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Your Table, My Table, Our Table

Ever had someone pop up at your home unexpected? Are you the person to open the door and quickly and do a clean sweep of your home and offer them tea or juice? Or Are you the type of person to not even answer the door? Or Do you pretend you’re not at home? When planning your big day not having an assigned seating chart at

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E’MAGINE 15 Years!!!

By Shaunda Eggleston

Our E'MAGINE Events & Co team can hardly believe it's been fifteen years since Shaunda officially launched her business. Slow and Steady In the beginning, she had a vision for the business name and knew enough to register the name right away. From there, she took an online wedding planning course and read everything she could get her hands on. When you first start

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WHERE YA’LL GOING?

By Shaunda

Growing up in a large home didn’t allow much of anything called “me time” - so whenever I see that my mother was about to leave the house and it didn’t matter where she was going, I would scream loudly “I wanna go, please can I?” (smile). I’m not sure if it was the fact that I was getting out

engaged couple outside of Beltline Station in Durham North Carolina

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Planning A Special Wedding Proposal in Durham

By Shaunda Eggleston

Our E'MAGINE Event & Co team LOVES engagement season! There's just something about a cute couple and a wedding proposal story that gets us excited. Especially when it's our owner, Shaunda Eggleston, is planning an unforgettable setting for her baby brother Jamel to propose. Picking A Date Jamel says Demetria is inquisitive, and it's hard to get anything past her. So, picking a

Shaunda Eggleston of E'MAGINE Events & Co on the set of The Design Network's reality show Sleighed

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Behind the Scenes of Sleighed

By Shaunda Eggleston

We'd guess by now you've heard all the buzz and seen our very own Shaunda Eggleston on The Design Network's holiday reality show Sleighed! Check out our last blog post, Prepare to be Sleighed, to find out more about how Shaunda got picked for this fantastic show. Behind The Scenes It was so much fun for Shaunda to see a bit behind the

Host and set of The Design Network and Michaels Craft Stores holiday show Sleighed

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Prepare to be Sleighed!

By Shaunda Eggleston

We’re too excited to finally share our secret. Our fearless leader Shaunda was invited to be part of a TV holiday design competition called ‘Sleighed!’ Sleigh what? A few months back, someone reached out to us on our Instagram account – for real, we thought it was a joke. So, after talking to a few close friends, Shaunda responded to them. Before we

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The Artistry of Wedding and Event Cakes: Trusting Your Baker

By Shaunda Eggleston

Our E'MAGINE Events & Co know that whether you are planning a milestone birthday party, luxurious wedding, or something fun for single friends- the cake is next level. Special occasion cakes are more detailed, shimmering, colorful, and bigger than ever before. Bakers are doing way more than baking. They're artists and experts on what they do. Follow Your Planner's Lead People come to

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There’s No Place Like Home For Weddings

By Shaunda Eggleston

Ok, THAT is probably the last thing you’d expect our E’MAGINE Events & Co team to say, especially in 2020! But the truth is that home might just be the best place right now for your wedding. Earlier this year, we started talking about Micro weddings. Weddings with fewer than 50 guests, so you can splurge on pretty things, really personal

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Up, Up and Away: Balloon Decor

By Shaunda Eggleston

Our E'MAGINE Events & Co team loves balloon decor. Balloon sculptures are just too cute! They are a great way to add big pops of fun, color, and texture to any wedding or event. Balloon decor got a bad rap for wedding and event décor because years ago, people blew up a few helium balloons, tied them together with ribbon, and

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Wedding Guest Lists: Who Makes The Cut?

By Shaunda Eggleston

Let's be honest, a wedding guest list is one of the most stressful parts of planning a wedding. Unfortunately, it's not something you can turn over to our E'MAGINE Events & Co team to do for you. Part of the stress involves two partners and two families working to rank the closeness of family and lifelong friends. Everyone is looking to

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Micro Weddings Are On Trend

By Shaunda Eggleston

Somewhere at the end of 2019, our E’MAGINE Events & Co team started hearing about Micro-Weddings being hot for 2020. Micro-Weddings are sort of the tiny homes of weddings. Pretty much they are smaller weddings, most under fifty people, where it’s all about family, friends, luxury and pampering your wedding guests. We’re already doing Micro Weddings and Intimate Gatherings When we saw this,

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North Carolina Destination Weddings

By Shaunda Eggleston

We LOVE destination weddings! If you've followed our E'MAGINE Events & Co. for more than a minute, you know how much we love traveling and destination weddings, especially in the Caribbean. We also work with lots of local North Carolina couples to plan their weddings all over the state. It looks like early 2021 might be a mashup of destination weddings,

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