12/04/2025
A Bittersweet Announcement
This is a difficult post for us to write. Two years ago, we stepped out in faith to open our event venue. God aligned every detail perfectly—guiding us to the ideal space and surrounding our launch with support far beyond anything we could have imagined. Because of the incredible encouragement from our community, event industry colleagues, friends, and family, we accomplished something many new businesses never reach: we opened our doors and remained open, going strong for more than 2 years.
From day one, we worked diligently to build The Dashing Suite into a warm, welcoming, clean, and beautiful blank canvas for small celebrations—a place where guests could feel at home while honoring life’s sweetest moments with loved ones. Most importantly, it became a place where we could share the love of God with others.
When we signed our lease in 2023, we knew God had placed us there for at least two years. Although we hoped to plant deeper roots in Pickerington long-term, an unexpected and significant building-related expense that was recently placed on our shoulders brought us to a crossroads. After much prayer and consideration, we made the difficult decision that we will be stepping away from our Pickerington location as of December 31st.
We always understood that starting this venue would require both time and financial investment. However, only two years in, it became clear that with this now sudden unforeseen large increase in overhead, we would not be able to scale our business in that space long-term. This led us back to our original dream—the dream we had before pivoting in 2023: to own a venue outright, free from the uncertainties and challenges that come with leasing from a property manager. With rising costs everywhere and unpredictable obligations attached to rental properties, we simply cannot take that financial risk on a building we do not own.
So for now, we are stepping aside—knowing we poured our entire heart and soul into building a brand rooted in faith, kindness, servitude, and integrity. These last two years have been extraordinary. The long hours, the weekends, the lessons learned, and the people we have met along the way… we would not trade any of it.
As we enter this next season, we are confident that God continues to orchestrate each and every one of our steps. Our focus remains on Him first. We trust that something greater is ahead and that His plan is always perfect.
To all of our vendor partners: you are more than ”friendors”….you are our family. We could not have been the success we were without you. Thank you for the memories and the amazing event collaborations. We are so excited to work with you again in this next phase.
To all our Dashing Suite clients over these past two years: thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your support and patronage helped us curate and host nearly 200 events these last two years—beautiful milestones, memories, weddings and celebrations. We love you deeply and are beyond blessed that you chose our “small space for your BIG celebrations.”
This is not goodbye. We’ll see you again soon…💖
With all our love,
Danielle & Tabitha
The Dashing Suite
