Author Archives: Lauren Marino

Oh the Drama! Keeping Your Cool When Things Take a Turn During an Event

Event planning is often full of surprises, drama, and suspenseful plot twists. In fact, it’s such an exciting industry, we are surprised Andy Cohen and Bravo haven’t yet created a “Real Event Planners” reality series following the exploits of event professionals! We certainly know from our own experience of over 35 years of event planning […]

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It’s Not “All or Nothing”: Event Options During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We can’t meet in person right now, or at least not in very large numbers. And even as countries and states start to open up and ease restrictions, we may not be able to meet in large numbers for a while.  Organizations want and need to continue to hold events so they can meet their business […]

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Event Themes: Focusing on How Things Feel

We here at The Charles Group take event theming very seriously.  When building out a theme, we like to design the entire event in a way that ensures we are incorporating the theme into all of the elements of an attendee’s experience. For us, when it comes to event theming and event design, it’s not […]

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Virtual Events: Keeping The Momentum Going

There is an endless number of reasons that businesses and organizations hold events for their clients, customers, members, sponsors, and employees:  to collaborate, to connect, to communicate, to motivate, to network, to educate, to inspire, to share, to grow, to build relationships. These needs haven’t changed just because we can’t be physically together right now […]

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