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  • Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: Balcony Photos
    Michael Middleton, Carole Middleton, The Prince of Wales, holding bridesmaid Eliza Lopes, and The Duchess of Cornwall The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh and Pippa Middleton […]
  • Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: The Procession Back to Buckingham Palace
    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travel in a 1902 State Landau back to Buckingham Palace. Bridesmaids and a page boy Prince Harry and two young Attendants Carole and Michael Middleton travel with The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in the Australian State Coach. The Royal Procession arrives at Buckingham Palace […]
  • Royal Wedding Updates and What Happened After the Ceremony
    After the couple appeared on the balcony, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left Buckingham Palace in an Aston Martin DB6, which is owned by William's father, the Prince of Wales. The Prince has owned the car since 1969. The couple drove over to Clarence House. Later that evening after returning to Buckingham Palace, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge we […]
  • Video: A History of British Royal Wedding Dresses
    What can history teach us about Kate Middleton's choice of wedding dress? Dr Joanna Marschner reveals the style and symbolism of two centuries of royal wedding dresses. Find out what the dresses say about attitudes to royal marriage, about the the state of the nation - and about the personality of the brides who wore them. From Princess Charlotte's […]
  • Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles Marriage Announcement 10th February 2005
    Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles announced their intention to marry on 8th April 2005, in the Grand Reception Room, at Windsor Castle, where they spoke to the press and showed off the engagement ring. The engagement ring is a royal heirloom which belonged to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. It has a 1920s platinum setting and is composed of a squar […]

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Party Music Rentals Audio Video Karaoke Systems

Digital party music systems for rent. Audio, video, karaoke, and fun included.

Party Touch Party Rental Music System, Jukebox, Music Video and Karaoke System

Now you can expect great music, great karaoke, and great music videos for your party.

Welcome to PartyTouch Music Systems from ASAP Tent and Party Rentals

Whether you’re planning a special event or just putting together the perfect party, music more than likely will play a significant role in creating a memorable gathering. PartyTouch  from ASAP delivers what you want:

A more cost-effective solution than live music offers.
An alternate to CD Jukeboxes that includes lots of music variety and the most up-to-date music for your party.
An alternate to disc based karaoke rental systems and it keeps your party going once the singing stops.

Now you can expect great music, great karaoke, and great music videos for your party.
What To Expect

All digital music, No CDs, No karaoke songbooks, No headaches – Rent Your PartyTouch

You know you’ve got to have great tunes to have a great party! You know your guests want great music and lots of variety too. But, your options are either too expensive, too complicated, too limited or all of the above – until now.

Forget the old Jukebox rentals or karaoke system rentals with our all-in-one PartyTouch Music System from ASAP Party Rentals – The only fully-licensed, self contained, audio/video/karaoke music system available.

Find out how rentals work or reserve your PartyTouch today. You can also contact us directly with any questions at 905 833-6756 or  email party at asaprental.com

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Patio Heaters heat BMO Field Soccer Toronto FC

 

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R&D Testing Heater Efficiency

Carrying Propane

Carrying Propane

 

ASAP Tent and party rentals set up 30 heaters for a FC Dallas soccer game here at BMO Field here in Toronto. Temperatures hovered in around the zero mark most of the evening. Almost 30 patio heaters were placed around the stadium to act as warming stations for the soccer fans.

For the players ASAP supplied forced air tent heaters in the dugouts. This has been a fairly large outdoor heating operation involving large areas of outdoor space to be heated. ASAP has various heaters to handle a variety of situations.

ASAP has the experience, expertise and equipment to supply a wide variety of outdoor heating requirements.

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Where to Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Ontario

Can’t make it to London, England for the Royal Wedding events and celebrations? How about London, Ontario? TV coverage starts at 3:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time and gets into full swing at 6:00 ET

London, Ontario Events

The Palace Theatre Friday, April 29th a Wedding Party to celebrate Prince William and Kate Middleton nuptials. The morning party will feature a sumptuous British Breakfast Tea, live streaming of the wedding on a huge film screen and a royal trivia contest with prizes. Funds raised from this event will support of the restoration campaign for the heritage theatre. Contact Faith Coates at faithcoates(at) sympatico.ca or call 519-933-2796. Ticket are $25.00 and can be ordereed online

London, Ontario City Hall has set up a book of congratulations. Visitors can sign the book from 8:30AM to 4:30PM April 27th when the book will be forwarded to Buckingham palace.

Toronto

For those wanting to celebrate with a crowd, Peter Mansbridge will be heading up the CBC team outside Buckingham Palace. CBC TV coverage starts at 5AM. What better place to watch than the Canadian Broadcasting Centre Atrium – 250 Front St. W. Admission is FREE to attend the CBC Royal Wedding Viewing Party. The doors are open at 5:00 AM

The Old King Eddy A.K.A. Le Meridian King Edward Hotel will be hosting a slightly more genteel event. An English breakfast will be served with tea service. There is room for 150 guests and tickets are $65.00 Executive chef Daniel Schick and his team plan to start preparing breakfast at 2:00 AM to get to work preeping a sumptuous Royal Breakfast.

