As Hurricane Alex brews in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil spill that erupted two months ago is brewing a strange world for special event professionals in the region, with some facing a drastic falloff in business and others finding an ironic windfal...
The Napa Valley special events and wedding industry has suffered a huge setback due to the Napa County Board of Supervisors' recent vote to tighten restrictions on events held at wineries in the Napa Valley. On May 11, after nine months of meeti...
Special Events: What is Wish Upon a Wedding?
Sasha Souza: It is a nonprofit organization that provides weddings at destinations throughout North America for individuals facing terminal illness, regardless of sexual orientation. It was founded in...
Along with price-shopping brides who haggle over every penny in the wedding budget, veteran wedding professionals face another headache these days: the newbie wedding planner. Often armed with little experience—other than their own wedding—the ne...
One of the biggest illusions in the wedding industry is entitled “day of” wedding planning. The premise of this type of planning consists of a bride hiring a wedding planner to show up on her wedding day with little to no prior history of the eve...
Last week, Eventline looked at the challenge wedding planners face from cost-conscious brides—armed with data from Web sites and other sources—who push hard to drive down prices. (For more, click here.)
To fight against bargaining brides and the...
