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To recognize someone for their hard work and dedication, or simply for appreciation, award a plaque, medal, or keys! Award ceremonies are a great way to recognize an individual or a team. CeremonialSupplies.com values these characteristics and because of this we strive to provide you with the materials you need to create a memorable award ceremony. It's a natural human endeavor to achieve and surpass expectations and it's also a natural emotion to want to be accepted, recognized, and awarded for these efforts. Whether with a plaque, a medal, a key to the city (or to the company!) or a trophy, you will find these special mementos at CeremonialSupplies.com. Our award section will help you decide on the perfect award for those you want to honor with a specially customized trophy, an elegant wall-mounted plaque, keys to the city for a city official, a visiting dignitary or a company VIP - we have a number of different items and styles so you can choose the best way to recognize a special person.

A Plaque That Will Last A Lifetime

Commemorating a person or an event is a significant occasion and presenting an award plaque to immortalize the moment is one of the highest honor anyone can receive. Our goal at CeremonialSupplies.com is to make available high quality, budget friendly items that will contribute to your award ceremony. Our plaques can be customized with a special message, a company's name, logo, the name of the occasion, date, or any other detail that will make the moment live on in a meaningful way. An event to honor a grand achievement, a dedicated individual or an exciting benchmark should be celebrated! Our plaques can be personalized to honor a groundbreaking, a grand opening, a graduation, and any accomplishment you wish to recognize with a plaque that will last a lifetime and offer many years of joy for the honored person or persons. We work with you to find the best product and style that will your needs and ensure your satisfaction and pride with the result.

Corporate Achievement Medals To Recognize Top Performers

Taking a cue from the field of sports and academics, the corporate sector has adopted the practice of honoring and rewarding individuals whose work excels far beyond others, with a corporate achievement medal to recognize top performers. The idea of a corporate themed medal has the same core principles of those awarded to top athletes or students. It is meant to be worn with pride. Corporate achievement medals can be used to recognize top performers in the field of real estate sales, auto sales, leadership and overall exemplary performance or salesmanship for a wide range of activities. Visit CeremonialSupplies.com wide selection of medals and choose the one best suited for what you need.

Ceremonial Keys To The City To Honor A Special Person

The tradition to present ceremonial keys to the city to honor a special person stems from a medieval tradition of honoring a trusted visitor with the freedom to enter and exit a walled city at their liberty by granting them an actual key to the city. Today, the presentation of ceremonial keys to the city is a symbolic gesture but is still considered a high honor to be granted to someone. They are usually given to exemplary citizens or a special contributor whom the community wishes to acknowledge and honor. The proper supplies for this ceremony are also significant. CeremonialSupplies.com offers a variety of options that will ensure your event and the honoree receive the highest quality materials that make this important day a moment to remember. A crystal key-shaped award is a beautiful way to honor this tradition and makes a wonderful keepsake to display for years to come. For a more traditional style of ceremonial keys, the Golden Key to the City has a classic look to it and has a gold finish to bring out the shine for your honored guest. This beautiful token can also be personalized by adding it to a plaque, complete with an inscription and logo or seal. Presenting this item at an award ceremony will truly show your appreciation for the honored recipient. Ceremonial Keys is an age-old tradition that conveys honor and prestige among its guests as well as its presenters and organizers. For a special touch of elegance and class for your award ceremony, the Ceremonial Key to the City Lapel Pin is perfect. To be worn at the event or presented to the honoree, this item helps to enhance the esteem of your event and adds consistency to the ceremony. Receiving a key to the city has always been a high honor. Here at CeremonialSupplies.com, we understand this and have at your service our personable customer service, our portfolio of high quality supplies, and our prompt and efficient shipping - you are in the best hands!

