Kids Party Season is Here! How We Can Help With the Perfect Kids Party!

By Joe Hyer, Create Excitement Multimedia Specialist

Create Excitement has been helping plan the perfect family occasions for more than 20 years!

Every spring we notice an increase in family parties across New Jersey. Whether it's a religious occasion like a communion or Bar Mitzvah or a kid's birthday party, we are THE experts at creating a memorable family experience.

The first question when planning a party is "how to get started?" We always recommend that parties with more than 10 pre-teens consider booking our party package number 3. The package, which is valued at $749, offers 3 or 4 hours of continuous music and requests from our quality digital sound system. We'll bring our professional DJ to your party who has years of experience in making your event special.

Plus, we're happy to act as your emcee for the entire event. All clients are given access to our state-of-the-art online planning system as well. The system allows our clients to make note of all music requests and special announcements. We're happy to create the perfect mood throughout the festivities. We even offer crowd participation dances and kids music. We also have options for give-a-ways and contests throughout the event. We're here to please you throughout the planning process and the big event.

We offer other packages as well, check out our website for more information. Kids parties offer a special opportunity for families to come together, but we're here to help make the event enjoyable for adults as well as children and teens.

We're YOUR entertainers for the day. We can help families come and stay together:

• If the adults are eating at a different time than the children, we can set up a special activity or music hour during the adult meal.

• In fact, party hosts are welcome to work with us on including an activity during the party. These activities could be games or fun give-a-ways throughout the event.

• If you don't want the party to have music just for kids, that's okay too! We're more than happy to work with you to find an opportunity to fill the dance floor with all adults (and children). Of course, you won't have to worry about the lyrics. We'll play appropriate music for everyone.
  

If you'd like additional entertainment, we can help refer you to our friend: Terry "Gitsy" Basko. Terry is an award winning professional clown, face painter, balloon artist, and tattoo artist. She's been recognized across NJ for her work. She's a 16-year veteran of the industry, and has been joined by her family in the business.

If you're planning a family party please feel free to contact us. Call Ben and Ginette at 1-800-746-5558. Or use our contact form on our website. We usually respond to all inquiries within 1 day.

Summer 2012 New Jersey Wedding Trends

By Joe Hyer, Create Excitement Multimedia Specialist

"Spring Fever" is upon us, and soon enough we'll all have a case of "Wedding Fever." Since we've been in the wedding industry for more than 20 years, we know that now is the time we can start to see what is going to be popular at wedding receptions for the next year or so.

Single Venue Weddings
We've talked about it all year, but it remains true: single venue weddings are quite trendy. Brides and grooms seem to be deciding that they can have a wonderful wedding day if they hold their ceremony and reception at the same venue. After all, a single venue event is more convenient for the bridal party and the wedding guests. Everyone is able to enjoy themselves as they won't have to travel from one location to another. Plus, a cost savings could be involved since multiple venues and extra transportation won't be needed.

At Create Excitement, we ARE the Jersey Shore experts at making sure you'll have a perfect single venue celebration. We are happy to celebrate your special day from start to finish with you and your loved ones. If you're planning a single venue event, talk to us about how we can help to set the mood for your ceremony and reception. We offer packages that will keep the music playing, and bring our expertise to set a complete soundtrack throughout the day's events.

Pinterest
More and more brides are joining Pinterest for creative ideas and creative inspiration throughout their wedding planning process. Pinterest allows couples to share photos of their creations, and to be inspired by other brides across the area. If you haven't joined the site, we suggest that you follow categories like Wedding Events to gain some fresh and exciting ideas. These ideas could range from viewing photographs of bouquets and centerpieces to getting inspiration for wedding dresses and tuxedos. There are a a lot of creative people on the site currently sharing the photos.

The popular website Mashable.com suggests one of the best ways to use Pinterest is to gain feedback (if you want it), they write:

"Friends and other Pinterest followers can leave comments and feedback on pins to make the whole planning more interactive. If you are interested in hearing opinions, ask questions and invite people to tell you what they think."

