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Tradition is what happens when we develop a strong bond with the positive and worthwhile experiences of the past. Lovers of everything harmonious, colorful and natural are inevitably attracted to locations that funny enough, are "traditional" locations imbued with exactly that which nature loving enthusiasts look for. And it's here, in a step by step guide to a Mississippi riverboat red carpet reception. Corporate event scouts or marketing assistants are entrusted with securing sales meeting locations where the team can gather for acknowledgements, encouragements, and important announcements. The mighty Mississippi is famous all over the world, and the vivid atmosphere of the thriving transient town known as the Big Easy is allure enough. It's been psychologically proven that sense association triggers a pleasurable response in our human brain. Imagine therefore a corporate event, be it a sales meeting, a product launch, distributor appointment, or an industry conference, including a Mississippi riverboat red carpet reception in its agenda! It will make the attendees happy, and dare we say, loyal?

Planning is key to everything. Have we said this before? It can't be stressed enough. For your health, plan ahead. CeremonialSupplies.com is here to help with the execution of your plan. Our ceremonial red carpets, which are in fact available in several other colors- all equally worthy of the gods and goddesses of sales and marketing, such colors as the deep, elegant and almost slightly subdued midnight blue hue of our deluxe blue carpet runner, or the bright luminous emerald green carpet, as well as other essential color runners in black, purple, royal blue, and pink. Let us daydream about the carpet as you organize names, contact numbers, emails, all forms of general identification and put your first, good list of guests together for the host hotel. Trust us on this, you will save yourself (not to mention the hotel) lots of grief. Of course, keep it updated. A simple, excel worksheet list is good for updates. Create a list of the hotels you'd like to check out in the area, and a list of the main historical attractions. We are learning creatures and everyone likes to learn new things. Make a list of places that are within walking distance from the hotels. Dates are important - pick the conference dates. If your budget is fairly open, book your Mississippi conference during spring or fall. If you have a Cinderella budget then book in July when hotel rooms are half the price, but remember, humidity will be 100%.

First Step - Contact the Local Representative

Make sure you're not acting alone from your ivory tower. It can lead to embarrassing situations so always err on the side of caution. Even if you can pick up the phone and contact the hotels in the Downtown District, or the Garden District, and the French Quarter (It's a relatively small area) and based on the number of total guests (as per that list you're keeping), negotiate accommodations for the team, senior management, and for the big guys coming from the financial district of the world, it will be best if you involve the local representative in the area where you are planning the conference. In this case, contact your company representative in Louisiana, or Mississippi if there's one. This is how you maximize opportunities. Involve the local company representative in the planning stage. Work with this person when negotiating with hotels for room block and at least one hotel catered event. This is the time to plan and decorate, for a hospitality suite for people to gather, mingle, lounge, use the computer, phone, etc. Customized banners, and personalized ribbons in a variety of sizes is a time tested practice that works best for tying together a room decor and personalized ribbons can dress up a table, or can be hung from the center of the ceiling outward toward the walls and drape down. There are many ways to use personalized banner and customized ribbons to decorate a hospitality suite. The hotel(s) will also be able to put you in touch with their in-house activities director (party planner) to organize different outings or activities. There's so much to pick from! A gospel choir reception and dinner at Oak Alley Plantation (the setting for the film Interview With A Vampire), a St. Charles streetcar tour from the French Quarter to Commander's Palace, or even an alligator swamp tour!

Putting Together The Conference Agenda

An "Agenda" is a list of ALL activities that will take place, and where. For example, Day 1 of the conference you've scheduled a Welcome Breakfast on the rooftop poolside of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel in the French Quarter, which of course, you will have decorated appropriately, perhaps with welcoming balloons, vertical freestanding signs featuring the company logo or a product, and customized ribbons. Followed by a product presentations that will be made to the sales team in one of the meeting rooms. The proper way to list this in an Agenda is by including all the details, time, name of location, and who's the lead person for each event, so that everyone knows exactly what is going on, and where. Phone calendars are great, apps are fabulous, but make sure you have a hard copy paper agenda emailed to everyone at least 2 weeks ahead of time, and have another hard copy ready for each participant upon arrival - either in the room with a souvenir gift, or upon checking in or registration. Everything is included in the agenda - breakfast time, meeting time, break time, end time, what time to meet at the lobby for outside activities, until what time are the hotel doors open, and what to do after hours?

Organizing A Special Night Aboard A Mississippi Riverboat!

