Chiming in for conversation's sake, I wrote a fic where El started her business during the course of the three years Peter was after Neal. It worked for me because it made her very proactive in that time (rather than just "dutiful wife sits around while he husband is off at work for long hours and probably often out of town" or whatever), and that makes it six or seven years later, so it wouldn't be a total stretch to see that's the business is successful now, probably with return clients for annual things and what not.

OK off topic see get me talking about Burkes and I do that.

I do that too. They're a topic I like!