To make a strong theme statement at your next groundbreaking occasion, use custom printed groundbreaking hard hats for a stylish ceremony! Custom printed groundbreaking hard hats are the perfect way to bring a touch of style to a first ground cutting event, and showcase your company or organization. Available in a variety of colors, CeremonialSupplies.com offers hard hats that can be custom printed to display your organization or company logo with pride! Groundbreakings go back to an old, traditional ritual that represented the physical aspect of what once was merely a thought. Today in the throes of the reality enhancement of the "smart" hard hats that are changing the face of construction, the symbolism of the ancients as they took measures to establish a "firm" foundation, the groundbreaking ceremony is accompanied by modern preparations that involve lots of pomp and circumstance that includes ribbon cutting, and first-sod cutting with complete regalia, including the groundbreaking hard hats! For a tongue in cheek, constructive statement, you may consider having the officials who will perform the first cutting of ground, wear a neon green or yellow shirt with their suit! For that memorable first shovelful of dirt CeremonialSupplies.com is the best place on the web to get the highest quality materials and tools needed to make your company stand out!

Show Off Your Company With Our Custom Printed Hard Hats!

When the time comes for photos and videos of the groundbreaking ceremony, show off your company with our custom printed groundbreaking hard hats! It's a great way to market and promote the event, especially when the media is involved. Our custom printed hard hats can be customized with logo and/or text in a way that ties in perfectly with the theme of your sod-cutting ceremony. Not to brag, but our hard hats are also CSA-certified, so you can actually use them during construction, although most people will hold them as keepsakes of the momentous occasion. They are available in all colors and our custom printing can provide you with personalization that you can wear proudly on the big day. Both logos and text are available to be custom printed right on the front of the hard hat for all to see. What a great way to show your company’s pride right from the beginning! We do all hard hats custom printing in house and can honor a number or customization requests to ensure your satisfaction. Our use of high-quality materials to create custom print hard hats and more groundbreaking event materials result in a beautiful product that fits your budget.

Your groundbreaking is a huge moment and it should be done right! CermonialSupplies.com understands the importance of this important step in your business’s journey and is ready to provide all the materials and guidance you need. The custom printed groundbreaking hard hats are a great item to save and display for many years to come. The square and octagonal display cases offer a great way to exhibit your custom printed groundbreaking hard hat as a way to look back and remember the first sod-cutting ceremony where it all started. CeremonialSupplies.com is honored to be your supplier of choice for the materials to celebrate each milestone along the way. CeremonialSupplies.com is the best go-to source for all ceremonial supplies on the web because of our dedicated and personable customer service, our high-quality products, and our efficient and prompt shipment wherever you are!

The words alone “Grand Opening” evoke thoughts of excitement, anticipation and fun. A grand opening calls for a grand celebration, whether it is a grand opening of a business, or the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics Games. There are many ways to plan and execute a grand opening, it just depends on your type of business/organization/company and what kind of message you want the public to receive. Depending on your budget, a small grand opening with just family, friends and employees can be a fun, intimate occasion and helps keep costs down, since your object is to document the event with photos and videos. Grand openings offer opportunities for owners and board members to meet with the public, or get celebrities involved - which means the media, and the public, will follow! There's no limit to the creativity to make a grand opening a grand celebration!

On September 14, 2018, V & A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum opened its doors to the public during a grand opening that lasted two days. The grand opening activities set the tone for the tech-future expected of design, essentially using the museum's grand opening to usher in a new era in everything design - from video games to robotics. Granted, you don't need to bring in Primal Scream to headline your grand opening event to take your event to the next level. All you need is a good plan!

Tips for A Successful Grand Opening Ceremony

It may be obvious in retrospect, but one of the most important details of a grand opening that is often left for the last minute is getting all your decorative supplies on time! CeremonialSupplies.com is the best place on the web for a wide selection of unique grand opening signs, personalized ceremonial ribbon and scissors, stanchions and rope, decorative bows, carpet runners, step and repeat banners and keepsakes and gifts for the attendees, and we ship promptly and efficiently all over the world - but we cannot (yet) travel back in time! Remember to order all your grand opening supplies at least 2 weeks before your event and if possible give yourself even more time. Ordering the grand opening supplies that you will need 30 days before the event will not only save you unnecessary stress, but also money.

Is there a message you will convey during the grand opening ceremony? For example, is it a small and quaint café that is opening? Perhaps marketing the grand opening with giveaways or discounts to encourage attendance is the way to bring people in the door. Considering the enclosed space may not accommodate a large number of people, having a bistro set up outside for those waiting to get in, is a way to handle overflow and have everyone participate in the grand opening celebration. Samples of the baked goods, coupons for those waiting in line or even some music that sets the tone of the establishment will keep people interested while they wait. Crowd management can be handled with strategic placement of carpet runners, stanchions and rope or signs. All of these are available at CeremonialSupplies.com under “Crowd Management.”

