Katasha Butler is the Lead Planner and founder of K Sherrie and Company Planning Atelier. She also operates a creative and inspiring wedding blog: The Wedding Workroom. After graduating from Danville High School, she studied Chemistry at Spelman College and went on to obtain her Doctorate in Pharmacy at Butler University. So how did she end up in the wedding industry?? We're so glad you asked. It was always in her blood! She planned parties and weddings of classmates and family while in pharmacy school, many times during class. She always stayed current on the fashion trends and new ideas in the wedding industry, so much so that one of her Therapeutics professors started calling her "Glamour Girl." She always had her head in some type of fashion or wedding glossy, alternating with Principles of Drug Action textbooks. She planned her first full-service wedding from start to finish during clinical rotations. The couple was extremely pleased and that sealed the deal!

After working nine years in the pharmacy industry, Katasha has truly cultivated her skills for organization, expert planning and meticulous attention to detail. All things considered--at least the decisions that she now makes planning events can't potentially kill someone! Although formally educated in the areas of mathematics and science, she has always possessed an artistic flair, an eye for style and details and a creative mind. After consistently being called upon to plan parties, organize professional benefits and fundraisers and design weddings of friends and family after graduation, she began laying the groundwork to start her own boutique wedding planning firm in 2006. She went back to school, took some business classes, became a certified wedding planner and interned under a successful wedding planner in Indianapolis.

Among other things, in the free time that she has left, Katasha enjoys mentoring young ladies as a Girl Scout Cadette troop leader and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Rosebud Mentor for Alpha Mu Omega Chapter. She also is a member of the Circle City Chapter of The Links, Inc. and serves on the Board of Directors for United Way Youth As Resources and Shalom Health Care Center in Indianapolis.

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