5 posts tagged “kelmany ross”

Meeting my clients, I realize that I have many things to share.

Design:

I have been producing weddings for 12 years now. I have seen it all, and I have done it all. New on the scene here in Ottawa in the last year or so, are glow lights. Glow lights are a great way to add illumination to your guest tables. They are battery operated, last all night, and can easily be incorporated into centerpiece designs. There are a few design issues that need to be considered before you decide to opt for glow lights. Because the glow lights are a new product on the scene, this means that the lights need to be incorporated into "new" modern, "urban" designs that suit the concept of glow lights. There is nothing worse than desiring a 1920's warm, personal ambiance focused event, and then using blue glow lights to try to achieve the mood. Warm ambiance can be created by using traditional looking lighting such as candles, not glow lights.

Florists vs Wedding Designer:

While we certainly can reproduce any and all florist generated ideas for weddings, I want to point out that a florist and a wedding designer are two completely different people. We offer two completely different types of services. Fresh flowers are gorgeous and they add that final touch to any event. The key word here is "Final Touch"! Flowers are the final step in the wedding design process, and the final piece of the design puzzle. Because Add Pizzazz is a wedding design company, not a florist, we offer services specifically geared to weddings only. No mothers day bouquets, no funeral arrangements, weddings only. We channel all our energy and focus on the full design concept of weddings, and we use props, overlays, back draping, centerpieces, and head table decor to tell the full story, the flowers are the final touch. We are not distracted by Valentines Day, Christmas, Easter or any other holiday. Florists bread and butter are these holiday events, and they are heavily dependent on the revenue these key events generate. They need the money they make off these holidays to pay for the cost of their shop, fridges, and in house flower stock. Just the idea of a florist designing a flower arrangement for a casket, and then, using the same fill and flowers for the church for a wedding is not appealing. What does this mean for you? 1) a vendor focused specifically on wedding design, and serving the wedding industry. 2) cost savings transfered down to the price of the floral designs 3) meticulous attention to wedding design and trends 4) a vendor not influenced by other revenue streams.  

Please, if you are a bride whom has booked Add Pizzazz Wedding Services for your wedding through Bronwyn Hammell, and if you have not been contacted by the owner, Kelmany Ross as of Aug 14th, 2008, please contact her immediately.

Bronwyn Hammell abruptly quit her part time job with Add Pizzazz August 12th, and she took all the information about your event with her. While her email to you states she has passed on the information about your event, this is not the case. While her emails to my clients imply she had a "business relationship with Add Pizzazz" this is not the case, she was hired to meet clients and book weddings only. I am working tirelessly to clean the situation up, but your call to me is very important.

Please call Kelmany Ross immediately at 613 482 8674 or 612 222 1978.

Add Pizzazz is an event design and management company that plans and executes a variety of events ranging from intimate gatherings to innovative corporate events. Design, shape, form, composition, and texture, are used to create events that perfectly compliment client’s personality, style, and lifestyle. Whether it is to motivate, entertain, or innovate, Add Pizzazz events offer outstanding outcomes that propel corporate organizations forward. Add Pizzazz combines fun with flawless planning. Add Pizzazz offers exciting ideas for an amazing activity day, quality conference venue, or a party planner, or combination of all 3, Add Pizzazz event management team is brimming with innovative ideas.

Business Growth – Sales, Profitability and Expansion

Kelmany Ross decided to pursue her passion for décor and design in 1999 after planning and designing her own wedding. Add Pizzazz began as a part time, home based business, and within 4 years the company evolved into a full time operation, incorporated, and one of Ottawa’s leading event design and management companies. As a part time business, the company averaged 12 events it has now grown to have produced over 400 events.

The event design and event management industry has changed dramatically over the course of the last 8 years. Add Pizzazz is now recognized as one of the leaders in event management and design in Ottawa after fostering strong alliances, and working relationships with industry vendors, and facility owners. Presently Add Pizzazz is The Ottawa Marriott’s exclusive designer for all their weddings.

Kelmany Ross prides herself in her very classic, simplistic decorative style and does not believe in imposing design ideas on her clients. Her eye is on simple elegance, specific attention to the fine details, and desire to listen to her customers taste.

The events—whether a wedding with elegant fresh floral arrangements, prop rentals, and accent linen draping. or a corporate function focused specifically on event planning—are led and managed by owner Kelmany Ross. The company is complimented by a group of expert event managers, floral design consultants, fabric specialists, and contractors who work together to produce Add Pizzazz events. Together this committed and reliable team of experts guarantees that a customer’s home, wedding, or corporate event will be transformed into a memorable, spectacular affair. 

