WHO WE ARE
With extensive backgrounds in event planning, catering, marketing and fundraising, the team at Emerson Events + Marketing have successfully planned over 1,000 events across the country. From small, intimate affairs, to corporate outings, social celebrations, sales meetings, adventure races and large scale benefit galas and dinners, Emerson Events is brought onboard to execute all elements of an event, from the initial conceptualization through on-site execution; and service packages can be customized to fit each client’s needs and goals.
The Emerson team has over 35 years of collective experience, and making sure all aspects of the event run flawlessly is in their blood. Emerson Events is known throughout the non-profit and corporate worlds for its readiness to collaborate with their clientele to create meticulously planned events that the clients are proud to be associated with. The Emerson team prides itself on its ability to listen and learn exactly what their clients want to project to their audiences. Armed with the knowledge and know how, as well as an expert team of professionals within their network, the strategic planning begins. Through insightful ideas, thought out solutions and down-to-earth hard work woven into the fabric each event — the results are outstanding and noteworthy.
TESTIMONIALS
“Having worked with the Emerson team on numerous events, I’m always grateful for their experience, professionalism and joyful approach to event production. We are so well prepared for our events because of their valuable insight and attention to detail. It takes a team to create a successful event and Emerson Events are not only seasoned experts, they are the best teammates - always working with a collaborative spirit and a strong camaraderie. We truly appreciate that!”
— Beth Turner
Senior Corporate Sales Manager, Pier Sixty - The Lighthouse - Current
“I have worked with Carrie in literally dozens of different fundraising and event-producing settings. I cannot give anyone a stronger recommendation. She is smart and creative - this is both obvious and important. She is also very energetic and outgoing, again terrific attributes that are necessary for an event planner. But she possesses two character traits that are not so common, and that make her exceptional: First, in producing complicated fundraising events, things can go wrong. Things outside of an organization or event planner’s control like weather, or the behavior of others. I have been in a very wide range of events with Carrie where, when things went wrong, she never got down. She stayed positive and productive in very stressful and difficult settings. Secondly, Carrie treats everyone with whom she interacts - from the highest net worth donors to the students, the clients and volunteers - with the same respect and dignity. No one will leave an event produced by Carrie without feeling like they mattered. I always felt like Carrie was not just producing a Harbor School or a Billion Oyster Project event, she was always a terrific representative of our community and the community we were trying to build."
— Murray Fisher
Co-Founder, Harbor School and the Billion Oyster Project
“Hard to remember all the events and programs I have worked on with Nancy; but do know that none of them would have been as successful without her. We have worked together in small and large projects for more than twenty years. Her leadership and attention to all the small things has helped to create important events and wonderful memories. She helped our community usher in the new Millennium with organizing multiple town wide events, years in the making, for children and adults, and many still speak of them all these years later. I have counted on her many times since for charitable events, social events and several community events and programs that brought together people from all corners of town, often for the first time, helping to build community, with the singular purpose of turning our residents into neighbors.
She has an uncanny way of seeing details that others don’t and never fails to pull them all together to create a special occasion. I can’t imagine taking on any project without her guidance or input and believe that some of the richness of our community, and my place here, has her fingerprints on it.”
— Mayor Robert D. Parisi
West Orange
