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Ceremonial scissors are cutting their way to the top in Mississippi! The state is best known as the birth of blues music, with legends like B.B. King, who hailed from Itta Bena, John Lee Hooker from Tutwiler, and Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett) from Whites; giants recognized by music aficionados all over the world. But music is not the only big deal about the sate, which boasts many other fascinating facts, including the tradition of ribbon cutting ceremonies and groundbreakings. And CeremonialSupplies.com is providing the beautiful Magnolia state with giant ceremonial scissors, oversized printed ribbons and all the finest trimmings for grand opening events in one of the most beloved states in the USA! Abounding in culture (and controversy) Mississippi holds a great deal of history. Named after the Ojibwa tribe word meaning "Big River," and formed over ten thousand years ago at the end of the last Ice Age when glaciers deposited layers of sediment across what we know today as the Upper Mississippi River Valley, this land has the kind of positivity that makes people fall in love with it! We thought it would be a good idea to recount many of the Magnolia's state best known facts precisely because these are the kind of prideful anecdotes that find their way into grand opening dedication speeches and invocations at groundbreaking ceremonies.

For many, their first introduction to Mississippi came via Mark Twain, the great American writer, humorist, and entrepreneur. He had a special love for the Mississippi River and wrote about the many places along the river's path in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. President Theodore Roosevelt often visited the state on hunting trips and in fact, the term "teddy bear" originated in Mississippi where on a hunting trip in Onward, the president refused to kill a trapped bear thus inspiring a candy store owner in NY to create a plush bear he called "Teddy Bear" when he saw a cartoon drawing of the incident. Lovers of root beer will know the inventor of the sarsaparilla flavored sweet drink, Edward Barq, who created the Barq's Root Beer Company in Biloxi! And Coca-Cola, though invented in Atlanta in 1866 was sold only as a fountain drink until it was bottled for the first time in 1894 at a plant in Vicksburg, where the cornerstone still stands today. Something in Mississippi's water breeds originality and daring-do, and a testament to this came in 1963 when Dr. James Hardy performed the first human lung transplant, followed one year later by the first animal-human heart, when he transplanted a chimpanzee heart onto a patient who managed to survive 90 minutes after the operation.

With such a storied past, it’s obvious that entrepreneurs would want to start their new business ventures in Mississippi with the best of the best! This is where Ceremonialsupplies.com, the number one online shop for ceremonial scissors, including handles in a multitude of colors, in giant sizes of 25" and 30" comes in to make your grand opening event shine at the stature of all things Mississippian. These ceremonial ribbon cutting scissors are available in colors to match the grand opening ribbon, and both, the color scissors and ribbon can be personalized. Color scissors with red handle, green scissors, yellow, orange ribbon cutting scissors, pink, teal, and other color scissor handles, can be combined with either silver blades or gold blades, and if a specific printed message is not the style you want, we have pre-printed "Grand Opening" giant scissors that you can easily use for an elegant grand opening event. In addition, CeremonialSupplies.com also makes available ribbon cutting kits that already include the essentials, the ceremonial stage kit, and the full suite grand opening kits with all the bells and whistles! But don't stop yet - a truly memorable grand opening in the Magnolia state calls for other details to really make it stand out!

Grand openings should have colored carpeting (which we have the most luxurious and posh), stanchions, and beautiful ribbons ready to be cut to signify the start of a new addition to the area. But what some people forget, is that every single detail of an event is extremely important, from the ribbon cutting scissors to the most outstanding ribbons, and customization is one of the most important details, especially if you will have proffesional photos and videos of the event. Ceremonialsupplies.com offers personalized ribbons, in all the most popular colors; with gold, silver, black, or white font colors, or a multi-color logo, so you can combine with the different custom blades and colored handles. You pick and choose. For example, you can choose a standard pair of steel blades or you can go for a more lavish look and choose a pair of golden blades for your ceremonial scissors, with the color handle matching the color of the ribbon.

