The My Big Day wedding business has been hit hard due to COVID-19. With all of the cancellations and changes, we wanted to highlight a couple who is a shining example of how to make lemonade out of the lemons they were handed. Zach and Samantha not only had their wedding cancel... their venue wouldn't offer a refund, they realistically cannot reschedule until next year, their family couldn't fly to them in Colorado to witness them say their vows to each other... but they had the right perspective. Love is what matters most.
No, their day is not what they had initially pictured, but it was "perfect!" They got married. They are in love. They have a great story to tell. And they can host a big celebration at a later date. Today we raise our virtual glasses to Zach & Samantha!
Congratulations on your marriage! -The My Big Day team Northern Colorado is primped and primed for an outstanding 2019 Holiday Season! We have so many suggestions for holiday fun, there won’t be a moment to rest between now and Christmas! There is something for everyone - families, couples, singles, pets -- you name it! Get your jingle bells on and check out our Ultimate NoCo Holiday Events Guide - you’re sure to find one of the MBD elves at some of these fun stops! November 28 Thanksgiving Day Trots and Races - Fort Collins & Greeley, CO You can burn some calories before you stuff yourself with all the turkey and trimmings! Both Fort Collins and Greeley will host their own Turkey Trot Races. You can register for the Fort Collins Thanksgiving Day Run here: http://www.fctdayrun.com/ and the Greeley event here: https://ncmcfoundation.org/event/ncmc-turkey-trot-2k5k-fun-runwalk/ November 30 Greeley Lights the Night Parade - Greeley, CO This lighted holiday parade kicks of the Christmas season in downtown Greeley! There will be over 70 lighted parade floats that will lead revelers through downtown Greeley to Lincoln Park where the holiday light switch will be thrown! Make plans to attend this fun, FREE event! https://greeleycalendar.com/event/greeley-lights-night-parade/ Wellington Carriage Rides - Wellington, CO The city of Wellington will help you get into the holiday spirit by offering carriage rides throughout the holiday season. Rides are $5 a person (kids under 12 are free). The fun goes from 5:00-7:00PM on weekends. https://www.facebook.com/events/666469630543989/ Cookie Decorating at Old Colorado Brewing Co - Wellington, CO Simply Cakes will be set up in the Old Colorado Brewing Company’s taproom to teach you how to decorate a variety of holiday cookies and treats! https://www.facebook.com/events/527038044799919/ December 1 Santa’s Reindeer Return to Bath Garden Center - Fort Collins, CO Make plans to meet up with Santa’s back up reindeer at the Bath Garden Center in Fort Collins. They will be greeting visitors on three Saturdays throughout the month of December. https://www.facebook.com/events/2131960497100225/?event_time_id=2132048423758099 Holiday Wreath Making Workshop @ Studio Vino - Loveland, CO Local florist Wild Posies will provide all the tools and supplies to create a beautiful fresh holiday wreath! https://www.facebook.com/events/809778466121632/ December 5 Parade of Lights Preview - Fort Collins, CO What could be better than free entertainment? The Colorado State Marching Band will be putting their final preparations on their Parade of Lights performance. Pick a spot on the route and watch the band’s light filled practice parade! https://www.visitftcollins.com/event/parade-of-lights-preview-free/20355/ December 6 Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer Musical - Greeley, CO Get your tickets early for this popular holiday show! Rudolph will be performed at the Union Colony Civic Theater: https://ucstars.