a gen’ l profile of Anatomy’s purpose {Guest Post}

Anatomy Of An Event is the initial ‘salvo across the bow’ of the status quo in the events industry; this particular workshop opened a dialogue about cost and effect with University of Pennsylvania campus events planners.

Anatomy’s purpose is to honestly discuss event perspective from the caterer’s point of view – giving over to planners an assessment of what they should expect as opposed to what they have actually been getting in the way of quality service, design, and cuisine.

In the extremely competitive Philadelphia events and catering industry, sometimes the bottom line, and profits, trump long standing relationships; one less waiter, less design effort, cheaper food sourcing.

Anatomy also examines how ‘in shape’ a caterer is – literally. How often does a particular caterer sub contract staff ? How often do caterers train existing staff?

Can the industry handle the truth ?



Thanks so much to Christopher of Christofer + Janesson for writing this post and sharing the video with us!

Matt attended this event and spoke about how lighting can transform a space. We also did some up lighting, pin spotting and projected break up patterns along the back wall.

-Becky

Laura and Rob

Laura and Rob had a beautiful, fun wedding at the Please Touch Museum. There were a lot of unqiue details at this wedding. Erin of Proud to Plan was there to make sure the day went off without a hitch and Jenn of Jennifer Childress Photography was there to capture it all, including the beautiful flowers by Petals Lane.

Chris and Jim took a lot of requests and kept the dance floor packed. They also added to the unique look and feel of the room with some up lighting, break up patters and the couples monogram.

Thanks so much to Jenn Childress for the beautiful images!

-Becky

Laura and Jamie at Princeton University

Laura and Jamie and a beautiful and fun wedding at Princeton University. The ceremony took place outdoors at Whitman College and the tented reception was at nearby Forbes College. We provided the audio for their ceremony and the beautiful tent lighting. Everything came together beautifully. The beautiful flowers were by Dahlia Floral Concepts, the food by Main Street Catering and the music by Doug Winters Music. Thanks so much to Zlatko Batistich for the beautiful images.

Congratulations Laura and Jamie!


-Becky

Melissa and Bob

Melissa and Bob had a fun reception at the Abington Art Center. Our good friend Heather Fowler got them in touch with us and we provided them with a ceiling wash for the reception. Abington Art Center is a very cool place and the cieling wash is a nice touch.

Melissa and Bob, we hope you had a fantastic day and we wish you all the best!


Thanks for the pictures Heather!



-Becky

Official Offshoots! Launch

A few weeks ago Jason and I attended the official Offshoots! launch at Feastivities. Offshoots! is the floral and decor branch of Feastivities catering. Chris, the new Director of Design and Development at Offshoots!, asked us to do some lighting to help showcase their work and we're really glad we were able to help.

We did break up patterns on the outside of the building - talk about a WOW factor when you drove up!


We also did some up lighting and pin spotting throughout the inside of the building, and of course, provided our awesome Plasma Bar!


Chris, thanks so much for asking us to participate! We're looking forward to working with you more in the future!

A HUGE thank you to the always fabulous Jackie Bayne (Love Shack Photo) for the beautiful images!

And here's a picture of Paola and I at the event. Paola is the Creative Director at Offshoots! and an all around awesome person! We're due just 7 weeks apart!

-Becky

Kari and Esteban

Kari and Esteban live in South Africa, but had their beautiful wedding at Esteban's parents house in New jersey. The house and land is absolutely beautiful, as was the attention to detail. The couple and their guests danced the night away to Fantasy, a Barry Herman band. We were so happy to be a part of their big day. We did all of the lighting in the tent, and thanks to Geri Nelson Photography, we have some wonderful pictures of it!

Kari and Esteban, we wish you all the best!


-Becky

Youngshin and Samir

Youngshin and Samir had a beautiful reception at The Abington Art Center and we were lucky enough to do the lighting for them. We did amber up lighting ad leave washes on the cieling. Youngshin and Samir are such a fun couple and their personalities really came through in the wedding deisgn and pictures. We wish you all the best!


Thanks so much to our friend Heather Fowler, Heather Fowler Photography, for these awesome images!

-Becky

Tracey and Doug

I recently had the pleasure of working with Tracey and Doug Kaminski for their wedding at the beautiful Mercer Oaks Golf Club in Princeton, NJ. In speaking with Tracey in the months leading up to the wedding she had several ideas of what she wanted to have at her wedding. Most brides make the decision early in the planning whether to have a band or a DJ for entertainment. Doug and Tracey wanted both. Frogger, a local NJ cover band played for an hour and we DJ'd the rest of the evening. The couple also added a martini glass shaped ice luge with their monogram engraved on the side. Being that the color scheme was predominately red we decided to add some red gels under the luge to give it a red hue.


Tracey and Doug also added red up lighting, conventional breakup patterns, and a photo montage to be played during dinner. Let’s just say that Samantha Boudinot (Event Coordinator at Mercer Oaks) and I had our hands full with so many different variables throughout the evening. When all was said and done the room looked amazing, the food was delicious and most importantly Tracey and Doug had the wedding of their dreams. Congrats guys! We wish you the best!

Thanks to to Jay at Trenton Photographers for the images!

-Matt

Melissa and Joe

Melissa and Joe were married in a beautiful outdoor ceremony at Knowlton Mansion. There reception took place inside and was a lot of fun! Matt and Chris were the DJ's and they had the dance floor packed with a few post-dinner sets of hip hop. We also did the lighting for this reception. We washed the walls in green, did a leaf break up pattern on the dance floor in green and projected their monogram onto the wall above the dance floor.

Here are some images by Robert Winton Wedding Photographer.

-Becky