How Long Does it Take to Plan a Wedding? – Part 2
The Final Stages of Wedding Planning
Welcome to our second of edition on how long it takes to plan a wedding! If you haven’t read Part 1, CLICK HERE. In this article, you’ll learn about what needs to happen from six months before the wedding all the way through the big day itself, whether it’s held on a Sunset cruise in San Francisco or a more traditional venue.
How Long Does it Take to Plan a Wedding? – Part 1
Follow This Timeline to Plan the Wedding of Your Dreams
From looking for venues to arranging after the ceremony celebrations like a Bay Area wedding cruise, wedding planning involves many stages. This is the first of two articles looking at that process. In this post, you’ll learn the steps of wedding planning that take place from a year or more before the wedding to six months out. The second post covers the rest of the timeline to your special day.
How to Run Productive Post-COVID Executive Meetings
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses everywhere are faced with making changes that no one expected. Many realize, however, that now is the time to plan for how to get an executive team or company unit kicked off and fired up post-COVID. By carefully organizing your upcoming company events, you can set the tone for the remainder of 2020 and 2021.
Maximize the ROI of Offsite Corporate Events
To generate return-on-investment (ROI) for your post-COVID meetings, holding some of them away from the office has value. Your executives need to feel engaged and inspired, perhaps now more than ever. A meeting held at a desirable venue can help your team to focus, give them a different perspective, and ultimately, increase productivity. What makes a particular venue the right choice for offsite meetings? The following are some of the top qualities to look for as you plan your next executive event: Read more »
Prepare Now for Your Autumn Team Relaunch Offsite
The first part of 2020 has proven challenging for businesses across the globe. But, although the COVID-19 crisis will be with us at some level for a while, many companies are planning ahead for more positive and productive times. How about you and your team? Once everyone has returned to work, you will need to find ways to get your work team reengaged and reignited.
If you’re working on how to relaunch a team post-COVID, keep in mind that offsite meetings and other company events can energize your workers in a powerful way. There may never be a better time to arrange engaging, team-building activities for your employees.
Planning Your Post-COVID Team-Building Agenda
Your company will have unique issues to overcome this fall and winter as everyone gathers back in your workspaces, so you should have these special challenges in mind as you organize your kick-starting company outing. Read more »
Five Fall Wedding Color Palette Ideas
With folks at home sheltering during the COVID-19 crisis, people have time on their hands for more planning and researching. This includes the wedding planning going on now for Autumn weddings. One of the first steps wedding planners take couples through is color schemes. Color choices drive decisions about décor, dresses, suits and floral arrangements.
Five color combination ideas to consider when planning your fall wedding
Autumn actually offers a wealth of color combinations. Soft hues like lilac, dove gray and violet may suit you. Or the browns, oranges and yellows of turning leaves. These earthy hues and rich jewel tones like purple, green and red can combine soft tones with vibrant highlights that can inject energy into the setting. Here are just a few wedding color combinations couples with Autumn weddings in the San Francisco area could consider. Read more »
Five Team Building Ideas to Reignite Your Workforce
Team-building activities are going to be critical events as the Bay Area business community starts to get back to work once the COVID-19 emergency passes. Organized group activities can help your staff to rebuild morale, reignite productivity, and re-establish solid, enduring connections. In effect, it will be time to repeat that January kickstart to get everyone back in the pool and swimming together! Pro tip: When you stage your team building in a memorable setting, your efforts will more likely yield an optimal meeting return-on-investment (ROI).
Kick Start Your Business Post-Crisis With Team Building Events
Five Baby Boomer Wedding Ideas
A new trend in the weddings we hold on our yacht charters over the last few years has been what we may as well call “Baby Boomer Weddings.” And they are different than traditional weddings! They often are more casual affairs where the fun is definitely paramount over formality!
Baby Boomer Wedding Planning Charts its Own Course
If you are a Baby Boomer couple planning a wedding, your needs likely differ quite a bit from those of couples marrying in their 20s and 30s. You may have been married previously, and have adult children. Or you could be renewing your vows with a long-time spouse. Regardless, you seek to plan an occasion that better reflects who you are today. Even if you’ve never tied the knot before, the details of your event should match your circumstances in a meaningful way. Read below for some insights on how you can incorporate your needs as Baby Boomers in your wedding planning process. Read more »
Plan Now for Your Summer Team Building Offsite
Team-building sessions measurably improve cohesion, engagement and productivity. They are a powerful way to get your staff re-energized and focused on the right goals. Team building offsites often occur during the summer months when schedules are less packed, although you do have to work around summer vacations.
Holding these motivational sessions offsite is critical. Our experience with the companies taking team-buildings out on San Francisco Bay on a yacht charter confirms this. When you meet with your employees outside of the workplace, you get more undivided attention, you can set a tone that lowers the stress and a fun venue provides more fun for your team overall.
Improve Offsite Meeting ROI With a Yacht Charter
To improve your meeting return-on-investment (ROI), use the following tips as you organize your meeting planning and company event schedule for summer: Read more »
How to Plan a Summer Wedding in San Francisco
San Francisco is the perfect place to have a summer wedding, whether as a destination wedding or a local affair. The weather is reliably temperate instead of hot and muggy as with most of the U.S. And if you choose the right venue, the views alone can make your San Francisco wedding truly unforgettable. Every season comes with its own challenges, of course, so be sure to read the points below as you begin your wedding planning.
Summer San Francisco Wedding Planning Tips
Five key elements of Summer Weddings are:
Sufficient Notice
Because many people go on vacation in the summertime, you should mail save-the-date cards as soon as you decide when your summer wedding will be. The invitations should go out at least a couple of months ahead of the event. Read more »
How to Plan a Productive Executive Retreat
Executive retreats can be highly beneficial to your company. Such events give C-Suite or senior managers a time away from the office to give each other their undivided attention. Many businesses make vital decisions in terms of growth and general direction at these decision-maker sessions. Thus, how you plan your next retreat could generate significant ROI for your company in 2020.
How to Run Executive Retreats with High ROI
Meeting Planners focus on five key areas to navigate the challenge of organizing successful executive retreats. Read more »