Rosy Event’s has a little sister, and she’s here to help artists succeed!

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of artists. The good men and women who spend years honing their craft, reaching deep into their soul, and making the world a more beautiful, creative place. I know from experience that well-curated art can take an event, home, or gift from ordinary to extraordinary. But artists often struggle to handle the business aspect on top of the full-time job of creating their work. The marketing, selling, management, and fulfillment is enough to keep a whole team of people busy. So how is an artist expected to tackle that on-top of it all? I’m thrilled to announce that now they don’t have to. Rosy Events recently launched a new division, Chicago Creative Company. Chicago Creative Company helps artists focus on the important stuff – getting more of their work into the world. Consider us your support team. You make the art, and we do the rest! Are you an artists struggling to get it all done? Are you a lover of unusual, handmade goods and gifts? Hop on over to www.chicagocreativeco.com RIGHT NOW and check it out. New goods drop every other week, so our inventory is always changing. Sign up for our

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Jason & Melissa’s Wedding: Chicago Yacht Club

I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since this fabulous wedding at the Chicago Yacht Club. I’m ashamed that I’m only just now sharing it! I guess I should have titled this post “Happy Anniversary Jason & Melissa” instead. 🙂 Jason and Melissa both love sailing so when they got engaged there was no question where they’d be tying the knot. The couple did a wonderful job including their sailing teams and other nautical details. We were honored to be a part of this wonderful celebration at the Chicago Yacht Club. Thanks to Justine Bursoni for capturing the incredible photographs! Vendors Venue & Catering: Chicago Yacht Club Photography: Justine Bursoni Floral: Avant Gardenia DJ/Specialty Lighting: A Posh Production Ice Sculpture: Nadeau’s Ice Sculptures      

Meeting Technology Trends: Fighting Fire with Fire

Let’s face it. We can plan the most amazing meeting with dynamic speakers, relevant information, ample breaks, upbeat teaser music, and maybe even something out of the box thrown in just for fun. But when presenters look out at the crowd these days, what do they see? About half of the attendees staring down at a tiny screen checking email, surfing Facebook, or sending a text to the guy sitting next to him. And that’s on a good day. This is a problem that (aside from ordering all attendees to relinquish their devices at the door) is nearly impossible to beat. And you know what they say. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! Meeting Apps Meeting apps are nothing new. In fact, they’ve become increasingly popular over the last five years. Many include maps, agendas, badge or business card scanning, speaker bios, sponsor information and more. It’s too soon to tell if these programs will result in the demise of today’s clunky, time consuming (and often expensive), printed conference guides, but some experts are predicting that will be the case. What is new is the price to create a custom meeting app. Thankfully, it seems the days of apps

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Viva, Las Vegas!

Last month I had the pleasure of producing a three day industrial real estate conference for Cushman & Wakefield. That may not sound very exciting, but this conference was in beautiful Las Vegas and attended by nearly 450 of the happiest industrial real estate professionals I’ve ever met. Seriously, I have never encountered so many people who love what they do in one place. Cushman & Wakefield is doing something right. The conference consisted of seminars, break-out sessions, round tables, exhibits, and networking opportunities. We were very lucky to partner with the amazing folks at Nice Meeting to bring some cutting edge technology to this year’s conference. You can read more about Nice Meeting here. The conference culminated with a fire and ice themed cocktail party complete with an ice bar and luge, themed signature drinks, and fire dancers. Because it is Vegas, after all. Surrender Nightclub at the Encore Resort took such good care of us! We wanted to get the theme across as soon as our guests came through the door. We had waitresses welcoming them serving our signature drinks, the Fireball and the Blue Icicle. These massive, 4ftX8ft lit signs also helped. It’s a little hard to make out in the

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Honey, I’m Hooooooome!

I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news. First, the GOOD news. And this is BIG, HUGE, HOUSE-SIZED NEWS. As of next Tuesday, we will be the proud owners of our very own 25’X125′ lot of Chicago real estate on which sits a quaint, blue house! Then the magic moving fairy will descend upon our (final!) apartment and briskly transfer our belongings to the new home. That’s how moving works, right? Wait, you mean I have to pack, move, clean the new house, and the old apartment in only four days?!?! But it’s the Holidays. And Matt has to work. And I have two, count ’em, TWO jobs! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! So that brings us to the bad news. As a result of this move (and the AWESOME family wedding I’m a part of in Cleveland next Saturday), I’ll be taking some time off from regular posting for a while. I apologize to the 150 of you (on a really good day) who read this blog. But don’t fret, I will be posting. It just won’t be the regular Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule. If you want to make sure you catch my intermittent posts while I’m on break, “like” the Be

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