LOOK around and you'll find tents everywhere. Once limited to garden parties and golf tournaments, tent structures are showing up on city streets, in public parks, even attached to the sides of exhibit halls. But alo...
WHILE a corporate event firm's heart may be in the right place, says Marcy Manley, when it comes to choosing charity events to support, “You just can't be everything to everyone.” Instead, the president of Chicago's ...
SPRAWLING ballrooms? Not likely. Airplane-hangar lobbies? Forget it. One-size-fits-all event and meetings packages? Not even close. With their style-over-size aesthetic and highly customized event production approach...
JUST 20 years old when she launched her own event production company, Mary Tribble, CSEP, admits she was “young and naive.” Her father, an attorney, put it more bluntly: “He thought I was nuts. He didn't know an indu...
WITH her background in corporate event and meeting planning, Silvia Young of San Francisco-based Dedicated to Detail says she brings a different mentality to the social event planning that is now central to her busin...
IN today's media-steeped world, event themes based on hit films and television shows are hotter than ever. Here, three design and production firms serving southern California's entertainment industry share secrets of...
THE way Richard LoGuercio tells it, he never wanted to leave the thrill-a-minute world of event rental in the first place. Even when the prospective buyers of his Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals offered him “...
ANY charity event can offer good food, good drink and something nice to watch. But it's those benefit fêtes that give guests access to opportunities they wouldn't find anywhere else that are raising the bar in the fu...
REPEAT events pose challenges for any producer. In the area of incentives, the pressure's that much more intense. Intended to show corporate employees what's in store for them if they work their hardest, these events...
AS far as James Cutfield is concerned, bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. Not when it comes to Beverly Hills, Calif.'s Regent Beverly Wilshire — the elegant, Rodeo Drive-adjacent property whose event business he...
