The Year of Beer
Rise in the Chicago Beer Scene As Chicago continues to rise in the culinary scene (according to the City of Chicago there are currently over 7,300 restaurants), beverages have met the challenge. The past 5 years has seen a great surge in craft beers and breweries in...
5 Tips to Avoid Coat Check Chaos
Let's Help You Deal with all that Baggage Chicago winters are often pretty brutal. Three or four layers over your normal sweater is normal. Any less and you've probably never been here before during sub-zero season. Heck, even our doors get winter covers. Therefore,...
Chicago Restaurant Week 2015 (Jan 30 – Feb 12)
Don't forget that restaurant week is coming up, hosted by Choose Chicago and sponsors including Goose Island, Open Table, Terlato Wines, 101.9 FM the Mix, NBC Chicago 5, Serious Eats and Michigan Avenue Magazine. To learn more about restaurant week and which...
Network!
It's a New Year so that means it's time to stop slacking off. What should be on everyone's New Year's list is to get out and network more this year. You will hear it ad nauseum: Network! This is important for everyone in business, no matter your field. That famous...
Pay Attention to Food Allergies
Start of the year right by educating yourself. Picking the ideal menu is always fun, however, people do have food allergies and they can be serious. While some of this information may see obvious, it never hurts to brush up on your allergy knowledge. Nothing will...
The Year of Beer
Rise in the Chicago Beer Scene As Chicago continues to rise in the culinary scene (according to the City of Chicago there are currently over 7,300 restaurants), beverages have met the challenge. The past 5 years has seen a great surge in craft beers and breweries in...
5 Tips to Avoid Coat Check Chaos
Let's Help You Deal with all that Baggage Chicago winters are often pretty brutal. Three or four layers over your normal sweater is normal. Any less and you've probably never been here before during sub-zero season. Heck, even our doors get winter covers. Therefore,...
Chicago Restaurant Week 2015 (Jan 30 – Feb 12)
Don't forget that restaurant week is coming up, hosted by Choose Chicago and sponsors including Goose Island, Open Table, Terlato Wines, 101.9 FM the Mix, NBC Chicago 5, Serious Eats and Michigan Avenue Magazine. To learn more about restaurant week and which...
Network!
It's a New Year so that means it's time to stop slacking off. What should be on everyone's New Year's list is to get out and network more this year. You will hear it ad nauseum: Network! This is important for everyone in business, no matter your field. That famous...
Pay Attention to Food Allergies
Start of the year right by educating yourself. Picking the ideal menu is always fun, however, people do have food allergies and they can be serious. While some of this information may see obvious, it never hurts to brush up on your allergy knowledge. Nothing will...
Work Meeting Fun
I'm not saying everyone has to have this much color-filled, choreographed fun at your next job meeting, but it is important that work-related events be considered as important as client events. After all, if no one is there to work for your clients you wouldn't have...
Good PR for a Closed Event
I am working on the PR committee for a charity event with the Greater Chicago Food Depository (http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/), an incredible organization that helps feed not just homeless people, but hungry people in the Chicago Area and over 20 of the top...
Unique Catering with Paramount Events
Once you have a roof over your head (aka a venue), the second-most important thing is the food. We've all experience a bad cafeteria or mass-produced food that tastes second-rate, even at a nice event. It's important to impress your guests and make...
Laugh This Weekend
In case you happened not to know, Conan's been at the Chicago Theater all this week for his Late Night show. TBS has also featured a string of comedians to entertain us with greats like Aziz Ansari and Sarah Silverman. It started on Tuesday but you can still get you...
Vendors Vs Planners
I just reviewed a great discussion on LinkedIn about Vendors & Planners and better way to interact. The common theme seemed to be communication is key! There were people from both sides who were passionate about this. The other common discussion was that errors...
Crazy Successful
Just about every person has been through the "what are your strengths and weaknesses? What qualities do you have that will make you successful?" We ask ourselves this all the time. I love reading articles on successful people and observing exceptional, professional...
Make Chicago Your City for Destination Weddings
I'm not married nor have I ever been, but I have friends & acquaintances in the process. For most young women, the notion isn't far away. (As a huge Disney films fan, I say they started it.) Most people think about their ideal wedding long before they're ever...
Weekend Plans
Looking for something to do? One major event is the Chicago Blues Fest. (Learn More: http://www.chicagobluesguide.com/events/chgo-blues-fest/chgo-blues-fest-2012-page.html ) Want other ideas? Check out these websites: Chicago free: http://chicagofree.info/...
The NATO Effect
I do know it's a few weeks after the fact, but I figured everyone should settle down before we talked about it again. Preceding the event, most citizens seemed generally terrified, yet the whole time I couldn't help but feel a little bit excited. Some of this city's...
Pinterest-ing
Now that I've started this blog I've started exploring the internet world behind event planning much more heavily and I keep coming across the same thing: use Pinterest! I'd seen it on my facebook time & time again and finally signed up for it, trying to figure...