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Now take a look, then have fun twisting with us.
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I love, Love, Love a Lucite stage add lights under it and it turns any room or event space into a magical evening.
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Using a bellboy/s to announce the arrival of the bride is a nice way to add children into your ceremony without having to worry if they will ring the bell or not.
What kid doesn’t like to ring a bell?
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Use tall vases with a sprig of evergreen in water and a small scented votive candle as an accent on a clean white linen tablecloth or runner.
Your holiday statement will be that of sophistication and style.
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Corn Kernels are not only for popping. They make a great accent in vases with scented candles. Use varies size vases and candles.
To keep with the holiday spirit use beans, rice, cranberries, nuts and candy let your imagination run wild and you will always have a simple but classic holiday centerpiece.
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Flower Mood Boards
Flowers are sometimes an afterthought until the ceremony, band, photographer and reception site have been decided upon. They are, however, an important part of every wedding celebration. The bride’s bouquet usually loses its luster as the night wears on, but it is front and center when it gets held down the aisle. There are so many choices when it comes to bouquet arrangements. Wedding Flowers Moodboard provides brides with many different images and ideas for creating their perfect color and flower arrangement.
Cost: $1.99
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Place cards are placed at each place setting to ensure guests sit in the designated seats. They are only required if you have assigned guests to seats (not tables). If you are using tent-fold cards, print the guest’s name on both sides so that other guests on the table can also read it.
Place card names will usually be in the format “Mr John Smith”, but you can use “John Smith” or “Mr J. Smith” depending on the level of formality you are happy with. Using just the first name is obviously not recommended if there is more than one person with the same first name. Guest names can also be written on personalized menus or favors or let your creativity flow.
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From the responses I received when the originally question was asked on i-Meet.com, the White House and their get healthy intuitive would be very happy with everyone except me! I am a gym rat I work out two hours, 6 days a week. I work out if I’m traveling, no excuses! The first thing I do when a client books a hotel for me or if I’m booking the hotel is to check out the hotel’s website to make sure they have a gym. No gym no worries because I will bring my jump rope and elastic bands. I will work out!
Yet on set up days I need not want need either a Starbucks (only) coffee or NOS it’s a ridiculous energy drink and gummy bears. Truth be told anything-gummy works for me. It is so bad that my staff always makes sure there is a hidden bag for me just in case I run out my stash. Don’t get me wrong if we are doing craft services there is always granola bars or some sort of healthy bar, nuts & berries but a coffee and gummies keeps me going all day long.
The trick is to try to balance a healthy diet while traveling and while setting up meetings and trade shows. If it’s a one day set up I’m good to go with gummies and coffee because I know I am back to my normal routine and it qualifies as my cheat day but if I know I have a few days of meetings and trade shows I prepare myself so that I can only snack during set up but to stay focus during meetings. Try is the big word as there is always a large amount of bad for you yet great tasting food sitting around.
What are your tricks to staying focus with your diet during set up and while you are traveling?
I pledge to add nuts and berries to my personal stash and I promise to carry them with me and not back to the office but to eat them before my gummies.
You don’t need to be married on St. Patrick’s Day or be Irish to use the color Emerald as an accent color on your wedding cake. Having your baker use ribbon or colored fondant styled like ribbon is a great way to assure your cake is highlighted as part of your décor and styling theme.
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Death of the Binder Posted by Leslie Short
(I swear I wrote this before the binder full of woman!)
My background is in theater and one of the things I can clearly recall from my time as a young dancer is watching the stage manager always running around with a binder. Truth be told, anyone with a position of importance was running around with a binder.
As I grew up in the industry and became in charge of dancers and schedules, I too acquired a binder. Then I started doing events and boy oh boy did I have a binder – filled to the brim with invoices, contracts, scripts, lighting cues, floor plans and timelines. Even while prop shopping, I always had a small binder clasped inside of a larger binder to keep track of receipts and loan slips.
I also remember color selecting binders based on the client and the branding of the client’s company and a few days before an event handing them off to each staff member with full production timelines in them. Eventually the fax and computer made things simpler so some things didn’t have to be carried in the binder (unless you were running the show, then your binder always took on a life of its own). Cell phones, two-way pagers, PDAs and BlackBerrys made contacting people easier and again led to less paperwork in the binder.
Which leads me to the announcement – R.I.P. Binders! Well sort of, because as the owner of the company I still keep a small binder on set with me in case I need to refer back to a contract. But I have great memories of the first wedding where my entire staff replaced their binders with iPads more than two years ago. We had headsets, were dressed in all black and carried iPads; as a result quite a few people came up to me and asked if we were a new security company.
I don’t mind declaring R.I.P. binders because my entire staff now works off of iPads or some type of electronic by downloading the entire production book, table layout and contracts onto their devices. This allows the staff to look professional; no more flipping through pages looking for things, it’s all at our fingertips. Not to mention we are doing our part to save the planet by not wasting so much paper!
So again R.I.P. Binders, well for the most part. Paper is still my back up and it’s one of my favorite trade shows (yes, there is a trade show dedicated solely to paper). But in regards to working an event it’s all about electronics.
Do you still use a binder for your production book the day of an event? And if so why?
Leslie Short
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