Lynda Barness launched I DO Wedding Consulting in 2004 as her encore career after a successful and award-winning career as a real estate developer and homebuilder. She completed th...view moreLynda Barness launched I DO Wedding Consulting in 2004 as her encore career after a successful and award-winning career as a real estate developer and homebuilder. She completed the certificate program in Wedding Planning and Consulting at Temple University, where she is now an instructor, and has achieved the designation of Master Wedding Planner by the Association of Bridal Consultants. Lynda was recognized in 2010 as the International Society of Event Specialists Best Wedding Planner in the Greater Philadelphia region and was named an Industry Leader by Wedding Planner Magazine in 2016. Her weddings have appeared in Martha Stewart Weddings, The Knot magazine, Philadelphia Weddings magazine, and many other publications. She has planned weddings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and also in London, England.
Lyndas debut book, I DO: A Wedding Planner Tells Tales, was published in 2015. In addition, she is the editor of The Man I Knew Was Once a Boy: The Letters of Herbert Barness, 1938-1948 and The Man I Knew: Herbert Barness In the Press, 1957-1998.view less