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7 Mistakes To Avoid For Your Brooklyn Corporate Events

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So you’re looking for Brooklyn Corporate Events space for your next big event. Where do you begin? There are host of things to consider especially if you’ve never done this before. We understand your frustration and want to help. Here are 7 mistakes to avoid creating your Brooklyn corporate event or event anywhere.

  1. Poor Event Date
    It’s important to plan carefully for your date. You don’t want to plan your NYC or Brooklyn corporate events too close to major holidays or vacationing times. These might include Christmas Holidays and summer holidays and vacation times. This could affect attendance.
  2. Long Speeches
    Most people like corporate events, especially if there is good food. No one likes a long speech. Plan the timing of your speeches and presentations in detail to the minute. It’s best to set an end time for those speeches rather than beginning time. That way if someone does run over you continue to stay on time with the next speech ending as it should. You can even use a trick from the Academy Awards. To keep things on schedule they use music, an orchestra to wrap up their award acceptance speech. Use a DJ instead.
  3. Neglecting To Have A Venue Walk Thru
    You really need to know if the space is right for the event. It allows you to meet the venue staff you’ll be working with, discover technical elements and determine if there is enough room for your guests.
  4. Lack of Checklists
    Our brains can only retain so much information. Inevitably something will be overlooked. Use checklists to help you organize, break down the details and get things done. Share these lists with those delegated to help you execute the event.
  5. Poor Food
    Food is critical to a great event. We’ve all be to event where the food was a bit lackluster to say the least. If the food is poor, the event becomes very long and the attention of your attendees wanes. Make sure your guests and attendees are taken care of. Avoid poor menu and food. It will be worth it in the end.
  6. Lack of Entertainment
    You want to wow your guests and attendees and engage them at your corporate event, whether for a company or invitees. Don’t forget to consider entertainment. You can use entertainment to greet guest, open the event, give them a break during the event or end it with a big bang of entertainment. You want the event to memorable. Don’t forget the entertainment.
  7. Lack of Theme
    You’re creating your event with a purpose in mind. Add a theme to engage your attendees. Be careful not to go overboard to distract from your message. Use a theme as a way to convey your message and make it memorable.

There are host of things to consider when creating your Brooklyn corporate events. Taking into mind these seven mistakes in your corporate events planning and execution is a great place to begin.

When looking for your Brooklyn corporate events venues, consider the El Caribe. Consistently rated as the best catering hall food in NYC,, large rooms and a spectacular ambiance for your event, the El Caribe has decades of experience hosting Brooklyn’s corporate events. Our event planning team can help you with theme suggestions and ideas. You can also provide you with a network of best Brooklyn and NYC entertainment and services with our preferred vendors.

Give us a call today to schedule a walk thru and see that the El Caribe is the perfect place for your next Brooklyn corporate event.

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Tips For An Open Bar

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Planning on an open bar, with premium liquor, at your next event? Then you might want to consider this. Is the bar placed inside or outside your event? If it’s outside, beware! This could turn into a real problem! Experience shows that as the evening progresses it’s natural for the guests to gravitate toward the open bar. If the bar is outside the event room, you’ll find more and more guests disappearing throughout the evening congregating near the premium beverages. It’s a definite party stealer and one you should absolutely avoid. If you have an open bar with premium liquor, make sure the venue has their bars inside the venue space allowing your guests to stay where the party is.

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Adding Live Entertainment To Your Event

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Adding your own unique touch to an event is important to making it special. It can show offer your personality and give your guests an element of surprise, wonder and excitement. There are many ways to do this from decor and food to themes and special favors. Another way, often overlooked, to add your own unique flare is live entertainment. With decades of experience creating unforgettable memories for our guests, here are some things we’ve seen and some you might want to consider that may spark some ideas, helping you make your event extra special.

Bring In The Big Band. Bring in a big band with a Frank Sonatra, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington or Benny Goodman feel. Mr. Sinatra is always a great romantic and entertainment touch to any event. Make sure there’s plenty of room for dancing.

