Monday, June 24, 2013

An Intern's View!

Ello Mates!

This is Crushed Ice Events and the Ice House's fabulous summer intern reporting to you from the office! My name is Kendall Meiller from Western Kentucky University and I'm so thankful for this wonderful opportunity of being an intern for these amazing ladies :) I'm basically an event planner in training and seeing if I'm going to take the bull by the horns in this business or run away screaming! So far I've tackled working two weddings and a corporate meeting and I'm still standing. That's pretty good, right?

For my very first event experience I worked as a server for Ellen Hale's wedding reception. All I can say is respect goes out to those hard workers and I guess I didn't think about the whole "I'm going to be on my feet all day so I should wear comfortable shoes" thing. Yeah, my dogs were barking by the time I got home! I really enjoyed working with all of the servers, though. They took me in like family *tear*.   

The reception was very, very pretty! Something that I pictured my reception looking like (which will be in like 4542 years). 




The food was excellent, especially since the Hales are the owners of Lotsa Pasta! YUM!!





I learned something very important about event planning that night...one word: leftovers! Yeah, let's just say being on a diet this summer, or probably for the rest of my life being in this business, is not going to happen.

Overall, I'd say that my first event went splendidly. The crowd was energetic and danced the night away and the bar was the hot spot. My kind of people! I give my first event experience an A+ and tipping my hat to those hard working servers!

This past weekend I got to be one of the big girls and work as a manager (actually, following around Brittany, but good enough) for Lesley Bormann's wedding and reception! Yeah, I felt a little official, not to mention I got to cut the cake! (well the groom's baseball cap cake, but it was a moment for me, okay!) 

The ceremony was on the rooftop. Everything was set! The DJ was set up, the chairs and tables were in place. It was ready to go and guests started to arrive!  However, I quickly learned that you can't leave a space unattended for too long in this business.  Literally walked downstairs for 15 minutes just to come back up to one of our roof blocks off of its rack! Now, this is seriously 3 minutes before the ceremony start time. All I could see in my head was Lesley walking to the aisle and tripping down the way! Talk about tragic. I admit it was a little exciting getting a firsthand look at a possible crisis that could happen being in event planning! It was pretty intense (not really, it was an easy fix, but I like dramatics). Luckily our servers possess many, many handy-dandy skills and took care of the dilemma! Nothing a little muscle and manpower couldn't fix! 

 

Okay so guests are seated, the bride is ready, and she's not going to fall through the roof. Perfect! The ceremony was very cute! With a smaller number of about 145 guests, it was very intimate and there was a nice little breeze on the rooftop making it even better.  First ceremony experience, success!




The reception was held in the main hall and looked really nice! It was all white with pale purple lighting and a grand table for the bridal party! DJ Nigel had everyone getting down and dancing off their socks (literally, I saw some toes out!). Kind of made me want to get down with the crowd, but nobody wants to see that, trust me!

All in all, besides the roof incident and oh yeah, one of our servers stabbing a metal wire through his finger (yes THROUGH his finger, but he's a tough one) everything turned out wonderfully. Any event where everyone comes out alive and still kicking is a good one, I say! Can't really say the same for my calf muscles the next morning, though! Running up and down 3 flights of stairs about 15 times in one night will do that to you! At least working in this business it balances out between eating delicious leftovers and getting a good workout!

 Keep watch for more blogs from Crushed Ice Events and my last post at the end of the summer to see the lessons my event planning gurus have taught little ole me! :)

Well as they say here at Crushed Ice Events "eat, drink, & be merry!"
Until next time!





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