The Best Events Usually Have a Lot of People to Thank

One of the strange things about working events is that everyone sees the finished version.

The room looks beautiful.

The food comes out.

The music starts.

The flowers are where they're supposed to be.

And from the outside, it can all look remarkably effortless.

It isn't.

The best events we've been part of usually involve a lot of people being very good at their jobs.

The planner who has been thinking three steps ahead all day.

The photographer who sees things nobody else noticed.

The venue team who somehow knows exactly where everything needs to go.

The caterer who is quietly running an entire operation in another part of the building.

The florist carrying something much larger than originally intended through a service hallway.

Everybody has their thing.

And when everyone is good at it, the whole event feels different.

The common thread has been the people.

That's probably one of the reasons we're so interested in Baltimore's event community right now.

There are a lot of talented people here.

And good things tend to happen when talented people trust each other to do what they do best.

The flowers are one piece of it.

An important one, obviously.

But one piece.

And honestly, that's what makes events interesting.

You can bring together the same group of vendors, give them a completely different room, a different group of people, and a different reason to gather. Suddenly you're making something entirely new.

That's the magic of it.

No two rooms are ever really the same.

And no good event gets there alone.

Venue: Verde

Co-Planning: Jennifer Mary Collective, Wild Event Florals, The Bmore Table

Participants: Love Rue Permanent Jewelry, Jennifer Mary Collective, Sunset Florals, Midnight Planning, Lexie (Avenue Events), Salted Pages, Haley (Jones Falls Mill Venues),