Sunny Becks & Fiona Flaherty
Lindsey Grace Whiddon
When Sunny Becks decided to leave her high-paying corporate job, she knew she was equipped to handle being a business owner—it was in her DNA.
Following in a family lineage of Nashville entrepreneurs, Becks recruited her daughter, Fiona Flaherty—a Parsons New School of Design graduate—to create Harlan Ruby & Vroom Vroom Balloon.
With Becks’s business savvy, Flaherty's love for hand-lettering, and their shared desire to bring the colorful balloon trends of the West Coast to Music City, the mother-daughter duo has successfully entered their third year of business. Since its launch, East Nashville-based Vroom Vroom Balloon has designed more than 300 installations in Nashville and beyond, including projects with Reese Witherspoon and Miley Cyrus. When it comes to crafting memorable balloon activations for their clients, they enjoy every part of the process.
"Everything has a purpose and leads to the final feeling, and I love being a part of the creation of that final feeling," Becks says.
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"We are joy-makers,” says Flaherty. “No matter where someone is in their life, balloons bring happiness. I've seen so many people's spirits lifted by balloons during their darkest times. It's not something you experience in every job. We reach people at so many points in their lives- it's magic."