You can customize to your heart’s content so that when it comes time to cut that ribbon, everyone will stand in awe at your beautiful ceremonial scissors. Mississippi is also known as the Hospitality State, and is largely rural, with farmland dominating the majority of the land. This means Mississippi’s economy is almost entirely dependent on farming. However the recent trend is that many entrepreneurs are looking to change that by scouting and developing more of that farmland into profitable businesses. Mississippi is a gold mine of culture and American history, perfect for starting your next business.

When planning a grand opening celebration anywhere from Southaven, Greenville, Columbus and Yazoo City to Vicksburg, Natchez, and Biloxi, count on CeremonialSupplies.com for the best ceremonial scissors, grand opening ribbons, stanchions and red carpet, all at budget friendly prices, and shipped to wherever you are in Mississippi - or anywhere else in the world for that matter! Click here for a shipping quote.

With our nation's Independence Day one short month away, CeremonialSupplies.com wants to put the best decorative ribbons, banners and buntings this 4th of July! If you're like us, you may have noticed a resurgence in the red, white, and blue! So if you're planning a 4th of July Celebration and want to take it to the next level, you've come to the right place. CeremonialSupplies.com has the best selection of oversized ribbons on the net and you can create your own personal message or design, and decorate your patio, gazebo, or your deck and show your pride in this great nation.

Our traditional ribbons, which are very popular for grand opening celebrations, are available in a multitude of colors, from hot pink, red, maroon, yellow, orange, blue, green and many other shades, and of course, the red, white, and blue ribbons have the perfect hue to decorate for the 4th of July. These vibrantly colored ribbons will add life to your BBQ or party, and they come in extra wide sizes like 8" or 10" and 12" so that you can create banners with a customized message or design that is repeated throughout the length of the ribbon - which can be 12 yards, 25 yards, or 50 yards. Decorating for the 4th of July is a fun opportunity to let your creativity loose! These decorative ribbons can be used for table decoration and ceiling draping. If you choose personalized ribbons for the decorations, they will also serve as keepsakes of the celebration. Everyone loves photos and keepsakes and what better way to remember the occasion than with table ribbons personalized with the name and date of the event? Ceiling draping ribbons are all the rage at wedding receptions and birthday parties, and you can use them for 4th of July decorations to create a red, white, and blue, canopy effect by draping them out from the center of the ceiling toward the walls and then letting them hang down. If you're Independence Day celebration is taking place outdoors to enjoy the beautiful summer days, then you place 5 poles (8' - 10' high) in a square dining or picnic area - one pole in the center with the other four poles on each corner of the square and you drape the ribbons the same way, from the center out. If you're in a park, your red, white, and blue ribbon tent will be eye-catching and easy to spot by your guests.

Create a unique tablecloth for any celebration with either a cloth or plastic cover, and attach a printed red ribbon or bunting around it with a 10" or 12" personalized banner. You can combine different colors depending on the occasion and the event, but for the 4th of July, a white top tablecloth with red banner around it and blue plates and utensils is quite impressive. This color combination works great too with blue banner and red plates and utensils.

Independence Day picnics and parties are a tradition. This is the time to pull out all your red, white, and blue paraphernalia, straw fedoras, ties, scarves, t-shirts and clothing. Embrace the good ol' fashioned fun of a day at the beach and an evening under a canopy of ribbons while waiting for the fireworks! CeremonialSupplies.com is the best online store for personalized ribbons, banners, step and repeat backdrops and many other ceremonial items to enhance any 4th of July event! Shop at our store for the highest quality products at budget friendly prices, attentive and knowledgeable customer service, and prompt and efficient shipping wherever you are in the world. Click here for a shipping quote.

Grand openings are big events in the life of a company, or a business and even a new home. At CeremonialSupplies.com, the best online store for grand opening ceremonial products, we are seeing the use of ceremonial scissors and ribbons for home grand openings! And frankly, we love it! (Of course, we're biased when it comes to celebratory events). In addition, home grand openings give a new edge to Real Estate businesses.

