JMC Charleston

10/26/2024

It’s been eleven years since this JMC Charleston team worked together. I must say, it was an awesome year that 2013! Thanks Tracy Wombwell Mitchell and Kendra Conway! What wonderful events we produced together.

10/17/2024

What a pleasure it was to recently produce an event at the International African American Museum in Charleston.

Associates spent a late afternoon grazing on delicious bites while they studied the many many exhibits, enjoyed interactive experiences and learned of the resources the museum offers in genealogy research.

And….what a view!

JMC Charleston loves this venue (and this super fun client!)

10/16/2024

JMC Charleston loved producing this West Indies influenced event at Founders Hall at Charles Towne Landing. Innovative tastes of the Lowcountry and Caribbean melded together for this evening of guests celebrating.

10/15/2024

had the pleasure of producing this 600 person luncheon at Middleton Place. After a languid morning of touring the gardens, guests imbibed on champagne, followed by a Lowcountry luncheon with many of the vegetables harvested on site. Event timing is key in our industry. Nap time ( or shopping!) was built into the itinerary before a white tie gala that evening.

10/14/2024

JMC Charleston lives for producing events at The Governor Thomas Bennett House in all four seasons of the year.

This corporate event for a major television network was a winner.

An astronomer with telescope provided after dinner entertainment (we provided the clear sky!) across from a couture chocolate station complete with a chocolatier.

10/10/2024

Brothers and Sisters - can you spare a pound cake or two for a good cause?

For over three hundred years Charlestonians have been know for their ability to entertain.

When the hurricane tore through the Appalachia recently, I had a thought, as I’ve been the one with a chainsaw, rake and trash bags cleaning up the debris from a storm. The thought? Dessert!

As many great organizations are feeding the volunteers and getting food to the shut-ins, it occurred to me none of them probably are getting dessert.

I identified the pound cake as the go-to that would hold up in travel and be easy to distribute.

I reached out to childhood friend Chef Barry Waldrop, ( we all remember the Stono Cafe) who cooks at James Island Baptist Church.

This is the result - “The Pound Cake and a Prayer Project,” sponsored by JMC Charleston and James Island Baptist Church.

Kindly drop off a pound cake or two to James Island Baptist Church at 2023 Wappoo Drive on James Island next Thursday or Friday (see times on the attached flyer). Add the flavor of your cake if you will. Sign the donation book.

The church team will cut them half for travel, add a prayer and wrap them in cellophane.

Next Saturday, I’ll drive them to Maggie Valley where local churches will serve and distribute them to volunteers and shut-ins the like.

How civilized. How Charleston. How Delicious. After all, I’ve never met a pound cake I didn’t like!

I appreciate your help.

10/05/2024

Our repeat client Alumni event was a hit at the with this black and gold roaring 20’s vibe.

10/04/2024

Once again, we are so humbled in our city by this designation. We at JMC Charleston thank all who continue to support our city being the best that it can be.

Looking forward to your corporate group enjoying the finest the Lowcountry has to offer and we are happy to help.

With a fantastic new Filipino restaurant, the opening of the International African American Museum, and an ever-expanding luxury hotel scene, it's easy to see why T+L readers' old standby stays relevant and exciting year after year.

10/02/2024

Life of an event planner …. How nice to have a client call JMC Charleston many years later to produce their second ground breaking ceremony . The plant is in Goose Creek, SC on the banks of the Cooper River. Evonik continues to grow !

With their vivid plum-pink signature color, guests arrived to a luncheon catered by Lewis Barbecue with tables dressed in white hydrangeas from LOTUS Flower Charleston.

Thanks to PDA for our A/V needs and Snyder Rentals for rentals.

Crisp custom shovels provided by the client will be great momentos of their investment in our state.

07/09/2024

To taste a deeply autumnal themed menu at the Gaillard Center today for a once in a lifetime celebration this November for 600 guests took a solid half hour of sitting in a very cold room and focusing.

Fast forward to late November. Think…

- 50 to 55 degrees. The sun has set.
- Black tie and Evening gowns
- A crisp breeze down George street
- Coat check for possible fur and top coats
- Guests reach for bourbon drinks and rich burgundy wines
- warm amber lights wash the inside and out of this epic structure.

Now - let’s think of all the taste of Autumn.

That’s what we tasted today.

Pomegranate, balsamic and Madeira reductions. Pears, apples, figs, walnuts and pecans. Butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, root vegetables.

Chocolate, praline, berry reductions and more chocolate.

Nods to Lowcountry ingredients - benne, pimento cheese, collars and a most epic red rice ball with tomato jam. (Had something similar at “the Grey” in Savannah recently but that’s another story.)

So pleased. Still full. Clients ecstatic.

Thanks to The New Gaillard Center, Charleston, SC team for rising to the occasion. The chef confessed his first event was mine some three years ago - the white tie gala dinner for 600 for a venerable international social group. He remembered the pickled cauliflower we loved at the tasting used to brighten the salad presented in cucumber ribbon.

Details - we at JMC Charleston live for them!

01/17/2024

It’s befitting that the Sweetgrass Garden Club kindly gifted me this wonderful basket to add to my collection for, perhaps, over zealously speaking for an hour last evening to their group.

Today, before trading out a special basket from Indonesia in my collection for this one, it will serve well to house Indian River Citrus procured last week on our family sojourn to Marathon. Thank you sweet friend Doris King for inviting me to share my stories, and some of ours too! This basket will be added to my log today with its date and maker’s name. At JMC Charleston, we have purchased over two thousand over these twenty years from Six Mile basket makers as corporate gifts, spreading this craft, seen in the Smithsonian Museum, all over the world.

01/06/2024

Hello friend!

It’s been a few years since we have placed business at the Costa D’este Resort Vero Beach FL, the hotel founded by one of my favorite performers, Gloria Estefan and her husband.

A site visit is always best when you tour in the worst weather to see how guests react. Today’s front did not keep some out of the pool.

The spa is full, the adjoining shops buzzing and the spirits are flowing in the outlets (bars and restaurants.)

Lobby House Music - let’s just call it what it is: perfection!

Great potential location for a client incentive rewards program.