Creative Event Planning
A beautiful setting when you walk through the doors is the outcome of successful creative event planning
While packing up to move to Atlanta I came across an old portfolio of photographs from a business I owned in the 1980’s called Party Girls of Tampa. Although we did get the occasional call at three o’clock in the morning, we were a group of artists and designers that specialized in creative event planning which included weddings, corporate events, party planning, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, props, window display, merchandising and design.
Besides the creativity, what I loved about the business is the flexibility that it provided my business partner Denise and I so we could work, paint and create all day and still be home in the afternoons when our children got home from school.
The weekends however, were another matter. There are a zillion details that go into putting on such grand events and everything has to be ready and complete before the clients and their guests come walking through the doors. Denise and I always did a party “walk through” before each event where we would pretend that we were the clients walking through the doors, at first amazing ourselves at what we created and then begin to scrutinize the details for anything we missed. There were many a time that we would still be fluffing our way towards the back door as the guests were coming in the front door. I think there is no greater acknowledgment of a job well done then hearing the ooohs and ahhhs from clients and their guests when they first entered the room and experienced the ambiance of what we had created.
This was the mantel peice for a wedding where we used a collection of whimsical frog pitchers nessled into a mass of fabulous flowers.
Although I have moved on to other creative endeavors, I am still called upon to use my creative event planning skills for friends and relatives when they have special events and want the very best.
