Great tip for traveling for your events... PRICELINE!

Priceline customers have saved more than $6 billion on their travel purchases. No one deals like we do! We negotiate the absolute best travel deals to help you stretch your travel dollars further!

Here's a sampling of the more ways you can save big by purchasing your travel through priceline:

Shop And Compare Prices. Looking for a specific flight, hotel, rental car, or vacation package? No problem. Just tell us what you want and we'll search through thousands of published itineraries and prices. We'll instantly show you an easy-to-compare product and pricing chart drawn from the thousands of flights, hotels, rental cars and cruises available to priceline. Then, just choose what works for you. We do all the work so you can find exactly what you want in seconds. Start your next search from the priceline.com home page.

Name Your Own Price®. It's what made priceline.com famous. If you can be flexible when you travel, we can save you up to 50% or more on your Hotel Rooms & Airline Tickets, and up to 30% or more on your Rental Cars, compared to the other leading travel sites.* You name the price, we pick the flight, hotel or rental car brand – it's that simple.

Buy a Package and Save. It's true – buy your flight, hotel and rental car as a package and you can save an average of $325 over buying separately.** Over 2,000 destinations to choose from. No bidding or flexibility required – just pick the exact Hotel & Flight you want and we'll show you the best price. Shop for a priceline package right now.

"More Ways To Save" Trip Tips. Here's where priceline goes "above and beyond." Every time you shop and compare prices for flights, hotels, rental cars, or vacation packages, we'll not only show you the best available options for what you asked for, we'll also recommend additional ways for you to save on that trip. Like using a different airport. Or flying on different dates. Or staying at a hotel in a different part of town. It's like having a personal savings consultant at your side. Start your next search and look for the "More Ways to Save" recommendations.

Visit Priceline.com to start saving more today!

Find a rental company that you can count on!

Stick with one rental company to receive discounts on linens, glasses, bar towels, etc.

My main rental company is Elite Rentals in Winston-Salem. If they do not have what I need, it's off to Hauser Rental I go.

I have cultivated great working relationships with both of these rental companies, and they are eager to help me (as a non-profit organization) because I go through them for each event I plan.

A few things that are a MUST for your event...

No matter how big or how small your event is, the bullet points below will help your event become more personal.

• First off, live music is a MUST! (background music, that is)
  
• Name badges are nice, when guests enter - they have RSVP'd, and they should receive a name badge - this helps your guest remember names of those they haven't seen in a while.
  
• A gift for each couple/individual that comes to your event - a gift given as they leave is another very simple way to say, "THANKS" for coming and we appreciate your willingness to "show up" tonight.
  
  There is more that I can share on this - stay tuned for next week's entry.