Conversation with Brittany Hoskins on Inclusive Luxury Weddings & Building Legacy Through Events

Scott Douglas Jacobsen
In-Sight Publishing, Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Correspondence: Scott Douglas Jacobsen (Email: scott.jacobsen2025@gmail.com)

Received: May 21, 2025
Accepted: May 21, 2025
Published: June 8, 2025

Abstract

This article presents an in-depth conversation with Detroit entrepreneur Britney Hoskins, founder of The Top Pic Collective, Deluxe Event Rentals, and Moranis Event Venue. Launching her first business at 16, Hoskins has become a recognized leader in luxury event planning with a mission to make weddings accessible. Her flagship initiative, Mini Mony Day, offers $100 weddings, blending style with inclusivity. This interview explores her business philosophy, the cultural shift in wedding traditions, the Tulum 2026 destination retreat, and her commitment to mentorship, legacy-building, and community empowerment.

Keywords: Black Entrepreneurship, Destination Weddings, Event Planning Innovation, Inclusive Luxury Weddings, Legacy-Building for Black Families, Micro Weddings Trend, Mini Mony Day, Mentorship for Young Women, Michigan Event Industry, Tulum Couples Retreat

Introduction

Detroit-based entrepreneur Britney Hoskins is reshaping the wedding industry by offering affordable luxury through initiatives like Mini Mony Day. As the founder of multiple successful event-related companies, Hoskins emphasizes community, culture, and creativity. Her approach challenges traditional pricing models while promoting elegance, accessibility, and inclusivity. This interview offers insight into her journey from teen entrepreneur to industry innovator.

Main Text (Interview)

Interviewer: Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Interviewee: Britney Hoskins

Section 1: Mini Mony Day

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Today, we are here with Britney Hoskins, a Detroit-based entrepreneur and the creative force behind several successful event brands: The Top Pic Collective, Deluxe Event Rentals, and Moranis Event Venue. She started her first business at 16 and has since become a leader in inclusive luxury event experiences.

Her signature initiative, Mini Mony Day, offers $100 weddings that combine elegance and accessibility. The program is set to expand internationally with a destination edition in Tulum, Mexico, planned for February 2026. A passionate advocate for mentorship and community empowerment, Britney also operates Michigan’s largest Black woman-owned event rental company and runs two Moranis venues in the state.  Thank you very much for joining me today. What inspired you to create Mini Mony Day?

Britney Hoskins: Mini Mony Day is one of my favourite events to produce. It began as a class and a styled shoot. As experienced planners in this industry, we often host educational courses.

But typically, after the class ends, we take a few photos and break everything down—hoping someone writes about it or that the attendees find something meaningful. To me, that felt like such a waste. So I thought, What if we let real couples actually get married on the same set we’re using to teach people? Why not make it real?

So we put the idea out there—”You can get married for $100 on the set I just used to teach a class.” And it was an instant hit. The stories started coming in—people who dreamed of a beautiful wedding but couldn’t afford the traditional costs. That kind of feedback became the norm. It pulled at my heartstrings because I love love. I’m a hopeless romantic. So, I wanted to continue the tradition, which has since become an annual event.

Section 2: Early Start

Jacobsen: How did your early start with the ice cream truck business at 16 influence your approach to entrepreneurship today? I’m sure many Americans and Canadians remember the thrill of chasing ice cream trucks, Eddie Murphy-style—yelling, “Ice cream! Ice cream! Mister Ice Cream Man!”

Hoskins: [Laughing] I could give you a long philosophical answer about how it made me who I am today, but truthfully—I was 16 and had a child. I needed to make things work. That urgency taught me hustle, resilience, and the importance of showing up daily.

I made more money in a day than I would have in an entire paycheck at Subway—and I never wanted to return. So from there, it was always about figuring out how to build the best version of my businesses—whatever they would be—so I could continue to be my boss.

Getting exposed to that at 16 sparked my love for entrepreneurship. That’s what it did for me.