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=440 Timnath Holiday Lighting Festival - Timnath, CO Everyone is invited to help Timnath kick off the holiday season! There will be tons of holiday activities for you to partake in - and Christmas lights galore! https://www.facebook.com/events/426342131394677/ December 7 Homesteaders Holiday - Greeley, CO This family friendly event benefits the Friends of the Greeley Museums. You’ll be able to tour festively decorated historical homes and enjoy activities for the entire family. Relive holidays from the past at this fun event! https://www.eventcrazy.com/Greeley-CO/events/details/24643-Homesteaders-Holiday Wellington’s Annual Christmas Parade of Lights -Wellington, CO Make plans to attend Wellington’s Parade of Lights starting at 5:00PM. Santa Claus will be there to help kick off the holiday celebration! You can even promote your business in the parade! https://www.facebook.com/events/427423841297982/ Winter Maker’s Market @ New Belgium - Fort Collins, CO Over 40 local vendors, hot drinks, food trucks, and live music will be set up from 11am-5pm at New Belgium! Word is Santa will be there too! https://www.facebook.com/events/531613097387691/ Windsor Wonderland - Windsor, CO Santa Claus is coming to town! Windsor Wonderland will have holiday treats, live performances, a tree lighting ceremony and free photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus! https://www.facebook.com/events/2181196872180578/ December 8 Johnstown Jingle - Johnstown, CO Another town holiday celebration! There will be pictures with Santa, reindeer to meet, carolers to enjoy, holiday shopping, gingerbread houses and more! https://www.facebook.com/events/267581034140696/ December 13 A Christmas Nightmare Day @ Ice Rink at The Promenade Shops - Loveland, CO It’s a Friday 13th Christmas Mash Up! Come skate, dressed up as your favorite character from everyone’s favorite Christmas Nightmare movie! https://www.facebook.com/events/3183307898409347/ December 14 TUBA Christmas in Oak Street Plaza - Fort Collins, CO This fun event has been a staple of downtown holiday celebrations since 1974. Come listen to a plethora of tubas, sousaphones, euphoniums and baritone horns play your holiday favorites! https://www.eventcrazy.com/Fort-Collins-CO/events/details/279528-A-Tuba-Christmas December 16 Chocolate and Tequila Pairing @ Wicked Tequila - Loveland, CO Yum! Two favorites - chocolate and tequila! Wicked Tequila Room will be partnering with Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory from Estes Park for this fun and tasty event! https://www.facebook.com/events/1927858474027669/ December 23 Light the Menorah - Greeley, CO Chabad of Northern Colorado will be celebrating Hanukkah with the lighting of the Menorah on the 9th St. Plaza in downtown Greeley. https://z-m-www.facebook.com/events/601758873696401/ December 29 Menorah lighting and Chanukah Celebration - Fort Collins Join in celebration with this Fort Collins tradition. The giant menorah will be lit in Old Town Square and will include Jewish holiday music and traditional Chanukah foods. https://www.visitftcollins.com/event/menorah-lighting-and-chanukah-celebration/21039/ December 31 Crystal Ball 2019 - Estes Park Ring in the New Year at the Stanley Hotel’s Crystal Ball celebration! https://www.facebook.com/events/2423215514645481/ November 15-January 1 Winter Wonderlights - Loveland, CO Celebrate the holidays in a new light! This walkable holiday attraction will be available for you to see throughout the holiday season. Stroll through the Chapungo Sculpture Park and marvel at all of the lights and tunnels. Weekends will include live entertainment and family friendly activities! https://www.facebook.com/LovelandWinterWonderlights/ November 29-December 7 UCCC Festival of Trees - Greeley, CO Join in a Greeley tradition and visit the 31st Annual Festival of Trees presented by the City of Greeley and the Greeley Philharmonic Guild. The beautiful tree displays are only part of the holiday fun served up at this event - there’s also a silent auction and other family friendly entertainment as well! http://greeleygov.com/activities/fot/festival-of-trees November 30-December 21 Downtown Winter Market - Loveland, CO Get your holiday shopping done all in one spot, each weekend, November 30-December 21 in downtown Loveland, CO. The winter market runs from 3-7pm each Saturday. https://www.facebook.com/events/425456021701829/?event_time_id=425456028368495 December 6-8 Canyon Concert Ballet Presents “The Nutcracker” - Fort Collins, CO Join the Canyon Concert Ballet troupe as they perform this holiday classic! https://www.facebook.com/events/671329656712587/?event_time_id=671329666712586
Thank you EVERYONE for making our 11th annual NoCo Easter Keg Hunt a huge success! The weather was perfect, the teams were spirited, and all of Old Town was buzzing about why there were 200 people running around in costumes!
