Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Little Joe's Surprise Birthday Party

SURPRISE! Little Joe from Little Joe’s Auto turned 60! Shirley, Joe’s wife, called me about three weeks before his birthday. She wanted some help planning Joe’s surprise birthday party; she had her location selected, but nothing else. I jumped on the opportunity to complete this very special day for her.

Within three weeks, we changed her location to the beautiful Water Table at Fisherman’s Wharf. We designed centerpieces and decided on rentals. Ken Carmichael displayed his amazing lighting throughout the entire venue, as well as his light-up bars. East Beach provided the delicious catering and Astro DJ brought their photo booth and rocking DJ! Confirming limo transportation and the party limo bus for her out of town guests, reserving a hotel block and SO much more all happened in less than three weeks!

It is truly amazing what you can complete in such a short amount of time, but the true amazement was seeing Joe’s reaction. He thought he was going out to dinner with a group of friends, then to walk in to a decorated room full of family and friends who traveled from all over the world to see him on his birthday was very unexpected…his expression was priceless!

Working with Shirley and her daughter-in-law, Robin was so exciting. I am looking forward to working with this fun family many more times!