Keith Willard Events LLC

03/03/2025

02/18/2025

Loved help planning this Mitzvah! It helps to have an amazing team and an amazing photographer! Thank you Mavila Photography!

02/14/2025

Happy Valentines Day!!

Ready to renew your vows or wanting to just get married already? I’m going to be doing a mass vow renewal and marriage ceremony in a few hours!. Yes - one of my many random things is that I’m a licensed officiant in the State of Florida 🙂

For tickets: https://theloopflb.ticketspice.com/we-still-do (it’s free!)

02/10/2025

I hope this catches on! My couple this last weekend wanted a way to include the idea of a bouquet but without having to carry it. I suggested this and I love it! Drama and beauty! For him the entire lapel decorated with florals, and for him, an over the top pocket square.

Beautifully pulled off by

12/10/2024

Behind The Veil Special: The Trends Report from The Knot Worldwide

The Knot compiles the data from everyone planning weddings for the upcoming year to put together the most insightful of any of the trend predictions into one report. So what should you take from the report and what should you toss?

Our special guest: Tom Chelednik - North America Associate Director of Vendor Engagement for The Knot Worldwide.

Tom Chelednik has over 25 years of experience in sales and marketing, with 16 specifically in the wedding industry. From 2008 - 2020, Tom held several sales positions at The Knot, including Regional Director of Sales and Director of Training and Enablement. He led teams instrumental in growing and retaining new business across 20 states and Canada, ultimately helping wedding professional book more weddings and grow their businesses.

During his time at The Knot, Tom traveled the country 70% of each year to speak with and learn from wedding professionals. Tom is passionate about sharing the knowledge he has gained over the years and continues to coach pros, specifically to help them increase their leads and bookings.

In addition to The Knot, Tom was the COO of The Treasury Venue Collection in St. Augustine, Florida, where he learned firsthand what it was like to operate a wedding venue. During that time, he also helped build an online learning platform called Venue Profit Pro, designed for wedding venues nationwide to improve their marketing and sales results.

Tom rejoined The Knot Worldwide in the summer of 2022 and is now The Director of Vendor Engagement. When he’s not traveling around the country, Tom spends time with his family, which now includes three grandchildren.

11/14/2024

So excited to be quoted in the New York Post!

Thanks again to the amazing Meghan Ely and her team at OFD Consulting for sending me this call for responses. Just having the access makes a monumental difference.

Frost 321 / Amy Fisher- I was writing about you guys but they didn’t use your company name. But I tried!

Caviar dreams FORGET Cham­pagne — caviar and toast has become the latest must-have wed­ding-day indul­gence. Jen­nifer Rebello, dir­ector of cater­ing at the Four Sea­sons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, repor­ted that more than 50% of the...

10/31/2024

As the temperatures finally start to go downward, a backyard outdoor wedding becomes again possible. But every beautiful backyard wedding needs solid logistics, and different planning mindset, to ensure the romance bubbles seamlessly to the top!

10/22/2024

Thank you to everyone for the birthday messages! As I scrolled through the messages I was surprised by two things… the sheer number of them, but also that a large majority tugged at specific memories of how we met, a past event, or a wedding that I helped with. As I get older, I worry about if I’ve actually made a difference. And I realized that It may not have been a major moment, but hundreds of smaller moments. Like the hundreds of times I called BINGO for The Pride Center, or volunteering for a non profit (like SMART Ride) or planning a wedding, or providing a connection between two people that might not have happened otherwise. Thank you!! I am so blessed to have an amazing husband, an incredible mom,a loving mother-in-law, a brilliant God-Daughter, a brave nephew (who just returned from serving overseas thank god) and a good friends that make me laugh, remind me when I’ve gone off track, and then cheer my success. I love you guys so much.

I look forward to the next 40 years - that would make me 95 (feels like a good number to aspire to!)

Thank you for helping me cross the double nickel date with joy for what the future may have in store.

10/16/2024

Just getting around to posting this - but a few weeks back I had the pleasure to attend the Veils of Light event at the Alfred DuPont Building. Gorgeous! The Food was incredible! So nice to be able to be a guest once in awhile.

10/15/2024

Have you been thinking about joining NACE South Florida? It's a good time to do it! There is a special going on where you can get 20% off a 1 year membership or 15 months for same cost as a year. Your choice!

Plus we just won a NACE ONE Award for Best Event for our Colin Cowie / Ritz-Carlton Escapade. So we are getting a lot of attention - actually our local chapter has always been a leader nationally, but we always try to outdo ourselves. Our 2025 Event Calendar is already being planned out and we have some amazing events in the works.

Mention me when you join :) https://www.nace.net/become-member

10/08/2024

This wedding I planned at was made even more perfect with these amazing florals from - and beautifully captured by .photography

08/27/2024

So honored to one of the few cruise ship wedding planning experts to be included in the latest Travel + Leisure magazine that covers getting married on a cruise ship!

https://www.travelandleisure.com/how-to-plan-a-cruise-wedding-8692636

Looking to get married on a cruise ship? Let’s talk!

Here's all you need to know about how to get married on a cruise ship.

07/19/2024

so excited that my beautiful couple got the top photo in this article! Vintage doesn't mean old - it means classic as in classic cars and sticking to some of the tried-and-true ways. There is always room to add your own signature into your wedding, but the classics never grow old.

Your parents and grandparents were actually onto something.

06/27/2024

Recently received an evite from someone I hadn't communicated with for a long time. I was thrilled to see it, but when I went to open it, it gave me six different options. Asking for username and password for Outlook, or Microsoft 365, or Google, or... and so on.

Obviously you never do that - so I checked the email address and it had come from this persons email.

I replied to the email saying that it was weird that it was asking me these questions and is it possible she had gotten hacked, and if she didn't, could she send the invite a different way. I then got a reply, from her "supposedly", saying it was just an invitation and to open it.

Long story long - I texted the owner of the email. She had no idea what I was talking about. Someone not only got into her email, they sent out phishing invites to all of her contacts, changed her email password, and taken over her email account. CREEPY!!

So it if doesn't feel right, don't do it and call the person!

06/26/2024

Excited to share a recent article I provided insight for in Special Events Magazine titled "Great Inspiration - How To Keep The Creative Juices Flowing", starting on pages 48 - 62. The piece features valuable insights from multiple pros that may inspire as we head into the slow season in South Florida! Check it out here: https://www.specialevents.com/special-events-summer-2024-0 #1

Special Events Media Keith Willard Events LLC OFD Consulting LLC Meghan Ely

Special Events - Summer 2024