The first party I can remember planning was a surprise 11th birthday party for my best friend Hannah and her twin Myles. I’ve always loved coordinating events and wish I would have gotten a jump start on doing them professionally sooner than now but I am grateful that I finally have my dream job : ) Since working as an event coordinator at Precoa I’ve been able to help plan a handful of company events (including a Halloween runway show!) but this holiday party is the best and biggest to date! There are a lot of details to plan and implement for a formal event with 216 people but I loved every second of the process!
We decided to embrace the Northwest as our theme and created a glamorous Christmas tree lot! Inside this tent we had 35 real, locally grown trees and each tree went home with an employee to be in a loving home for the rest of the holiday season.
Preparations
This Costco run was a workout. 110 Martinelli bottles later I couldn’t leave the store without photo evidence of the hard work.
It took a large uHaul and these fine gentlemen to get our 35 trees with stands and 20 light posts into the truck, out of the truck and set up in our venue. Thank you!!
Complete setup!
Next to each place setting we set a gourmet carmel, chocolate and cinnamon sugar pretzel rod. These desserts are delicious but take a while to make when you need 216 of them : ) We hand made them all.
Lucas and I made this arrow sign and the photo backdrop below. We’re addicted to DIY projects.
While planning for this event I learned how to use SketchUp, a software that allows you to lay out an event or building in 3D. I’m excited to use this for future events!
