I think fireworks are cool. I love the sparkle and pizzazz of the bright shimmery showers of light against the dark sky. I especially love the ones that look like glitter sprinkling down on the celebration as if a life-sized Tinkerbell waved her wand and showered us with pixie dust. However, these days there’s aContinue reading “The Sky Showdown”
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Point Of No Return
Seasoned event planners can identify this pivotal moment in time. We can because we’ve bumped into it enough to know how painful and unnecessary it is when we’ve done our due diligence to ask the questions and schedule the conversations, implement timelines, processes, and procedures, and check, double-check, and triple-check the checklists we’ve developed overContinue reading “Point Of No Return”
Escaping Traditional Board Meetings
I was asked to plan an activity for a group of people as a break from their grueling two-day corporate meeting. They were in a conference center and had access to a couple other rooms, however we couldn’t leave the facility because of time constraints. My contact provided me with a list of activities theContinue reading “Escaping Traditional Board Meetings”
Clean Up in Aisle Nine
When I mention confetti, or even glitter, some event planners immediately cringe. It took me a while to get past my tic anytime someone mentioned confetti when I was the in-house planner at a large facility. However, when planning a celebration, it’s hard to stay away from exploding streamer cannons, bright lights, and loud music,Continue reading “Clean Up in Aisle Nine”
From Food Courts to Fame
I was listening to the radio the other day, and an event concept came up that I had not heard of or seen in a really long time. It had its day and was actually quite entertaining for a while. Groups of talented and coordinated people would come together to surprise unsuspecting bystanders with theirContinue reading “From Food Courts to Fame”