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In the world of event planning, you can combine a groundbreaking ceremony with the holidays – any holiday. Christmas is a popular holiday for groundbreaking ceremonies due to fiscal budget legalities. The groundbreaking is in the budget, the builder and construction crew are onboard, but technicalities have delayed the event! These are things that can, and often happen with new construction, and sometimes there’s pressure to cut first ground before the year is out. Combining a groundbreaking ceremony with the holiday spirit of Christmas is a wonderful idea to create a special and memorable occasion for many years to come! Here are a few advantages on how to best, bring together a groundbreaking ceremony with the holidays.

Holiday Colors and Your Brand and Logo

Christmas and holiday colors in their metallic renditiosn of gold, red, evergreen, silver, blue, and “winter” white are perfect to accompany your groundbreaking ceremony décor! Your brand color or your logo can be associated with ceremonial items of the same tone but with the holiday metallic gleam. For example, if your company or brand logo is blue, choosing a golden color shovel or a silver chrome shovel and dressing it with a bright blue hardhat and bright blue gigantic bow while the shovel is on its presentation stand will create a holiday-toned display for viewing and as a photo op.

Golden shovels pop out with bright red or bright evergreen details, and chrome color shovels dressed with bright blue and winter white details are perfectly dressed for the holidays. Tougher to match are multi-color logos such as orange and black, coral and teal, or yellow and grey to mention a couple. In this case, multi-color groundbreaking shovels available at ceremonialsupplies.com may be in order, and the holiday hues kept strictly to the setting rather than the products themselves. Although, combining black and orange color shovels with a Halloween display will definitely make for amazing great fun! Almost all logo and company colors can be shaded properly for a holiday event, and combining a traditional holiday like Christmas with an ancient ritual like a groundbreaking ceremony will bring double the positive energy to the occasion, and to the business.

Silver and Gold For All!

Golden shovels for groundbreaking are definitely big attention grabbers just by themselves during any occasion but for a holiday groundbreaking, gold symbolizes wealth, extravagance and riches, and it is a metal. Its qualities are regal and associated with power and rulers. An engraved golden blade shovel is the preferred tool to shovel first dirt in a holiday groundbreaking. Ceremonialsupplies.com golden shovel blade embodies the warmth of the holidays and adding a bright red, green, or blue hardhat and bow will certainly evoke the colors of the season!

Silver is the refined, metallic color of riches, a precious metal thought to be a mirror of the soul. It is similar to grey but with cooler properties associated with industry, sleek and clinical modernism, high tech with glamour and sophistication. Ceremonialsupplies.com offers a selection of chrome and mirror-polish steel groundbreaking shovels that go perfect with holiday silver bells! Dressed in bright blue bow and bright blue hardhat, in bright evergreen, or winter white accessories will emphasize the festive spirit of the holidays in your groundbreaking event. Bring the spirit of the holidays to your groundbreaking ceremony by combining silver and gold in your ceremonial supplies.

Holiday Shades of Red, Green, Blue, and White

Are you shaking your head wondering what shade of white is “holiday” white? That’s easy! It’s the shade of white that closely resembles the color of new, pristine, snow. This leaves out vanilla white, antique white, ivory white, and such others. In choosing the right shovel blade and accent décor for a holiday groundbreaking ceremony event, it’s important to consider the continuity of the chosen colors. For example, if the combination will be silver and blue, with a polished chrome shovel blade, or a polished steel shovel blade, make sure you will be able to obtain all your other event supplies in the same color combination. This means color continuity with decorative ribbons, centerpieces, gifts and keepsakes, and if you’re using additional ceremonial items like event carpet runner, banners, balloons and archways, and all other details including corporate uniforms. Continuity of color throughout the event will bring the color scheme together and it will be easy to incorporate the holiday spirit!

Gold, frankincense, and myrrh, were made famous as the gifts of the Magi. They were gifts of extraordinary value in ancient times and valuable to use in modern times too! Keep in mind that groundbreaking ceremonies are ancient architectural rituals, and since everything is energy, the energy of these timeless ingredients are as powerful today as they were in the year 5 BC! Lavishly decorated golden groundbreaking shovels dressed with red bows, hardhat, and décor continuity with a red event carpet runner, golden crowd posts, and a richly decorated theme of gold and red extra-wide ribbons will create a warm and pleasing holiday design for any groundbreaking ceremony. Captivating the senses is the same as creating a memory trigger. The alluringly peaceful scents of frankincense and myrrh subtly introduced into the overall design scheme will be sure to enhance the event. These can be used in many ways, including as keepsake gifts in their own red velvet pouches, or by burning in a censer during the event.