The entire team has now been checked in and all the conference attendees are present. This is the day for the special activity, or event - before anybody has to break away after their presentation. For this special night you've arranged for a 2-hour Mississippi River cruise aboard the Natchez, named after the city in Mississippi, cruising out of New Orleans. How will you get the team from the hotel to the dock? It's relatively within walking distance but you want to awe your guests, and make them feel important, so how about arranging for horse and carriage rides? These are all over the French Quarter and it doesn't take much to have them parade in front of the hotel at a specified time when you've asked the guests to meet at the lobby. Off you go toward the docks! Passing by Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, Cafe du Monde, Pirate's Alley and all the historical spots along the way to the docks, this gives your guests a chance to take in the French Quarter.

As your first four guests step down from the carriage and arrive at the dock behind Cafe du Monde, they step onto a plush red carpet from CeremonialSupplies.com, and smile for the photographer as they walk the 6' wide by 30' long event carpet runner. Next to the plank you've set up a step and repeat banner customized with your company logo and the motto you've chosen for the event, and the first group approaches for photos, after which they are guided by hitching post style stanchions (specifically designed for outdoor use) into the Natchez, where everyone will eventually gather at the front of the boat for refreshments and finger foods. As your guests arrive, you've given enough time between each group of four so that there's no bottlenecking by the official photo on the step and repeat, although you certainly will have guests on the red carpet watching others arrive.

When everyone is onboard and the Natchez sets out on a dinner and jazz cruise, you will look at the setting contentedly and enjoy the rest of the evening with your guests. You got all your supplies from CeremonialSupplies.com, everything from the red event carpet runner, stanchions, step and repeat banner, personalized oversized ribbons to dress the room and tables, to the recognition plaques that will be given out to the team. You can be sure that every one of your guests will feel special, and will not only enjoy the event that you've organized for them, but will remember it for years to come. With detailed organization and CeremonialSupplies.com you can organize red carpet events, conferences and meetings, and be assured that you're working with the best online store on the web for high quality materials at budget friendly prices, attentive and knowledgeable customer service, and you will receive prompt and efficient shipping wherever you are in Louisiana, Mississippi, or anywhere else in the world! Click here for a shipping quote.

Prom is right around the corner in Virginia, and everywhere else in the country! The difference is historical Virginia offers incredible theme options based on the Mother of Presidents State. Prom is an important moment in every teen’s life. It allows them to relax and enjoy their lives after 4 years of tough high school life. The students have worked hard, finished all their testing and just want a few hours where they can kick back and chill with all of their friends in a high-class event. This is where historical Virginia themes make it easy to throw an amazing and memorable prom party with the help of Ceremonialsupplies.com. Recreate the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown, colonial Williamsburg, or the elegance of the presidential homes Monticello, Mount Vernon and Montpelier. Young ladies love to dress up in attractive gowns and guys, well, the majority tend to be a little less extrovert to show off their tux style. Imagine how sharp military costumes could be for a Yorktown theme of the American Revolution! A red carpet themed event a-la Stratford Hall, designing backdrops of this 1730 estate! The possibilities are endless when you consider combining the historical background of Virginia with posh, elegant, prom ideas!

Ceremonialsupplies.com is the best place on the net to buy quality supplies for all your event needs! You might ask, how can Ceremonialsupplies.com help me with my prom endeavors? It’s very easy to answer. We have a vast collection of event supplies that will aid you in your task, such as stanchions and ropes, and even red carpet! Make your prom night feel like a star-studded camera-flashing Hollywood event. Red carpet makes your attendees feel high class and like famous movie stars. Many high school events don’t go the extra mile to take their party from “just another” to something that will be cherished and talked about for years on end, never leaving the minds of those that attended it. Something even more important to consider is that Virginia has some of the top-ranking high schools in the United States, meaning that the student bodies of these institutions are worked hard and are looking for only the best quality when it comes to their proms.

