Iowa State Daily.com:
As a young girl, Katie Crimmins, junior in English, never knew where life would take her, or what she would make of it. She especially never believed that she would one day grow up to sell Pure Romance bedroom accessories to finance her own wedding.
Crimmins had her first experience with Pure Romance at a party she was invited to last year. She was hesitant to attend at first, but with the encouragement of her fiancé, Dillon Drew, senior in animal ecology, she ended up going.
“I got invited to a party as a Dead Week break and it was super fun,” Crimmins said. “I thought about selling Pure Romance then, but I didn’t have time or a reason to.”
As a community adviser of an all-girl floor in Martin Hall, Crimmins would find her reason soon enough.
“I invited Pure Romance to my floor this year as a three-part sex education program,” Crimmins said. “The first part was Pure Romance. The residents responded very well: 39 out of 50 residents came and 23 ordered [products]. The second part was Planned Parenthood, and the third will be Ray Rodriguez [program coordinator for the Student Health Center].”
After the first part of her program, Crimmins contacted Stephanie Warner, the party consultant. This time it wasn’t to plan a party, it was to apply for a job.
“I went to a party and I talked to the person leading it,” Warner said. “I didn’t have another job, I was in college and I loved [selling the products]. It allows you to work when you’re available and it helped me pay for my wedding.
“My engagement [lasted] eight months, and it allowed me to do as many parties as I was able [to pay for the wedding],” Warner said.
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