Milestone Events

Our gorgeous bride Kristie is featured on the Wedding Bells blog!  We are so excited for her!  Check out her story here: http://www.weddingbells.ca/blogs/fashion/wedding-belle/2010/04/09/wedding-belle-a-timeless-affair/#more-7635

We had such a great time working with Kristie and her mom on her beautiful August 2009 wedding.  Out of all of the bouquets the Milestone team has ever made Kristie’s is among one of my favorites.  I never get tired of looking at her pictures captured perfectly from the very talented Dean Sanderson.  Here are some of her gorgeous details in case you missed it last year:

This post is so rediculously long over due but I am going to do it anyway.  In July, Milestone Events was very please to be able to offer Danica MacCormac the positition of Associate Event Planner.

She brings with her a very strong dedication, an amazing skill set, and a desire to please.  We couldn’t be happier to have her join our team. 

Feel free to give her a call at the studio @ 604.530.0490 or pop her an e-mail @ danica@milestoneevents.ca.  She would love to hear from you!

Milestone Events is very sad to announce that after a summer of working on some pretty amazing Vancouver weddings and special events Laelia MacIntosh has completed her internship with us. 

We thank her for all of her extraordinary hard work and know that she will have a very bright future ahead of her.

 Thanks again, chickadee…you were a complete pleasure.  We’ll miss you around here!

I love it when my brides stick around after the wedding.  Julia and Neil have stuck around for a very long time.  They were my first bride and groom and I was very lucky to have them turn into very dear friends.  So when very dear friends need a favor I am happy to help out…so here goes: Julia & Neil have a really great basement suite (I’ve seen it so I can vouch for the greatness) for rent in Surrey.  I promised I would help her get the word out so here are are all the details.  E-mail me if you are interested and I will hook you up with them:

Available Sept 1st. 2 bedroom, full bathroom, washer/dryer, private entance. Cable & Internet (has to supply own router) no pets, no smoking on property, street front parking. $1000/month.

We are looking for a permanent full-time Event Management Assistant/Event Designer.  Qualified candidates will display the following attributes:

• motivated self starter with an eye for detail
• diploma in event management and/or display and design
• fast thinker in crisis situations
• knowledge of Microsoft Office and Quickbooks

Duties would include:

• updating and maintaining client files including budgets and itineraries
• assisting clients through the planning process
• decor team leader
• event assistant on event days
• answering phones and inquiries
• warehouse maintenance
• supporting the owners in day to day activities
• compiling orders 
• minor book keeping

 Please send your resume and cover letter to tanya@milestoneevents.ca.Â

Terminal City Club still has lots of dates available for all you last minute girls out there looking to get married this year:

 Here they are:

Metropolitan Ballroom accommodates up to 280 guests:  

Saturday May 2, 16,30

Saturday August 22

Saturday September 5,26

Saturday October 31 

Presidents Ballroom accommodates up to 130 guests:               

Saturday May 30                 Saturday June 6               

Saturday July 4               

Saturday September 5,12,19               

Saturday October 24,31

Also, check out http://www.tccweddings.blogspot.com/ to see all the info, menus and pricing and a great video about hosting your wedding at TCC (my favorite place on the planet!). 

If you’re interested either let me know or call Andrea Miller directly: 604.488.8640

This one was right in my back yard with all of my favorite people around me: Erin Gilmore from Erin Gilmore Photography, Kathy & Steph Marliss from Marliss Productions, David MacMillan from Sugar Mountain Catering and Paula Lyons from Ayerea Cakes.  Mark from Absolute Entertainment joined the ranks and rocked the house.  This was a veritable dream team of wedding perfection.  The weather was gorgeous and we all had a wicked time.

Allison and Darryl were so fun to work with…nothing but fun, laughs and good times!  Congrats you two!

It’s been a long time since I have been a bride and I think I have forgotten all of the tumultuous emotions that go along with planning your big day…the anticipation, the excitement.

Today I got a very poignant reminder of what it’s like.  Carissa and Iain are vying for the very cool Performance Works at Granville Island.  I LOVE this venue.  Cool, architectural, great location, lighting, built-in drapery, I can bring in my own catering and my own bar.  Colin Cooper, the fellow that takes care of the bookings, is delightful with a dry wit that I really enjoy…but the agony of trying to book this place is unreal.  Carissa and Iain had to call at 12:01 am on the exact date they wanted and then hope and wait and wait and hope.

I called first thing this morning to find out if we were the successful contenders but sadly I have to wait as they sort out their messages…they are going to call back as soon as they know.  Apparently there were 2 other couples that called besides my own. 

Anticipation is running high an I can only imagine what Carissa and Iain are going through.  Moral of the story:  wedding + wait = anxiety.  I hate it when there are things that I can’t do anything about.  But despite all of that the anxiety is completely worth it if we are successful because this place is just that amazing.  If you are just shopping for a venue now put this one on your list.

I met Ada and Zul at Wedding Fair and she called me to help her with some chair covers for her big day at the University Golf Club (I love that place!).  What a completely delightful couple.  Congratulations you two!  Wishing you every happiness!

Their big day rolls around with beautiful sunny skies and we went to set up the room for her.  After the wedding they took off on their honeymoon and this morning I woke up to a very lovely e-mail from Ada.  This is what she had to say:

Hi Tanya,

I wanted to try to email you a little sooner, but things got so hectic after the wedding…..we left on our honeymoon on the Monday and got home on the the evening of the 14th and attended our friend’s wedding on the 15th.  Last week was spent trying to get our apartment back to normal, which it still isn’t and I finally went back to work this past Monday…whew….that was tiring just to type!!

I hope you are doing well….you must be quite busy yourself.  Zul and I wanted to say a million thank-you’s for the amazing job you and your team did that day at the Golf Club.  The room looked gorgeous!  I have attached a picture of me that was taken when I initially walked into the room and as you’ll be able to see, I was overcome with emotion because the room looked exactly how I had imagined it - absolutely beautiful!!!!

Thank you again - it was such a pleasure to work with you…..I will not hesitate to highly recommend you to all my friends!

all the best,

ada

I wear a lot of hats.  Not only do I get to wake up every day and work with amazing people creating awesome celebrations, I get to be a mom.  If you ask my six year old daughter, Lauren, on any given day what she wants to be when she grows up invariably the answer you will receive is “I want to be a wedding planner like mommy.” It appears that she knows all about what I do for a living.

So this morning my family and I were having our Boxing Day brunch and my daughter set the table for me.  It took her an hour to do it but I think that her career path is pretty much all laid out.