Bringing back the topic of red carpets, not only do they invoke the air of a Hollywood night, they themselves exude the energy of something important. After all, only the most exclusive and high-level events have the red carpet. It creates a feeling of “we made it to the end” to whomever walks on them. So why not give your prom night attendants that awesome sensation of luxury? And to compound, the carpet doesn’t have to be just red. If you’re looking for something different or something to stand out, we even have carpets in a myriad of other colors, for example we have red carpets, blue carpet runner, green carpets, and many more. If your prom night has an underwater theme, why not procure a blue carpet to help with that oceanic feel. Imagine how well it would go along with rest of the aquatic décor. Or imagine if your prom night decides to go with a valentine, or “love’ theme! Why not select our pink carpet runners, a perfect addition alongside all the red and pink décor that is sure to be everywhere? Even if your prom has an outlandish theme, such as a jungle exploration theme, or an outer space theme with a Langley Air Force Base theme, we have the perfect color for such an event, with our beautiful green carpet runners, finding a snug spot next to a welcoming Dodo bird, or an alien in it’s UFO. What we want to say is that whatever the theme in historic Virginia, Ceremonialsupplies.com has your back covered when it comes to supplies. Shop with us for anything and everything that you might need in order to prepare for what is sure to be a fun and exciting prom night! Ceremonialsupplies.com is the one stop shop for all of your ceremony and event needs, with banners, ribbons, stanchions, and ropes, and many more supplies for you to purchase at your leisure. Ceremonialsupplies.com has great quality supplies, friendly customer service, and quick shipping to wherever you are. Click here for a shipping quote.

Colorful groundbreaking kid shovels put a smile on everyone's face! For some reason, groundbreaking ceremonies where kids participate have a way of making everyone smile, the kids, and all who watch them. It's something about the freshness and enthusiasm that makes such an event, at times a serious presentation with a long list of speakers, something fun to watch when kids are involved. A groundbreaking is an architectural ceremony related to building. In ancient times a first sod cutting was a symbolic and ritualistic ceremony that proposed communion between the world of ideas, and the physical world, and was conducted for the purpose of consecrating the ground for safe construction and completion. What the ancients sought, was the favor of positive energy, and there just isn't a more powerful voltage than that of children smiling and laughing. It's uplifting to see children and young kids take part in first ground cutting projects like a new public library, a new children's health pavilion, new school, or park, especially when photos show happy, smiling faces with the twinkle of good fun in the eyes! CeremonialSupplies.com is proud to offer a palette of colorful groundbreaking kids shovels for their first sod-cutting! 26" in height with a 6" width blade, our mini groundbreaking shovels come in a variety of colors to match a logo, or a structural color scheme. These mini shovels can also be personalized on the blade or the stem, and presented as a keepsake or memento to one or more VIP participating in the ceremony. Dressed up in a big bow, this mini version of the groundbreaking shovel also makes for a fun gift!

First sod-cuttings are important occasions when those who helped make it a reality are acknowledged in a meaningful way, commemorative wall plaques and keys to the city are a great way to say thank you with an engraved message. This mini steel groundbreaking shovel is the perfect size for children of executives or VIPs who will take part in the event, and it also makes a fun memory to display side-by-side with the full size shovel in the corresponding color, and works great as a keepsake memento just as much as a wall plaque or keys to the city! Keep in mind this mini groundbreaking kids shovel can be customized too!

Whether you're looking for full size, traditional steel blade groundbreaking ceremonial shovels, the full size color groundbreaking shovels, or for the colorful mini groundbreaking kids version, CeremonialSupplies.com is the best place on the web for high quality, finely crafted products at budget friendly prices, and for knowledgeable and attentive customer service that will get your products to you promptly and efficiently, wherever you are in the world. Shop our website for the perfect size, mini groundbreaking shovel for kids, in bright hues of red, royal blue, canary yellow, teal, pink, orange, and green. All the mini shovels have a full metal D-Style handle that makes them sturdy and easy to hold, and combine them with an adult size 42" tall with 9.5"

If you're planning a fun and colorful groundbreaking ceremony where children or young kids will be present and taking part shoveling first dirt, get all your supplies at the best one-stop shop on the internet for groundbreakings, grandopenings, and all ceremonial events. At CeremonialSupplies.com we have a selection of hand-picked high quality products to accommodate every budget, from full size, traditional groundbrekaing shovels, color hard hats, groundbreaking shovel kits, personalized ribbons in an assortment of widths, personalized banners, step and repeat, event carpet runners in shinny bright colors, grand opening banners, grand opening ribbons and ceremonial ribbon cutting scissors, and many more products. All of the finest quality, and ready to ship to you promptly wherever you are! Click here for a shipping quote.

One of the original Thirteen colonies, named after King George II of England, Georgia embodies the allure of ancient cultures mixed with southern charm, and today, the landmark buildings and museums that celebrate the rich history of the Peach State embellish their locale when they feature stylish stanchions for Georgia's history and heritage museums. Is Georgia on your mind? From its Pre-Columbian, Prehistoric celebrated mounds built by a civilization pre-dating native Americans, Georgia's ancient history adds more depth to the understanding and shaping of its cultural events of today. Places like Fort Mountain in Chatsworth, named for an ancient and mysterious rock wall 855 feet across the highest point of the mountain, or Track Rock Gap in Chattahoochee National Forest, which preserves petroglyphs discovered near Blairsville, Georgia is a land of antiquity and history. Colonial America to Civil War memorabilia, historic homes and landmarks, crowd control stanchions for museums can have the perfect decorative tone to complement all these historic locations, homes, and events.

