Ottawa Wedding and Event Planning

If you are planning a Wedding or Event in Ottawa and you would like your sense of style and fashion imprinted on your event, then Within Essence Productions should be your number one choice. 613.240.3201 Event Planning Ottawa for Events, Weddings and Fashion in Ottawa. Our focus on Expectations and Outcomes leaves one question: what is your message and when do we start?

Expectations and outcomes are usually the first things we think of when we decide to have an event. What is your message and what do you want the participants to come away with? The answers may be as simple as fun and memories or as intentional as establishing yourself as the authority in your niche. Either way, each has a different approach and each choice has a percentage of the other. The real question is, how are you going to achieve your goal?

Lets face it, when it comes to organizing a home, office or family function, they can be executed by superbly by any capable man or woman. When you know your audience and have some degree of control and interaction with them, then you have enough leverage to muscle the pieces into place and get the results that you envision. But events that include people beyond your immediate circles of influence, that take on a new dimension. Suddenly there are unforeseen elements that may include dietary issues, transportation and scheduling issues. Then there is consideration of first impressions or creating a first impression for someone else, with their own ideas, their own worries and their own intentions. Suddenly your soup base has become an unwieldy stew and the spicing get s a little tricky. What details am I missing? what is the new red? Is it white petunias or pink roses? What is a cost effective answer to filling space? How do we cater to men and how do we cater to women? What food choices need to be made? How will the visitors see and hear everything that is happening? What is the schedule? How can we help?

Obviously, there are just over a million decisions to be made, usually all at the same time and under duress. At Within Essence Productions, we feel your pain and have easy affordable solutions to take the pressure off. Let us take the stress off and deliver your vision, focused on your expectations with the outcomes that you designed.

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DJ Service for Wedding and Event in Ottawa

Let’s face it, planning weddingsand events have a lot in common. What is the difference between a CEO and the Brides Parents… very little, when it comes to expectations. The event needs to be inspiring, accommodate multiple cultures, generations and styles, and be memorable for all of the “right” reasons.

It is expectations in pressure situations that bring out the worst or best in people. Every successful conference, event, wedding or mitzvah requires music, live entertainment, decorative lighting, activity coordination, video services, pre-recorded or live ceremony music, disc jockey services and a thousand unseen variables. In fact, the sheer volume of decisions from colours, styles, invites, exceptions, flowers, etc is enough to overwhelm the most ardent of multi-taksers. And then when it comes to being responsible for the FUN, well the pressure only increases. Your decisions will affect and hopefully inspire the participants to interact across generations, cultures and styles. It’s exhausting just thinking about it.

Here are a few ideas that will help your decision process when engaging a DJ Service for a Wedding and Event in Ottawa.

Do they have a No-DJ Sound System? Sometimes you require a system but may not require a DJ. You DJ or UDJ is the worry free solution, whereby our professional team of technicians deliver, setup and ensure that you understand the basic functions of the system before leaving you to enjoy your event. Then, when the last song is played, they return to tear it down and take it away. Simple, effective and easy.

Do they have full-service destination planning? Sometimes you need to accommodate visitors to Ottawa Events from outside of the city. To make the best impression and guarantee satisfaction of participants you may require Quality DMC service that is customizable to include Event Planning, Ottawa Wedding Venues, limousine, shuttle and coach transportation, Ottawa City Tours, Motivational Speakers and Entertainers, City Tours, Conference or Wedding Style Tents, Ottawa Event Management and DJ Services.

Do they have the full A/V Package so you do not have to worry about a thing? Audio Visual is a prerequisite for success in any Ottawa Wedding or Ottawa Event. Quality AV focuses on satisfying all of your technical needs and make it easy to rent one projector or a full stage set-up-online! Managing the success of your event is as simple as delegating your needs to the right partner.

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Events in Ottawa-Faces Magazine

For everyone who wants to know “What to Do in Ottawa,” or has been out and about in the Nations Capital, there is resource available. You may even find yourself in the pages, therein. Now that Ottawa is the best-kept secret between Montreal and Toronto when it comes to exciting and engaging things to do, it’s time that you joined the fun.

Faces Magazine is a high-gloss, full-colour monthly publication available for FREE in Ottawa or by subscription delivered to our readers’ front doors. There is something going on every night of the week and special events planned for every weekend. Faces Magazine catches all eyes, as it’s an over-sized 10″ x 11.5″ bright and fun publication. It’s like having your own Paparazzi.