Royal Wedding Celebration and Wedding replay at Duke of Westminster Pub, First Canadian Place, 77 Adelaide St W. Sponsored by British Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Information: royalwedding@bcctc.ca

Swansea Town Hall in the Rousseau Room, 95 Lavinia Ave. (416-392-1954) Hosted by Hosted by Sarah Doucette Toronto city councillor for Parkdale-High Park. Dress code is Red / White / Blue. There will be a tea service and live telecast. April 29, 5:45 AM

Fox and Fiddle at 27 Wellesley St. E. Toronto will open for a royal breakfast at 5:30 a.m. and host a live broadcast. Reserve by phone 416-944-9369

The Duke of Kent pub 2315 Yonge St., Toronto opens at 5 a.m. to start celebrations with a traditional English breakfast $8.99. Phone 416-485-9507.

Windsor Arms Hotel , 18 St. Thomas St. (416-971-9666) “The Royal Experience” at 4:00AM Traditional English breakfast + live telecast of the Royal Wedding, $125

Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front St. W.

Friday, April 29 at the Library Bar – English afternoon tea served in fine china with sandwiches, pastries and dessert + live telecast, $35. Reservations: 416-860-5004.

Friday, April 29, 5 a.m. at Epic Lounge – Traditional English breakfast, $21. Smart casual dress code. Reservations: 416-860-6949.

Ottawa

The Chateau Laurier will have a Royal Wedding Breakfast sponsored by the University of Ottawa Monarchists, 5-8 a.m. Email Philippe Chartrand at philippevchartrand(at)hotmail.com.

If you don’t want to be up for the breakfast, drop by Zoe’s later and share a toast with the Champagne Cocktail. The Champagne Cocktail which is the Event Planning Report’s April signature cocktail was inspired by a visit to Zoe’s

Hamilton / Dundas

Public viewing on wide screens and buffet breakfast sponsored by Sheraton Hamilton, benefit for Royal Charities. Information: Andreana Zerafa, andreana.zerafa@sheraton.com

Taylor’s Tea Room in Dundas will put on a royal wedding breakfast tea and watching party hosted by Norma Shephard of the Mobile Millinery Museum and Costume Archive and the Dundas Museum and Archives from 5 to 8 a.m. Event will feature vintage 20th-century wedding gowns and royal memorabilia.

Dundurn Castle, 610 York Blvd, Hamilton (905-546-2872) Royal Tea at Dundurn Castle (ancestral home of the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla) April 29, 4 – 6 PM sponsored by Hamilton Branch, Monarchist League of Canada. Contact: Jeffrey Thiessen, mission.consort@sympatico.ca

St Agatha (West of Kitchener)

5am Canadian Pancake Brunch and viewing for friends and fellow monarchists. 2005 Notre Dame Drive.Host: Jamie Hill, sandy_jamiehill@hotmail.com

Jackson’s Point

Aat Jackson’s Point on Lake Simcoe the Briars Resort and Spa will host an English themed breakfast in the Great Hall, 6:00 to 9:00 AM.

If you have an event, use the comment section to add it.

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How Will You Be Celebrating the Royal Wedding?

THE STREET PARTY

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Do you think the Royal Wedding is a snore to be ignored? Will you be celebrating the Royal Wedding in some way?

On April 29th television coverage of the Royal Wedding will be staring at 3:00 AM in the eastern standard time zone. Will you be watching?

Are you planning a party or event, a street party, a gathering of any sort?  We would like to hear about it here. Got photos? Send them or post them and use the post reply to let the world know about your plans. Photos can be e-mailed to party@asaprental.com with any other material you would like to see published

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Event Management Made Easy with amiando

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There are a lot of innovative tools on the internet that help you manage your event better. Today I would like to introduce the online event registration and ticketing solution amiando. This tool allows you to plan and manage your event. As a registered customer you can create events and ev ent websites where you can sell tickets or your attendees can register. You can design the event page the way you want and integrate information like the program of your event, map directions, pictures and many more. You can even integrate Social Networks into your event so people can share it via Facebook for example.

Registered attendees of your event are automatically filed in a participant list that you can access whenever you want. All your customer data is stored in one place and like this you can keep track of your event without any hassle. amiando sends weekly reports and statistics related to your event. An integrated e-mail tool allows you to send e

mail invitations and track the response or you can simply use it to stay in contact with your customers. If you sell tickets, amiando does the payment processing for you – no matter if the customers pay with credit card or via their bank account, amiando collects all payments and transfers the money to you. Like this you can save resources in your accounting department and concentrate on your event planning. Every registered customer gets an e-ticket or if you want you can also have them sent professional paper tickets with security features. At the date of your event you can manage the entry of your guests with a free software called EasyEntry which works with your webcam to check tickets, so no ticket can be used twice.

