Professional Meeting and Event Planning
Full-Service Meeting and Event Planning - Your Event is Our Event!
You Plan It, We Make it Happen!
Is your team understaffed or do you require additional support for your upcoming meeting or special occasion? Have your duties increased, yet your workforce remains the same?
Fear not, as A La Carte Planners is here to help! We offer freelance meeting and event planning personnel to lend a hand with your forthcoming meeting or event.
From selecting the perfect venue to crafting proposals, negotiating contracts, and managing operations on-site, A La Carte Planners can supply you with skilled meeting professionals to cater to all your meeting and event planning requirements!
Partner with A La Carte Planners
Find out how cost-effective it is to partner with A La Carte Planners on your next event. And best of all, you get to decide on an "a la carte" basis how much of your meeting arrangements you want us to handle.
We offer a full range of services to encompass all your planning needs without the high-cost overhead of a large meeting planning company! Partnering with us will not only save you time, but money. With A La Carte Planners in charge, there's no such thing as just another program...
It's An Event!
Meet Our Owner
Catherine M. Griffin
Catherine M. Griffin has over 37 years of professional experience in the meeting planning industry. Her expertise is in negotiation, budget planning and creative theme program design. She has developed exciting meetings and events for a vast array of Fortune 500 companies nationwide.
She has extensive experience in producing a wide-range of meetings for large corporate and association clients, exhibit tradeshows, corporate board meetings, medical education meetings, pharmaceutical meetings, CME meetings, training seminars and incentive travel programs.
The Mission at A La Carte Planners
A La Carte Planners' mission is simple: To offer our clients superior meeting and event planning services.
We take great pride in providing our clients with the most responsive, professional, innovative, and cost-effective meeting and event planning services in the industry!
Full-Service Event Planning
A La Carte Planners is your professional resource for experienced meeting and event planning staff for your next corporate meeting, incentive program, medical education forum or special event.
While our company may be small, our experience is not! We've managed meetings and group events from 25 people to over 10,000 attendees throughout the United States, Caribbean, Mexico and Canada.
Our staff of professional meeting planning experts supports your company's efforts with innovative services, and onsite management. Let our enthusiastic team of professionals transform your ideas and goals into a successful meeting or event.
Overview of Our Events
From corporate events and dinners to theme parties and trade shows, we coordinate and plan for a vast variety of different types of events. To learn more, get in touch with us today!
What Services Do We Provide?
- Create innovative and cost-effective proposals for meetings and incentive travel programs as well as for corporate theme parties
- Program development
- Conduct client site inspection trips
- Develop marketing program and materials to support incentive travel program theme
- Site selection for meetings and incentive travel
- Venue selection for off-site theme parties
- Budget preparation and management
- Contract negotiations with vendors (i.e., air, hotel, car, cruise)
- Preparation of detailed meeting specifications
- Food and beverage management
- Audio visual set-up
- Prepare air and hotel manifests
- Coordinate ground transportation arrangements
- Prepare pre-trip materials for travel programs
- All pre- and post-show budget reconciliation for meetings and special events
- On-site Meeting and Event Manager
- On-site registration
- Oversight of all meeting logistics
- Dine-around coordination
- Airport meet and greet
- Coordination of conference registration
- Trade show booth sales
- Arrange corporate event sponsorships
- Handle all food and beverage arrangements for corporate dinners, special events and theme parties, as well as on-site event management
- Post event program evaluations
Learn About Our Fees
How much do we charge?
A La Carte Planners can structure a pricing plan that works within your budget. We charge similar fees to those of other professional consultants, and our fees can be on an hourly, daily or individual project basis. Our goal is to work within your budget, to create an event that achieves your goals, and for that event to result in a substantial return on your investment.
Your Program is Our Program!
When you hire A La Carte Planners, you will deal one-on-one with an experienced, creative meeting and event planner from our team, who will be with you every step of the way.
Call Us For A Proposal!
A La Carte Planners will be happy to prepare a creative proposal for your next corporate meeting, incentive travel program or special event. Give us a call so we can help you and your staff with your next event!
Contact Us Today To Get Started
Make A La Carte Planners your first choice for professional meeting and event planning services!
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