Creative Writing for Wedding and Event Planners

Last year, I was lucky enough to hear Preston Bailey speak at Ideas Factory in Las Vegas.  He spoke about his career, what he loves about his work and the ups and downs he has experienced on his road to success.  He also gave the audience an opportunity to ask questions and one that he [...]

Creating a Story Board in Event Design

In our Design courses we ask students to prepare a story board as one of the assignment tasks.  A story board is used in film but also in interior and event design applications.  It goes beyond a Mood Board, which is more about inspiring a mood or feeling as a starting point for developing a [...]

Sweet Lilac – another colour from Pantone Spring 2012

This week our featured mood board takes another look at Pantone Spring 2012 colour collection and this time we are looking at Sweet Lilac. I just love this colour from the purple family. It is refreshing and so easy to incorporate into events from the colour of bridesmaids dresses to the overlays and chair covers. [...]

Inspired by ‘Pantone’s Spring 2012 Fashion Color Report’

Last week, Kylie wrote a blog about the use of colour in event design.  She made an excellent point in stating that trends are not the only influencing factor when it comes to what colours you will work with.  Your client, whether corporate or private may have very defined ideas about the colours to be [...]

French Couture – pink and black theme

At the moment I have to be honest I have Paris on the brain as in a few short weeks I will be jetting off to the UK to spend Xmas with my family. Of course I will also be spending the month of January with our UK Consultant Zoe working on the UK Campus [...]

Dictating Event Colour Trends

 We often talk about colour trends here @ Event Experts and also within our styling and design courses at the Academy of Wedding and Event Planning. In fact one of my favourite things I love to preach is that the world of fashion, architecture and paint are the major influencers for in the choice of [...]

Halloween Themed Events

Halloween is one of my favourite times of year for many different reasons but when I lived in the UK it was because the colours were so fantastic and it was quickly followed by Guy Fawkes night – otherwise known as Bonfire Night. Here in Australia it certainly isn’t freezing cold and the colours of [...]

Phantom of the Opera Wedding Theme

Last week Christine put a call out on our Facebook page for some ideas of unusual mood boards we could create to show you some ideas on how to take a theme and translate this into an event. From that I created an Alice in Wonderland board for our AU Facebook and a Willy Wonka [...]

Alice in Wonderland Wedding Theme

This week our Course Consultant at the Academy, Christine, asked you on Facebook to help her decide on a mood board and Charissa came up with the idea of a crazed and vivid Alice in Wonderland tale. This got me thinking that every time you see an Alice theme it is often very vibrant colours [...]

Patone Colours for Spring 2012

Unlike the rest of the world here in Australia we are already having Spring so when Pantone release their top ten colours for Spring 2012 it does sound a little far off to us Aussies and Kiwis. However in Europe and America they have just entered Autumn so in the fashion world, which is always [...]

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