Job Creation/Employee Relations

Add Pizzazz has always recognized the importance of cultivating employee talents and inspiring loyalty as in integral component to Add Pizzazz growth. The company works to encourage collaboration, cooperation, process improvement and strong workplace relationships. Employees are encouraged to bring their personality to the company. Innovation, unique designs, and personal input are strongly encouraged, accepted and integrated into projects. When planning events, Kelmany Ross ensures staff, and those working on the project are front line in the creation, growth and development, as well as execution of the event.

As an advisor to The Algonquin College Event Management Advisory Committee, owner, Kelmany Ross offers mentorship and job placement opportunities to students’ studying to become event managers. The company involvement in Algonquin College demonstrates the desire to stay connected to leading trends in event management and commitment to offering valuable work experience in a one on one mentorship format benefiting students entering the industry.

Innovation/Research & Development

Add Pizzazz is a unique company in that the entire business has been built and developed by Kelmany Ross. From the selection of the business name, and its original wedding focus, to its present growth into event management, Kelmany Ross has been at the helm steering the company through many business obstacles. Perseverance and desire to succeed pushed the company forward when many other business owners would have given up.  

Constant realigning, and reevaluating and grounding has been the company’s secret to success in its expansion and growth. A consistent focus on uniqueness and ambiance through décor, for intimate dinner parties, weddings and corporate events has enabled the company to carve a unique niche in the industry.

The company has utilized every form of advertising from radio, television, newsprint, and magazine advertising to market its services to clients. Recent technology adaptations have resulted in a major advertising shift for the company. WEB 2.0 technologies and social media combined with word of mouth advertising is the primary means of marketing and promoting Add Pizzazz products and services to potential clients. Social media has enabled the company to set itself apart from other companies serving the industry.     

Organization is the key to Add Pizzazz success. The business operates under strict organization. In terms of customer service, telephone calls are returned between 9-11 am daily, emails returned by noon, contracts, proposals, and estimates are delivered by email within hours of meeting potential clients. Follow up calls on sales quotes are made within 24 hours. In producing events, organization again is the key to their success. Add Pizzazz has a reputation within the industry of always completing work on time. Strict adherence to organization is and will continue to be Add Pizzazz’s most important philosophy.

Add Pizzazz prices events in categories specific to the design process. The innovative pricing offers customers the freedom to break down costs, and decide, based on personal budget which decorative options they wish to proceed with. Event contracts include complimentary consultations, site checks the week of the event, and the freedom to change decorative orders up to the week of the event.  

Customer Service/Quality

Add Pizzazz, as a representative of the event management industry must show their management expertise by being highly organized, down to the very finest detail. Customers are listened to; Add Pizzazz works to understand customer’s desire, need, and vision. The company transforms the information collected into events that are unique to their customer’s personality and vision. Add Pizzazz does not create cookie cutter events. Each event is as unique as the customer. Events capture customer’s personality; and ambiance enhances the overall look and feel of the event.

The quality of products, the energy invested into organizing and executing the events, and the personal service provided by the team sets the company apart from the competition. When a customer calls, it’s the company’s service strategy to act. They create quick, easy to understand quotes, that are reasonably priced.

The owners enthusiasm infects the entire company, including staff and customers alike. She puts high importance on self worth, and sets an example to the entire team with her work ethic, tireless enthusiasm, innovation, and creativity. Nothing excites Kelmany more than transforming a blasé room into an extravagant event, with lots of candles and ambiance. Her personal gratification is when a bride sheds tears of joy on her wedding day or a corporate client writes a wonderful thank you.  Professional development includes countless business seminars, and design research.

Community/Charitable Involvement/Environmental Responsibility                           

Offering professional event management expertise to causes important to Add Pizzazz Creative Events includes producing local art shows in support of The Breast Cancer Society of Canada, and an Ottawa based golf tournament in support of The Canadian Prostate Cancer Society.

The owner’s strong identity to historical buildings and the survival of local downtown businesses resulted in Add Pizzazz producing a successful community focused event in support of The Mainstreet of Almonte & Pakenham Revitalization Association.

Add Pizzazz environmental responsibility includes using only eco friendly flowers, with no pesticides, and locally grown flowers, in all the fresh floral designs created by the company. This environmental commitment is costly but, its impact on the environment is worth the expense. Fresh flowers are ordered from local growers, and company’s stamped with eco friendly certification and no pesticides. Additional organizations Add Pizzazz donates expertise to include CATA/WIT, The Mississippi Mills Chamber of Commerce, The Almonte Skating Club, just to name a few.