Stanchions, or Rope Posts?

Stanchions are also known as barrier posts, rope barriers, rope posts, crowd control barriers, or crowd control posts, and they are, in fact, posts that stand upright and can be made of metal or plastic. Stanchions, or barrier posts, are slim, cylinder shape with variation of tops that range from the classic, ball top, to urn shape top, or flat top. The flat top is designed for any line configuration you need, with hollows grooves on the side you can arrange the rope in many formations, and you can use the rope style of your choice, whether it's plush velvet, velour, or the braided roping. Posts and barriers are standard items that museums keep in inventory and the best place on the web to find the stanchions and rope that complements a museum's decor is CeremonialSupplies.com. The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, featured an exhibition of prints from their permanent collection of Japanese art. Protecting valuable works of art is a priority concern for museum curators everywhere. This is one of the reasons why iconic works of art at the Georgia Museum of Art, for example, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" can be so elegantly displayed and protected, using four silver finished chrome stanchions and blue velvet rope, making the barrier almost imperceptible. Like this, museums protect irreplaceable works of art using stanchions and rope. For example, the Telfair Museum in Savannah is home to the largest collection of works by Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Stanchions of classic, polished brass style with red velvet rope would be the ideal style for photographic opportunities and also to keep a smooth flow of traffic. The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia is all about the story of America, including everything associated with cowboys and life in the west frontier. Stanchions and rope are set up in front of large murals such as the Presidential Gallery, not only adding an air of importance to the scene, but protecting the mural of Presidents.

CeremonialSupplies.com offers a variety of competitively priced, high quality, choices of the best decorative posts and ropes styles for use in museums. Our classic decorative stanchions are chrome or brass polished as well as a selection of plastic hitching post style stanchions with chain. The plastic stanchions come in black, white, and yellow and are constructed from high density polyethylene material, for outdoor or indoor use. The Atlanta History Center, located in Atlanta, is touted as a 33-acre experience that showcases historic houses, enchanting gardens, and other activities that take place outside and make the best use of the hitching post plastic stanchions and chain. These weatherproof plastic stanchions are economic and sturdy. Each pole has a hollow base that is light to ship or transport, and the base can be weighed down with water or sand for stabilization. These rustproof barrier posts are perfect for outdoor use at the historic Atlanta Swan House, or Margaret Mitchell House, and decorative enough for indoor use also.

Different Stanchion Styles For Different Needs

Georgia's Museum of Aviation Foundation in Robins AFB, for example, includes large exhibit buildings housing historic USAF aircraft, cockpits, and missiles and retractable belt stanchions are used throughout the museum. Stanchions with retractable belts have a cassette feature that enables endless combinations to configure lines and manage a crowd in any way required. CeremonialSupplies.com offers 4-way retractable belt stanchions made from durable steel in matte finish, with a belt that extends up to 6.5' available in black, royal blue, red, or grey.

For events where visibility is important, such as the Atlanta International Auto Show, in Atlanta, we offer mini stanchions in chrome, brass, and black matte, with a height of 24", with retractable belt that can extend up to 11 feet for space economy. These barrier posts are designed to protect an exhibit or display while saving floor space for better view and reduction of risk of damage to the display. Retractable belt posts are also available with sign frames, a two-sided, stainless steel chrome finish in 3 sizes (7 x 11, 8.5 x 11, and 11 x 14) with an attachment cup that easily locks into our 4-way stanchion adapter top. These stanchions are perfect when visibility is a priority, and you want to organize a large crowd flow.

CeremonialSupplies.com also offers sign frames for retractable stanchions to give directions within your business, or use the frame to feature special ads, a promotion, similar announcement. With a stanchion sign frame you can maintained engaged, people who are waiting in a queue.

For crowd control stanchions and rope in museums, CeremonialSupplies.com has the high quality, crafted, stanchions, posts, and ropes and belts that you need, at budget friendly prices. Our customer service is personable and knowledgeable and we ship to all our favorite museum cities in Georgia: Atlanta, Augusta, Athens, Columbus, Savannah, Sandy Springs, promptly and efficiently! Shop CeremonialSupplies.com for all your crowd management needs. Contact us here for a shipping quote.

