Yesterday was so dreamy ✨ There’s nothing better than seeing the vision come to life 🤍 #spotlightweddings #doitinstyle #eventdesigner #eventplanner #vancouverweddingplanner #vancouverweddings #vancouverwedding #weddingdesign #weddingdesigners #weddinginspiration #weddingdecor
We’re throwing the confetti to celebrate……
🎉 10 YEARS! 🎉
It’s hard to believe but Spotlight is 10 years old this year!! Our company was founded in July 2012 and December 2012 was our very first wedding! 🍾🥂
It’s been an incredible 10 years of events and celebrations. Our heartfelt thank you goes out to all of our clients past and present! We’re thinking about each of you right now! 💛 And a big thank you to all the many vendors who have been by our side making event magic over the past 10 years! ✨
Here’s to the next 10! 🥂
Spotlight Events is a multi-channel company now!! We're thrilled to announce that we're now on @spotify, baby! 🎶
Our team of wedding specialists put together a Top 10 Favourite Weddings Songs and created an exclusive playlist to help our clients to pick and choose the perfect songs for their weddings. Isn't just amazing? 🤩
Run to your @spotify account and follow us: Spotlight Events.
Come along with us on our tour of @trufflesfinefoods! They opened their doors for our team to come visit and we felt totally spoiled!
The table setting was beautiful and chatting with the sales team was a must! The service was impeccable, the back-end team was at full blast, and the food was absolutely delicious.
Thank you again for having us and we can't wait to see you again at one of our events!
Here’s the full radio interview from this week with Jill Bennett on 980 CKNW 🎙 Chatting about the high demand for weddings right now, and what couples can do to find a venue, date and vendors in 2022/2023 🥂
Would love to hear your thoughts! Chime in below on whether you would consider a weekday or off season date for your big day 👇🏻
The Jill Bennett Show | May 11, 2022
Here’s the full radio interview from this week with Jill Bennett on 980 CKNW 🎙 Chatting about the high demand for weddings right now, and what couples can do to find a venue, date and vendors in 2022/2023 🥂
Would love to hear your thoughts! Chime in below on whether you would consider a weekday or off season date for your big day 👇🏻
CityNews Vancouver
A great story by CityNews Vancouver that I hear has been picked up nationally! So proud to be part of this powerhouse industry ✨ A few key points from the piece below 👇🏻
Paige Petriw, owner of Spotlight Events, says before this announcement was made, the industry didn’t have high expectations and this is more than they were even asking for.
“That has been just a huge celebration across the industry,” she said.
“There’s a restoration of hope for a lot of the struggling businesses right now that they can start to recover. Overall, I think everyone’s pleasantly surprised and encouraged by that.”
But based on the number of times business have had to change and adapt in response to the pandemic, Petriw says, “our confidence is shaken.”
She says the industry will have confidence in the province when B.C. proves it is confident in the industry’s ability to manage gatherings and events with the protocols and measures in place without shutting them down.
👊🏻 Petite Pearl Events
(Sound on 🔈) Yesterday’s chat with Stephen Quinn on CBC’s The Early Edition about restrictions easing on gatherings and events.
My hesitation around the claim that the wedding industry being female-driven is a contributing factor to it being so disproportionately impacted by cov*d is every bit part of the problem.
Thank you to Stephen for the opportunity to highlight this issue and keep the conversation going 🙌🏻
#reopenbcweddings #savebcevents #bcweddings #vancouverweddingplanner #femaleleaders #womeninbusiness #womensupportingwomen
Posted this on my stories and a lot of people asked me to make it shareable.
#reopenbcweddings explained from a business economic perspective, rather than a health restrictions and event operations perspective.
Most businesses in our industry have been denied eligibility for the covid closure relief grant due to the nature of our work structure. It’s hard to fathom how our industry is completely shutdown by government mandates, and no financial assistance has been provided to us.
This is why we’re fighting to be heard. This is why we feel invisible. This is why we’re not going to survive if it doesn’t change.
