Lynda Barness has been an experienced, award-winning businessperson, but she also happens to be a mom with a married daughter whose wedding she planned. That experience taught her a lot — and became her inspiration.
Lynda Barness has now been recognized as a Master Wedding Consultant™ by the Association of Bridal Consultants.
She is one of a total of 69 worldwide to have earned this designation.
Lynda Barness, Master Wedding PlannerTM, has been named an Industry Leader by Wedding Planner Magazine in its September/October 2016 issue.
The magazine chose just TWO Industry Leaders in the Wedding Planning/Design category, and Lynda Barness was one. Frank J. Andonoplas was also named. Two vendors were named as leaders, as were a social media leader and an association leader.
Barness became a wedding planner as an encore career and received this recognition in her 12th year in the wedding industry. Prior to this, Barness spent over twenty years as a homebuilder and real estate developer in the Greater Philadelphia, PA, region. She published a book, “I DO: A Wedding Planner Tells Tales,” in 2015.
Readers were asked to nominate “those individuals who exhibit true leadership qualities in the wedding industry,” and then the Advisory Board made their selections.