Magnolia Market at the Silos in Waco, Texas hosted its grand opening on the evening of October 30, 2015. Chip and Joanna Gaines (owners and stars of HGTV’s Fixer Upper) not only hosted the grand opening event, but organized it as well. The location took over 2 city blocks in the small town of Waco, Texas and was built with the intention of bringing people and their families together. There was a pavilion with picnic tables, a merchandise store, a bakery, a feed and supply store, and several food and beverage trucks and in the center, a green area for families to sit and enjoy their time. This was the intention of the Gaines’s when creating this establishment and the message was loud and clear at their grand opening event!

The Grandest of All Grand Openings!

The Olympics grand opening ceremony is the grandest of all grand openings! The whole world is invited to this grand opening! Committees are formed, location is awarded through a bidding process and years are spent planning events that showcase not just the historic traditions of the location, but its technological prowess, thereby sending a message to world viewers and participants alike about the leading capabilities of the host nation. The grand opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing was a ceremony of such impressive grandeur steeped in tradition that it is still remembered today, over a decade after. This lasting effect is what your grand opening ceremony should strive to achieve. It doesn't have to be the size of the Olympic grand opening ceremony, but you will still want it to be a significant milestone for your business, company, or organization. CeremonialSupplies.com understands this and we reflect this in our quality products, and our smooth and efficient shipping wherever you are! Shop with us for all your grand opening supplies and remember, there is not better place on the web for quality products, reasonable prices, superb customer service and prompt shipping than CeremonialSupplies.com. Click here for a shipping quote.

Texas is known for being large and proud. Reflect this in your event with a red carpet runner for the stars in Texas! Enhance your event by reflecting the grandeur of the Lone Star State by including a red aisle runner at your next celebration. CeremonialSupplies.com has the perfect event carpet runner - be it a red carpet, a blue carpet, purple carpet, pink- your wish is our task! Adding a carpet runner at your next ceremony, event or occasion is a way to make your guests feel like stars. Choosing the right size, color and quality is essential to make a fantastic impression with your guests and the media. CeremonialSupplies.com offers high-quality red carpet runners for all type of events and they can be shipped straight to any city in the great State of Texas in a matter of days. From glitzy Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, to the border in Laredo or El Paso on the west most corner of Texas and every town in between, we deliver promptly and efficiently. Historical Texas has a reputation of southern charm, great cities and a rich, rural history, making it an ideal place to host your event and roll out that red carpet! Coming in a variety of sizes and colors, we can work with you to find the right aisle runner for your next event. CeremonialSupplies.com customer service will answer your questions and help you select the best carpet runner for your special event. Having served the great state of Texas for the last few years, CeremonialSupplies.com can easily and quickly ship your carpet runner and ensure your deadlines are met. We cut and pack your event carpet runner order by hand to ensure you receive the service you expect. Our representatives are available to assist you with choosing the right size, color and style of the perfect aisle runner to enhance the theme of your event, from our online store all the way to Texas!

Not Just a Red Carpet Anymore:

Choosing the right color aisle runner is important. Colors set the tone for your event. Want your guests to feel luxurious and elite?- try a black ceremonial carpet runner. Want your guests to have a sense of security?- a blue carpet runner is a good choice. Do you have a trademark color for your company or organization?- we’ve got your covered! What better way to represent the Lone Star state than to feature a red carpet and blue carpet at your next event? Your guests will feel like celebrities walking the red carpet! Adding ceremonial and decorative aisle runners to your event is a lively way to introduce a pop of color! Whatever color you choose, an event carpet runner will brighten up the theme and make it memorable.

Let the Carpet Guide the Way:

Ceremonial carpet runners can add so much to your event. They can also help guide it. Event aisle runners are a great way to move your guests comfortably so they can experience your event or ceremony how it was intended. An aisle runner creates a pathway for your guests to flow throughout the room or building in an organized fashion. Placing a carpet runner as a walkway for your guests, not only makes them feel like royalty, but it can help guide them where you feel they get the most from their experience at your event. Walking the red carpet for photographs by the media, providing an aisle runner, or simply bringing a pop of color to the location, ceremonial carpet runners are useful and stylish in as many ways as you can think.