Realtors, always pushing the envelope and creating innovative ways to promote their businesses, have been introducing the idea of a house grand opening upon the completed sale of a property. This is a wonderful and novel idea that adds a unique touch to stand out from the crowd. Imagine, as part of a home purchase, a home grand opening celebration for friends and family of the new home owners! We know not every Realtor, Realty company or Property Management in town does this, and some haven't even considered it, so we thought this brief guide on how to put together a new home grand opening would help Realtors and Realty companies see the great potential of including a home grand opening as part of the package and parcel when a new home is purchased.

Papers signed, and keys turned over! It's official. A new home purchase has been completed and traditionally the Realtor or Seller is present. It's at this point when the date for the home grand opening is set. The happy home owner(s) are eager to get settled in and you want to allow time for all the furniture to be in its place, the art is on the walls, and everything is at its pristine best! Once the date has been decided and the home owners have sent out invitations, the next step is to get the grand opening supplies.

The grand opening ribbon is going to go across the entrance door. The height of most standard doors is 80" and although there is no standard width, there are common widths - for a single door it's between 30" - 36", and for double doors it's 60" (2 x 30"), 64" (2 X 32", and 72" (2 x 36"). For printed and customized ribbons you'll find the minimum length in the industry is 10 yards. This makes the cost feasible and affordable, and be assured, 10 yards of customized ribbon will find plenty of decorative opportunities inside the home as bunting for a fireplace mantel or around the dinner table, over entryway to the patio or backyard, and if there are columns on the front entryway, the grand opening ribbon can be placed between the columns. Next is the ribbon width, and this depends on the width of the main entryway, and how visible you want the text on the ribbon to be for photos and videos? For example, if you are looking for a grand opening ribbon that will run across two double-door French Doors, a 4" ribbon, which is the common width, will look like a string! A 6" wide ribbon is considered standard for a grand opening, but if you really want to make a strong visual statement, a customized 8" - 12" ribbon is the way to go! CeremonialSupplies.com has a selection of ribbons that range from 4" - 12" in width, and in lengths from 10 yards to 25 yards in increments of five. Choose the ribbon color of your choice, and always remember aesthetics! Light colors on white ribbon don't show up well. Contrast is key. What to say on the ribbon? Entirely up to the home owners, but some popular ideas are: "Welcome To The (Last Name)'s First/New Home," "The (Last Name)'s - Founded in 2019" or "Sweet Home of The (Last Name)s."

We've all seen photographs of grand openings where two people are holding the ribbon on each end. Admittedly, if you haven't thought of stanchions, this is the next best thing but be prepared for a crooked ribbon line and awkwardness. Stanchions are made to hold grand opening ribbons securely so that all the focus is in the center, where the ribbon cutting will take place. CeremonialSupplies.com has a variety of stanchions for you to choose from, and our staff recommendation for home grand openings are, either the classic, dome top brass stanchions, or the sturdy, outdoor weatherproof polyethylene hitching post style stanchions that come in black, white, or yellow.

Next, we come to the object of our attention - the ceremonial ribbon cutting scissors! With this item, which along with a portion of the ribbon the home owners will want to keep and even display, you have many choices. What color handle, and what color blades? The blades can be either gold, or silver but the handles can be of any of a variety of colors, and at CeremonialSupplies.com we have the main ones: red, blue, white, maroon, black, pink, orange, teal, light blue, and yellow and we offer the option of combining two-color handles! The ceremonial scissors are available in 25" which is a little over 2' or, 30" which is 2 1/2'. These giant grand opening scissors are the main focus of the home grand opening, and along with the ribbon, they can be customized with text or a family crest on the blades. Before the ribbon cutting and after, the giant scissors have to be kept somewhere. For this purpose we have the scissors display stand that shows off the giant scissors and acts, just like the personalized ribbon, as a photo prop where family and guests can take pictures and videos.

A home grand opening is a lot of fun. It's a time when the home owners show off the property they're so proud of, and an event that's treasured in videos and photographs. To hold the precious keepsakes from this momentous occasion for a new family, or an established family with a brand new home, CeremonialSupplies offers glass-top display cases that serve to protect and display the ceremonial scissors, a piece of the ribbon, and photographs of the event.