Progress is a funny thing. Almost imperceptible until its effects overwhelmingly surround us. So when did the red carpet become prom? When did a high school dance (mind you, the last one) turn into the arrival entrance to the Academy Awards? It happened suddenly, and we owe it to several factors. The first, is the Academy Awards itself and how this night of glamour and fashion among stars has inspired young people. The second, is technology, or to be specific, the social media platforms that naturally progressed after the onset of the internet. And lastly, how both these factors combined made it possible for CeremonialSupplies.com to become the best online store on the web to offer the most exquisite event carpet runners, in the most dazzling shades of blue, green, purple, pink, black, and the glorious crimson pathway of the gods, so that young gods and goddesses everywhere basked in the celebration of Prom Night!

The Academy Awards was the original innovator of the red carpet entrance, and later of the step and repeat banner. Before surfacing in the prom scene, the red carpet event runner was pretty much restricted to the Oscars, and even then not until the last decade did it become its own pre-presentation event as live and television audiences were treated to the lavish parade of movie stars and celebrities wearing gowns by the best known haute couture designer houses. Most American kids grow up exposed to this television landmark event, and many of them are inspired by these richly glamorous presentations. The natural progression was that as teenagers, their last high school dance would be motivated by the same sophistication and glamour projected by the red carpet arrival of celebrities at the Academy Awards. CeremonialSupplies.com is a big fan of films and film premieres, and our selection of event carpet runners, in the most brilliant shades, and red carpet accessories like classic stanchions and rope, step and repeat, and personalized ribbon banners have been all selected with the same care and attention to detail as if we were throwing the red carpet at the Oscars ourselves. As a matter of fact, we carry all the necessary supplies for a red carpet event of the same sophistication and stature!

We mentioned technology and the internet and maybe you're thinking, huh? What does technology have to do with prom? Or with red carpet aisle runners? And if you are, you probably don't have an Instagram account! With the rapid communication and sharing the internet provides, all across the world, young, app savvy high school seniors with smartphones have been posting prom photos at least, since 2012 - that's 7 years. This has opened the door for prom competition. What high school prom is best? Which one has the most lavish arrival red carpet? Or the best band, best decorations, best theme? We congratulate all the graduating seniors who will be working hard to best all the other high schools in the nation for the best prom but remember, it's going to be tough to beat a White House Prom! As the stakes were upped, event carpet runners jumped to hot demand during prom season. And not just the traditional red carpet, either!

This is where CeremonialSupplies.com comes in. Manufacturing industry experience, a professional eye for quality, and a genuine love for what we do - after all, who doesn't enjoy a great celebration? - makes us the best online store on the web to get the highest quality event carpet runners: prom red carpet, or blue aisle runner, green and black aisle carpet runners, and even pink event carpet, stanchions and rope, we even have complete, ready to go Ceremonial Red Carpet kits that bring a red carpet aisle runner with stanchions and rope for an instant set up; step and repeat, customized banners, personalized ribbons, and all the products and supplies needed for an event to look as lavish and sophisticated as a royal coronation! All at fair and budget friendly prices that won't break the bank, and with prompt and efficient shipping to your doorstep, wherever you live in the world. And, have you experienced our customer service? Attentive, knowledgeable, and pleasant. Find our for yourself and give us a call 877-373-4273 or click here for shipping quotes.

In just a few weeks teenagers across the country will be dressing up in adult, formal attire and go to their last school dance. Schools, event planners, and production companies are gearing up to decorate their school prom with lavish party themes. The results are phenomenal prom photos on Social Media as the rest of the world enjoys themed productions that range from Vaudevillian and Moulin Rouge to the Great Gatsby, Oscar Night, and Camelot. Glimmering stanchions with velvet ropes, extra wide personalized ribbon banners, are products that enrich any decor, but if you truly want prom dazzle, with ceremonial red carpet runners, with CeremonialSupplies.com you'll achieve that, and more! CeremonialSupplies.com has been consistently supplying school events across the country with the highest quality event carpet runners, at budget friendly prices to make your prom the memorable occasion it is meant to be.

