I am using Stargazer Lillies and Gladiolous, and Roses. What would be good filler flowers for the Altar arrangements & table arrangements? The wedding colors ar Azelea & white. Wedding is next week!!! Please Help!

Does anyone live in california or have had a beach wedding in california?
My fiance and i are planning a beach wedding in california for april of next year. Does anyonr know of any gorgeous beaches that you are allowed to have a wedding on? Please include links and pictures if you can.
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Are you planning an event or participating in a trade show any time soon? If so, consider the following 10 low-cost marketing tactics before mailing your payment.

Event Marketing Tactic #1 — Is the purchase decision-maker attending the event? Are you certain? Let’s say you sell gifts that help increase employee moral and you’re considering exhibiting at the National Association of Human Resources annual conference. Is your decision-maker attending? Who attends this event — HR directors, managers or VPs? Perhaps all, or a small percentage of all three attend. If your decision-maker is a human resources director, then you’ll want to make sure the event management company can provide you statistics supporting what percentage of the participants have director-level titles. You need to drill down to your target audience. It’s not good enough to say that it’s a human resources related event; rather, is the job title you’re targeting attending? And if so, what percentage of the attendees hold this title? I recommend at least 50-60% before spending any money.

Event Marketing Tactic #2 — What value-added benefits is the venue [trade show organizer] making available to your business? Will they allow you access to the attendee mailing list so you can implement a premailing promoting your one-day trade show special, as well as the location of your booth? Well organized events, at minimum, provide a list of attendees after the event so exhibitors can follow up. More organized events provide participant contact information BEFORE the event as well as after. Other value-added benefits to inquire about include: being included in participant email distributions promoting the event, as well as an advertisement in the event show guide.

Event Marketing Tactic #3 — Target your event qualifying questions around the “who?,” instead of the “how many?.”

Event Marketing Tactic #4 — Giveaways should be relevant to your business. Don’t give something away for free just for the heck of it. Who cares if you collect 10,000 names because you ran a really cool promotion giving away a free 48″ TV. If you’re a personal chef, what does a TV have to do with your business? Nothing! [Unless you're Emeril.] Therefore, you’ve just collected 10,000 NON-qualified leads. Instead, as a personal chef you could try, “Sign up to receive our special report, “How to Live Like the Rich; Tips to Hire an Affordable Personal Chef.” One can assume the majority of business cards deposited in your fish bowl have an interest in personal chefs.

Event Marketing Tactic #5 — Location, location, location. If prospects can’t see you, then you’re wasting your time. Don’t be fooled into purchasing a cheap booth at a last-minute special, such as “One booth remaining at 50% off.” Chances are no one will be visiting you, since your booth will be tucked away hidden from all eyes. The most ideal locations are found at the entryway to the event and near the pathway to the food stations and restrooms. Corner booths between major walk-throughs are ideal.

Event Marketing Tactic #6 — Some of your most qualified event leads come from networking with other exhibitors. Therefore, secure the exhibitors’ list several days before your event. At minimum, you want to know what competitors will be there so you can mystery shop. What’s more, you want a plan outlining what exhibitors you intend to approach to either pitch your services, or secure an informal partnership. Prepare your plan and your sales-spin before the big day!

Event Marketing Tactic #7 — Would you like to participate in more events but don’t have the budget? Try approaching complementary exhibitors and ask if they’d be interested in sharing booth space with you. Split the costs. Moreover, you can cover for each other when you need a break. Or, look around for hidden advertising money. If you’re a distributor, perhaps you’ve accrued MDF funds [Market Development Funds] a.k.a. advertising coop money, unbeknownst to you. Many companies will allow resellers to spend MDF funds to pay for event booth fees.

Event Marketing Tactic #8 — Save yourself a lot of time and only approach event passersby who make eye contact. People who don’t look at you or your booth are not looking for a reason. Remember, you can only speak to so many people at an event, therefore utilize your precious time wisely. Target those who make eye contact.

Event Marketing Tactic #9 — Make sure you’re allowed to display signs, posters, banners, etc. Treat your signs as miniature billboards. No more than six words and make sure it can be read from at least 10′ away.

Event Marketing Tactic #10 — Don’t pay full price. Remember, almost everything in life is negotiable, including booth fees. Always ask for a price reduction; you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Printed advertising and/or booth fees are just a starting point for negotiations.