Real Estate is a competitive field and anything that sets you apart from the rest will always work in your favor. For your next home sale, shop CeremonialSupplies.com for the essentials! You will love our friendly prices, appreciate our knowledgeable and attentive customer service, and you will be pleased with our prompt and efficient shipping wherever you are in the world! Click here for a shipping quote.

CeremonialSupplies.com has the crowd management tools to help New Jersey cinemas up their style with stanchions and rope, red carpet, and many more items! Everybody loves having a wonderful night at the cinema but when blockbuster films hit the big screen, crowd control can be a tough task to deal with. With a multitude of wonderful cinemas in the New Jersey area, smooth movement of people has to be the main priority for anyone running a theater. There are many solutions to help with crowd control, including using a wide variety of stanchion and ropes and barrier posts that can be found at CeremonialSupplies.com!

Whether you're heading to the famous Loew’s Jersey Theater in Jersey City or The Showroom Cinema in Asbury Park, safety and flow has to be of utmost importance. It is difficult to funnel movie-goers to their correct theaters safely and without issue, but without the proper equipment on hand, it can turn downright chaotic, especially during premieres of highly anticipated films, which is something we're seeing quite a bit of lately. Stanchions and ropes are essential for organizing the ticket booth. The people of New Jersey expect fast and efficient service and without the proper line management, you’re just asking for trouble! Shared practices show that retractable belt stanchons provide the limitless line configurations necessary for large, opening night crowds.

For the concession stand and ticket taker lines, barrier posts are vital. Without the proper organization, you will find the good people of New Jersey being skipped in line, moving slowly, and will ultimately cause more issues than it is worth. Avoid these hassles by shopping CeremonialSupplies.com and consider the classic styles of stanchions such as the brass with dome top, or the chrome stainless steel with flat top or urn top, or even the hitching post style  plastic stanchions that are light to carry and transport and can be filled with water or sand for stability for use. New Jersey is renowned for being a breeding hotbed of cinematic talent. People such as famed actress Meryl Streep hailing from Summit, New Jersey, Sopranos star James Gandolfini from Westwood, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander from Livingston, John Travolta from Englewood, Bruce Willis from Hems Grove and that’s just to name a few of the Garden State's home grown celebrities! With so much rich cinematic history in New Jersey, it goes without saying that people living in this great state are avid film fans and expect nothing but the best from the cinema experience.

For the best cinematic experience you can offer to the choosy New Jersey film goers, make sure you head to CeremonialSupplies.com, the best one-stop online shop for all of your crowd control items such as the retractable belt stanchions that can be configured in countless ways! CeremonialSupplies.com has a wide variety of stanchions and ropes that include the classic brass, dome top stanchions, the chrome flat top and urn top, and even mini-retractable belt stanchions. Coming in various different colors and styles, the perfect crowd control tool is waiting for you at CeremonialSupplies.com. Whether you need retractable belt stanchions, classic stanchions, or prefer the weatherproof outdoor plastic stanchions, we have what you need! For the bigger movie premiers, you can also spice up your cinema with a huge variety of decoration and party supplies. We ship all of your cinema crowd control needs in a fast and efficient way. With our top of the line customer service, we are ready to assist you every step of the way! How about taking those premieres to the next level by making it a true red carpet event with our event carpet runners available in various lengths and widths, in rich colors that include deep blue, royal blue, black, green, pink, purple and of course, the quintessential red carpet!

New Jersey is one of the smallest, yet highly populated states in the US, where crowd control will always be a challenge. While it is a daunting task, it is easily manageable and can make for an efficient, fun night for all your movie-goers. The love for the cinema in New Jersey dates back over 100 years and that tradition is still strong today. Crowd control is the most important part of opening night and without it, the whole night could become an unmitigated disaster. Getting your stanchion and rope and barrier post at CeremonialSupplies.com is the easy part of the process, using them to their full effect is the tough part. Placing your barrier post in the crucial points to funnel the crowds to the right areas is perhaps the most important step. Setting up the stanchions and rope in an effective, efficient, and comfortable way for your guest is also extremely important.