Speaking of which, Create Excitement joined Pinterest this week! Follow us at: CreatExcitement to see what we're watching and share you thoughts with us. As you find exciting/inspirational wedding ideas, please share them with us! We'd love to spread the word with other couples. 
Other Trends:
- Music: If you're headed to a wedding this summer, you may think it sounds like 1999 all over again! We've been seeing a pop music surge so far in 2012. In fact, boy bands (like The Wanted and One Direction) are dominating the pop charts and our dance floors. After all, the music is cheery and has a great beat to it. Regardless of your musical tastes we're happy to work with you to find the right soundtrack for your big day.

- Fashionably: Long sleeves and lace are popular on brides dresses across the country right now.

- Photography: With the expansion of the digital age, couples are spending more and more money on photography for their celebration. Weddings are full of memories that are meant to last forever, and they should be shared digitally. We are happy to recommend our friend Russ Meseroll and Artistic Expressions for your photography and videography needs.

Are you planning a wedding or do you want more information about how Create Excitement can help you plan your big day? Use our contact form on our website. Or give us a call at 1-800-746-5558. We do our very best to respond to all requests within one day.

Online Event Planning with Create Excitement DJ Entertainment

By Joe Hyer, Create Excitement Multimedia Specialist

Create Excitement has always been ahead of the technological curve. The work for one of our events begins from the second you first reach out to us. Anyone can check out availability 24 hours a day on our site. After you have inquired about a date, we offer a totally modern online event planner. And this service is nothing new to us as we've been offering to our clients since 2001.

The online planner allows our clients to organize everything from music selection to ceremony announcements and vendor information. Think of it as our playbook for the festivities. And it helps you to keep organized as your event approaches.

Every client raves about our online planner:

Throughout the entire planning process, our clients will have access to the planning tools. The planner, which is accessible from any location, can be update 24/7. in fact, we've had clients that use the service to plan their events from overseas!

How does it work?

After inquiring about a date, you will receive a welcome email to the online planning tool. The email will have the setup instructions and password for accessing your event planner.

If you have any trouble logging in, just let us know. Ben and Ginette are happy to help!

To log in, you'll go to our website createexcitement.com and on the right hand side of the site select modify your event. Once you're there all you will need is to enter the date of your event, and your password which was emailed to you.


Once you're in, you'll see this screen.


The left hand side of the page will have your event information, while the right hand side will allow you to request music, submit notes to us, make payments, and others.

Music selection tool:

Perhaps, the most popular feature on the online planner is our music selection tool.


You can search for any artist or song that is in our music library. Once you find the song that you want you can add it to your priority request list, your additional request list, or your do not play list.

If we don't have the song you're looking for, you can manually enter the information, and we'll make sure we have it ready for the bid day.

Not sure if the song you're finding is what you want? Our online database will allow you to preview any song that you see listed! And you can always ask us for help with the lists.

We do our very best to follow this list. We bring this list with us to the event, and will use it throughout the event.

Don't be shy to add as many requests to it as you'd like! We'll use the list and our years of experience to mold the perfect soundtrack to your bid day.

Don't be shy with the do not play list! After all, isn't there nothing worse than hearing that song that you can't stand during a special event? We strive to make sure that guests enjoy every that is played.

Vendor information

As you're booking your vendor (wedding photographers, food services, event planner, etc) you'll want to make sure that we're aware of the information.

Our vendor information sheet allows you to share that information with us easily. You can enter their name, phone, number and email address.


This will allows us to communicate with them ahead of the festivities to make sure we're all “on the same page”.

Event worksheet:

We'll work with you to work on your event worksheet throughout the planning process. This includes everything from ceremony details to reception details and the bridal party notes.

You'll be able to access and update this sheet at any time. Don't worry, we won't leave you on your own to enter all of the information. We'll make sure that we bring our years of experience and expertise to work with you to figure out the specific for your event, but you can make changes whenever you want to the event details.


With Create Excitement's online planner, you are in control of your event at any time. Think about it, you could update the online planner in bed at work.

The online planner has tons of other features that we didn't cover today, like the ability to access great features like time sheets for festivities, and the ability to make payments online.

If you have any questions, let us know. We're always happy to help. You can call us any time at 1-800-746-5558, or use the contact submission form right on our website. We'll respond usually within 1 day to any request.

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