Get Inspired

Maybe it is because I am a wordsmith by trade, but I am very attached to my daily practice of reading an inspirational quote.  Sometimes I come across more than one, but each day I have a habit of seeking out at least one quote to inspire me.  At the moment I subscribe to a [...]

A Day of Rest

When did you last have a completely ‘work free’ day?  A day of rest?  When you have your own business it is extremely tempting to make yourself available for work every day.  Even just turning your computer on to check emails interferes with your ability to switch off and rest.  Don’t get me wrong, the [...]

Interior Design Awards

A quick visit to the ‘Recommended Reading’ section at Event Designer (AAWEP sister site), will alert you to the fact that we draw our event styling and design inspiration, widely.  One of both mine and Kylie’s favourite points of reference are interior design sites like Material Girls and we both keep an eye on the [...]

How to be Multi-Talented

As Wedding and Event Planners we are expected to be many things – creative, organised, passionate etc and many of these things use a different side of the brain to the one we are comfortable with. You often hear people talk about the fact that they are either right brain or left brain. I have [...]

MEA National Conference

Registrations for the ‘23rd MEA National Conference’ are now open. MEA 2010 will be held in Melbourne, Vic from 17-20 April, 2010 at the Melbourne Convention Centre.  The theme for this year’s conference is, ‘Meetings Mean Business’; aimed at promoting the professionalism and significance of the meetings and events industry to the wider, corporate and [...]

Light Shows

Lighting is a key element of Event Design; lighting can completely transform a space, thus setting the scene and mood of an event, provide cues and segues for presentations and highlight décor, or become a key feature of the décor itself.  One of the most exciting aspects of our job as Event Designers is working [...]

Special Offer on ALL enrolments at the Academy

Lights, Camera, Action – Something special for you in March To celebrate the launch of the Academy of Wedding and Event Planning ‘Podcast Library’ within our Virtual Campus Library, we would like to offer all new students a year’s membership (valued at $195) to our ‘Podcast Library’. The Podcast Library features ‘sessions’ from the ‘Special Events Show’ which is the [...]

Blog of the Week – Skelliwag

This week’s blog of the week is a blog for…bloggers.  Here at Event Experts, we don’t make any secret of our belief in the power of social media, like blogging and twittering, for you business.  As with most subjects, there is no shortage of information about how to ‘blog’, on the Internet.  Our blog of [...]

Making Time

“I try to take one day at a time – but sometimes several days attack me at once” Jennifer Unlimited, Comedienne Over the weekend I held an online ‘tutorial’ with several of our students who are part of our ‘Summer School’ group.  When we first met we discussed ‘Motivation’, and at this time, not surprisingly, [...]

David Tutera in Court with disgruntled clients

I just stumbled across an article about David Tutera being taken to court by his clients for failing to turn up at their wedding. As I read on I discovered that the reason behind this was because his clients didn’t make their final payment. This just reiterates the point I have made previously about needing a water [...]

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