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This calendar week I was interviewed past times the folks at "Nice Little Party" - a groovy page for all of us dwelling draw of piece of work solid entertaining fans.


Here's a link to the interview! 


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photo past times claire ryser

We caught upwards amongst entrepreneur, resultant planner, together with blogger Jenny Steffens, who started her ain event-planning shop, Occasions inwards 2005. Although Jenny came from a journalism together with PR background, from her dearest of entertaining, design, cooking, crafting together with creating, she created Occasions Entertaining. Along amongst planning intimate dinner parties, lavish showers together with cocktail events, Jenny has designed together with coordinated weddings for her Clients for the past times 4 years. Check out her tips together with tricks on hosting a memorable get-together on a budget, together with more! Jenny’s blog is a must read for anyone interested inwards cooking together with entertaining.

Q: How did y'all instruct into resultant planning together with what made y'all create upwards one's heed to kickoff your ain business, Occasions?

A: I started past times helping friends programme their weddings, bridal showers together with exceptional events.  The natural progression of Occasions developed from there!  The draw of piece of work organisation model is constantly evolving together with changing to adapt to the marketplace together with my lifestyle... 1 of the many advantages to beingness self-employed.  Currently, I'm working on taking to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than of my draw of piece of work organisation online - blogging all virtually dwelling draw of piece of work solid entertaining, recipes, projects for our house, weddings together with the holidays.

Q: Where produce y'all depict your inspiration from for your diverse events?

A:  I read a lot of magazines, entertaining books, websites together with blogs.  However, most of the fourth dimension I only intend virtually what I would desire if it were my political party - I ever dice for seasonal, simple, bountiful, exceptional & fun.  My vogue has evolved from my upbringing out inwards a small-scale town inwards the country, together with piece of work models similar The Barefoot Contessa together with Martha Stewart.    

Q: It seems similar y'all dearest to host people inwards your home, what is the best advice y'all tin plow over to those looking to kickoff entertaining but aren’t certain how to throw an resultant together?

A: Don't overwhelm yourself amongst several complicated homemade recipes.  Select 1 or ii exceptional things to prepare, together with therefore brand everything else actually slow - gather bountiful artisan cheese platters, buy bakery desserts (that are delicious) together with produce big arrangements of unproblematic flowers similar hydrangeas.  No 1 tin mess that up!  Also, I similar to produce manageable sizes of parties - dinner parties for 6, outdoor BBQs for 10, cocktail parties for 14.  I break if nosotros entertaining for to a greater extent than than that at a time, it becomes similar piece of work together with I don't relish myself.

Q: How tin soul throw together a groovy resultant on a budget? What are some shortcuts that tin live on made without sacrificing besides much style?

A: Instead of doing a amount bar, serve a fun cocktail for earlier dinner, together with therefore serve vino at the table.  It volition receive got everyone out of their normal drinkable crunch together with allow them receive got a picayune to a greater extent than fun acre beingness budget friendly at the same time.  Also, invest inwards alone 1 exceptional card detail - a steak frites dinner political party tin live on actually cheap because the alone affair y'all receive got to invest inwards is the steak.  Potatoes for the frites are inexpensive, together with no 1 volition holler upwards anything else later a fabulous steak anyway.  For the Fall Entertaining, a soup political party is a groovy agency to throw a political party on a budget.  (I'll live on doing a post on that today!)

Q: What’s the most memorable dinner political party you’ve ever attended?

A: My friends threw Mike & Me a fabulous Engagement Party inwards the backyard.  They had done therefore many picayune touches - lights through the trees, lanterns everywhere, together with had all of our best friends together with menage unit of measurement members roughly 1 long table.  It was perfect.

Q: What is the most rewarding aspect virtually your job, together with the most challenging?

A: Many times I'm working amongst people together with families during really exceptional moments inwards their lives - weddings, babe showers, vacation parties, etc.  Naturally, these moments tin live on stressful because of the importance they concord - I produce everything possible to salvage their stress therefore they tin actually live on introduce inwards these exceptional moments together with relish the occasion.  It tin sometimes live on a daunting task - but therefore worth it inwards the halt when your Client expresses their gratitude therefore thoughtfully. 

Q: What’s a twenty-four hr catamenia inwards the life of Jenny like?

A: Mr. Darcy, my dog, together with I walk every morning.  We stroll through our neighborhood together with notice the seasonal changes - I break it is a groovy agency for me to opened upwards my heed together with instruct ready for a creative together with productive day.  The residue of the morn is typically spent inwards my piece of work (or at the kitchen counter!) on my laptop working on my websites together with blogging.  In the afternoon, if I don't receive got a coming together amongst a Client, I'll piece of work on a projection for our house, a marriage arts and crafts for a bride, accommodate flowers for an event, or brand something fun for the blog.  I've been spending a lot of fourth dimension working amongst my novel photographic tv set camera to meliorate the character of photos on the blogs.  In the evening, I brand dinner for Mike together with myself every night. 

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