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Ask and You Shall Receive!
“Famous last words!” The harried Event Planner thinks to herself as she desperately searches for that order for her step and repeat banner that she KNOWS she had her staff order months ago. This run and walk marathon was for one of her favorite clients and her favorite charity and there had to be the proper amount of glitz and glamour for the winners and the sponsors to hand out the medals and awards!
Where was that order!?
Uh oh..here it is.
She looks at the order and realizes her ordering person had been rushed to the hospital when her water broke precipitating her own personal event … but leaving the ordering and scheduling for this event and…. (oh no!) the next three events… without their needed media walls and banners …not to mention all the red carpets, ropes, lighting, ad etcetera …UN-ordered!
Step and Repeat LA! She sees the website and gives them a call praying they can help her out of this jam without putting her over budget or costing her clients even more money.The professional staff of Step and Repeat LA were understanding and sympathetic to her dilemma. They immediately went into action and helped the stressed-out Event Planner organize her needs for all four upcoming events. They also worked with her on exactly what she had envisioned for each client down to the sizes, materials, designs, and patterns…even offering experienced advice that would help her make the best impact for the best price.Because Step and Repeat LA is used to the demands of a fast paced world, they had no problem filling her orders and shipping them out with plenty of time left for placing and installation.The marathon went off as most beautifully planned and came in under budget!
The Event Planner was a happy happy person!
The Event Planner was a happy happy person!
What A Night!
The tables are set. The lights are adjusted for intimacy and the
seating has been planned to the last detail.
The music is low, inviting conversation while relaxing to listen to, and the table arrangements are fresh and exquisitely done in a low motif so one can see their fellow patrons.
Step and Repeat LA has, once again, provided the perfect media wall and strategically placed Step and Repeat LA banners in the grand foyer and off to the side of the grand doors leading to the luscious gardens. Red carpet and indirect lighting provide the perfect setting for those celebrity shots the patrons love to have taken and for the tasteful media exposure that is sure to come.
The Event Coordinator is relaying directions while scanning the room to make sure the staff, musicians, and catering waiters are where they should be. The guests start to arrive and the Event Planner watches discreetly to make sure the limos drop the guests right in front of the red carpet and the doormen open and help out the arrivals.
The camera lights are flashing and the people are guided over to the first Step and Repeat LA banner, to be welcomed by the Hostess, with a beautifully done photo of the Charity Foundation placed next to it.
Step and Repeat LA has provided step and repeat banners and step and repeat media walls along with the red carpet, lighting, and other accoutrements, to take this event where the Event Planner’s direction have led.
Tasteful and professional with the appropriate touch of Glamour!
Spring Break!!
PARTY!
Hey, are you going to your favorite vacation beach resort for spring break?
Don’t forget to order your special Step and Repeat LA backdrop for your special wet T-shirt contestants award celebration!
You know…The one that you have personally made up and shipped to your party site all ready to be easily installed with no-brainer instructions!
We can get it to you overnight in case you forgot to order it!
Your wet T-Shirt Winners will be the Stars on all your Facebook logs and YouTube…Wahoo! Surfs Up Dudes!
Also, in case you didn’t know, these specially made banners have designs that you made up so you will have something that will always remind you of your BEST Spring Break Party ever…even if you come home a little fuzzy on the facts…
Step And Repeat LA - Your best connection for your best party accoutrements that make yours one of a kind!
Don’t forget! You can get the red carpet and other professional looking items too!
Just talk to one of our reps!
Party On Dude!
Attention all Easter Bunnies!
Now is the time to pick up your Step and Repeat LA Easter Banners for your photo shoot and
award celebrations!
Comb your whiskers and perk up your ears and hop right over to the Step and Repeat LA web page and find the package that will best fit your needs to make you the brightest, cutest Easter bunny ever!
You deserve to have the red carpet treatment for your special day of the year and you know that kids everywhere can not wait for your arrival!
After all, what’s an Easter egg hunt for but to find the special eggs you have personally hidden. Let’s not forget all the eggs that you had the parents help you with too! And then the chocolate eggs and rabbits, the chocolate, golden-wrapped coins and jelly beans and little peepers piled high in colorfully wrapped baskets for the children most near and dear to you!