Jen Zamzow West with Jen West Photography already published a number of amazing pictures! More to come! All photos will be on our website: https://www.mybigdaycompany.com/easter-keg-hunt-photos.html Thank you to the wonderful businesses who participated this year. Thank you for all the wonderful words of praise! Avogadro's Number Akinz Mobb Mountain Distillers The Still Whiskey Steaks SALUS Old Town Churn All Sales Vinyl Rocket Fizz Fort Collins, COWagz Pet Market & Grooming Tap and Handle Pour Brothers Community Tavern Lucky Joe's Our blog has been neglected for a little while as we are still in the thick of wedding season (along with some corporate events and regular party planning)! We have been blessed with amazing couples with such loving families -and couples from all over the country this year! Below are a few weddings we took some photos of. Thank you to all the wonderful families who invited us to be part of their Big Day! Ethan & Callie
Joel & SallyWedding Professionals: Event Planners: My Big Day Ceremony/Reception: Private Residence DJ: DJ Connection Photographer: Manzanita Caterer: CDXX Event Rentals: RC Events Bartenders: Cocktail Caravan Shuttles: NoCo Party Bus Flowers: Wild Posies Tyler & LindsayWedding Professionals:
Event Planners: My Big Day Ceremony/Reception: YMCA of the Rockies Photographer: Ashley Tiedgen Caterer: Baldoriabaldoriaevents.com/ Linen Rentals: Colorado Tablecloth Shuttles: Denver Limo Wow! Even after 10 years, we hear that our Easter Keg Hunt keeps getting better and better. We think a lot of it has to do with the spirited participants that dress up to play this fun game with us! In 2018 we had over 200 people participate! A HUGE thank you to all of the businesses that participated in our 2018 Easter Keg Hunt! Our teams had such a great time! We were thrilled to hear that they took advantage of some shopping, eating and drinking at local businesses. Early photos are on our website: https://www.mybigdaycompany.com/easter-keg-hunt-photos-2018… 2018 Business Participants: Avogadro's Number Prost Brewing Fort Collins CopperMuse Distillery Savory Spice Shop Moe's Original Bar-B-Que Ft. Collins SALUS Illegal Pete's Ft Collins Visit Fort Collins Colorado Nature's Own - Fort Collins Steak-Out Saloon Dishrags & Dustruffles Tony's Bar The Ranch Events Complex (our sponsor) Congratulations to the Heat A Turquoise Team and the Heat B Orange Team who took trophies home this year!!! Honorable mention to: Heat A Purple Team and Green Team and to Heat B Pastel Pink Team and Red Team - well played!!! As always, thank you to Jen West Photography, all of the team members who send us their pics, and the amazing My Big Day Events team!!!! Hope to see you in 2019! Contact My Big Day
"Dream Big, Live Big. For Life's Events!" Original Ideas, superior strategies, your own private party planner. ~Event Planning, Coordination & Management~ My Big Day llc Phone: 970-613-1455 or 303-886-3068 Email Us Located in Loveland, CO As event planners, we serve the entire Front Range; Southern Wyoming, the CO Mountains, and Northern Colorado: Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley, Windsor, Berthoud, Estes Park, Lyons, Longmont, Boulder, Wellington, Johnstown, Evans, Severance, Timnath, Mead, Frederick, Firestone, Milliken The Christmas spirit was extended into early January with Blue’s holiday party, built around the storyline from the classic holiday tale - A Christmas Story! Guests were transported back to a simpler time with specialized photobooth backdrops, food, and decor reminiscent of Ralphie’s childhood home in the 1950’s. The Marriott Fort Collins hosted us again and tables were decorated with kitchen colanders in honor of Mother Parker’s holiday culinary feats, Red Ryder BB guns, and of course, the famous “Fragile” Leg Lamps. The only thing missing was a bar serving large glasses of Ovaltine! (Note - there were three open bars for the guests to imbibe from!) The evening was full of fellowship between all the various bank branches, company recognitions and awards, and of course dancing! Music and emceeing was provided by our favorite entertainer - DJ Kaaos! Activities also included a costume contest, and door prize drawings for all of the table centerpieces. Blue Federal Credit Union is one of our favorite clients to work with, and we were once again pleased to be part of the planning for their always fun company holiday party! If you’ve liked what you’ve seen and heard here - consider using our team to plan your next corporate function, retreat, or party! Contact My Big Day
