Our Wilmington, NC experience!

We are always looking for ways of doing things differently at Hannah Michael. We love to experience new trends and to improve, develop and broaden our knowledge and skills.

Last February, I participated in a 5 day workshop for Event Planners in Wilmington, North Carolina.  It was a wonderful experience. Wilmington is a beautiful town, full of charming history and it's premier location make it one of the most beautiful cities in the South.

Jennifer Sandy-Rose, owner of Salt Harbor Design organised the workshop around a weekend when they had both a wedding and an open house/bridal show.  We all had such a wonderful time. To read more about our experience, click on Salt Harbor Design and select blog.

The bridal show took place at Orton Plantation Gardens, a historic landscape designed around the 1735 mansion and colonial rice fields over looking the Cape Fear River.  With 20 acres of secluded walking trails surrounded by hundreds of acres of rice fields, it is a wonderful, breaktaking venue.

The show/open house was set up in a different format which was refreshing.  Each Event Planner had a tent of their own, set apart from one another.  Each Planner had in their tent, all their preferred vendors and so potential clients had the Planner's trusted vendors - photographers, dj, caterer, paper products designer, florist, and so on, all the same place at the same time! Also, I found it interesting that vendors were not allowed to visit other tents; potential clients were free to make their decisions on which Planner to sign on based on what they saw. 

Hundreds of participants visited the show, it was really a fun day!  For photos, go to our galleries.