CeremonialSupplies.com prides itself on providing high-quality materials that meet the high standards of proud Texas! Shop with us online for your next star-studded Texas event and receive our customer service guarantee, the supplies you need, the prices you want, and your red carpet runner for the stars in Texas!

Florida is known as the Sunshine State and its name comes from the Spanish phrase “land of flowers." Red carpet runners make your Florida event shine! What better way to celebrate an event in the land of sun and flowers than with a decorative crimson aisle runner? They can add a fun and glamorous touch to your event that will wow your guests. CeremonialSupplies.com can get you the color, size and style of red carpet you need quickly and easily. For years we have been serving the Sunshine State from Jacksonville to the Ft. Lauderdale and Miami beaches, the southern most tip of Key West, and around the gulf coast in Tampa, Naples, Tallahassee and Panama City to Destin on the panhandle with the finest red carpet runners and all other supplies to make your Florida event shine while providing quality items at budget-friendly prices in just a matter of days.

Aisle Runners of All Colors For All Seasons!

Event carpet runners come in many sizes and colors, but choosing the right one can help make your next function really stand out! Depending on the time of day, type of event or placement of the ceremonial red carpet, there are many ways to enhance your event. For example, if your event is meant to encourage guests to become investors or consumers, red carpet or purple aisle runners can help set the tone. Rich colors set up for a luxurious atmosphere and encourage spending with confidence. If you want your event to give a sense of security, loyalty and trust- blue carpet runners are the way to go. You can also go classic and add a red carpet to make your guests feel like VIPs at your next grand opening entrance. Florida is full of color and light and this can be emphasized in your décor when planning your next grand opening, ribbon cutting or any other type of ceremony or event. CeremonialSupplies.com will assist you in finding the right color for your ceremonial carpet to give the perfect welcome to your guests.

Right this way, please:

The placement of the main aisle runner will have an impact on the flow of the crowd at your event. Helping to guide your guests and maximize their experience at your event is key to the success of your business or organization. Event aisle runners can create an aesthetically pleasing pathway that moves your guests comfortably where you want them. Using different colored event carpets can help identify locations by theme, room or section. Ceremonial carpet runners placed along aisles guide people to and from their seats or standing areas and also creates a glamorous walkway when inviting individuals to address the crowd. There are so many ways to use red carpets and aisle runners at your event and CeremonialSupplies.com will customize the perfect event carpet runner to make your Florida event shine brightly! Packed with care and delivered to you with time to spare!

CeremonialSupplies.com knows there is no shortage of exciting happenings in Florida - the world's favorite destination for art, golf, tennis, auto racing and water events! We look forward to serving businesses and organizations in the Sunshine State, no matter where you are in Florida, be it the laid back Florida Keys from Key West, Marathon Key, Islamorada, Key Largo up the mainland from Miami, Daytona, Orlando, Lakeland, and north to Gainesville, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, we ship efficiently and promptly and help you create a memorable event with quality event carpet runners in colors to match your theme, and at the best prices! Shop for the perfect aisle runner with us.

Pinpointing the historical beginnings of groundbreaking ceremonies to a specific time and place is impossible, but we do know they predate writing. Groundbreakings are architectural ceremonies, and any anthropologist or cultural historian will agree, all ceremonies were, and are, based in religion. In almost every culture the breaking of ground and laying of the cornerstone, were both part of the same ceremony. The act of groundbreaking was considered a representation of breaking the earth, to make a sacred deposit that would endorse a firm foundation. Offerings and sacrifices were buried at the same time that the ground was broken to create the foundation of any structure. The ritual was a representation of the importance of the act of constructing and making physical, and real, a concept that had originated in the imagination.