Jacobsen: What makes the Tulum edition of Mini Mony Day different from other mission-based events?

Hoskins: Besides the obvious—that it’s in a completely different setting and it’s tropical and amazing—I think Tulum is such a spiritual and holistic place. It’s a beautiful destination to begin someone’s love story.

It’s also a couple’s retreat. So it’s really a mashup—it’s not just Mini Mony Day. It’s both a couple’s retreat and a Mini Mony Day wedding experience.

Being in a place that’s centred on holistic wellness and spirituality makes it the perfect backdrop for something like this.

Section 3: Luxury and Accessibility

Jacobsen: How do you balance luxury and accessibility in the wedding experience? I know part of your—maybe not just business philosophy, but your broader work philosophy—involves inclusivity.

Hoskins: Absolutely. I feel like a lot of small businesses—especially in the events world, where most companies are small—don’t always take all the steps or do the research needed to explore how we can better support and collaborate in order to give clients the best experience.

So, we spend a significant amount of time making sure we’re always positioned to offer clients a high-level experience at an attainable price. It won’t be feasible for most or all, but in the context of luxury event planning, I’dwe’re very affordable.

For example, if you were planning a regular birthday party for your child, $2,500 might seem absurd. However, for someone already planning a luxury-level celebration, $2,500 would be considered budget-friendly—especially when they start getting quotes from other small business owners.

As luxury event planners, we work hard to ensure that we can offer more accessible upscale experiences.

Jacobsen: Can you tell me more about the $3,500 destination package? What can couples expect from that experience? And even considering the last three and a half or four years, given the COVID-19 pandemic, were destination packages still in demand?

Hoskins: No, not really. I haven’t done a lot with destination packages historically.

No one was travelling when COVID hit, so destination weddings and events took a significant hit—that was pretty universal. But now, as things have picked back up, we’re seeing renewed interest in travel-based events—and that’s why expanding Mini Mony Day to a destination like Tulum feels like the right next step.

But I also believe that what happened during COVID—and shortly after—is that, since people could not gather, micro weddings became much more popular. Weddings with 50 or fewer guests weren’t really a big trend before the pandemic, but after COVID, they became a lot more common. Most destination weddings have under 100 guests, so I think destination weddings have probably seen an uptick because of that shift in mindset.

Section 4: Serial Entrepreneurship

Jacobsen: Do you operate these businesses—The Top Pic Collective, Deluxe Event Rentals, and Moranis Event Venue—as separate, standalone companies, or are they independent but integrated services?

Hoskins: Yes. They are businesses that are in their own right and operate independently. But they’re also offered together as a package to make things easier and more seamless for clients. So, both are independent, but they can work in tandem as well.

Jacobsen: What challenges have you faced working in the events and hospitality industry? I’ve worked in hospitality myself—it’s not exactly glamorous, but I think it’s a valuable experience for anyone to have, especially early in life. It gives you a perspective—between home and the wider world.

Hoskins: Definitely. Hospitality is all about service. When you work in hospitality, you learn to care about people’s needs. You develop patience—because it can be one of the most stressful fields—but you also learn to be present and attentive. It shapes how you deal with people in any line of work.

Jacobsen: How do you envision Mini Mony Day evolving beyond Tulum?

Hoskins: Every time we’ve done Mini Mony Day, it’s gone viral. We get national interest. So, people reach out about bringing Mini Mony Day to their cities. It became a travelling experience that reached several major cities across the country.

Jacobsen: Do you do any mentorship work with young women? And what advice would you offer to young women who want to start their businesses—maybe with an ice cream truck, perhaps something else? What should they keep in mind when it comes to the inevitable challenges that come with entrepreneurship?

Hoskins: Yes, absolutely—we do mentorship. Mini Mony Day is centred around mentorship. I’d say it’s the very foundation of the program. As far as advice to young business owners goes, obstacles are guaranteed. That’s the one certainty in entrepreneurship: you will face challenges. But if it’s something you really, really want, you’ll figure out how to work through them. You push through. If you stop every time something gets hard, you’ll never move forward in business.