With the amiando event management software you can save a lot of time and money, it is tailored to the needs of event managers- it makes event organization so much easier and less stressful for you. The free tool works as software-as-a-service so you can access it via your web browser practically from everywhere without installation or download. Beside the basic offer mentioned above amiando has a large variety of possibilities to customize events to the needs of the organizers. Check out the tool!

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$3.00 – $7.50 Discount International Home and Garden Show Ticket Promo

Home and Garden Show

Home and Garden Show

Of interest to Event Planners and folks planning an event in their garden at home.

No Coupon or promo code is required. Show price is $15.00 at the door
$12.00 if tickets are ordered online
50% discount at the door for after 5:00 PM on Thursday and Friday evening

Location:

Toronto International Centre
6900 Airport Rd at Derry, Mississauga

Thursday,   March  31 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday,       April      1 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday,   April      2 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday,     April      3 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

March 31 – April 3, 2011

Get the Jump on Spring
at the
Successful
Gardening Show

Two
shows for the price of one at the International

Home
& Garden Show

March
31st – April 3rd, International Centre

 

 

MISSISSAUGA:
February 28, 2011 . . .
Now is the time to plan your best garden
ever, say the International Home & Garden Show’s garden rescue
crew. As the crocuses begin to bud, horticultural luminaries Mark
Cullen, Frank Ferragine, Denis Flanagan, Marjorie Harris, Frank
Kershaw, Ed Lawrence, Marjorie Mason, Cristina daSilva and other
green thumbs are gathering at the event’s Successful Gardening Show
to plant some ideas that will make outdoor living spaces more
beautiful and sustainable. With so much talent, plus aisles of
garden exhibits, and the 19th annual Ontario Horticultural
Association Plant and Flower show, Successful Gardening combines
practical garden products and authoritative advice March 31st through
April 3rd at the International Centre.

 

OHA
Plant and Flower Competition

The
centrepiece is the Ontario Horticultural Association’s Plant and
Flower Competition. More than 2,400 square feet is dedicated to
showcasing OHA members’ gorgeous plant designs in numerous
categories. With the theme “Just About Time” this year’s
breathtaking amateur flower show is not to be missed. There
are 62 classes of houseplants, cut garden plant material and special
exhibits ranging from prickly cacti to velvety African violets,
unbelievable orchids
and 10 classes of floral designs.

 

“This
year visitors will see amazing miniature floral designs less than 12
cm in any direction, free standing designs up to 2 m tall as well as
hanging designs” boasts acting OHA Flower Show Chair Heinke
Thiessen. “We invite visitors to take time to smell the flowers,
admire outstanding plants and be inspired by the daily demos on
simple floral design and creating your own planter.”

 

Helping
you Grow

Successful
Gardening’s crew of gardening experts offer free advice at the
Helping You Grow stage. There is so much to learn… Do you know
what “hardscaping” means? What are the trendiest flowers
and foliage for 2011? Why is gardening looking up? What is Guerrilla
gardening? How can I reduce water use in my garden? How are
community gardens affecting social change? What is the dollar value
of green? Find the answers to these and other thought provoking
questions when these experts take to the stage:

 

Mark
Cullen Great Gardens for a New Decade Saturday 12:30pm &
3:30pm

Cristina
daSilva Fun, Crazy and Whimsical Gardens Saturday 4:45pm

Shauna
Dobbie 4000 Years of Gardening in 40 minutes Thursday 4:45 pm

Beth
Edney Designing a Water Efficient Garden Friday 4:45 pm

Frank
Ferragine Get Growing! Friday & Saturday 2 pm

Denis
Flanagan How to Make Your own Garden a Success Sunday 12:30 pm &
3 pm

Albert
Graves Floral Fun Sunday 2 pm

Frank
Kershaw Creative Garden Design Thursday 2 pm; Friday, 3:30 pm

Ed
Lawrence Tricks and Tips to Gardening without Pesticides Thursday
12:30 & 3:30

Marjorie
Mason Bulbs for all Seasons! Friday 12:30

 

Dig
into spring at Successful Gardening running in conjunction with the
International Home & Garden Show, Thursday, March 31st through
Sunday, April 3rd at the International Centre, 6900 Airport Road,
Mississauga.

Its
two shows for the price of one! Hours are Thursday 11 am to 8 pm;
Friday and Saturday 10 am to 8 pm and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. PARKING
IS FREE. For admission rates and the latest show details visit
www.internationalhomeshow.ca / 416-512-1305 /
info@internationalhomeshow.ca

 

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Issued
by/Media Contacts:

Crane
Communications

Kim
Graham Tel.: 416-537-0954 kim@kimgraham.ca OR trisha@kimgraham.ca

Linda
Crane Tel.: 905-257-6033 cranepr@cogeco.ca

 

 

 

 

 

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Free Admission to the Canadian Special Events Show

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004

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Event planners and party planners get free admission to the Canadian Special Events Show March 24, 2011 from 11:00AM to 6:00PM at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Free tickets register here

On display  will be lighting, decor, staging, gifts & giveaways, creative services, entertainment, catering, florals and more

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