Combining a groundbreaking ceremony with Christmas holidays is a graceful and effective way to create a richly elegant event that will be remembered by all participants. The ease of creating a festive holiday decoration and using the ribbons and accents in colors of the season will make the essential items such as the groundbreaking shovel, (or shovels – depending how many VIPs will be wielding the sod-cutting tool) stand out! Additional ceremonial items like a carpet runner, crowd posts, display case, and step and repeat and banners all emphasizing the same color scheme will have a powerful influence on the guests and the event. The full spectrum of the holiday design colors for a groundbreaking ceremony will be particularly impressive in photos and videos of the event. This is of course important for a lasting promotional effect that will be connected with the brand or company, and a very special holiday!

No matter what time of the year or what holiday, ceremonialsupplies.com has the best online selection of groundbreaking shovels, grand opening ribbons, ribbon-cutting scissors, event carpet runners, military medals and display cases, corporate wearables, hardhats, crowd posts and many more ceremonial items! Shop ceremonialsupplies.com and receive one of a kind personal and knowledgeable customer service, quality-crafted products at budget friendly prices, and prompt and efficient shipping wherever you are. Happy Holidays!

Have you noticed newly opened businesses in your area? Small family ideas are taking root and becoming reality for many. All the seasons of the year are perfect for a business grand opening but a glamorous affair will be one to remember so here's how to throw a glitzy holiday grand opening event during the winter festivities! Event planners and producers extraordinaire, enhance your design portfolio with a lavish sparkling grand opening event during the winter holidays and rejoice in the evocative occasion. Shop ceremonialsupplies.com, the best online one-stop shop for ceremonial supplies for grand opening events, groundbreaking ceremonies, military ceremonies, and all other corporate and official functions.

Red, Green, Blue, and White Holiday Colors

These are the traditional colors of Christmas. A decorated Christmas tree or a wreath for example, will have these colors in some form or another. Velvet red bows for gift wraps, or for a big gift such as a car, a giant 43" bow of evergreen velvet, red velvet giant bow, or gold bows always add a special touch of holiday colors of the season. Using the colors of Christmas on your grand opening ribbon such as bright red or bright evergreen with gold imprint of your company name and logo, or any other commemorative message will be an eye-catcher and a lasting photo or video memento. Depending on the size of the grand opening entrance that will be inaugurated, use extra-wide ribbons of 6", 8", 10" and 12" wide,  for a color combination of ribbon and imprint that will pop visually. An 8” extra-wide ceremonial ribbon in holiday red, or holiday green, imprinted with a gold font will show up impressively in person, and in videos and photos. The ceremonial ribbon should be held on each side by stanchions or crowd posts – certainly not other individuals. This last option shows improper planning, aside from rendering your richly imprinted grand opening ribbon, lopsided and difficult to read as different people are holding it, at different points. This is a big No! The proper way to hold and display your ceremonial ribbon is by attaching it tightly to a crowd post on each end of the entrance. Ceremonialsupplies.com offers a selection of stanchions and crowd posts that are sure to fit the holiday bill! The dome top golden stanchion is perfect for the traditional red and gold or red and green ceremonial ribbon. A backdrop step and repeat and an event carpet runner can glamorize the entrance in a Holiday red carpet fashion!

A bright blue ribbon or a white ribbon and the urn top polished chrome stanchion is for a sleek, clean, modern design. The blue and chrome motif also represents Hanukah colors. An extra-wide blue ribbon with white or silver imprint or a variation of this theme, held at each end with jumbo ribbons attached to each stanchion, offers an irresistible placement for your grand opening message! Red carpet entrances don’t have to be red carpet anymore, and at ceremonialsupplies.com you will find the perfect selections and best price points online for carpet runners in holiday red, green, blue, and other colors.

Silver Bells and Gold Ribbons

Bing Crosby dreamt of a “White Christmas”, and brought us the first recording of “Silver Bells,” two of the most widely recognized titles of the holiday season. Granted, we at ceremonialsupplies.com best feel the holiday spirit with Eartha Kitt’s rendition of “Santa Baby",  and "Baby It's Cold Outside," by the amazing voices of Dean Martin and Doris Day. When arranging a grand opening event there’s more to stimulate the senses than visuals, and the combination of décor and music are the groundwork of a memorable gathering. The smell of burning incense associated with riches and wealth, such as frankincense and myrrh, greatly valued since antiquity, and known to the western world as the gifts of the Three Wise Kings, is an enhancement to the visual and auditory, creating an experience impossible to forget. It doesn’t matter what your music choice is or what aroma and/or form of delivery is – it may be the scent of fresh pines, or other ideas that are particular to the company, the business, the area, and the time. The point is to bring the spirit of the holidays to your grand opening event, and silver and gold decorations add an ethereal touch to the holiday reds, greens, blues, and whites! Both are colors, and each is a valued metal. Gold represents wealth, riches, and royalty. Silver is a cooler tone that denotes elegance and reflection. Shop gold ribbon, silver ribbon and all other holiday color ribbons at ceremonialsupplies.com, and let us help you create the grand opening ribbon that is right for your holiday event!

