New Year 2017

Yolandi and Myself wish you a wonderful and prosperous New Year - 2017. Our prayer is that every dream you have in your personal life and your business will come to pass! Enjoy what is laying ahead and learn from what is in the past! 

Marieta Greyling, Jacques Greyling, Yolandi Greyling

ECTA Creative International/Imagine Events/Elect Effect

Bohemian wedding break out areas

Our blog focuses on providing up to date info and ideas on the latest news and trends in the events industry. We want to inspire our students and our clients across the country and even around the world to create and inspire the most exquisite events and weddings dreams are made of. For information on our latest courses and specials visit our website www.ectaint.com or follow the links to Draping, Wedding Planning and Decor courses. We offer in-class, correspondence and for our internet addicted students, online. Enrol today! For our video tutorials, please click here!

Breakout Areas

Having a gorgeous breakout area for your guests is the perfect way to keep that relaxed atmosphere you’re trying to create going throughout the night. Whether you go for couches and little tables, or blankets and cushions, it’s a great way to allow your nearest and dearest to feel comfortable. http://www.southboundbride.com/20-boho-wedding-details/

Artists in the 19th century, the bohemians were known for being free-spirited dreamers inspired by art, beauty and nature. The boho wedding trend reflects their carefree lifestyle and romantic passion, with an emphasis placed on creating a fun but relaxed atmosphere. 

Get Creative with the Details

Boho celebrations are perfectly imperfect. But the key is to keep your colours warm and romantic with influences from nature throughout. Traditionally, bohemians dressed and decorated with whatever they could find, so embrace your inner ‘DIY goddess’ and add hand crafted, artistic touches.

Dress up your venue with flowers and fairy lights. Bouquets should look as though they were hand-picked from the garden. Floral arrangements and centre pieces can utilize different sized bottles and jars filled with foliage and garden roses. Twinkling lights, lanterns and candles will also add a special flair to your boho wedding. Fairy lights are a great way to add ambiance as well as being relatively cheap. Feather detailing is another beautiful boho touch. Add feathers to floral arrangements, hang them from garlands or adorn place cards…there are so many options!

Consider picnic style dining. If this isn’t feasible (not everyone enjoys sitting on the ground) a main meal served ‘family style’ works well with the easy going atmosphere.  Keep with the earthy vibe by swapping out conventional table décor for rustic metallics.

Provide a lounge area with quirky cushions for guests who aren’t dancing (or taking a break!). Break out areas are key for maintaining your relaxed atmosphere. With couches and cushions, you can create cosy nook that will allow your guests to feel comfortable.

http://www.aucklandweddings.co.nz/how-to-plan-a-boho-wedding

http://www.100layercake.com/blog/2014/07/25/bohemian-california-wedding-inspiration-vintage-boho-wedding/

Events industry as job creation!

Our blog focuses on providing up to date info and ideas on the latest news and trends in the events industry. We want to inspire our students and our clients across the country and even around the world to create and inspire the most exquisite events and weddings dreams are made of. For information on our latest courses and specials visit our website www.ectaint.com or follow the links to Draping, Wedding Planning and Decor courses. We offer in-class, correspondence and for our internet addicted students, online. Enrol today! For our video tutorials, please click here!

I can and I will are not the same thing… When people caught in poverty are shown new possibilities, provided with tradable skills and assisted to capitalise on them, they have potential to ascend out of poverty, add both faith and volition to get the Elect Effect.

Elect Effect are the corporate social responsibility arm of ECTA. We us the Events Industry as a job creation method. Each one of the towns in South Africa have a community centre. We use that as a basis - teach the ladies how to do events and weddings for their community and you've got a sustainable business for a few woman!

For more information about out Basic Events and Catering courses contact ECTA Creative Solutions at 0824416394 - We are on whatsapp!

Wedding trends 2015 - Part two

Our blog focuses on providing up to date info and ideas on the latest news and trends in the events industry. We want to inspire our students and our clients across the country and even around the world to create and inspire the most exquisite events and weddings dreams are made of. For information on our latest courses and specials visit our website www.ectaint.com or follow the links to Draping, Wedding Planning and Decor courses. We offer in-class, correspondence and for our internet addicted students, online. Enrol today! For our video tutorials, please click here!

Spring break

When you think about spring break you can start thinking about words like Happy, Joy, Times to remember, Tropical feel, The one break in your life, Making of memories and Living in the moment. This colour scheme will not be for the faint of heart but the bride that loves being barefoot in the sand, threading beads and ribbon in her hair and love the joyfulness that colour will bring into the day.

When a bride looks at a color scheme it will be easy to be overwhelmed. Here you have 8 different colours that is being presented to you. How do you choose what colors to use and how to use it? With the spring break colour scheme it is quite easy because you can use most of the colours in equal amount in your decor and draping. 

They've used three colours to drape the gazebo but if you look to the rest of the decor you can see that they use the three colours in equal amounts. Where there is only the two green/blues on the chairs the pink flowers in the isle makes up for not having the pink in the chairs.

Remember to keep your decor happy and lighthearted! That is what this theme is all about - being pretty, joyful and happy! Make your island dream come true!

Happy eventing!

Marieta

www.ectaint.com

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+2782 441 6394

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It makes it worthwhile to always strive to always improve and perfect each one of our courses when we receive feedback like this!

Check out our You Tube tutorials on the making of center pieces:  http://www.ectaint.com/index.php?id=13 Do you want to learn more about the art of wedding decor? Do you want to learn how to become a wedding planner and help thousands of wedding dreams come true? Do you want to learn how to do draping for weddings? Contact ECTA CREATIVE SOLUTIONS for our in class, correspondence and online courses in Draping, Weddings and Decor.

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Wedding planning course

I think it is one of the most rewarding jobs that there is. Being a wedding planner... being able to see the joy on the face of the bride when she walks down the isle.... being the person that will help make her dreams come true for her wedding day!

Just think about it - most girls will dream their whole life about their wedding day. They will first start to play weddings with their friends, when they are older - they will start dreaming about prince charming and the beautiful wedding dress that goes with that.

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That’s not all... add to that the fact that you will be the person that will need to organize the day to the most final details - from the cake, the dress, the honeymoon, the reception to name a few. Think about all the human emotions that flow at a wedding. Mother in law and the bride, mother in law with the bride’s mom - I can not count how many times me or my staff had to help make peace between two warring factions! But it is all in a days work.

If you think a wedding planner is just sitting behind her computer and organizing the wedding - think again! You will have to know about the latest trends in the wedding industry, you will have to be able to advise the client what is the best way to go about with their budget and you will have to know how to make the best with the money that the bride have available for her dream day!

I always say that it is not difficult to make a dream come true with a budget of R200 000.00. What makes you a GREAT wedding planner is if you can take a small budget of a bride and groom and STILL make their wedding day a huge success!

Come and learn the tricks of the trade!

ECTA Creative Solutions have just launched their Wedding Planning Correspondence course! 

Enroll in April 2013 and get the course for R2500 instead of the normal R3500.

For more info: contact our office at 0218560163 or go to our website: www.ectaint.com