Mythology, religion, and ritual are elemental aspects of human consciousness, and in antiquity these were part of daily living. Even with our advance technology today, our social behavior and our psyche, have been shaped by our ancient past. Architect Thomas Barrie is attributed with saying "We are the same species that painted the walls of the subterranean chapels in France and Spain with images of our animal gods, grunted with exertion as we dragged sarsen megaliths across Salisbury Plain, and knelt in adoration before the relics of a saint." A groundbreaking ceremony falls into this category of the impulse humans have, to create sacred space. Even now we display bits and pieces of a past mythological life, with semi-religious practices without realizing it. Groundbreaking ceremonies for new buildings, roadways, or new homes symbolically "consecrate" the spot. We create this sacred space with groundbreaking ceremonies and it doesn't matter if the building is a public structure that has nothing to do with religion. Not all our ancient practices have survived into the present. Why then, does the ritual of a groundbreaking ceremony continue to hold such importance in our modern life?

Marking Our Place With A Groundbreaking Ceremony

It's widely accepted that we use myth and religion to find an internal explanation to the universe, and our place in it. In Architecture, groundbreaking ceremonies serve a similar purpose. The act of creating, constructing, and building, responds to a symbolic need to find meaning. The meaning is made visual in the form of the architecture, and we find evidence of this in grand architectural forms like Greek temples, Jewish synagogues, Christian cathedrals, and even in government buildings! The enactment of a myth is carried out through ritual interplay, and the symbolism of the cutting or breaking of ground, is the "cornerstone" upon which everything is built.

The groundbreaking ceremony involves two separate rituals that from primitive times are thought to represent the cutting, and therefore "hurting" of the earth, and an offering of gratitude to the earth, with the cornerstone deposit. Coins in the foundation is actually fairly common today, as is a time capsule holding historical documents related to the location, or some other similar item. Regardless of what it's used, it is an extension of the ancient ritual offering that is made to ensure a "firm foundation." Nobody can say with certainty where the tradition of groundbreaking ceremonies come from, but it is a universal practice and evidence of its use has been found in all the ancient civilizations in the world. At CeremonialSupplies.com we love groundbreaking ceremonies and hope this brief historical note will inspire event planners to make all sod-cuttings special! You create the cornerstone time capsule and we ship to you the groundbreaking shovels, ceremonial personalized ribbons, hard hats, display stands and bows! CeremonialSupplies.com is the best place on the web for all your groundbreaking supplies, and we ship all over the world!

We shipped quite a bit to the Evergreen State this year and of all groundbreaking supplies, groundbreaking shovels topped our list for Washington State and we think you'll like to know why. If you're looking for groundbreaking shovels in Washington State, you'll be pleased to know for the 2nd year in a row, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (USBEA) reported data of (growth domestic product) GDP by state showing Washington State at the top! Washington had, by May of 2018, a GDP growth rate of 4.4% - number one among All states. This rise is mostly marked in real estate, including new development projects, which translate to constructions (which is in the top 3 leading industries in Washington.) More new businesses mean more first sod-cuttings and grand openings - and this is most likely why our groundbreaking shovels and other grand opening supplies have made their way to Washington State in record numbers this year. What this means for event planners is that there's a growing trend of first sod-cutting events, and CeremonialSupplies.com is the place on the web to get your groundbreaking shovel kits and supplies - we ship everywhere in the Evergreen State.

Organizing a groundbreaking ceremony or a grand opening can be simple, but for a truly memorable event, following a few basic rules will make a first ground cutting ceremony or a grand opening event, as attractive and interesting to attend as a lavish State dinner. Here are the basics for a fun, colorful, and successful groundbreaking ceremony.

We can't stress enough the importance of planning ahead! And whilst we will go to great lengths to make sure you receive your groundbreaking shovels in Washington State on time, planning will eliminate the stress of last minute, costly ordering. Best practice shows that ordering between 30 - 45 days from the event is the best time to get your basic supplies such as the groundbreaking shovels, personalized ribbons and banners, displays, and other items. Once you have this part done, you can focus on press releases, guest list, reaching out to local government officials to attend the ceremony, and romancing the media. Keep in mind papers like the Seattle Times and Seattle News Tribune receive a large number of requests for local coverage. Make media contact one of your first priorities. The Puget Sound Business Journal encompasses several cities and towns and it's a prestigious paper. Getting them onboard means you will have covered cities like Seattle, Tacoma, Renton, Bellingham, and others of the Puget Sound area.

What Are Your Groundbreaking Shovel Choices?

