Women with Waring: Sarah Reed
Sarah Reed, LASIK Procedure Client
This story begins with Sarah Reed, a bright college student in the interior design program at UGA, facing a deadline on an upcoming school project. The assignment: to create a company of your own and build a business plan. Working diligently, Reed created a passion project that far exceeded her wildest dreams. Inspired by the beauty of the French language, Reed took the phrase “dodeline” meaning “to sway” as the company’s namesake. That year, Dodeline Design was born, and the rest was history.
From a homework assignment to a remarkable and refined destination for lowcountry design works, Reed built her brand from the ground up. Interning and gaining experience at local design businesses and scrapbooking shops, she discovered the niche for Charleston’s rainbow style architecture paired with beautiful bridal details.
Before her blossoming business and family of 3, we flashback to a young Reed, who in high school, began to have trouble reading. Reed admits with a giggle that she didn’t want glasses and hid the fact that she needed them from her mother. “I was caught when it came to my driving test”, Reed stated. She had failed the vision portion of the test.
Reed found herself continuing to struggle with her sight as she got older. Relying on glasses and contacts for most of her life was beginning to take a toll. She remarks at going to Disney World on vacation and overpacking her contacts, to ensure she wasn’t in the park without them. She feared that without them she may not be able to get around easily. Her vision had sent the beauty and intricate details of her design work into a blur. As time passed, Reed developed new goals for personal life as well: to be able to live clearly and enjoy life with her husband Robert and their 5-year-old daughter, Ella.
Reed decided it was time to investigate options for vision correction, her eye doctor referred her to The Waring Vision Institute. She went on to have LASIK that spring, and ever since, the color has returned to her world. From watching her business take flight and expand, enjoying runs and playing tennis with friends, and watching her little one grow, she notes that her life has been forever changed. As Reed’s life work has been dedicated to helping others find beauty and celebration in all of life’s special occasions, we feel so fortunate to have helped her find the beauty in her own life through LASIK.