Spirals

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_{How I enjoyed architecture when I plan events. Most people don't think anything of it. They enter a building usually trying to get to their destination. Others don't have the time or desire to learn about where they are at. What you are doing. It's I have to do, get, win. Rather than enjoy the moment. That's technology isn't it? That's cars isn't it? The faster the better?}

_{What does a staircase say? Does the staircase say anything. Are you a person who runs up the stairs to see what is down below or are you a person who stars at the bottom and looks up. What does his have to do with event planning? Are the stairs functional for your event or will they just be decor?}

Maybe the architect has more than just a thougt or two about what he was doing. Think about it. How long did it take t build the building. From conception to today? This building or staircase wasn't just built. It took lots of studying the land. plans were drawn, designed, redesigned, props models made and models re-made until perfection. Approval. That's when construction was made.

This doesn't happen overnight or in bed. It takes time. It took hundreds of years to build some of the buildings. What seems over night for the concrete building with a minalmust style, Why staircase? Event planning is a little like that. Acts of God shall we say. When you think of how many people are involved. One needs to understand the needs of the client. Spiral can happen when the client is in need, or lacks the understanding of what they are asking of the event planner. Most event planners try their best.

What are signs that the client is spiralling? 

1. The clients friends and family start calling her (bridzilla), that's what she's called in weddings. In business it's called I'll will. The person is always in a bad mood or stressed. Too much useless information she can't process and theirfore she gets angry with every one.
2. You start the planning process and it is change. Colors may change design concept, finances. The client doesn't stick to the original plan.
3. The project or event is costing more money than it should. The client is spending more money or the business has to charge the client more money due the fact they keep changing their mind. This happens in interior design all the time. As you design where certain things belong one discovers the intent of the architect.
4. When that is discovered then the original plans are put back in place. For the event planner, they then consult their clients to see in they want to proceed with what the building or venue was designed for or they want to create their own floorplan. This where venue negotiations comes in and the event planner cost more money, she has to go against the intended to satisfy her clients wishes.
5. The client blames the business for all the things going wrong in their lives. You didn you said remember this, remember that. Instead of staying focused on the event to do list.
6. The client trys to involve everyone in the decision making process instead of trusting the research that is being done for them.
7. The client desires are not always doable in the venue on choice, therefore leaving flowers whereever they go.

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It's important to have trust the person planing the event to understand the architecture of the venue. It's also important to understand the details the client wants and doesn't want. Most of all respect the privacy of the person.

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Table For One?

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I have never thought so much about tables until I returned back to my industry after raising my children. Again, I am at that point where thinking about my industry and how awkward things are when someone ask for a table for one.

 The looks, the comments. Do I take something to read? Do I read my phone, live tweet, live Instagram or just sit there and stare. What is it about being single that creeps out people? Awkward not. I'm not about to give into that thought or give up my rights, because I'm alone. Maybe, I grew up in a different world where woman had the right to be alone if they wish.

I grew up seating by the pool side by myself. Tanning, reading sipping on the latest refreshment. There are many things to be learned. Taking public transportation anywhere I wanted without being asked to give up my seat. I encourage my children to take the bus, train, plane and test it to see what it is like today. They did. They learned what a stare is. They learned how awkward one feels at times. They also learned how they are living in better times then my grandparents or their grandparents lived.

Gloria once said: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."  She right we can do anything today. The goal is to make something beautiful out of something that may or may not be.

The industry is filled with tables and it took me a while after helping many with their place settings and the number of people at each table, placement of place cards. It's a difficult thing to decide when it involves people you know and care about. Do I put children at a children's table? Do I place singles with married people or at a singles table? What seems like a trivial thought to an event planner is a great big deal to the person planning the event.

For example a board meeting in a traditional office is set up so board members can usually see each other. What if you have a non-traditional board. What then? How does one address an out of the box thinker? Will one use a classroom style?
What if you want more? Will you have beautiful flowers on the table or keep it serious business with just the materials then need. Is this considered a placesetting?

Will one break the group into tables of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 will this leave someone out. Maybe the tables need to be set in odd numbers. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13. Making room for people who have attended the event alone not feel bad. Not everyone attends events or even board meeting with their spouse, family member, another staff member. Most of the time people attend these things along. I enjoy working with people who come up with solutions for their business and I consider myself a person who doesn't judge another on the bases of having to do things alone. 

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Now remember before you start planning your next event consider writing down three things you'd like your single attendees to take away from the event.

If you'd like creative thinking for your next event consider MK Pure Diamond Events. 

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