“Celebrations” – Preston Bailey’s Book Launch

Preston Bailey has always inspired me. From the first time I read about him over 10 years ago I was impressed by his style and his amazing understand of what it takes to design a fabulous party or event. His impressive portfolio includes Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby to name [...]

Event Connect

The Internet makes venue searching for meeting and event professionals at once both simpler and more complicated.  Whilst a Google search will reveal pages and pages of possibilities, wading through the amount of information available to you can be time consuming.  What I also find difficult about the Internet is assessing the neutrality of the [...]

What are you Wearing

I always have a little giggle when I am asked this question (and when I ask it myself); it so reminds me of being 20, but I guess, no matter what age we are, many of us need some re-assurance that what we are wearing is right. As Wedding and Event Planners, getting our look [...]

Fantasy theme – leading trend for 2010

It’s offical – fantasy themes are back in. We have it on good authority that one of the trends for 2010 is the fantasy theme. Now when we say fantasy we are looking very much at Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as our inspiration. So I suppose you could say it [...]

Eventology 2010 – Indianapolis

For those of you who are stuck for something to do in April then think again. The Eventology 2010 conference for wedding professionals is being held in Indianapolis and promises to be a great event. With plenty of networking opportunities and an educational program that is both in-depth and engaging it is an event not [...]

Become a Wedding Planner for Valentines Day!

Love is always in the air here at the Australian Academy of Wedding and Event Planning and this year, to celebrate Valentine’s Day, we want YOU to be OUR Valentine.� � But don’t expect wilting flowers and melting chocolates from us.  We have something much more special in mind for you.  If you have ever [...]

Australian Event Awards 2010

As regular readers of our blog will know, last year we attended the Australian Event Awards 2009 to see what it was all about. We then wrote a review about the aware here on the blog (click here to read). In our review we highlighted the fact that there was no categories for weddings or private events. We [...]

Flash Mob for Wedding Planners

I love finding out about new ways of marketing and how we can possibly integrate them into what we do. One of the crazes I stumbled across a while ago which has slowly started to become more popular is Flash Mob. So what is Flash Mob I hear you ask? Well in it’s most basic [...]

Storyboarding for Event Planners

In my role as Director of the Academy of Wedding and Event Planning part of my job is to develop our course materials and to source new products that are relevant to our industry. I love this part of my job as it allows me to set aside legitimate time to find out what is [...]

Venue Review – Flames of the Forest

 This week we are starting a new weekly ‘venue review’ column to help you with your venue searching.  This series will also give you a head-start on adding venues to your book of ‘preferred suppliers’.  We are on the ‘look-out’ for innovative venues that are doing things a little differently, so if you know of [...]

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