P.S…..Stand up, don’t chew gum and try not to talk too much to the other people working your booth. The latter makes you appear unapproachable. Finally, your attire should be slightly better than what you believe attendees will be wearing. For example, if you’re attending an event whereby most of the attendees are engineers, don’t wear a three-piece suit!
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My fiance and I were discussing the possibility of hiring a wedding coordinator for our wedding day. We are doing all the leg work, we just need him or her to take care of things on the day of our wedding. That way we can focus our attention to just getting married.

Creating the perfect party atmosphere for kids is often a simple case of creating perfect party food; after all, a table bedecked with colourful decorations and fancy food items is the perfect place to set the mood for celebration. However, this is not to say that kids party food needs to be over the top or overly expensive, it just needs to look it!

The first thing that comes to mind for most when planning a party whether for adults or children is the food, we have visions of sticky finger marks smeared around the house, with squashed goop in the carpet and crumbs in almost apocalyptic proportions…we worry about fussy palettes and possible life threatening allergies, potential wastage if the food is not well received and of course the impending cost of feeding a dozen ravenous kids.

There are two things you can do to avoid any potential food disasters. One is to stick to a simple menu consisting of the most popular and perfect party foods tried tested and loved by children worldwide, and two, pre-divide the food into individual containers for each guest.

So what are the most popular party foods? Easy question, mini pizza, sausage rolls, sandwiches and crisps/chips. Even fruit is a guaranteed hit if you know how to present it.

But such obvious foods don’t have to be boring. These four or five simple party foods can be adapted to suit most dietary needs, party theme or age group. You can order some from a bakery, purchase ready made from the supermarket or make them at home and save some dollars. They can be jazzed up to look impressive and be presented in sweet or savoury version (more on that in another article), but no matter how you serve them up they are a guaranteed hit and should be the staple food at any party.

Once you pop all that scrumptious party food in a bag, basket or box and attach a name tag to ensure the right food goes to the right person you are in business. No greedy gobblers taking more than their share, no allergic reactions accidental consumption and an easy clean up job afterwards.

The music video from 1998. SOAP is a band from Denmark. The two members are sisters Heidi ja Line Sørensen. Lyrics: This is how we party Foolin’ with your body Come on everybody Can’t get enough of you (x2) Here we are back in the game Raise your hands and feel the rain Got one thing you’ve got to try Making many money making big boys cry Too bad that he’s a liar She’s so cool but her hair’s on fire Lettin’ it go make me feel strong We gotta set it off ’til the break of dawn This is how we do it when somebody wanna Turn you down You’ve got to keep on moving Don’t let nobody get you hit you get you Down to the ground Hear what we say This is how we party Foolin’ with your body Come on everybody Can’t get enough of you (x2) So come on everybody we can get it together The sun will shine in any kind of weather Just start trippin’ and change your feelin’ We come to party when we come around here Lisa lives she never lies Simon says no time to cry Doin’ what we like We can do it all night baby This is how we do it when somebody wanna Turn you down You’ve got to keep on moving Don’t let nobody get you hit you get you Down to the ground Hear what we say This is how we party Foolin’ with your body Come on everybody Can’t get enough of you (x2) A du be du be du be du du da da Du da du da du du da (x2) I’m doin’ it for you If you’re doin’ it for me Baby we’ll keep on moving Don’t let ‘em get you down Just listen to the sound Hear what we say This is how we party Foolin’ with your …
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A teddy bear party is a sweet celebration for younger children. Organising teddy bear parties can sometimes prove to be very frantic and expensive as well. So, one should properly plan for a party and purchase party decorations and supplies well in advance. Party stores are great for finding teddy bear party supplies. If you need to include decorations, favours, balloons, or are even looking for ideas, you can find these at a store. Party games and themes are important aspects of the teddy bear party supplies. Pinatas are fun kid’s party supplies, as well as loot bags which can be filled with all sorts of goodies.

Party supply companies offer a wide variety of decorations. You can also call your family and friends to help with entertainments, catering, photography, videotaping etc. Supplies include deluxe carry home bags, birth certificates and party invitations. If you want to spend a little extra, some suppliers offer the option of personalising the furry friends with a 10 second recordable voice chip or decorating a special T-shirt for the bears. They also provide fabric pens or stick-on glitter stars to add a real designer touch to the T-shirts. Also they can provide plates, cups and napkins decorated with teddies to highlight the teddy bear theme.

