{"id":12660,"date":"2020-09-16T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sanyuktashrestha.com\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:36:28","slug":"sanyukta-shrestha-wins-bridal-buyer-editors-choice-award-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/?p=12660","title":{"rendered":"Sanyukta Shrestha Wins BRIDAL BUYER &#8216;EDITOR\u2019S CHOICE AWARD 2020&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanyuktashrestha.com\/\">Sanyukta Shrestha<\/a> has been announced as The Winner of &#8211; \u201cEDITOR\u2019S CHOICE AWARD 2020\u201d by industry\u2019s prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.bridalbuyer.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRIDAL BUYER AWARDS<\/a> on the 14th of September 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Acknowledged worldwide as the most authoritative of all industry recognition programmes and the leading awards ceremony that is recognised<\/span><span> as Oscars of the bridal industry<\/span><span> in the UK<\/span> <span>, The Bridal Buyer Awards bring the companies and individuals who have excelled into the spotlight and applaud their success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12662 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanyuktashrestha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Winner-of-Editors-Choice-Award-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Winner-of-Editors-Choice-Award-2020.jpg 500w, https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Winner-of-Editors-Choice-Award-2020-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Winner-of-Editors-Choice-Award-2020-277x222.jpg 277w, https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Winner-of-Editors-Choice-Award-2020-100x80.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cJudging the annual Bridal Buyer Awards each year is always a difficult task, and despite the changes to our normal awards this year, the judging was equally hard.<\/span><\/i> <i><span>This award recognises the outstanding commitment to battling the COVID-19 crisis; and there was a clear winner. The designer\u2019s attitude towards helping others is outstanding and the judging team was inspired by the work she has done and continues to do. Her work was a real stand out and the judges here are in awe of what she has done during this difficult time.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridalbuyer.com\/home\/bridal-buyer-special-recognition-awards-winners-10578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridal Buyer<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>The pioneer for sustainable luxury, designer\u2019s promise to fight for an ethical workforce and the environment by representing a sustainable choice for brides, a business that leads by example by giving back to the community, supporting women empowerment. <\/span><span>The devotion and kind energy is at the core of the Sanyukta Shrestha brand. The impact of this effort is in the dedication of the Sanyukta\u2019s love for empowering local artisans from Nepal, embracing cultural diversity and now with <\/span><span>ongoing COVID-19 response efforts \u2018The Kind Mask Project\u2019 #Maskforsmile helping the vulnerable communities in the UK &amp; Nepal. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the power of kindness fuelled the brand\u2019s efforts to give back to the community by making\u00a0 and donating thousands of handmade masks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanyuktashrestha.com\/blog\/mask-for-smile-optimism-and-the-drive-to-support-our-communities-during-the-pandemic\/\">PPE visor for NHS &amp; Key Workers in the UK<\/a>, donating special masks and food for vulnerable communities in Nepal (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanyuktashrestha.com\/blog\/sanyukta-shrestha-introduces-nepal-covid-19-relief-project-maskforsmile\/\">AamaKo Ghar -Selter for homeless<\/a>) as well as protecting the homeless in the UK by making eco-friendly reusable masks for them and donating through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisis.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CRISIS (UK Charity for homeless since 1967)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span>\u201cWe are so Honored and Beyond Grateful to win the industry\u2019s most coveted \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/awards.bridalbuyer.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bridal Buyer &#8211; Editor\u2019s Choice Award 2020<\/a>\u2019 for our Brand\u2019s commitment to battling the Covid-19 Crisis and supporting people in need and our community. I never imagined that my compassion would be appreciated this far that I will be awarded for something I truly believe is \u2018helping people in need\u2019. We are so mesmerised for this special recognition and to be able to give back to our community and spread kindness to a world that now needs it more than ever.\u201d &#8211; Sanyukta Shrestha\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>2020 has been a year like no other, 14.7 Billion worth Bridal industry\u2019s Retailers, designers, suppliers and event organisers, have had to throw the rule book out the window and figure out how to function during a global health crisis with 107,000 weddings postponed since lockdown.\u00a0<\/span><i><span>\u201cThis uncertain, unpredictable, unknown time has been difficult and created many challenges, but it has also produced some incredible acts of kindness and innovative thinking. Once again, the bridal industry has gone above and beyond to provide exceptional service. In light of this, we decided not to run the full awards ceremony and gala dinner this year. Instead we announced <\/span><\/i><i><span>9 categories of Special recognition Awards<\/span><\/i><i><span> that are more in keeping to recognise kindness, resilience, innovation and community support within the industry with a special one-off programme.\u201d &#8211; Bridal Buyer Award\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanyukta Shrestha has been announced as The Winner of &#8211; \u201cEDITOR\u2019S CHOICE AWARD 2020\u201d by industry\u2019s prestigious BRIDAL BUYER AWARDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,1],"tags":[1196,1195,1197,1202,1205,1194,1204,1201,1199,1203,28,1198,1200],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-relief","category-articles","tag-battling-the-covid-19-crisis","tag-bridal-buyer-awards","tag-bridal-industry","tag-crisis-uk","tag-eco-friendly-reusable-masks","tag-editors-choice-award-2020","tag-handmade-masks","tag-maskforsmile","tag-oscars-of-the-bridal-industry","tag-ppe-visor-for-nhs-key-workers","tag-sanyukta-shrestha","tag-supporting-people-in-need-and-our-community","tag-the-kind-mask-project"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12668,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/12668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sanyuktashrestha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}