The Paparazzi trend is driven by an obsession with chronicling your life and experiencing fame. In Ottawa, it’s Faces Magazine that is capturing your friends, your parties, your life. Faces Magazine is non-traditional in the sense of print media. We focus on capturing Ottawa’s people and places through photographs, interviews and profiles. The Free publication showcases the city and its people in an entertaining and simple fashion and is distributed throughout Ottawa. Faces Magazine features those who partake in the city’s nightlife, dining, shopping and entertainment events in and about Ottawa. The more individuals who appear in the magazine month after month, the more the magazine circulates in the hands of our current and new readers. Each issue creates a desire for new readers to see if they or their friends have been captured by the Faces paparazzi. The goal is to heighten the experience of the event and show the City who the new movers and shakers are.  So get out and get discovered with Faces Magazine.

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Evening Fest Event in Ottawa

Evening Fest is an extraordinary Ottawa Event and social soirée in support of a wonderful humanitarian cause called Child Haven International. It’s happening at the Ottawa Convention Center, overlooking the canal and the glow of the city under a 20-foot high panorama of floor to ceiling windows. Be surrounded by music and energy of Ottawa’s elite, sipping cocktails in the capital city's hallmark ballroom.

Child Haven International is a registered charity founded in 1985. We assist children and women in 4 countries, who are in need of food, education, health care, shelter and clothing, emotional and moral support, as Inspired by the ideals and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.

Child Haven International has five homes in India, one in Nepal, one in Tibet and one in Bangladesh. Our homes accept children who are disabled, parentless, or from socially disadvantaged situations - and who are destitute, i.e. do not receive even one good meal a day. Girls and boys are treated equally, and without regard to race, caste, colour, religion or culture. Living is simple and meals are vegetarian. We try not to Westernize the children, but rather attempt to raise them according to the highest ideals of their own cultures. We respect the heritage of each child, whether Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, secular or other.

Destitute children from birth to six years of age are referred to us by local social welfare agencies. Child Haven Homes provide full care through high school and then provide vocational training so that each child can enter the local society as a self-sufficient adult. Another aspect of Child Haven's Gandhian philosophy is our commitment to improving the condition of women through direct employment, education, medical aid, legal aid, and training opportunities.

Evening Fest is an Ottawa Event, a Party to support Child Haven International 613 527-2829, which houses and feeds Children in Need on this Planet.

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Opera Lyra Ottawa

Opera Lyra Ottawa is a not for profit organization with the mandate to produce and present opera productions and music in Ottawa. It is in the National Capital Region and promotes opera as an art form, making it accessible to as large a segment of the population as possible through community outreach and education. The company began in 1984 and has grown into one of the largest independent arts organizations in the National Capital region. One music critic suggests that most opera plots boil down to a soprano and tenor wanting to hook up but being prevented from doing so by the baritone! While that’s not always the case, the theme of unrequited love does turn up in opera frequently. Most of all though, the stories of opera are the human stories of love, loss, triumph and hope.

Ballet and opera were born in 17th-century Italy and France. They were spectacular events which celebrated marriages, special occasions, royal visits or as a mark of wealth. They were also fraudulent vehicles of propaganda, which were aimed at impressing foreign dignitaries and other royals. They combined music, dance, and magnificence into processions with awe inspiring technical effects and extravagant costumes. The stories or themes were taken from classical mythology of the Greeks and Romans, and drew parallels between the governing royals and the mythological gods or heroes. The expenditure on vast sums of money on lavish, ephemeral spectacles was not uncommon in 16th and 17th century Europe.

Their purpose was to impress visiting dignitaries and present a positive image of a ruler and his court. They included vast processions, dances, song and acted interludes. Like today, all actors were sumptuously costumed and transported with elaborate coaches and chariots. Equally, the stage effects were contrived using ropes, pulleys and counterweights that moved clouds or helped gods descend in their chariots. Eventually, ballet and opera evolved from these early events.

Jonathan Estabrooks has been hailed by the New York Times as ‘a robust baritone’, and winner of the prestigious 35th Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition. He is a Canadian singer who continues to make a unique and rich contribution to the performing arts world. His vocalism and performance style have been called “commanding, rich, fresh and energetic”, even likened to a young Ron Howard. Upcoming performances include Artist in Residence at the Conductors Retreat in Medowmak, his debut as Silvio in I Pagliacci with Opera Lyra Ottawa, “Broadway Sensations” Gala at Alice Tully Hall and concerts in Virginia and Tennessee. And Opera Lyra is happy to have him back in Ottawa.

http://www.operalyra.ca Opera Lyra Ottawa, 613 233 9200 Music Ottawa, Ottawa Events, Local Ottawa, Canadian Opera, NAC is located at 2 Daly Ave. Suite 110, Ottawa Ontario K1N 6E2

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