Don’t forget..Easter Bunnies!
You are giving a special award for the best Easter bonnets and the prettiest Easter frocks right in front of your personalized banners! Make sure that your Event Coordinators have gotten you what you need to showcase all on your wonderful day!
Lighting, balloons, music and more…
We here at Step and Repeat LA are looking forward to hearing from you real soon!
And for you last-minute planners…we can send your Step and Repeat off to you within 24 hours.
SO, order right away so this will be your best Easter Celebration ever!
Political Fundraisers
Political Fundraisers are in full swing and this means lots of dinners and parties to plan and coordinate!
Event Planners! We know you have your hands full with your regular events that occur at this time every year. Now, with an election year on, you must have traded in your running shoes for roller skates!
Well… Step and Repeat LA is here for you to provide you with expert help and high-quality step and repeat banners for intimate parties and large media walls your bigger events.
In addition to all your red carpet and set-up needs, we will help you determine the best pattern, materials and design for your clients or help in any way we can including overnighting your products.
We want to help you make your clients want to come back to you again and again by providing you OUR best services and products!
Step and Repeat LA cares about your continuing success!
Let us help you with our competitive pricing and high professional standards. Step and Repeat L A is here for you!
Every day is full of…..!
Every day is full of…..!
You wake up each day.
You wonder what your day is going to be like. Will you have time for all the things you want to get done?
Do you have something clean to wear (or almost clean)?
Does it still fit you?
Did you remember to buy coffee?
A million different thoughts plague us each and every day.
You check your calendar and you check your bank and you check to make sure the kids and/or pets are fed and dressed… and you brush your teeth, do your face and hair and start your day.
Hummm drummmm daily days and the clock ticks on.
What if…?
What if…
Now!
Picture yourself dressed in a new design creation after having been primped and pampered at an elegant spa and your hair and make-up done to perfection. You arrive at an exclusive club in a stretch limo and your friends are all there waiting to see you. The cameras are flashing! Your personal event coordinator is guiding you through the crowd as you make your way down a red carpet runway to a roped off area with your personalized, exclusively made step and repeat backdrop all lit up with back lighting that makes you look gorgeous. Someone hands you an armful of long-stemmed red roses and the crowd cheers! You smile and pose for the cameras as videographer captures everything!
Then what happens?!
It’s your evening. You decide!
Does everyone go in and mingle and dance? Are you reunited with friends you haven’t seen in forever? Or does that person you’ve been dreaming about show up and sweep you off on a cruise or a weekend getaway?
You know there are people in this world who work around the clock to put together fantasies just like this! Step and Repeat LA is one such company who would love to get you on the right track and provide one of the key ingredients to your dream night. They also work closely with professional friendly Event planners and Coordinators to bring it all together for you!
Red carpet? No problem.
Step and Repeat backdrop and lighting? MADE specifically to your wishes.
Step and Repeat LA will help you with professionals who know how important your dreams are and want to help make them a reality.
Bat Mitzvah Glitz and Glamour
Bat Mitzvah Glitz and Glamour – Thursday, March 15, 2012
Bat Mitzvah Glitz and Glamour!
Step and Repeat LA has been helping bring the exact flair needed to pull off the perfect bat mitzvah party since its inception.
There’s just one thing you can say about a bat mitzvah. PARTY!
As all parents world-wide know, this is a very special time in the lives of the coming of age daughter in her life as well as her parents, and everyone wants to celebrate this special event with the razz and matazz of the haute couture. When else does your daughter feel more like a princess and celebrity!
Mothers and fathers hire the best to help plan this event and nothing but the most exclusive will do for their precious daughter.
The theme has to be original and the setup for the party perfect. This might include renting a hall and hiring the best DJ in town or maybe a
band. The dresses designed by the most élite dress designers, photographers on hand, and an area especially designed for the celebrity girl. A red carpet and an exclusive and unique step and repeat banner from Step and Repeat LA makes a statement for one and all.
Here is what one Event Planner had to say after pulling off a great event for his client’s daughter, having Step and Repeat LA supply him with
just the right banner and accoutrements for her bat mitzvah party:
“Thanks for your speedy and professional service working with our artwork for this Juicy Couture themed Bat Mitzvah!