First Communion. One of our clients celebrated her first communion with a host of guests including the wicked, ugly step sisters, a magician and the arrival of Cinderella with glass slippers for the special honoree.
cinderella live entertainment at El Caribe, Brooklyn, NY










Corporate Holiday Winter Wonderland. One of our corporate clients went with a winter theme for their annual corporate event which included an indoor ice skating rink with an entire ice show for guests.











Irish Wedding Surprise. For your Irish weddings surprise your guests with a single or full band of bagpipers to help you celebrate your first dance on the dance floor. A photo op after, with the pipers, is a great keepsake. Who of your guests wouldn’t love the beautiful, resonating sound of bagpipes?
Bagpiper live entertainment at El Caribe, Brooklyn, NY












Sweet 16 Entertainment. One girl celebrated her Sweet 16 by greeting guests outside with trumpeters, a live string quartet inside, a DJ with a team of dancers, acrobatic performers, roving human cocktail and dessert tables, and an electrically lit up, robo dance man on the dance floor. Talk about not stop live entertainment. The constant surprises kept guests excited and thrilled.
Sweet 16 live entertainment at El Caribe, Brooklyn, NY












Other ideas for live entertainment might include a percussion setup with your DJ for that real time, live beat and rhythm, a live comedian or jugglers. It’s all in an effort to give your event a unique, special touch and wow your guests giving them a memorable experience they’ll always remember and won’t soon forget.

With more than 35 years of experience in the catering and event industry, having created some pretty spectacular events, our team is here to assist you to create a one of kind event. Our list of preferred vendors is a great place for top professionals. Looking for something unique, I’m sure we can help you find it, create it and plan it at the El Caribe.

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4 Wedding Planning Tips For Those Who Just Said Yes

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The cork has been popped after replying “yes” to the big question. There are many things to consider as you plan your big day. With more than 35 years experience, and three generations of family operations creating unforgettable memories at the El Caribe, we’d like to share four wedding planning tips, for event planning as well, to help you along.

  1. Define Your Guest List. You probably have a lot of people who have been a special part of your life. You’ll want to invite them to celebrate this milestone. Take time to sit with your fiancé and put a guest list from your family and friends before you consider your budget and location for the event.
  2. Consider Your Budget. There are a lot things to consider with your budget. How big a celebration do you want to? Is it simple and intimate, big and extravagant or a destination wedding? Do you have money in investments or savings you’ve set aside and/or do you have time to save for the wedding?
  3. Quality vs Size. Many hope to only marry once. Since there is a lot of time, effort and stress involved in this celebration, consider choosing higher quality over the size of your event. You have options in choosing to have a small number of guests and spending more on higher quality venue, menu, decor, and celebration than the opposite – mediocre venue, menus, décor, etc. The tradeoff can be huge in quality and creating that special experience for you and your guests with the cost being very similar.
  4. Vendor Packages. Your wedding is a memory of a lifetime. Many of those memories you’ll keep in photographs or experience with a DJ on the dance floor. As you look at different vendors consider quality vs quantity. While one photographer will give you all day coverage remember it doesn’t mean it’s quality photos. For instance, you can hire a wedding photographer who’s mediocre work will get you pictures all day long or you can hire a top notch photographer to get the highlights of your wedding day. In the end won’t it be the highlights and important moments you’ll frame? Take this into to consider with all your vendor choices, do you want smaller amounts of the highest quality or lots of mediocre.

Take the time to consider these four wedding planning tips, and most importantly, try to enjoy the journey to your big wedding day. Using these four tips will help you eliminate unneeded stress and give you the wedding you’ve dreamed of.

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Seven Best Event Planning Tips

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Whether you’re planning a wedding, sweet sixteen, communion, corporate event or a myriad of other events, there are some important things to know. These are the kind of tips you think, “I’m sure glad someone told me that!” While you may have planned events before, here are seven best event planning tips you may have missed that are secrets to a successful event.