A “Grand” Opening Needs “Grand” Ribbon-cutting Scissors

And by grand, we mean jumbo grand! It doesn’t get any “grander” than a jumbo 30” ceremonial scissors for grand opening ribbon cutting. Ceremonialsupplies.com has a selection of 25” grand opening scissors and 30” jumbo ribbon-cutting scissors available in golden color blades or silver blades, with any one of different color handles. Red handles and golden blades, or green handles and golden blades are a warm and rich combination that goes with traditional holiday colors. Blue handles or white handles on silver blades are colors representative of ice and cold, also associated with traditional holidays. The giant ceremonial scissors – which, actually cut and are quite sharp – and the ceremonial ribbon will stand out in the photos and videos marking the commemorative event. For more private, smaller and traditional grand opening functions we offer the golden handles 10” ceremonial scissors, also available with its own shadow box display case.

Presentation Plaques and Grand Opening Keepsakes

Plaques and commemorative keepsakes are items that go a long way as mementos of enjoyed occasions we relive. Speakers at the grand opening can be presented with a commemorative plaque, and of course, the person or persons who cut the ribbon should receive a special keepsake as well. One advantage in using a giant ceremonial scissors is three; average-size persons can hold it in position. The ceremonial scissors can be held in their own stand before and after the ribbon-cutting, and can be presented to the owner, or the most important VIP in a glass-top wooden display case of rich wood color. The meticulously crafted ceremonial scissors case includes an engravable plaque and brings plenty of room to hold a keepsake sample of the ceremonial ribbon, photographs, and newspaper clippings as well as the ceremonial ribbon-cutting scissors.

Maintaining the essential items in a color scheme that easily blends and enhances holiday themed decorations, and including scents and music associated with the holidays, will create a grand opening experience for your guests and participants. Shop ceremonialsupplies.com for all your corporate event planning needs.

When we hear the word “ceremony” particularly in Western Civilization, we think of religious rituals such as a Christening, a B’rit Milah – better known as “bris,” or of course, a wedding. Seldom does the image of a lavishly elegant groundbreaking shovel display, or a giant ribbon-cutting scissors golden colored grand opening come to mind, much less five ceremonial supplies you didn’t know existed! The history of groundbreaking ceremonies is a fascinating subject, and we invite you to explore it. These richly ritualistic ceremonies of antiquity will lay wonderfully creative scenarios at the feet of our modern Event Organizer extraordinaire! Oui mi petit ami, new lamp posts for your vivid imagination. Here to whet your appetite are five ceremonial supplies you may have never heard of before, but which are essential for an amazing ceremony that will be long remembered.

No. 5: Stanchions and Standing Posts

Stanchions are standing poles or posts made of sturdy metal (up to 18 lbs. ea.) that are used to hold ropes that create a barrier or to form a line. Have you ever been to a ribbon-cutting ceremony where people are holding up the ceremonial ribbon? Stanchions hold each end of the ribbon in a ribbon-cutting ceremony so the ribbon is horizontally straight and perfectly positioned. This way everyone can stand behind the ribbon without touching it, and the company name, or the logo and message appear clearly and boldly. Ceremonialsupplies.com has a selection of stanchions to fit every décor, need, and budget. Browse through our crowd management selection and choose the stanchion that best suits your style – from the Gatsby-esque art deco dome top brass stanchions, or the minimalistic polished chrome urn top, to the dura-plastic standing posts and retractable stanchions, ceremonialsupplies.com is your shop for stanchions and crowd posts!

No. 4: Groundbreaking Shovel Stands

The groundbreaking shovel stand holds the ceremonial shovel in place before, and after the ceremony. Placed on its own stand, the sod-cutting ceremonial shovel can be dressed up with a hard hat and color matching ribbon. The shovel stand holds the shovel, or shovels, and makes these much more accessible than if you were to have them say, stuck on a mound of dirt. The shovel stand creates an invitation that says ‘come look at me’ and that’s exactly what you want your guests to do. You want your guests up close and personal and snapping selfies of your grand event, after all, it’s why you customized everything. Show the world! The strength of having your company or brand color, logo and name engraved, displayed, photographed and video recorded is a marketing goal in itself. There are countless, beautiful ways in which the shovel, the hard hat, and the giant bows of ribbon can be personalized. A groundbreaking shovel stand should be as plain as possible because you don’t want it to detract from the ceremonial shovel. Ceremonialsupplies.com has the most popular, quality proven styles of groundbreaking shovel stands for you to pick, and though you may not have considered its use before, groundbreaking shovel stands are great photo props! Add a step and repeat backdrop and voila! You have created a professional guest photo stage! Check out our event carpet runners and stanchions and rope for a lavishly glam look to your sod-cutting event.

