Founded in 2008, The Sweetest Occasion is a wedding and lifestyle blog devoted to event design and pretty details for celebrating stylish events, weddings and special occasions. A devoted following of readers come for content covering a diverse yet highly edited range of wedding ideas, party inspiration, paper and stationery, handmade goods, entertaining, decor and featured events of all shapes and sizes. With a steadily growing readership of brides, newlyweds, young moms, hostesses and paper lovers, The Sweetest Occasion is a go-to source for design ideas and event inspiration.
Cyd Converse
Editor + Creative Director
Cyd Converse founded The Sweetest Occasion in the summer of 2008, bringing her lifelong passion for design, stationery, weddings, parties and photography to life. By day, Cyd can be found blogging, day dreaming, keeping company with her pack of lovable dogs, drinking good coffee, and planning the next big thing. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture and a Master of Business Administration from St. Bonaventure University. Cyd resides in Syracuse, New York where she also offers styling, design and planning services through her event design studio, Sweet Occasions Studio.
Chelsea Costa
Contributing Editor, DIY
Chelsea Costa is a California farmer’s daughter born and raised, who became a music teacher, who then happened to make her way to NYC in an effort to be a professional actor (which has, oddly enough, been successful!) She grew up on an almond ranch and spent her formative years in 4-H; baking snickerdoodles, painting Christmas ornaments, and weaving friendship bracelets were not uncommon pastimes around the Costa household. Chelsea recently founded Lovely Indeed, her (mostly) DIY blog, while planning her recent wedding to the most adorable fella ever.
Jenny Batt
Contributing Editor, DIY
Jenny Batt is a DIY kind of girl happily married to the guy who can fix anything and pretends everyday is Saturday with their two sons, Henry and Hunter. As a child, she ran wild in the woods of East Texas and then was anything but soggy in Seattle. After meeting her husband in college, she planned her own backyard fete for their wedding. She graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and currently resides in Reno. She writes a blog called Hank + Hunt and outfits her Etsy shop of the same name with handmade heirloom quality garlands and party accoutrement. Her obsessions include her massive fabric and cake stand collections, baking, stalking the aisles of her local bookstore and ogling new fonts.