Fancy dresses and stylish tuxes, shimmering high heeled string sandals and pumps, oxford leather shoes and sneakers - the creative high-fashion style of high school seniors will be a familiar sight as they step into a limo or a classic car to arrive at their school prom. A red carpet entrance automatically embellishes any event and it's perfect for a prom arrival when all eyes will be on the youthful fashion parade. A wide red carpet runner is the ideal platform to have at the entrance of the prom venue, and if you're not sure what size or color carpet to chose, come to CeremonialSupplies.com where we have the perfect size aisle runner, and the color to best match your school's colors, theme, and decorations. For starters, CeremonialSupplies.com has a selection of deluxe, plush, non-slip carpets in various colors. Match a deep blue carpet runner, an emerald green aisle runner, or a rich purple event carpet with your school's colors for a truly dazzling effect. How about a royal pink event carpet runner for an all-girls high school? Or an elegant, black aisle carpet runner for an all male one? Creativity is yours to pursue when it comes to picking the ideal red carpet runner for your school prom, for everything else there's CeremonialSupplies.com

For convenience, we have a standard bright red carpet runner, and a standard royal blue event carpet runner, both of excellent quality and priced slightly less than our deluxe options. We also make available kits with the basic items for a posh red carpet entrance. The Ceremonial Crowd Control Kit consists of a ceremonial event carpet runner available in red, blue, green, pink, purple, and black; two polished brass stanchions; and velour stanchion rope. The ceremonial carpet is available in sizes ranging from 3 feet by 10 feet to 6 feet by 30 feet, with every combination in between in increments of 5 feet length. The pair of brass stanchions are 41" high and the stanchion rope is of fine velour. The Ceremonial Crowd Control Kit is the stress-free solution to the basic products for your red carpet prom arrival. Go ahead, dazzle them!

If it's an authentic Hollywood theme you're after, remember all movie premiere's have the stars and celebrities pose in front of a step and repeat. This banner, with your school name and mascot logo gives all the official photographs the panache of an Academy Award presentation, and will make the last school photograph a vivid lasting memory. The step and repeat banner can be paired with a red carpet, or matched with another color event carpet runner that will match the school colors. Use customized or printed ribbons to highlight different areas, or for an overall "tightening" of the room, as well as draping them from the center out on the dance floor, or over the live band. Decorating the table settings with printed personalized ribbons is a way to keep color continuity, and become a treasured keepsake of the special night. CeremonialSupplies.com has an extensive selection of satin fabric ribbons available in 21 different colors and widths of 4, 6, 8, and 10 inches and lengths of 10, 15, and 25 yards! the light shine of the ribbon finish will be sure to make your personalized design stand out even more! Need more decorative items for your prom, balloons, signs, and banners? CeremonialSupplies.com is the place to get them. We ship wherever there's a prom going on, anywhere in the United States or the rest of the world, swiftly and efficiently. For the most dazzling prom experience, shop CeremonialSupplies.com! Click here for a shipping quote.

A groundbreaking ceremony is a big event by all standards. It's a landmark accomplishment and should be treated as such, and though it might not be clear at first what supplies you will need to organize a first rate event, if you're having a groundbreaking in Nebraska? Here's a quick guide from CeremonialSupplies.com. Aside from our high quality crafted groundbreaking shovels, hard hats and other products, we offer an essential guide customized for Nebraska! The state once called "The Great American Desert," and after J. Sterling Morton founded Arbor Day in Nebraska in 1872 it was called "Tree Planter's State," and in 1945 the nickname that stuck is the "Cornhusker State." Known for many things, including a lighthouse without an ocean in Ashland; a restaurant chain, Runza, exclusive only to Nebraska; and "Archie" the largest mammoth skeleton ever found, on a farm in Lincoln County in 1922 and now on display in the University of Nebraska State Museum, and the home of the "Wizard of Omaha," humble billionaire Warren Buffet. With so much to inspire a first ground cutting, it's easy to lose sight of what must be done first, and this means planning!

The Planning Stage of a Nebraska Groundbreaking Ceremony

We know you've heard it time and again but early planning is the key to a successful event. Envisioning the event in your heard is not enough. Put pen to paper and write down details. Start with dates. Some people use their city's local event calendar to make sure the date of the groundbreaking ceremony doesn't compete with other popular events. For example, the Lincoln, Nebraska Convention and Visitors Bureau has a pretty complete local calendar of events. Once you have settled on a date, next thing is create your guest list and create the invitation. Company VIPs, out of town guests, local government officials and media, (or national and international personalities, depending the reach of your event) are all guests you want to include. Tip: Obtaining a formal acceptance by a local government official, like Lincoln's mayor Chris Beutler, or a well-known celebrity or personality will guarantee the media's attendance to cover your event.

