What's Floating Around? 11 August 2014

Welcome to another week at Cloud 9! 

This week we are wearing are Fresh hats as Creative judging commences from this Wednesday to Friday. Our four juries will all be making their way to Warwickshire for debate, discussion and hopefully not too many disagreements about the work this year as the quest begins to find out whose work is worthy of a Fresh gong or two.

As ever, we'll aim to tweet live from judging to keep you posted, but its not always possible as with four juries on the go at any one time, we don't always get the opportunity - but hopefully some of our judges will be doing their bit so keep checking.

The nominations for this years awards will be announced on Monday 1 September, so make sure you take a look at the Fresh website to see who has made the grade! www.freshawards.co.uk

Going back to Cloud 9, we came across this fantastic blog by Event Manager Blog and we thought it was great, so we thought we'd share it with you guys! As all event planners know, the industry isn't all glitz and glamour and we think this sums us up quite well, '20 Moments Every Event Planner Has Experienced'. 

When Guests Do Not Show Up

When Too Many Guests Show Up

When Guests Say Thank You

When The Projector Breaks Down

When A Speaker Cancels The Night Before

Death by Meeting

When You Don’t Sell Tickets

When You Wake Up at 4am

Going to Sleep at 3.30am

When You Decide Who the VIPs Are

When You Sell Out

When Someone Thinks the Event Should Have Been Different

You Know How to Repair a Damaged Wedding Dress

When You Realise How Good You Are at Saying Sorry

When You Know How To Say Appetizer in French

When You Welcome Guests Even if the Event is Not Yours

When You Deal With Weird Venue Managers

When You Calm Down Outraged Guests in 5 Minutes

When You Know How to Bounce People With a Smile

When You Ask Yourself: 'Why am I doing This?'...

...and When You Answer: 'Because It Makes Me Happy'

Our job is filled with hard work, partying, boredom and excitement. It is a roller coaster of emotions we can’t live without. We are sure some of the above gifs made you smile, cringe or laugh out loud.

So that's it for this week folks, enjoy!