No. 3: Groundbreaking Shovel Display Case

A groundbreaking ceremony is an important occasion of value and enormous significance for a company or a business. Imagine celebrating the first anniversary of your groundbreaking event, or the fifth, tenth and… one-hundredth. You want to preserve the special items used in the ceremony because they represent the foundation, and as your business grows, these are the tools and mementos that symbolize your achievement. First Sod-cutting ceremonies traditionally involve one, two, or as many people as desired, to hold the ceremonial shovel in hand and stab it into the ground, thereby cutting and shifting first dirt upon which a corner stone will be laid. Depending on the project, there may be a handful or less, of people who will be wielding a ceremonial shovel. A high-profile groundbreaking ceremony will have the Owner, President, CEO, or CFO, of a firm, for example. As the event planner, you are responsible to put on an outstanding ceremony for everyone. The best way to honor the VIPs is by presenting them with the groundbreaking shovel they each used in the ceremony, inside a wooden display case. The ceremonial shovel case can hold the shovel and other mementos like a photo, newspaper clippings or other items, and includes a plaque commemorating the event. Ceremonialsupplies.com has a top-notch selection of shovel cases from which to choose. Personalization goes a long way and customizing the shovel blade – which will be visible inside the shovel display, the display case itself will have a plaque that can also be customized. If you purchase any one of ceremonialsupplies.com top-quality groundbreaking shovels, you will want to protect and preserve it in its own groundbreaking shovel display case.

No. 2: Logo Customized Banner

We see them all the time on those annoying ads from online tabloids. Celebrities attending this or that shin ding and photographed in front of a backdrop or banner that features the logos of all who contribute money or value to the event, as well as the logo of the event. The use of this backdrop, called a “Step and Repeat” – and not because of a printing process. It is easy to see the confusion stemming from the point of view of people familiar with a printing process that began to flourish in the 1980’s and used widely up until perhaps ten years ago. The printing process of repeating logos one, by one, and somehow calling this “step and repeat” has thankfully become irrelevant, since the use of a digital process has replaced it. The controversial term actually derives from a much older and still unchanged practice, born from Hollywood premieres! The term Step and Repeat was most likely coined by photographers and their assistants, who called upon the parading stars to “Step” up to a backdrop that identified a movie and its producers, and “Repeat” the procedure with the next guest or celebrity, as quickly as possible. Equipped with this successful promotional tool embedded in photographs and videos, corporations, companies, businesses, firms and organizations adopted the Hollywood method of promoting their own events with as much glamour and longevity. The glitzy addition to party décor has become popular and accessible for all type of events. We at ceremonialsupplies.com understand the value of this promotional vehicle, and offer various sizes step and repeat banners as well as vertical self-standing roll up banners for the same purpose. That is, to create a beautiful stage for awards, presentations, and photos, and embed the name of the occasion in photos and videos taken of the event for publication or other type of long lasting circulation. 

No. 1: Jumbo Ribbon-Cutting Scissors

Grandopenings and ribbon-cutting ceremony can be one, and the same, although it is also a possibility to have a ribbon-cutting without a grand opening celebration. If you are a party planner reading this and heading straight over to ceremonialsupplies.com, you are likely to be a professional event organizer catering to a level of clientele in the corporate world. Exacting and demanding clients are your specialty! This is why jumbo ribbon-cutting scissors are perfect for a grandiose opening celebration event that will bedazzle everyone. Ceremonialsupplies.com offers the easiest-to-order selection of jumbo ribbon-cutting scissors online. The rainbow assortment of color handles to match your ribbon and décor are the first choice, followed by silver or golden blades, and finally the size! Yes, size does matter, especially when you are creating a shining ribbon-cutting ceremony. Ceremonialsupplies.com offers the 25” extra-large scissors, or the jumbo 30” scissors to be the outstanding stars of the event! Imagine an extra-wide 8” or 10” ribbon boldly and elegantly printed with your company’s logo and message in a repeating pattern, held at each end with stylish posts decorated with huge bows of the same color – the jumbo scissors in matching color handle will be the crowning touch! For a more traditional business office grand opening, we also have the golden-handle stainless steel 10” ceremonial scissors. The grand-opening scissors can be held and displayed in their own stand, and our finely crafted display cases are perfect for storing, preserving and displaying the ceremonial scissors in an office, conference room, or company heirloom pieces.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this refresher course of lesser-known ceremonial items that will make the difference when organizing a groundbreaking ceremony or a grand opening event. Join us at ceremonialsupplies.com and browse our website – we promise to delight you!