At Kennedy Events, we love great event design, but we don’t simply design an event to be beautiful just for the sake of being beautiful. There’s an intense amount of strategy that goes into every detail. If you’ve ever attended our events, you may not have noticed this—and that’s the telltale sign that we’ve done our job well.

At Kennedy Events, we love great event design, but we don’t simply design an event to be beautiful just for the sake of being beautiful. There’s an intense amount of strategy that goes into every detail. If you’ve ever attended our events, you may not have noticed this—and that’s the telltale sign that we’ve done our job well.

At Kennedy Events, we love great event design, but we don’t simply design an event to be beautiful just for the sake of being beautiful. There’s an intense amount of strategy that goes into every detail. If you’ve ever attended our events, you may not have noticed this—and that’s the telltale sign that we’ve done our job well.

Event signage may not be a sexy topic, but it’s one of the best ways to communicate key information with your attendees. We’re sharing use cases and various styles of signage in our latest blog post.

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When you’re planning a corporate event at a hotel, you need an agent on your side before signing the dotted line. We’re spilling everthing you should know, but probably don’t about hotel contracts.

When you’re hosting a corporate event and want to break the internet without breaking the bank, pick the right catering style. We’re showing you how to maximize your catering budget in our latest post.

Hiring the perfect team of event planners has been a thoughtful process at Kennedy Events, and we let Oceans 11 inspire our process.

Here at Kennedy Events, we know that even a million dollar event budget has limits. And when hosting an event, you’re faced with limitless options in every facet of the event. So one of our major roles in planning? Helping you make the most strategic use of your budget, no matter the size. =

Today, we’ve pulled together Spend and Splurge options for some of the most common elements of an event, like the food, decor, and entertainment.

How do you decide what you want areas to splurge on?

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Events are SO much fun (of course we think so!), but we’re proponents of making sure that you’re event is more than pretty. We’re in favor of making sure that the effects of your event are going to last longer than the effects of the open bar will. And that’s where goal setting comes in.

We’ve talked a lot about goal setting on our blog before, from how to achieve your goals strategically before, during, and after an event, but today we’re taking a slightly different approach.

It’s only February, but event prep season is coming up (we know, we’re just getting over the holidays too!). It may seem absurd to start planning now, but the year’s best events get planned months in advance, sometimes more than a year in advance.

And the very first step to planning your event (other than  your venue, of course!)?

Finding the perfect event planner.

Want to know the question we get asked most often?

What kind of event can I get for $XYZ,000?

It’s the million dollar question...literally.

But the truth is, we just don’t have a rinse and repeat and answer for that question. An event is so varied, so complex, that there is no set formula for what it might cost.

2017 has been a banner year for Kennedy Events. We’ve had one of our most exciting years in business yet, with the best clients an event planner could ask for, plus a new rebrand and website for ourselves

Sure, we talk about the how and why of events all the time here at Kennedy Events HQ. We love them!

But guess what? Not everybody is ready right.this.minute to host a live event...

Today’s post is #3 in a 3-part series all about helping you get the most out of your event planning work by setting meaningful and measurable goals....

Welcome to Post #2 in our 3-Part series that teaches you everything(ok, a lot!) we know about to set and measure goals for event success...

So, here’s the inside scoop. Some event planners are well suited to select the venue, recommend food and décor, and make things run smoothly. ..

Planning an event that isn’t just pretty and fun, but drives results to your company’s bottom line takes a lot of hard work from a dedicated group of people....

Our clients rely on our expertise for pricing and planning their events. When it comes to the costs of catering though, everyone’s an expert. Right? ...

Over at Conferences That Work, our friend and industry expert Adrian Segar has a long diatribe as well as pithy resources about what makes a nametag work....

While planning CrowdConf, the leading event for the crowdsourcing industry, we brainstormed this down and dirty list of ideas to make the event more memorable...