Creating and maintaining a media list sounds archaic to young entrepreneurs but really, create one. You will communicate easier and more often when you have an actual list. Local community papers are important for your business. Make sure you include them in your list. Nebraska has a number of city papers that are also distributed statewide, like the Lincoln Journal Star, Fremont Tribune, the Nebraska City News-Press, Omaha World-Herald and Omaha Daily Bee, the Norfolk Daily News, the Columbus Telegram, Kearney Hub, McCook Gazette and Hastings Tribune, just to name the top ones.

You've prepared a media list and have the invitations ready to mail. Here's another tip: Make phone calls. Don't fear the phone. Especially that Nebraska has a world-wide reputation for epitomizing the humble soul of the people from America's prairies and plains. Guests are more likely to respond to an invitation when they are contacted personally prior to receiving the invite. Use online tools like Eventbrite.com and other similar platforms where you can engage and keep track of guests and use feedback and comments to stir interest in your groundbreaking event.

Get Your Ceremonial Supplies On Time!

We can't repeat enough how much time and money you will save with early ordering, not to mention stress and anxiety! Especially if you want your groundbreaking shovels and the ceremonial hard hats customized with a logo or text, or personalized ribbons and presentation plaques. Yes, we have been known to perform miracles "need it by yesterday" turn around, but we prefer to rely on your good planning instead. Remember the customization process can take 2 or 3 days depending on the quantity being ordered. The rule of thumb is to give yourself at least 2 weeks prior to the event to get groundbreaking shovels customized, especially if you will need a quantity of 15 or 20 logo customized shovels. Also, if you're ordering a personalized ribbon spool of 50 yards, or 100 customized ceremonial hard hats (which are manufactured to construction industry standards), or a step and repeat banner, keep in mind our printing process is so awesome because it's labor intensive and handled with professional care. Choosing the ceremonial groundbreaking shovel (or shovels, depending on the number of people who will be involved in the ceremony) is one of the first supplies to order. If a large group is expected to take part in the cutting of ground, you may want to opt for the standard, stainless steel, polished chrome style ceremonial shovel, and maybe one or two VIP mirror chromed sod-cutting shovels if principals of the company will want to preserve and display them. The most important thing is to give yourself plenty of time to order. Not sure about the timing? Give us a call 1-877-373-4273 or contact us here for details.

The Basics For A Groundbreaking Ceremony

You have a confirmed list of prominent guests, the mayor will be present and will give a dedication speech, the food and refreshments have been ordered, and the tent will be delivered at the groundbreaking location the day of the event. A popular idea for decorating the tent inside is to drape wide ribbons outward from the center of the tent and have them hang down the sides. The ribbons should reflect the company or logo colors. An additional touch that serves as keepsake and decoration is to personalize smaller size ribbons with the name of the event and the date and use these to dress up the tables. It's a good idea to designate an area for official photographs and to do this as people first walk in to avoid bottlenecking and allow a constant flow of people into the event. A step and repeat banner with your company logo and that of any affiliates will give the event residual promotional momentum, especially if there will be media present. Everyone loves to feel like a star and standing on a red carpet aisle runner in front of the step and repeat banner, with stanchions and rope guiding the way to the photo area will surely do it! CeremonialSupplies.com is proud to carry a selection of plush, luxurious, event carpet runners in the traditional crimson red, in blue, green aisle runner, regal purple, elegant black, and femininely empowered pink aisle carpet. Combine the best color to go with your logo or theme.

The ceremonial shovels are the big stars of the event, and having them fully dressed with matching hard hat and bow on their individual shovel display stands will create another photo opportunity for the VIPs and guests, and the stands come in handy for placing the shovels after the sod-cutting ceremony. All the ceremonial shovels carried by CeremonialSupplies.com are full size, 42" tall with a 9.5" blade, made of stainless steel that will not rust or stain and the styles range from Standard, polished chrome and wood handle to the Deluxe, polished chrome with wood and metal handle, VIP mirror polished blade with wood and steel handle, the traditional long stem with polished chrome, and a fun selection of colorful ceremonial shovels in blue, green, pink, red, yellow, and orange, and we also offer groundbreaking kids shovels in mini size 26" tall and a 6" blade, for children taking part in the sod-cutting ceremony. All our groundbreaking shovels can be customized with a logo or text on the blade, the stem, the handle, or all three.

Wherever you are in the farmland of America, from Harrison, to Norfolk, Fremont, Omaha, Lincoln, or tiny Monowi, CeremonialSupplies.com has the groundbreaking shovels, and all the supplies you need for your groundbreaking ceremony, and we ship promptly and efficiently to Nebraska, and everywhere else in the world. Click here to request a shipping quote.

