Party with Marta Kauffman & some "FRIENDS"

Saturday night LSNY celebrated another momentous occasion with some truly wonderful people in Atlantic City. This double birthday celebration was held at the Chelsea Hotel on the boardwalk, a hip relatively new non-casino hotel that is a pretty swanky joint.

The party was thrown by Marta Kauffman (pictured above right with yours truly) for her husband and daughter celebrating 2 milestones: A 50th and an 18th birthday. Marta is the sister of one of our favorite people and agents in Atlantic City, Andrea Kauffman of Andrea Kauffman Entertainment, and she's better known for being one of the creators of the TV series FRIENDS.

The Chelsea Hotel has its club on the 5th floor where they also have a pool lounge where the hip and beautiful people hang out. But inside in the leopard lounge, Motown and 50s was the music of the night and you couldn't find a more genuinely affectionate, sassier and real fun bunch of people anywhere.

This is what I live for.

Key Notes from this party: When doing parties outside of NYC client's naturally would be inclined to think that they will get the same level of quality service that they get in and around the city. In general the vendors in the tristate area have a very high level of skill sets and services that they deliver creating a certain comfort level. And we all see it and are used to it , it's a natural assumption that this is the standard for the way parties happen.
However, outside of NYC the world, as well as events does not always turn the same way and sometimes simple tasks prove challenging.

The solution: If you can bring a competent professional with you for your event, because once you leave the area the quality control is often not the same. Even the most basic things like showing a video montage can become problems. It always pays to have a reliable professional at an event for numerous reasons, one being to override any potential small issue that can become a large problem and head of most large problems altogether.
Make it a GREAT day!

LSNY going into Record Book?

Celebrating our 18th year

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Happy Summer Everyone.

People are still having parties and celebrations - and we can sure use them more now than ever. LSNY is celebrating our 18th year by delivering our services at pricing friendlier than ever. In addition by signing up at http://www.eventsincentives.com/ with our code LIGHTNING1 our clients can get up to thousands of dollars toward our services or to get prepaid gift cards to their favorite stores.

We had the great fun to perform at the Radburn Family Day events in my own backyard here. My family moved to Radburn 4 years ago when my first child was about to be born. We missed the first the first two years and finally were able to go last year. It's quite the day. Two days really.

Friday night is a pool party with music and festivities. Familes connect and it's a bit wild. Saturday there's something for everyone with rock climbing walls, bouncy houses, petting zoo, costumed pictures and more. An evening outdoor dinner followed by a night dance party in the park. This year LSNY brought the party to the park.

It's about 90-100 families, maybe 300 to 350 people of every age from newborns to senior citizens dancing under the stars. We brought out a little lighting to help the mood and I assisted in creating a little more fun to the night by adding in a few games.

Coke and Pepsi for 250...in the DARK?

As most of you know Coke and Pepsi is generally a game reserved for 13 year olds at mitzvahs. Attempting C&P with crowds over 13 is large undertaking. My DJ was wondering if it could be done. We had upwards of 100 teams of 2 lined up across the park. To our recollection it was the largest Coke and Pepsi ever seen number 1 and the the largest MIXED age Coke and Pepsi ever. Kids with parents, siblings, teenagers and couples, all dancing and running around on the various calls. I couldn't even see all the players in both directions. I had 20 helper judges to assist me to make the calls until the teams got manageable. It lasted 20 minutes and the excitement was non-stop. All this in the dark! This could have been the Guiness Book of World Record Coke and Pepsi, if Guiness cared about these things. But for us it unofficially a C&P record.

The LSNY band Blue Eyed Soul performed at the Association of Bridal Consultants joint meeting/part with EventsIncentives in July. They performed a rocking and soulful blend of Chaka Khan, Stevie Winwood, Marc Cohn, Earth Wind and Fire and so on. Planners and venue representatives were delighted with the band and their non-traditional musical selections. Blue Eyed Soul is led by Chris Milletari and contains some of the most amazing musicians who have toured over the last 15 years. You can get them exclusively through LSNY.

LSNY is doing a really cool birthday party in August in Atlantic City toward the end of the month. We'll give you the fun details neck time.

Correction:

In my haste and excitement to get out the latest blog notes I, inadvertantly failed to recognize a big part of the whole event in Sarasota Florida. Bill and Christine Fenner of Artistic Occasions headed up efforts in Sarasota with the Browns, and coordinating with our team, creating ideas, supervising and providing all the decor and beautiful touches that helped transform the hangar.

The whole event was such a team effort, and the teams worked exceptionally well together that it all homognizes together into one splendid event for me. So when I say we I'm referring to the team of partners of which Artistic Occasions certainly played a lead role. We also partnered with Flashpoint grooup out of Atlanta to produce the light and sound design for us, who did a flawless job.

Bill and Christine really did an amazing job from top to bottom and made the place look like a million dollars. If you are having an event in Florida you owe it to yourselves to get in touch with them.

Flying High in Florida LSNY Style

We just returned from an amazing trip to Sarasota, Florida to celebrate with the Brown family once again.  Pam and Rick once again pulled out the stops and hospitality like no one's business.

We had been there in 2006 for their daughter Sammi's party (video on website) and I'm sure everyone was wondering how would we ever match that party. Well you don't have to worry with the Brown family.

"Air Jordan" was the theme held at Rectrix, an airport hangar across from Sarasota Airport. A huge space to hold a party in.  But the spirit and exhuberance that night filled the space up completely.

The picture to the right is how the space was transformed by Christine and Bill Fenner of Artistic Occassions.  if you are having an event on the west coast of Florida you have to call them.



The lounge by Chritine and Bill Fenner



The event was catered by Phil Mancini and the amazing culinary team over at Michael's on East where we did the Brown's first holy grail of parties for Sammi.  Their food is first rate and their a pleasure to work with.

LSNY featured 2 giant screens over top of the  stage with 2 tiers. The highest tier is where our DJ Dollar Bill spun his magic, and our light and sound crew were very much on point, taking care of any possible sound distortion on the fly, and lighting on the spot any place that needed it.

On Jordan's entrance the doors of the hangar peeled open to reveal her atop a Lear Jet.  She came down the stairs like a Super Model to meet one of our dancers who lifted her high in the air.  They then walked through a sea of guests to the stage where the rest of the family joined her to the gospel choral break in "I Believe I can Fly".   No one in the place did not have goose bumps. 

Rick and Pam Brown put on another night that no one will ever forget.  The entire party was a thrill to do and be involved in.  And we cannot thank the Brown family enough for having us and allowing us another  opportunity to do something amazing for their family. They have entered the pantheon of favorite families like so many of you before them.