Section 5: Inspirations

Jacobsen: Who—or what—inspires you?

Hoskins: My family. Without question. I’m huge on legacy-building. I think the Black wealth gap is absurd—it’s truly unacceptable. Entire generations can work their whole lives and leave nothing behind. That cycle needs to change. So, for me, building something lasting for my family is what drives everything I do.

Nothing is there to help the next generation get a leg up. So, it has become my life’s mission to ensure a legacy is left behind for my kids—and, hopefully, for my kids’ kids. That’s an everyday mantra for me.

It is not some vague, overarching goal like, “Oh, I hope I can leave my kids a nice life insurance policy.” It is truly something I think about daily: Is this something I can leave to my family? Does this decision move me closer to that long-term goal? That kind of legacy-building is a significant motivator for me.

Jacobsen: Do you think the nature of weddings in America has changed over the past couple of decades in terms of how people perceive them and how they’re conducted?

Hoskins: Absolutely. We’re seeing a more pessimistic generation emerging. Millennials, and especially the generation coming up behind us, have seen so much instability—economic, social, and even existential. And I think that’s affected how people view marriage.

There’s this growing belief that marriage is just a societal construct—like, it’s not really that important, so who cares? That kind of attitude is more common now. On the other hand, you also have the Instagram wedding phenomenon, where the entire event becomes a photo opportunity. It’s about the aesthetic, the post, the share.

At the same time, you still have people deeply rooted in marriage traditions, for whom the meaning goes beyond visuals or content. So yes, the face of weddings has definitely changed—it’s more varied, more performative in some ways, and also more fragmented than before.

Jacobsen: It reminds me of that old Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson bit—“Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?” It’s like even weddings are now performative moments for the ‘audience’—everyone wants to recreate the celebrity wedding vibe on Instagram.

Hoskins: Exactly.

Section 6: The Michigan 50

Jacobsen: How has receiving the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch award impacted your business—whether in terms of growth or brand recognition?

Hoskins: That’s still new for us, so we’re working through it. But honestly, we underestimated how many people would see it and how big a deal it is.

Like, literally today—I went to the flower shop, and they said, “Hey Brit, we heard you won an award!” And we were like, “Wait, how did you hear about that?” So I think we didn’t realize its reach at first.

But yes—it adds a layer of validity to our brand. It is one of those things that acts like a stamp of approval. It confirms that we’re headed in the right direction—and that’s a great feeling.

Jacobsen: How do you select venues or partners when you want to deliver low-cost wedding experiences with a high impact?

Hoskins: I’ll be honest—the answer I’m going to give is one that not everyone will like. I genuinely try to control as much of the process as possible. Our clients come to us looking for a venue; they come to us for the décor. They come to us for the rentals. And because we own the experience, we can tailor the budgeting. We can tailor the experience. In a way, we’ve created a little mini-event monopoly—but only because we’ve been disappointed by other vendors so many times.

A perfect example: Yesterday, we hosted a major event at our venue—a customer appreciation day. It was fantastic. I wanted a dance floor installed, so I contacted three or four vendors to arrange it.

They didn’t return calls or reply to text messages. One vendor answered and said they’d call back, but they never did, so I just bought one myself.

Now, our clients can access a dance floor—and we control that part of the experience. That’s how many of the services we offer have come about. We try to support other vendors first, but when we see a gap—especially one that makes the process stressful or exhausting—we step in to fill it. We want to make the experience smooth and enjoyable from start to finish.

Jacobsen: What do you hope attendees will take away from the Tulum experience—beyond the ceremony itself?

Hoskins: I hope the ceremony is just a small part of the experience. I want the entire experience to be life-changing. I’ve planned an action-packed retreat filled with workshops and activities designed to bring couples closer together.

We’ve got yacht excursions, team scavenger hunts, and more. We’ve even bought out an entire boutique hotel, where we’ll host private events throughout the retreat. I hope attendees walk away feeling like they had an attainable luxury, high-end experience—and they leave feeling stronger as a couple.