While the ultimate goal of going to the cinema is to have a wonderful night full of movies and snacks, keeping your guest satisfied and moving the crowd seamlessly toward their movie theater is your number one goal. Without the proper equipment, not only will you risk safety, you will lose profits and we're sure neither is acceptable. Make the right decision and make your cinema perfect for crowd control by going to CeremonialSupplies.com and remember, from Newton, Belvidere, and Phillipsburg, to Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Trenton, Salem, and Cape May - wherever there's a cinema that needs stanchions and rope and red carpet, CeremonialSupplies.com ships to you promptly! Click here for a shipping quote.

Stanchions for crowd control solutions at Louisiana's best venues are found at CeremonialSupplies.com. We have classic stanchions in gold or silver and velvet ropes, plastic barrier posts with link chain, or pole stanchions with retractable belts, take your pick! Most of the state's busiest entertainment locations are either in the capital, Baton Rouge, or in New Orleans, Louisiana's largest city. These venues, from the colonial era French Quarter to the Superdome, have one thing in common: crowd control strategies to move people swiftly from entrance to destination. It used to be that any type of barrier post and rope would do, but now with the sophistication in manufacturing materials there's no reason why the design and decor of any destination in the Bayou State can't have matching stanchions and rope to complement the overall aesthetics of a location. Here's our take on how to best match crowd management tools with architectural design in the melting pot of French, Caribbean, American, and French-Canadian cultures that is New Orleans, Louisiana.

Classic Stanchions and Rope For Luxury French Quarter Hotels

Undoubtedly the most popular destination in Louisiana is the historical French Quarter, the oldest area of the city more properly known as "Vieux Carre" which is French for "Old Square" since it was founded in 1718 as a military grid of seventy squares. The legacy of this period endures today in Jackson Square, church of St. Louis, the architecture of the oldest buildings, and in the street names, as well as the mixed Creole culture of African origin that gives us Mardi Gras. Hotels from this era that thrive today in the Big Easy are for example, the Bourbon Orleans, where the hushed, Quadroon Balls took place. Quadroons were free women of mixed color, the result of relationships between wealthy, white landowners and black women. These wealthy men took care of their mixed race children, and the girls, when they came of age were presented in society at these balls where their mothers played matchmakers and essentially sold them to white men of means. These young ladies became kept women- mistresses, who were set up in a home of their own with their own income, and the children were taken care of and received top notch education. It sounds kind of romantic but the oral history passed down from the servants at the Bourbon Orleans have a more perverse myth of what really went on at the Quadroon balls! Today, nestled in the heart of the French Quarter, the posh hotel is a perfect example where the classic, gold colored brass stanchions with velvet red ropes are perfect to guide the flow of people. The classic, brass stanchions with dome top are the most requested crowd management items at CeremonialSupplies.com because of their quality, longevity and functionality. Whether to streamline a group of conventioneers at check-in, or guests at a ballroom (yes, the same Quadroon ballroom!) these classic stanchions blend and complement the upscale French and Creole design of the Bourbon Orleans.

Fifty years after the French founded Louisiana, King Louis XV gave it to his cousin, Bourbon King Charles III of Spain. The Spanish ruled Louisiana for 40 years until the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but during their rule, the Spanish left their mark in the design of brick houses, walled courtyard gardens, graceful wrought iron balconies, and the Cabildo, the seat of Spanish colonial city hall of New Orleans, and the home of the Louisiana State Supreme Court. The Cabildo is today a museum that houses many rare items of America's history. It was in the elegant salon of the Cabildo, where the transfer ceremony (one of those events we love so much!) of the Louisiana Purchase took place. The design of the building is decidedly Spanish, and here too the stanchions and rope used for guiding museum goers through the exhibits, are the traditional brass stanchions with red velour rope following the rich, royal Spanish influence in the history of New Orleans.