@governmentofbc @adriandixbc @robinson.selina @farnworth.mike @ravikahlonnorthdelta @toddstonebc @bcliberals @tricitiescoc @greater_vernon_chamber @bcchamberofcom
#savebcevents #savebceventindustry #reopenbcevents
Each year, our industry generates several billion dollars in BC. This economic contribution is driven largely by small-medium businesses. For the past two years, these businesses have been decimated. When events are shut down, the impact on our industry extends 6-12 months minimum beyond the lockdown period. We cannot reopen and close overnight like a restaurant or gym. The average loss of revenue across our industry has been 70%-90% consistently since March 2020. Many well-established companies have filed for bankruptcy and the number of jobs lost is in the tens of thousands. Since the start of the pandemic, we have seen zero economic recovery.
As long as health order restrictions on organized events and gatherings continue to flip flop, we will not begin to recover. With each shutdown and change in restrictions, we suffer the loss of contracts, deferred revenues, refunds, and a lack of new business because of the uncertainty around future health orders. The industry cannot sustain the uncertainty any longer.
To be clear, we are not talking about throwing a “party.” We are asking to operate professionally managed indoor events and gatherings under specific guidelines and restrictions. We’re welcoming Government of British Columbia, WorkSafeBC, and Provincial Health Authority oversight to make sure we have protocols in place to operate our events safely for everyone involved.
We demand equal treatment with all other industries currently operating under provincial health guidelines. As such, we are asking Dr. Bonnie Henry, Minister Adrian Dix and our provincial government for immediate consultation with our industry and a plan for the safe re-opening of BC weddings and events.
Read more of this open letter on our blog. Also included are easy action steps you can take to support our industry.
Thank you Global BC, Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce. Tagging Selina Robinson, Mike Farnworth for Port Coquitlam, Todd Stone
#reopenbcweddings #savebcevents #savebcev
To be clear, we are not talking about throwing a “party.” We are asking to operate professionally managed indoor events and gatherings under specific guidelines and restrictions. We’re welcoming @governmentofbc, WorkSafeBC, and @phsa.bc oversight to make sure we have protocols in place to operate our events safely for everyone involved. We cannot understand why this was a reasonable request for every other industry—movie theatres, casinos, restaurants, Canucks games, shopping malls, concerts, fitness classes, gyms—but not ours.
We demand equal treatment with all other industries currently operating under provincial health guidelines. As such, we are asking Dr. Bonnie Henry, Minister Adrian Dix, and our provincial government for immediate consultation with our industry and a plan for the safe re-opening of BC weddings and events once and for all beginning on February 16.
To support this effort, we specifically request the following action steps:
1. The release of a detailed PHO on gathering events to include an end date, clear definitions for events and gatherings, and specific restrictions based on clearly defined event formats. (For example: We don’t understand the difference between a "sponsored or ticketed party" and a "sponsored or ticketed event"). Currently the BC Government website states that the PHO on gatherings and events is a "verbal order."
2. Revision of the current misinformed and confusing terminology of “personal gatherings,” “organized indoor events,” and “organized indoor events at venues” being used by the provincial health office.
3. A designated roundtable working group of event industry professionals to serve as advisors to the health office and to be consulted on the above two initiatives and all future event-related policies.
@governmentofbc @bcndp @bcliberals @smallbusinessbc @farnworth.mike @robinson.selina @globalbc
For ways to help, go to the link in our profile. Under ACTION STEPS, you’ll find a list
We’re not asking to throw “party.” We’re asking to operate professionally managed indoor events and gatherings under specific guidelines and restrictions. We’re welcoming @governmentofbc, @worksafebc, and @phsa.bc oversight to make sure we have protocols in place to operate our events safely for everyone involved.
Thank you @globalbc and Jennifer Palma for having us on this morning, and helping amplify our message. We’re desperately begging for our survival as small businesses 🙏🏻
#reopenbcweddings #savebcevents #savebcweddings #reopenbcevents #saveeventindustrybc #smallbusiness #smallbusinessbc
@governmentofbc @farnworth.mike @robinson.selina @johnhorgan4bc @bonitazarrillo @ronmckinnonlib @smallbusinessbc @tricitiescoc @thewebc @richardzussman
We can’t wait to welcome you back to the studio to plan your wedding or next big event! ✨ The coffee is brewing, wine is chilling and cookies are fresh! ☕️🥂🍪 Whatever your taste, we’ve got you covered 🤍
