SportsMark Management Group, a strategic event management and corporate hospitality agency based in the San Francisco Bay area, announced today that it has opened an office in London to further service its clientele for the 2004 and 2006 Olympic...
IMAGINE EVERY BRIDE — if she's honest — has things she would change about her wedding if she had it all to do over again. Here's the mistake I made when I got married five years ago — I didn't use a wedding coordinator...
THE MULTI-MEGAWATT star power cranking through Guy Oseary's fall 2002 30th birthday bash didn't faze Joann Roth Oseary. “If you're a caterer in L.A., this is your crowd,” says the president of Tarzana, Calif.-based Someone's in the Kitchen and...
La Mesa, Calif.-based Stemware Jewelry turns wineglass identification into a cause for celebration with its new wedding favor line. Each favor is a drawstring organza bag containing a pair of tinted-glass-bead rings. The rings, each a different...
WHAT'S IN IN inventory? In February, Special Events Magazine polled its party rental readers to learn which products are the biggest hits with clients today. And they are...
BACK IN 1969 when he started theming sales meetings as part of his presentation to liquor industry clients, event planning hadn't even been invented, Richard Magid says. “There was a lady doing a basket of candy and putting balloons on it — that...
I AM HERE TO reveal the secret to design success — partnering. We, as an industry, simply don't do it enough. We have the warped sensibility that we need to be all things to all people and have everything one could need for the perfect event at...