It was a pleasure working with you and look forward to working together in the future.
Thanks,”
Brad Austin
Tips for Storing Your Banner
Allow a place for storage
Before you order a banner, please take into consideration that the banner must be rolled up a tube. If you are ordering an 8′ x 8′ banner, that means it will be rolled up on an 8′ long tube. Please allow a place for this long tube to be stored…a corner in a closet works well, as long as the ceiling isn’t too low.
Allow for Transport
Surprisingly, an 8′ x 8′ rolled up banner on a tube DOES fit in most cars. However, please don’t expect to carry it on your motorcycle or in a smart car. Yes, a customer did show up to our shop in a smart car expecting the banner to fit. Eek!
It should fit in most elevators.
If you are going to be tying it to the top racks of a truck, be wary of the bungee cords! If the bungee cords are too tight on the banner, it will actually form creases in the banner! (We’ve learned this the hard way.) So, try to put some sort of padding (cardboard works well) between the bungee cords and banner.
Never fold the banner
If you fold the banner, you pretty much ruin it. The creases will stay permanent. Always keep it rolled up nicely on a cardboard tube. If you lose the tube, you can purchase one from Step and Repeat LA for a small charge. If your banner was accidentally folded, see below to try to fix it. Please make sure any assistants you hire to set-up or take-down the banner, know about not folding the banner!
How to fix a folded banner
You can try:
You can try:
Hair drying the banner to warm it up and thus loosen the creases.
Laying it out flat in the sun to warm up and then rolling it back up
on a tube.
Then, when you fasten banner to stand, zip tie it really tight to
the stand. Zip ties can take a lot of the wrinkles out of a banner if
you do it right. (We can send you these at no cost if you need more).
This should help. If you do all of the above and the creases are still
too noticeable, I would suggest ordering a new banner. We keep all art
files. And since you’re a repeat customer, you get 5% off your order.
Fabric Banners
Fabric banners are more forgiving the vinyl banners. They are more crease and wrinkle-resistant and can be ironed. Some types of fabric are more wrinkle-resistant than others. You can even loosely fold certain types of fabric banners! I personally always recommend rolling the material on a tube so that it can have less wrinkles as possible. But if you are transporting the banner, and would like the banner to fit in a small bag, that is fine! Just unroll it as soon as you can. And when storing it, try to roll it on a tube before the next use.
I hope that helps.
Feel free to call Step and Repeat LA if you have any more questions.
The Cricket Did It
Geoffrey squinched down in the grass as he watched the cricket sunning itself on a fallen leaf. He knew if he was quiet enough the cricket might start chirping again. Geoffrey hadn’t made up his mind if he wanted to capture the cricket but he knew he didn’t want to lose sight of it.
Suddenly, a slight breeze came through and it was like a flag had come down signaling the cricket to take flight. Geoffrey reached out and tried to grab the cricket but just missed as he watched the cricket fly up onto the stage where the fake grass and the red carpet were.
This was the annual Easter day events day and the grounds were awash in bright flowers and colorful balloons with a table for trophies and ribbons to be given out.
Geoffrey was trying not to be noticed as he climbed up onto the stage to follow the elusive cricket. Just as he was about to pounce on his prey, the cricket again took flight and did a dizzying loop de loop to land squarely on top of the microphone that was being held by the local interviewer who was standing next to the stage directing the placement of the lights for the upcoming photo and interview sessions in front of the step and repeat banner.
His cameraman was on hand calibrating his equipment when he noticed the little boy with the bow tie and grass stained pants intently watching the mic and as he leaned closer the cameraman could see the cricket perched on the mic. He adjusted his camera and started snapping while the little boy (now standing) got within a nose length to the cricket. Holding his breath, he stared at the cricket.
The following day the picture on the front page of the local paper was not a picture of the award-winning bonnet makers or the prettiest
dress or even the Easter bunny handing out trophies. It was of a little boy named Geoffrey all disheveled and grass stained standing in front of the step and repeat banner staring openmouthed at the little brown cricket perched on top of the interviewers mic with the caption that read, “Crickets are Better than Easter Eggs, anyway!”