Business
BY DACIA GARCIA
The shop specializes in customizable gifts, including pillows and wood boards.
The gift shop sells everything from home decor, children’s clothing, customizable gifts, invitations, monogramming and urn engravings.
PHOTOS COURTESY TO HAVE & TO HOLD
To Have & To Hold creates one-stop shop for gifts
Owner Dixie Doss opened To Have & To Hold in Round Rock before relocating the business to Georgetown.
everyday,” Doss said. “It’s truly more important to me to gain a friend out of it than to gain a customer.” What’s special about it? Doss plays a meaningful role in her customers’ lives and makes sure to go above and beyond for their special occasions. Once, Doss met a customer the day before Christmas at a gas station to give him his wife’s Christmas gift after he had told Doss he wouldn’t be able to make it to the store since his wife had gone into labor. “There was no way I was going to let a gift sit on a table at Christmas knowing they don’t have it,” Doss said. “I would lose sleep over that.”
In a quiet corner of downtown Georgetown, To Have & To Hold forms bonds with its customers by o ering gifts for all of life’s occasions. The backstory Owner Dixie Doss rst opened the store as a bridal shop in Round Rock after noticing a lack of bridal registry services outside of Austin. After four years of business, Doss relocated the store to Georgetown in 2020 where she expanded her services to include baby clothes and custom gifts. With a background in the wholesale industry and now as a small business owner herself, Doss said owning a business is di cult, but the connections she makes with the community make it worth it. “The people are what make me come in here
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