TSE's 2012 Wedding Event

Lori and Jessica with Simply Divine Events worked alongside Sean De Freitas with Designs by Sean in co-producing the 2012 TSE Wedding Event!

We are so honored to have been chosen to be co-chairs for The Wedding Event for the Special Event Conference that was held in Tampa last week. The Special Event Conference is one of the largest trade shows and conferences in the Event Planning Industry.

In this blog post we are going to take you behind the scenes to see the process of setting up an event of this magnitude. The event was held in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds, and it took us 4 long days and nights to install this event. This has been the most challenging event we have worked on; and we executed it flawlessly.

The Expo Hall is an 88,000 square foot space. We transformed and brought in this space creating walls to the size and look of an elegant ballroom for 700 guests.

The Floor Plan

Day 1- unloading the trucks...

Building the truss...

Setting up the floral designers area. We had 4 designers; their teams set up 4 work stations and began to lay out their vases and process their flowers...

Day 2 - Building the 100 ft. long chandelier...

Setting up the cocktail area...

More flowers arrive...

Begin to design the centerpieces...

Day 3 - truss goes up and start laying tables...

Finish setting tables...

We had four looks inside the ballroom this is:

Earthly Glitz

Moroccan Vintage

Modern Organic

Country Chic

The stage begins to be built...

The stage- finished product

Day 4 - final tweaks and event day!

One of the cocktail hour vignettes- Moroccan Vintage

Cocktail area

Cocktail area - Opera singer in the 80' red dress (Dramatic)

The finished look inside the main dining room

Thank you to all the vendors who helped make this happen- there were over 50 vendors who helped us pull this event off!!! We will be sure to list everyone when we do another post of the professional photos.