Valley businesses get spark from holiday engagements

And one Fresno event planning business, Genesis Master of Events, holds engagement parties for several couples in January afterwards their December engagements.

The holidays are over

But once the holidays are over, wedding planners recommend the couple shift into business mode and start planning that wedding.

Sure, we had wars, natural disasters, a growing populist movement and a presidential race heating up, not to mention the deaths of a research icon, a silver-screen goddess and a couple of shadowy dictators.