Event planning is a crazy job, I must admit.
Compared to yesterday, today was a completely different day. Liliana took me in the morning to visit a house where a wedding reception was beginning to be built, after checking out the structure and giving it the O.K. to move forward she took me to visit her enormous storage closet and office.
It was a long day, around 10 people must have gone by the office to check on plans which were being changed, to check on the poles and make sure they are all distributed through out the events properly and with people asking questions about upcoming events with the phones ringing off the hook.
The day passed by quickly, I got to observe the different jobs in the business of event planning. The office had secretaries, programers, architects, budgeters, builders and designers. It was a small office, so when many people came in it got a bit crowded. Work done at the office was different to what I experienced yesterday; this was crazier than going around to different appointments.
Observing how the office works allowed me to see what truly goes on "behind the scenes" of an event. The plans of each event go through a series of processes:
-meeting with the client, see what they want
-make a sketch with measurements
-pass the sketch onto the program used to plan it out
-have another meeting with the client, make any changes on the paper
-take changes back to the editors and improve it
-finalise the plan
-revise the finished plan with the builders, make sure all the pieces needed are available and reserved
-go to the place where event will take place, start to build the structure out of the poles
-revise the structure to see if it is perfect
-build the rest of the event
-decorate it, make it look nice
I never would have thought there were so many parts to creating an event, I always thought it was a simpler job, but it's double the difficulty as any other job because things are true to their due date. If things are done on time, then the event won't be able to occur creating a large failure in the company; theres no other choice than to have things ready when they are said to be.
Compared to yesterday, today was a completely different day. Liliana took me in the morning to visit a house where a wedding reception was beginning to be built, after checking out the structure and giving it the O.K. to move forward she took me to visit her enormous storage closet and office.
It was a long day, around 10 people must have gone by the office to check on plans which were being changed, to check on the poles and make sure they are all distributed through out the events properly and with people asking questions about upcoming events with the phones ringing off the hook.
The day passed by quickly, I got to observe the different jobs in the business of event planning. The office had secretaries, programers, architects, budgeters, builders and designers. It was a small office, so when many people came in it got a bit crowded. Work done at the office was different to what I experienced yesterday; this was crazier than going around to different appointments.
Observing how the office works allowed me to see what truly goes on "behind the scenes" of an event. The plans of each event go through a series of processes:
-meeting with the client, see what they want
-make a sketch with measurements
-pass the sketch onto the program used to plan it out
-have another meeting with the client, make any changes on the paper
-take changes back to the editors and improve it
-finalise the plan
-revise the finished plan with the builders, make sure all the pieces needed are available and reserved
-go to the place where event will take place, start to build the structure out of the poles
-revise the structure to see if it is perfect
-build the rest of the event
-decorate it, make it look nice
I never would have thought there were so many parts to creating an event, I always thought it was a simpler job, but it's double the difficulty as any other job because things are true to their due date. If things are done on time, then the event won't be able to occur creating a large failure in the company; theres no other choice than to have things ready when they are said to be.