Teddy bear party supplies can be found online. Online party supplies and stores are useful because they carry a wide range of theme party supplies. Some of these online stores offer prices that are often less than what one would pay at a party store.
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Lots of people have been asking me what they can do to start their consultancy when they don’t have an idea of where to begin. Well one thing you can do is offer an event – a workshop, seminar or short day course at a company, chamber of commerce, college, university, business forum, or a local association.

There are lots of ways to do this but I just want to give you a very simple formula to begin with rather than go through all the possibilities. So you will have to use your imagination as to how my suggestions apply to your own market.

Finding the ‘hungry’ ones

The most important thing that you need to do to market your event is to find a crowd that is ‘hungry’. Hungry that is for your information. This is what will guarantee getting lots of paying people attending. This is all about getting a list of people that you can market your event directly to. You can do this by doing a press release, putting out a small ad in an association publication or newsletter, you can set up an ‘ask’ campaign online. You can go through your local business directory (if you are selling to businesses).

Pleasure and pain

It is important to bear in mind that when you are marketing you aren’t really selling your event at all. You are really selling a means of gaining pleasure or a means of avoiding pain. This is based on the theory that whatever we do it is usually to gain some kind of pleasure or to avoid some kind of pain.

So when you market your event you have to inform your prospects of what ‘pleasure’ they are going to get if they come to your event (e.g. increased sales, more money, better products), or what pain they are going to avoid (e.g not many clients, low or lost income, poor marketing).

So within your salescopy on your leaflet or salesletter you need to be explaining what people will get from attending your event. You need to explain what ‘pleasure’ they will get and what pain they will avoid. It is these that you are selling.

Your content and title

Do you have content that your ‘hungry crowd’ wants to have? Is your salescopy compelling? A great title can account for up to 80% of those who book on your event. That means that if you have 10 people on your event up to 8 of them came because they were attracted by the title. So once you have located the ‘hungry’ group, the next thing is getting the title of your event right.

Another trick is to explain the content of what is in the title. So provide detail and try to answer all the questions that people might have about the event within the salescopy. Remember to emphasize the benefits not the features.

Free stuff

The next thing to do is to make sure you include something ‘free’ – such as follow-up advice session or coaching. You could even offer a podcast for them to download providing answers to two or three of their main questions which they can submit to you.

Pricing

Pricing is important as a marketing technique so let me go into a bit of detail on this. When you price your event don’t be tempted to make it as cheap as possible. People often think that price that is the main thing that people buy on. But it isn’t. Price your event fairly and use your pricing to demonstrate your quality. This is important for your reputation and for your room-booking costs. You need to cover your costs with as few bookings as possible. So, for example, try to cover the cost of your room-booking with 5 or 6 bookings. Then anyone else who comes will be profit for you. The average cost of attending a day event in the UK is around $150 for personal development, $400 for self-funded professional development, and $600 for business/company training. So use these as a guide – it will of course depend on where you are running your business.

Advertise exclusivity

Another important technique is to communicate the ‘exclusivity’ of your event – say on your sales letter that you are only accepting 10 people as you are testing this market. Which, if you are just starting, is quite accurate. Because of this you are also offering the event at an introductory low price and that this may increase if the event is successful so that future attendees will have to pay more. So, you are emphasizing the exclusivity and rarity of the event and with only a small number of people underlining the personal nature of the event – so that attendees get personal attention. A small number of people will also keep you organizing burden very small and means that you only need to get a small number of people booked on the event. So, if you have 200 people on your list of prospects an you only have to sell to 10 then you have a much better chance of making your event profitable.
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We created this EPIC wedding trailer as our Save-the-Date. It’s a parody of action movie trailers, with every cliche we could think of. Sorry for the terrible acting. For the full effect, turn up the sound… way up! Enjoy! PS We thought most of the music clips would be instantly recognizeable, but a lot of people have been asking about them, so here they are in order of appearance: 0:04 – Twentieth Century-Fox Fanfare by Alfred Newman 0:24 – Battle Without Honor or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei 0:58 – About Love by David Joseph Wesley 1:15 – You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate 1:28 – Theme from “Mission: Impossible” by Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen 1:35 – Lucky by Jason Mraz (feat. Colbie Caillat) 1:55 – The Raider’s March (from “Indiana Jones”) by John Williams 2:20 – Requiem for a Tower (“Lux Aeterna” remake) by Clint Mansell re-arranged by Simone Benyacar, Dane Nielsen, and Veigar Margeirsson 3:37 – Main Title Theme from “The Matrix” by Don Davis 3:56 – Theme from “Terminator” by Brad Fiedel
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