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How to Throw a Memorable Bar/Bat Mitzvah Party

If you plan to throw a bar/bat mitzvah, a gender-neutral b-mitzvah, or a group b’nai mitzvah, you’ll want to mark this most important milestone in your child’s Jewish identity with a memorable celebration.


Of course your child will rightly be the center of attention, but you’ll also want to provide food and entertainment for all those who have come to help them commemorate their ascension into adulthood.


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Start with a theme


There are literally hundreds of ideas that can keep everyone entertained for hours.

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Encouraging Networking at Your Conference

Your conference agenda will certainly be full of events to provide information, inspire people to action, or improve performance. But surveys show the No. 1 reason people attend such events is to meet new people, talk, and share ideas or even complaints. So for a successful conference, incorporate creative ways to encourage networking to give attendees what they want most.



Set them free


What's the best way to allow people to socialize?  It's not by packing your schedule so tightly that attendees don’t have time to strike up informal conversations with each other. That i

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Throw a Fabulous Pride Month Party

As we enter Pride Month, many celebrate by hosing a party, attending a parade, or participating activism. On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village. As the police became violent, patrons of Stonewall along with others in the neighborhood began to fight back, finally fed up with the continual harassment by authorities there and around the country.


The riots—or uprising, as most prefer—lasted three days, and ultimately marked the beginning of the gay rights movement. Organizations such as the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed a

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5 Simple Tips to Host a Sustainable Conference

These days if your company wants to project a positive brand image, you need to be on board with the concept of sustainability. That is, actions that reduce your carbon footprint and any negative impact on the environment.


Forbes’ research reveals that 88% of consumers want brands to help them be more environmentally friendly. And many companies are responding. According to Eventbrite’s monthly Events Industry Report, sustainability is a prime consideration when event creators plan their conferences and meetings.


Not only do sustainable practices help the earth and enhance your company’s reputation, it can also cut down on the cost of the event, as you’ll see below.


So here are five easy ways to host a sustainab

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Using Social Media to Promote Your Event

If it’s your job to pull together an event, you may be so wrapped up in selecting a venue, creating a theme, hiring vendors, and arranging transportation, that it can be easy to overlook a very important part: publicity.


Besides hitting up the local media, creating a dedicated website, sending emails, and issuing announcements, you’ll get the biggest bang for your buck if you promote your event through social media. Not only do 84 percent of people use at least one type of social media, but social media publicity is free. All it takes is a little planning and a bit of strategizing to create a dynamite social media event promotion campaign.



To boost attendance


The old-school way to publicize an event was to send

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New Event COVID Safety Technology

The pandemic may be waning, but the coronavirus is still out there. If you’re planning a convention, meeting, or corporate gathering in the next few months, you’ll want to incorporate the newest COVID event safety measures and technologies. 


In addition to concerns of attendees becoming ill, companies have a financial incentive to ensure the health of their employees. Those who contract COVID-19 not only face days of missed work, but possibly weeks or months if they’re one of the estimated 30 percent who suffer from long COVID afterward.


And chronically ill employees lead to lower productivity an increased health care costs.


So wouldn’t you like to make your next event

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Wedding Trends that are Untraditional

Now that we’re nearly halfway through 2022, it’s becoming more apparent what this year’s top wedding trends are. And if there’s one trend that’s crowding out all the rest, it’s couples are opting for untraditional wedding choices.


From the wedding dress to the food to the venue, couples are tossing tradition aside for unique choices.




“Couples are leaving behind super formal, black-tie celebrations and exploring cocktail-style parties, food truck parties, dance parties, everything outside of the typical wedding box,” Brooklyn-based event planner Jove Meyer of Jove Meyer Events tells The Knot.



While many couples are still holding traditi

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How To Host a Conference That’s Unforgettable

If your company is going to host a corporate conference, you need to make sure that all the planning and expenses are worth it, not only for the attendees, but for your company’s return on its investment.


To do this, you need to overcome the concept most people have of just another humdrum, tedious conference.


So what can you do to ensure your firm’s conference is one people will be talking and posting about in glowing terms during and afterward? Here are a few tips.



Determine the conference's goals


Before you begin to make

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Top 5 Wedding Cake Trends for 2022

Wedding cake trends this year range from the simple and classic to anything goes. If it’s edible, you’ll see it at weddings in 2022.




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Pressed flowers


In keeping with our current desire to celebrate the natural world, we’re adding touches of nature everywhere, including our wedding cakes.


Pressing edible flowers into the buttercream not only offers a unique pop of color, but also a bit of an informal

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Are Hybrid Events Here to Stay?

The demands of the pandemic forced us all into new ways of living our lives, from ordering groceries online to wearing masks to attending Zoom meetings in shorts and flip-flops. One of the biggest challenges for event planners was how to hold events safely. The answer was the hybrid event: partially live and partially virtual.


Now that more people are feeling confident about resuming their old way of life, at least for now, many are asking, does that mean the end of hybrid events?


The answer from most experts seems to be no, for several reasons.



In-Pers

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