Ceremonial groundbreaking shovels are Montana's newest stars. As if being the birth state of Gary Cooper and David Lynch wasn't enough, Big Sky Montana has one of the steadiest economies in the nation and continues to be an inviting place for those seeking a more untamed, wild, and natural environment to live. Montana is home to the hydrological apex of North America on Triple Divide Peak. From here, water flows to three oceans: Hudson Bay (Arctic), Gulf of Mexico (Atlantic), and the Pacific Ocean. It's northern neighbors are three Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, and 3% of Yellowstone National Park falls within its south western border with Wyoming. Montana's claims to fame are many, but the one we at CeremonialSupplies.com like the best is it's steadfast economy! Especially the healthcare and tourism industries because their exponential growth represents an enormous potential to impact other growing sectors! And you know what that means- more new, small businesses taking the first steps to becoming established big companies! These growing business sectors in Montana will have healthcare satellite offices opening up and holding grand opening events, or existing companies like Benefis Health System in Great Falls, St Patrick Hospital & Health in Missoula, Kalispell Regional Healthcare in Kalispell, and First Interstate BancSystems, Inc, in Billings, expanding into new locations and having groundbreaking ceremonies. We're all about groundbreaking ceremonies, grand openings, and all the best supplies and products available on the web for a spectacular landmark event in Big Sky Montana!

Montana's Mining and Groundbreaking Shovels History

Montana's history of mining gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and coal mining goes back 155 years when a prospector scooped up a bit of gold near Silver Bow Creek. The sensational news traveled quickly and in a short time hundreds of potential tycoons swarmed the banks of Silver Bow Creek. At first the mining was concentrated in Bannack and Virginia City but the growing number of miners spread out searching for new, virgin gold fields. But gold wasn't the only ore mined in Montana, as different geological areas produced different metals. Virginia City, Marysville, and Bannack is where most of the gold mining took place; Philipsburg was a silver and manganese mining town, and Butte mined copper - which became the wealth of Montana with the advent of electricity and its high demand for copper. The inevitable movement of people who followed the prospectors, were the banks, and though it's hard to say if groundbreaking shovels played a part in both groundbreakings and actual digging, we do know the area was considered the richest in America around 1917, and though the days when William Rockefeller benefitted from the 20.8 billion pounds of copper produced in Butte are long gone, they are not forgotten, at least not by the Mineral Museum or the World Museum of Mining, both in Butte. Montana's mining industry today supports over 12,500 permanent year-round jobs with an average annual earnings upwards of $85,000. Pretty good for an untamed and wild environment!

The Best Shovels for a Groundbreaking in Montana

CeremonialSupplies.com is proud to offer the best quality ceremonial groundbreaking shovels, hard hats, stands and displays for the ground-cutting shovels, grand opening personalized ribbons, stanchions and rope, red carpet runners (and blue, green, purple, black and pink ones too!) and many more items online. Our prices are budget friendly, our customer service is knowledgeable and attentive and our shipping is prompt and efficient wherever you are in Blue Sky Montana (and anywhere else in the world). From Eureka to Outlook, Missoula, Great Falls, Helena, Billings, Joliet and every prospecting town in between, we put our products in your hands wherever you are.

Our selection of groundbreaking shovels was carefully put together to cater to the most demanding needs. All of our ceremonial shovels have a stainless steel blade, which means they won't rust or stain - ever. The handles are D-style, which is the ceremonial style perfect to hold for photographs and videos. The full-size of our ceremonial groundbreaking shovels is 41" tall with a blade width of 9.5" and our styles range from the Standard groundbreaking shovel with wooden handle and chrome blade, to the Deluxe ceremonial shovel with metal and wood handle and polished chrome, the VIP mirror finished chrome ceremonial groundbreaking shovel with polished metal and wood handle, the traditional long stem shovel with polished chrome blade, and the different color assorted groundbreaking shovels in blue, green, pink, red, orange, and yellow. CeremonialSupplies.com also carries groundbreaking kids shovels in sizes perfect for the little people at 26" high with a 6" colorful blade in the same colors available for the full-size shovel. All our shovels can be customized on the blade, the stem, the handle, or all three! 

You don't have to be mining for gold or silver or even copper to have in your hands the best quality ceremonial shovel for breaking ground on a new business, office, or shop in Big Sky Montana. Shop online at CeremonialSupplies.com for all your event supplies and receive your products fast! Click here to request a shipping quote.