Sybris Harvey believes that she has her feet set on a path that is taking her in the direction of a life’s ambition: to own her own business. Not just any business, but an enterprise that brings out the best in what she believes is a host of creative talents. She wants, she says, to lend those talents to breathing real meaning into special events in people’s lives: engagements, weddings, birthdays, christenings, event parties and other milestones. Her real vocation, she believes, is in creating lasting memories.
Her creative talents are invested mostly in weddings. Her enterprise, Harvey Décor & Wedding Services, provides an expansive wedding service that ranges from what she says is often the complicated task of planning the event to providing “the full range of services associated with the wedding day.” From the acquisition of wedding gowns, suits and the various other accoutrements associated with the event to venue decoration and catering services, Harvey challenges herself to provide a professional service that will turn out to be a lasting memory. The mundane services apart, she has extended the range of the facilities to embrace an exclusive comfort zone, in which both brides and grooms “can be pampered in carefully prepared wedding rooms” that offer various forms of therapy including the benefit of her skills as a masseuse which she says she learnt from a Chinese physiotherapist who once served in Guyana.
The room comes fitted with the occupant’s personal masseuse, makeup artist, hair stylist and other services and ‘creature comforts’ associated with a girl’s wedding day. “The intention of the
