Unique Tabletop Rentals, Bellflower, Calif.-based suppliers of fine china, and Resource One, a linen rental company in Reseda, Calif., plan to merge on Sept. 1 to expand their line of products nationally. The new company-Unique Event Resource-will...
For weddings today, couples are paring down the guest list but beefing up the budget. "Small weddings are coming back strong," says Randie Pellegrini, president of bridal consultants Cordially Invited of Beverly Hills, Calif...
Wind or bad timing can present problems if guests blow bubbles at the wedding couple as they are entering or leaving the room. Instead, gather your guests around the dance floor and have them blow bubbles during the newlyweds' first dance. The...
IN JULY, I ATTENDED the ISES Los Angeles chapter's annual awards ceremony, called the LA-La's. As one of the founders of the International Special Events Society, as well as the first president of the L.A. chapter, I was gratified to see how far...
The Special Event Co., based in London, recently organized a star-studded UNICEF charity dinner that raised more than Pound100,000 ($157,000) for the children of Kosovo...
The melting pot cooks for caterers In the United States, nearly 8 percent of residents are foreign-born. As a result, a "traditional" wedding feast could include anything from chicken breast and wedding cake to dim sum and shark fin soup...
WHILE MANY special event professionals are just starting to agonize over plans for New Year's Eve 1999, event producer Harith Wickrema can relax. That's because he staged his millen-nium blowout for a corporate client five months ago. And it wasn...
ASK BUSINESS PEOPLE across the country about "Y2K"-a.k.a. "the millennium bug"-and reactions range from an Alfred E. Neumanesque "What, me worry?" to Henny Penny's "The sky is falling!" ...
FOR A RECENT Star Wars-themed party, Los Angeles-based Poko Event Productions used the force to create an out-of-this-world experience-the creative force, that is...