Chrome Stanchions and Sleek New Orleans Architecture Modernism

The site where the Mercantile Hotel in New Orleans stands today first opened its doors in 1907 as the Henderson Sugar Refinery. The landmark building changed hands in the 1980's and after becoming part of the Innisfree Hotels, it was renovated and beautifully transformed for its grand re-opening this year! The hotel has the latest in hospitality technology and its crowd control is best complemented with CeremonialSupplies.com chrome plated stainless steel stanchions, or the black finish stanchions. These models are available with the flat top, or the urn top and include a four-way adapter disc to create the line configurations that you wish. Velvet stanchion rope available in blue, red, or black with latches in chrome or black to match the selected stanchion. Modern architecture that tends to be minimalistic and tech inspired is best accessorized with these two styles of stanchions.

Hitching Post Style Stanchions For Outdoor New Orleans Museums

Sometimes it's necessary to set up crowd control equipment outdoors. This is true when managing the movement of tours, visitors, and corporate events to New Orleans historic plantations, famous for having been the setting in popular movies. Oak Alley Plantation for example, on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the community of Vacherie, St. James Parish was established in the 1830s to grow sugarcane, or "white gold" as it was called because of the large profits it yielded, was the setting for the movie "Interview With The Vampire," and its famous 800' entrance alley framed with oak trees on each side was featured in the scene where Louis, (Brad Pitt) is seen riding in on horseback to confront Lestat (Tom Cruise). The mansion is visited by thousands of tourists annually and corporate events are held on site. CeremonialSupplies.com has a selection of outdoor, weatherproof plastic stanchions styled as hitching posts, which are compatible with the era, and provide not just crowd guidance but also add a decorative touch. Evergreen Plantation, the most intact plantation complex in the South, has the country's highest historic designation along with Mount Vernon and Gettysburg for agricultural acreage. It's located on the west bank of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Evergreen Plantation was the filming location for the movies "Django Unchained," "Free State of Jones," and "Into the Badlands," and you can imagine it receives quite a hefty number of visitors! To manage crowd control, the outdoor hitching post style stanchions fit the bill perfectly. These sturdy stanchions are made from polyethylene plastic which makes them strong and durable. This is important for re-use. The hitching post style barrier posts are available through CeremonialSupplies.com and come in black, yellow, and white with matching link chain. These are lightweight stanchions that makes them easy to ship or transport. When it's time to use them they are filled with water or sand to provide stability.

Retractable Belt Stanchions Are Best For Superdome Sports Events

Located in the Central Business District of New Orleans is the Superdome, the 2nd largest sports stadium in the world. With an expandable capacity of 76,468, crowd control management is a must! The best stanchions for this venue are CeremonialSupplies.com retractable belt posts, available also in mini-size. These stanchions have a belt cassette feature that allows flexibility in arranging queues with endless combinations. These 4-way retractable belt stanchions are made from stainless steel in matte finish in black, chrome, or gold with belt choices in royal blue, red, or grey belt that extends up to 6' 5" and are ideal for the high traffic volume of the Superdome. For events where visibility is important, such as the New Orleans International Auto Show, the best way to rope off or protect the exhibits is to use the retractable belt mini stanchions. CeremonialSupplies.com has a selection of mini stanchions in chrome, brass, and black matte, with a height of 24" and a retractable belt that expands up to 11' for space economy. Designed to protect and exhibit while saving floor space for better view and lower the risk of damage to the display. Also available for the retractable belt stanchions are two-sided sign frames in stainless steel chrome finish with an attachment cup that locks into our 4-way stanchion adapter top.

Stanchions and rope and other barrier posts are no longer just functional crowd management tools, and have become an integral part of a venue's overall design and architecture. For the best quality crowd control products, shop CeremonialSupplies.com where you will find the highest quality products at friendly prices, attentive and knowledgeable customer service, and flawlessly efficient shipping in Louisiana - from Ida, Springhill and Shreveport to Oak Grove, Tallulah, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and anywhere else in the world for that matter! Count on CeremonialSupplies.com, the best one-stop shop online for stanchions and rope, to provide the ideal crowd control product for your venue. Click here for a shipping quote.