We Moved!!!

So super stinking excited to announce that we have MOVED!

We now have an office in downtown Beaverton with a small event center connected to it. Our office is located inside fUSe Studios PDX. fUSe Studios PDX is a small event space that is available to book for Meetings, Trainings, Classes, Parties & Events.  The lobby is also available for creative individuals or small business owners for 1-1 meetings or just to have a quiet place outside your house to work.

The event studio side can hold up to 40 people at tables and chairs or 60 as a standing reception.

We are super excited to be a part of this and hope it helps bring lots of benefit to other small businesses in the Beaverton area. 

So you can now find us at 3841 SW Hall Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005

If you are interested in seeing the space for your business meeting, to utilize the lobby to meet clients or just to come check out our new digs let us know. We would be happy to show you around. 

 

Thanks for reading

Lisa Marie

Events by Lisa Marie

3841 SW Hall Blvd

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The Rehearsal Dinner!!

So you have been planning your wedding, picking decor, music, flowers and more.  Now you need to settle on a rehearsal dinner.  There is the time, the location, if you want a specific decor or items for your guest/bridal party.  Here are a few tips.

1. Pick a place close to your actual rehearsal. This will cut down on wasted time and people getting lost.
2. Pick something that is a little bit casual without being too casual.  You want your bridal party and guests to relax a bit before the big day.
3. You are not required to spend an outrageous amount of money on the food and drinks.  It is ok to have a buffet dinner and no alcohol for drinks.  If it is at a restaurant you can have non alcoholic drinks and they can go to the bar for the rest if they want it.  (after all do you really want your wedding party drinking a ton the night before your wedding?)
4. Make sure you are in a private or semi private room.  You will want to enjoy yourself and not feel like you are interrupting others.
5. Pick a place you enjoy the food.
6. Take into consideration who is paying for the wedding and their food tastes.
7. Hand out wedding party/parent gifts before dinner begins.
8. Say a short (3-5 min) thank you to all who are there.
9. If you are not inviting all out of town family host a separate Meet & Greet for them.  
10. Grandparents should be included in the rehearsal guest list.

Finally DO NOT plan to stay out late but DO plan to enjoy yourself. This is a great time to just relax and enjoy your friends and close family before the busy wedding day. Enjoy it! Remember it!

Happy Planning

Lisa Marie

Events by Lisa Marie

A new kind of Easter Egg Hunt!

This year we were asked to put together an Easter Egg Hunt for 10 little kids.  7 of the kids were her grandkids and the other 3 are her Great Nieces and Nephews. So in an effort to do something a little bit different we came up with a plan.

You see these are not Easter Baskets we were creating but instead an actual Easter Egg Hunt where we could deliver all the items to the client so that they could actually produce the event without having to do the work of putting it all together.

So here is what we came up with.  Since most of the kids are still younger we did not feel the need to have large amounts of candy in the eggs.  So instead we did 150 eggs.  (enough for each kid to find 15).  Then we came up with some other fun ideas for the kids to find and do.

First we took some basic brown bags and put each kids name on it and decorated them with a few stickers.  Not a ton just a few to make them look a bit more festive. Below is an image of how they turned out.

 Then we worked on creating a craft item for inside the bags as a little surprise.  We picked up some foam eggs and foam stickers.  Each set got 2 eggs and a collection of foam stickers to decorate them with.  We put them down in a clear gift bag and tied them off with some ribbon.

We also thought why not give them even more fun activities to find instead of just candy filled eggs? How about more crafts and activities to do.  So we found some small painting kits already put together, packets of outdoor chalk that we wrapped individually and a water painting coloring book that we were able to take out individual sheets and wrap up.

All in all the the Easter Egg Hunt items turned out pretty well.  Each child will have 18 different items to find as well as some fun crafty things to do that can help keep them busy during the day.

So why not try something different for your Easter Egg Hunt this year and remove some of the candy and add in some fun crafts and activities.  You kids will never know any different, they will be healthier and will have tons of fun with the craft items.

Feeling like teaching them something even more valuable?  Try egging!  Yes that is correct we said Egging.  It was introduced to us last year by an industry friend Nicole with Powder Inc.  You get to create an Easter Basket filled with goodies, fill some eggs and go and "egg" your friends house.  Spread the filled eggs in the yard, leave the basket with instructions by the door, ring the door bell and go hide.  Your friends will open the door and find a nice surprise.  Keep it going every year.  Below are some pictures of past baskets we have done.

Happy Easter

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