The first thing you should order are groundbreaking shovels, and other supplies that you want customized. This is where CeremonialSupplies.com comes in. We are Washington State's best choice to source ceremonial groundbreaking shovels, hard hats, grand opening ribbons, banners, displays, and ceremonial scissors, because of the quality of our products, the different options available in sizes and construction material, and our prompt and efficient way to customize your supplies and ship them wherever you are in the beautiful Evergreen State. Are you looking for standard groundbreaking shovels? We have several options of chrome, stainless steel, and wood or steel handles, as well as customization. Our groundbreaking shovels are strong and sturdy so the choice of metal polish for the blade should be chosen considering how the groundbreaking shovel will be displayed after. Will it be presented to a dignitary, a CEO or the like? In this case you may want to consider a mirror-polished finish, with an engraved plate on the stem. We also have oversized, long stem groundbreaking shovels for those tall VIPs.

Event planners in Washington State, take note and be ready to offer your clients a creative package that includes groundbreaking shovels and their display stands, including a decorative giant bow, hard hats, giant ceremonial scissors, red carpet runners (or blue, pink, and purple!) stanchions and rope, step and repeat banner, and all the trimmings to make a first sod-cutting ceremony a top notch event in Washington State from Vancouver, Bellingham, Ballard, Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Yakima, Olympia and all other towns, CeremonialSupplies.com ships everywhere in Washington State. If you're looking for groundbreaking shovels in Washington, we've got Washington covered!

The Sunshine State has always had a style of cool elegance, and using red carpets for school ceremonies in Florida is one way this chic state sets the fashion pace in everything. The best way to distinguish exemplary achievements for students from kindergarten through high school and up to doctorate programs is to honor graduating classes with diplomas and a walk on the red carpet - marking the height of recognition, once thought to be only worthy of gods! CeremonialSupplies.com is the best place to find the perfect red carpet for your event, we ship everywhere in Florida whether your event is in panhandle towns like Pensacola, Panama City, Destin, Ft. Walton, Tallahassee; northern Florida cities like Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and from central Florida towns, Lakeland, Tampa, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami all the way to the southern most tip in Key West, Florida - we get that order of red carpet for school ceremonies in Florida wherever you are, promptly and efficiently!

The use of red carpets for school ceremonies in Florida is not something new, but using them for events such as musical presentations, role playing, pep rallies, proms, community programs, social dances, and other occasions that serve to raise student self-confidence, school image, and other positive re-enforcements is definitely catching on a lot more. The reason may be due to the ease of accessibility nowadays for red carpets, (and other colors too!) stanchions, step and repeat banners, and other decorations that imply grandeur and opulence.

How To Pick The Red Carpet For Your Florida School Ceremony?

Choosing a red carpet for your school ceremony in Florida is easier than you think. Keep in mind that "red" is not the only color of choice, and the term "rolling out the red carpet" is not specific to a color carpet but rather the distinction associated with a walkway over the ground. This means that if your school colors in Orlando, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, or Miami have beach color undertones, you may want to go for an aqua, white, or a stunning gold carpet to showcase your Florida school ceremony. Other details to remember when choosing the red carpet for your Florida school ceremony is the correct length. It's better to be a little over than a little short. Always opt for the latter, especially if you'll be using a red carpet in a Florida school ceremony located in more modern, developing cities like Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Miami, and the Keys - the new construction of schools tend to be on a larger scale, and almost all new school buildings include auditoriums with retractable bleachers. Take into account an additional 5' when ordering red carpet for your Florida school ceremony. CeremonialSupplies.com offers exceptional quality carpet runners in sizes of 3' - 6' wide and anywhere from 10' to 50' in length. 

Red Carpet For Your Florida School Graduation!

Of all the red carpet ceremonies for school events, graduation is the ultimate moment to deck a pathway in crimson red, and don't be surprised when the time comes for each graduating student to walk the path of distinction, among pomp and circumstance, to find there isn't a dry eye in the auditorium. The impressionable moment, combined with the meaning of the red carpet has an immediate emotional connection with families and guests. After all, how many times in life do we get to walk the path of the gods! Make this moment last forever and shop CeremonialSupplies.com for a selection of top quality red carpet for your Florida school graduation ceremony. There is no better place on the web and we ship all over the Sunshine State!