"Dream Big, Live Big. For Life's Events!" Original Ideas, superior strategies, your own private party planner. ~Event Planning, Coordination & Management~ My Big Day llc Phone: 970-613-1455 or 303-886-3068 Email Us Located in Loveland, CO As event planners, we serve the entire Front Range; Southern Wyoming, the CO Mountains, and Northern Colorado: Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley, Windsor, Berthoud, Estes Park, Lyons, Longmont, Boulder, Wellington, Johnstown, Evans, Severance, Timnath, Mead, Frederick, Firestone, Milliken We had a wonderful time on NYE, and it sounds like all of our guests did too! We officially SOLD OUT early in the day on 12/31. We hated having to turn people away. Next year, plan for a sell out again, and get your tickets early! We've already committed to a 2018 ball with the Hilton. Tickets will go on sale in November again this year. We are really proud of how our vignettes turned out and were SO pleased at how many folks took photos in them! We've already started working on the 2018 theme and vignette ideas! Thank you for the MANY compliments we received about our DJ selection. DJ Kaaos is one of our FAVORITE DJs in Colorado, and we love that YOU love him too! Putting on an event of this size and with this level of detail is no small feat. We cannot do it without all of the parties involved. Thank you to DJ Kaaos for keeping us dancing, Arcadian Pictures and Zebrajellyfish for capturing the event, Robin Rentals, our favorite bakeries B Sweet Cupcakes, Starlight Dessert Bar and Taste Local. Thank you to the Nanny Brigade for offering childcare services, Dora Grace for the amazing formal attire deals, Court Designs for the logo, our professional dancers, and the entire My Big Day event planning team for your hard work! Photos are now posted on the NoCoNewYearsEve.com website. Thank you for the quick turn around Zebrajellyfish! Hope to see you at another MY BIG DAY event! Contact My Big Day
"Dream Big, Live Big. For Life's Events!" Original Ideas, superior strategies, your own private party planner. ~Event Planning, Coordination & Management~ My Big Day llc Phone: 970-613-1455 or 303-886-3068 Email Us Located in Loveland, CO As event planners, we serve the entire Front Range; Southern Wyoming, the CO Mountains, and Northern Colorado: Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley, Windsor, Berthoud, Estes Park, Lyons, Longmont, Boulder, Wellington, Johnstown, Evans, Severance, Timnath, Mead, Frederick, Firestone, Milliken As Event Planners, we look forward to exploring new venues, envisioning what event we could plan there and sharing photos with YOU of our visit! We have been anticipating the opening of the new Elizabeth Hotel in Old Town Fort Collins for quite some time. We were delighted to be granted an early peek and tour for our entire team of this new gem in Northern Colorado!
Enjoy a slideshow from our tour The Elizabeth Hotel, Autograph Collection 111 Chestnut Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524 Phone: 1-970-490-2600 website: https://www.theelizabethcolorado.com/ Contact My Big Day "Dream Big, Live Big. For Life's Events!" Original Ideas, superior strategies, your own private party planner. ~Event Planning, Coordination & Management~ My Big Day llc Phone: 970-613-1455 or 303-886-3068 Email Us Located in Loveland, CO As event planners, we serve the entire Front Range; Southern Wyoming, the CO Mountains, and Northern Colorado: Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley, Windsor, Berthoud, Estes Park, Lyons, Longmont, Boulder, Wellington, Johnstown, Evans, Severance, Timnath, Mead, Frederick, Firestone, Milliken |
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