1. Be Our Guest
It’s always important to consider your approximate guest count before settling on a venue. This will ensure there’s enough space for everyone. Remember, you need space not only for your guests but a DJ/band, dance floor, tables, and busy servers. If you need to cut the guest list consider prioritizing by tiers. Begin with the immediate family, persons of honor, and best friends at the top of the list. Follow this with extended family; aunts, uncles, cousins and close friends. These are people you can’t imagine celebrating without. Next, list additional friends, neighbors, coworkers and so on. If you need to pare down, begin at the bottom until you reach your ideal number and budget.

2. Securing The Date
Choosing a date can be tricky. While there are several things to consider, here’s just one. Discover if your special event date falls on a holiday, convention, or large local event that would cause conflicts with traffic and hotel availability. There’s nothing wrong with celebrating on a holiday but consider your important guests may have other obligations.

3. Capitalize On The Bonuses
Want some bonuses for spending all that money on your event? Secure a credit card with a rewards program. From airline miles to shopping deals, putting all your spending on one card will help you accumulate thousands of rewards points.

4. Get Referrals
When looking for trusted vendors ask the catering hall and vendors for referrals. They’ve worked in this business a long time and know who can be trusted for the best experience. Your photographer knows which florists flowers last longer and stay freshest. The catering hall can tell you which transportation is always on time.

5. Get Organized
There is a lot to plan and keep track of. Get organized using a digital format, if that works for you, or go traditional with a three-ring binder. Compile everything; correspondences, notes, photos, ideas, things from magazines, etc all in one place. This will save you time and stress. Set up an email address dedicated to the event. Keep a contact list of important people and vendor numbers in a hard copy and on your phone. Break things down into a schedule from start to finish and follow a logical order to get things done. This will relieve a lot of stress, keep you from getting worn down and help you enjoy the event when the day comes.

6. The Signature Drink
Signature drinks are still a great way to celebrate any event. Since signature drinks are custom made, make sure you have enough servers to attend to your guests. You don’t want your guests waiting in a long line to enjoy the celebration.

7. Help Them Arrive At The Event
With all the planning you’ve done, you want to make sure your guests get to the event on time. Providing an accurate directions card, map and address will help them accomplish this. Your catering hall can help you print our driving directions. Having the address allows your guests to use their GPS to find the least congested traffic route. As a safety measure, you can create a private event page on Facebook and post the address and directions there. The Facebook site never goes down and your guests know how to easily access it.

Whether you’re planning a wedding, sweet sixteen, communion, corporate event or a myriad of other events, there are some important things to know. Using these seven best event planning tips will help you have a more successful celebration.

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Three Secrets To Securing Your Event Date

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Choosing an event date can be tricky. There are so many things to consider; holidays, guest availability, family conflicts and more. Here are three secrets to securing your event date that could save you time, stress and money.

1. Discover if your special event date falls on a holiday, convention, or large local event that would cause conflicts with traffic and hotel availability. There’s nothing wrong with celebrating on a holiday but consider your important guests may have other obligations.

2. Last minute bookings can save you money. Most people book their events six months or more in advance. Calling catering halls for open dates two months before your desired date can give you some bargaining power. You can save you up to 25 percent. That’s quite a bit of savings.

3. If you’re having your event on a weekend, consider any day but Saturday. While Saturday may seem most convenient, Friday night and Sunday are general less expensive by quite a bit over a Saturday event. And, if you’re booking last minute, it’s likely that Saturday is already gone. Save yourself some money and book a Friday or Sunday event time.

There are so many things to consider when choosing an event date. Using these three secrets to securing your event date will certainly help you get ahead, save your time, relieve some stress and save you money.

The El Caribe offers savings on last minute event bookings. We understand that somethings just can’t wait to be celebrated. Let us help you celebrate. Give us a call today. We can help you with your last minute event plans and leave you with unforgettable memories.