We're back for 2011

WELCOME to our first blog of the year...It’s going to be a terrific year! Whilst we are starting on the planning for our 2011 events we want to make sure that we keep blogging.

Highlights of 2010

John and Anni’s Wedding - August 2010
John & Anni Llewellyn Smith’s ‘country styled’ wedding, was styled and planned by Gilly Botte of Vintage Days Weddings, wedding photographed by Zoe Collyer and catered by Pan Global Catering with Vintage Days Weddings

A truly tremendous day with lots of fun, festivities, and frolics...

Phil and Caroline’s Wedding – September 2010
Philip and Caroline’s Wedding was all about the people, friendships and style. The day was brilliantly sunny and warm and the group of friends all arrived on the old Route master bus with a willingness to celebrate!

The ethos from the outset was about good quality food combined with top notch service and having Gilly on hand to advise and co-ordinate those essential ingredients needed by every busy couple nowadays.

The Great British Bake Of Final
A bit of Vintage Days fame courtesy of the amazing ...Love Production team on their production of The Great British Bake Of.

Vintage days was asked to add ambience to the production of this lovely programme. It was such a pleasure to be part of this production in our own little way...and tapped right into the creative spirit behind Vintage Days!
www.loveproductions.co.uk


Vintage at Goodwood 2010
Most of our stock was hired out by The Goodwood events team who put together a superb Vintage Event at Goodwood this year. This was the inaugural ‘Vintage at Goodwood’ event and we were proud to be a part of this.

www.vintagedays.co.uk

Crown Pavilions at Goodwood Revival

www.crownpavilions.com

We styled 3 beautiful Gazebos for Crown Pavilions at Goodwood Revival in September.

1. A shabby Chic Tea Party
2. An Arabian meets Raj Styled Coffee House
3. A Luxurious Ladies Quiet Place

Here’s where we are going in 2011;

OUT with the old and IN with the new...2011!

!Look out! for the updated logo & website to follow during 2011. We are also embracing social media and we will have new Twitter & Facebook pages coming VERY soon.

With our new website...online shop and pre-priced packages which will be available to those of you who we don’t get to meet face to face at Cobham!

We are extremely grateful for your continued support and we look forward to working with you again during 2011 and beyond!

Best wishes,

Gilly, Sharon, Romilly, Rachael & Terry

The Great Big Event London - Website Launch

We are delighted to announce the launch of our dedicated London Office website: www.london.thegreatbigevent.com.

Heading up the team in London is Sharon Dawes our Senior Event Specialist for The Great Big Event & Wedding Company. Our London office will focus on events in London, Essex, Herefordshire and Watford. Sharon also has a wealth of experience in international business into U.A.E. (particularly in Dubai) and Atlanta, USA.

Gillian Botte-Isaac, founder of The Great BIG Event Company commented 'this adds incredible value to our existing corporate and private client base, contacts and network and also opens the door of opportunity to service new clients both inbound and overseas.'

Our London office adds value to our business services as Sharon has extensive experience in large scale hospitality and broad range consultancy to the catering industry. Her professional approach to both private client and company business, is invaluable to our business.

For your London, Essex & Herefordshire events you can contact Sharon directly on:

Telephone +44 (0)208 352 1121
Mobile: +44 (0)771 809 3692
Email: Sharon.Dawes@thegreatbigevent.com or
Head Office +44 (0)845 4599812

www.london.thegreatbigevent.com

www.thegreatbigevent.com

The Great Big Event Company Nationwide

The Great Big Event Company are excited to be expanding throughout the UK with two new offices in Scotland and one new office in London.

Melanie Newdick event planner for The Great Big Event Company, has offices in The Highlands and Edinburgh and operates throughout Scotland.

Melanie's background adds value to our business services as she has extensive experience within the travel and exhibition business. Her professional approach to both private client and company business is just the start for new clients in Scotland. Melanie has worked all over the World for the past few years in the front line handling a variety of clients on cultural tours and trips. Melanie is currently developing packages for our corporate teambuilding, travel and community based business owners.
If you have any events enquiries for this region please contact Melanie through our Head Office on 0845 4599 814 or email melanie.newdick@thegreatbigevent.com.

And in London we have Sharon Dawes - Event Specialist Consultant and Wedding Planner for The Great Big Event and The Great Big Wedding Company. Based in London and operating throughout the South East of the UK and international business into U.A.E. (particularly in Dubai) and Atlanta, USA.

Sharon's background adds value to our business services as she has extensive experience in large scale hospitality and broad range consultancy to the catering industry. Her professional approach to both private client and company business, is invaluable to our business.

She is available for any areas where you need that extra resource, service or expert advice on supplier services. : To contact email: Sharon.Dawes@thegreatbigevent.com or Head Office +44 (0)845 4599812

Complete event management solution

The Great Big Event Company is able to provide event planners with a complete solution to increase event attendance and decrease event costs. By automating the event planning and management processes, our software enables you to focus your time on strategic decisions rather than repetitive, time consuming tasks event management software allows us to provide every client, with a completely seamless delegate capture and delegate management solution for their events.

Overview of delegate management with The Great Big Event Company:

• Managed by our professional in house team
• ‘Attendance grabbing’ event promotion to increase response rates
• Design an online event registration
• Promote your events on branded event websites
• Collect whatever registrant data you regard to be critical
• Accept registrations via web, fax and direct mail
• Build dynamic, multi-track, multi-session registration options
• Pre-populate forms to expedite registration
• Quickly design simple events to save time
• Clone previously created events in minutes
• Restrict event registration by email address, event registration code or a unique ID assigned to each invitee
• Create custom name badges and mailing labels
• Register, modify, cancel and refund attendees
• Upload and display documents such as exhibitor rules, brochures or trade show layout maps
• Setup event approval permissions which require certain users to get approval for their events before launch
• Activate automated wait list function to limit capacity to the event or to particular sessions
• Allow a user to register a group of registrants at one time to streamline the event registration process
• Personalise registration pages with custom fields such as "t-shirt size" or "Membership ID"
• Utilize HTML editors to easily customize web-based forms with graphics and logos to match organizational branding
  

For more information contact Gilly or Julie at info@thegreatbigevent.com

www.thegreatbigevent.com