We met at a country concert, and he came over and told me I had nice cowboy boots, got down on.
One knee, proposed to her by the end of the night.
He did actually propose to me at the end of the night, saying that I'm the type of girl you bring home to mom. I always wanted to be in retail, working with people, that family atmosphere, just helping people, getting to meet different people. And that's when I started to kind of itch to want to do it myself. And that's when I threw the idea at my husband of, hey, I think I want to do this, I think I want a truck. What do you think?
I had the utmost confidence in her to be able to do it. Anything she'd ever said she was going to put her mind to, she did tenfold.
So I found out about the boutique hub through Facebook, through social media, signed up for the email list, and it just so happened that I signed up like two weeks before the first ever boutique summit. And I was. I was pregnant at that time and I. We wanted to go on a babymoon, as we called it, to kind of get away. So I said, hey, instead of a babymoon, like, I wanted this boutique summit thing. What do you think?
Okay, we'll do that for our babymoon. So, Yep.
So coming last year to the first ever boutique summit, I was really nervous. I was really glad that I had my husband with me. He was kind of like my little built in boutique bestie, as we call them. It was a really great experience. The positivity, as soon as you walked in the door was just contagious.
The wealth of knowledge that was here was just astounding. She starts, like throwing around numbers. I'm like, I'm surrounded by like a bunch of millionaires here.
I was feeling like a little tiny fish in a big pond. And I came to summit and I had a woman come up to me and she was like, oh, my God, you're Justine from Sass and Sparkle. And I was like, what? Like what? You know me, like you know who I am. And it was just kind of like a pretty amazing moment.
I'm so glad you dragged me along this journey with you. It's been a fun ride and I'm planning to stay on it and I can't wait to see where it takes us.
Good to know you're gonna stay.
Love you.
Love.