Section 7: Wedding Quotes

Jacobsen: Do you have a favourite quote about weddings?

Hoskins: I don’t know if I have a specific quote, but one thing I always tell my brides is that their wedding day is just one day of what they hope will be a million more.

It sounds funny, coming from someone who works at weddings, but I tell them not to take the day too seriously. Some brides become so stressed that they want it to be over. And I’m like, “That’s not how you should remember your wedding day. It should be exciting and joyful.”

So remember: today is one day of what you pray will be a lifetime. Do not let the pressure steal your joy.

Jacobsen: Well, Britney, I’m out of questions—Thank you very much for your time today.

Hoskins: Thank you for your time as well. It was lovely to meet you. I look forward to reading what you write. If you have any follow-up questions, feel free to reach out.

Jacobsen: Excellent. Thank you so much. Take care. Bye.

Hoskins: Thank you. Bye.

Discussion

Britney Hoskins exemplifies the power of entrepreneurial vision rooted in community, resilience, and intentional legacy-building. Through Mini Mony Day and her broader business ecosystem—including The Top Pic Collective, Deluxe Event Rentals, and Moranis Event Venue—Hoskins redefines what luxury can mean in the context of weddings and event planning. Her approach dismantles the traditional cost barriers associated with high-end celebrations, offering an inclusive alternative that blends affordability with elegance. The interview reveals a consistent theme of control—not for the sake of exclusivity, but to ensure quality, reliability, and a stress-free experience for clients. By vertically integrating her services, Hoskins closes logistical gaps that often disrupt the event experience. Her candid remarks about vendors failing to deliver highlight a broader issue within the events industry, especially for small and minority-owned businesses seeking consistency and excellence.

The expansion of Mini Mony Day to Tulum marks a significant evolution in her work: merging destination wedding culture with retreat-style intimacy. This transformation reflects a broader cultural shift toward meaning-making experiences over traditional ceremonies. As Hoskins notes, modern weddings have become increasingly performative—driven by social media and aesthetics—yet there remains a yearning for deeper connection. Her Tulum edition addresses both: it satisfies the visual expectations of contemporary couples while offering workshops and communal activities designed to reinforce the emotional bond. Hoskins’s commitment to mentorship, particularly for young women of color, signals that her impact extends far beyond individual events. She sees entrepreneurship not merely as a means of personal advancement but as a vehicle for intergenerational change. Her focus on closing the Black wealth gap by building sustainable, transferable businesses reveals a strategic approach to economic empowerment rooted in family and community.

Methods

The interview was scheduled and recorded—with explicit consent—for transcription, review, and curation. This process complied with applicable data protection laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e., recordings were stored securely, retained only as needed, and deleted upon request, as well in accordance with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Advertising Standards Canada guidelines.

Data Availability

No datasets were generated or analyzed during the current article. All interview content remains the intellectual property of the interviewer and interviewee.

References

(No external academic sources were cited for this interview.)

Journal & Article Details

• Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
• Publisher Founding: March 1, 2014
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• Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
• Journal: In-Sight: Interviews
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• Review Status: Non-Peer-Reviewed
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• Volume Numbering: 13
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• Theme Type: Idea
• Theme Premise: “Outliers and Outsiders”
• Theme Part: 33
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• Individual Publication Date: June 8, 2025
• Issue Publication Date: July 1, 2025
• Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
• Word Count: 2,233
• Image Credits: Photo by Samantha Gades on Unsplash
• ISSN (International Standard Serial Number): 2369-6885

Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges Britney Hoskins for her time, expertise, and valuable contributions. His thoughtful insights and detailed explanations have greatly enhanced the quality and depth of this work, providing a solid foundation for the discussion presented herein.

Author Contributions

S.D.J. conceived the subject matter, conducted the interview, transcribed and edited the conversation, and prepared the manuscript.

Competing Interests

The author declares no competing interests.

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