To all of you new interns...

You are the luckiest people in the world right now. MKG is the greatest company to work for! Take time to really get to know everyone in the office. They are all wonderful people and really know what they are doing. I was only there for a short few months in the summer and I think about everything I learned and experienced every day. Have a wonderful experience and take time to remember how lucky you are to be in such a fantastic place.

Good luck!

Tess

Oh yes...please take time to read/watch REAL INTERNS STEP...ha it is an old blog from July.

NewBe #2

Dearest MKG-ers,

Kimber here! For those of you that I haven't had the chance to meet yet... hi! I'm sure I'll being seeing you soon. I am the second production intern to come aboard for this spring semester and, since I am just getting to know MKGand each of you, I thought I'd share a little bit about myself...

I just moved to the Upper East Side from Phoenix, AZ, where it is a GORGEOUS 74 degrees today! I am 22 and nearly a graduate at Arizona State.  I've known that I wanted to go into event production & planning since two years ago when I found out from an ASU professor that there was such a career, while at an event that I had planned and produced!  GO figure... I was already doing it!  I'm a bit of a foodie and I live for all things sweet... especially chocolate.  Something unique about me...?  I'm a professionally trained cake-decorator, I left a dog, a bird, 2 snakes, 20-30 tortoises & 1 turtle back in AZ, & I LOVE cliff jumping.

SO... I made it through my first week fairly easily and I am so excited to get into the good stuff :) & really get to know, more extensively, the design & production side of the events industry.  I look forward to my second week and I hope you guys don't feel the need to take it easy on me... I love this stuff so throw me into the mix!!

More soon! 

Special K

First Blog! Woot

Heyy-- Thought I would throw together my first blog before I took off for the day.  The last two days have gone by pretty fast despite by hellish commute haha... And after successfully mistaking Jake for Andrew and accidently bypassing Cody on all of Maneesh's calls (my B :) ) I'm definitely excited to tackle whatever you guys throw at me and have a lot of fun these next few months!  Everyone's been extremely nice and welcoming and I already feel like I've learned quite a bit for the time I've been here after stumbling across bizbash.com and picking up a few of the industry Mags.  A lot of the work I've been given has given me some good insight as to what I'm in for too.

Well, all I can say is I am very excited to see all things that go in to these events and get to know everyone better!  I'll have more for you next week I'm sure.  Stay cool ;)

Brit

Fresh Bait!

Lizzie here...

I just want to say we are so thrilled to be welcoming our new class of interns to MKG Productions.  Our first intern, Brittany Wier began on her journey yesterday and was quick to pick up on all things MKG. Kimberly Coonen and Julie Hudson will both be joining our team in the next few weeks, and I'm sure will definitely contribute to our "pink spirit".

So Hooray for the newbies! You have an awesome road ahead of you.

We hope you learn, laugh, and of course LOVE all things MKG.

Signing off now-

Hoots

I remember when I came into MKG for the first time. It was my interview and was a hot muggy August afternoon. Now as I sit hear on this freezing cold snowy December day I cannot believe it is my last day here. All the memories of everything that has happened lays behind me like something resembling my favorite dream. I can Honestly say I had the time of my life working with the MKG team. A group of young professionals so talented,bright,and eager to help one another is extremely hard to come across in a cut throat market like New York. I never once felt uncomfortable or afraid to ask a fellow MKGer to help or explain a project. I had the opportunity to work on a variation of projects ranging from research to executing an event with my peers. All the events were so different in their vision and design but one thing in common that was shared was their execution. They were all done with such pride and creativity that everyone involved could not help but be fulfilled with a great sense of dignity. I will take with me on my next adventure all that I have learned here. It makes me sad to know that I will not be here anymore. But It makes me proud and confident knowing that I had this experience over the past four months.  So I will not say goodbye but see you all later , its better fitting because I hope to stay on board as a production Assistant with the operations department for future events. So to everyone here, I will see you later , and thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are all rock stars. Peace.

Last Day :(

Wow... when they say time flies when your having fun they sure mean it. 

I can't believe today is my last day working at MKG PRODUCTIONS.  These past three months have flown by so fast and have honestly taken my breath away. Each day unfolded a new and exciting project that I had the pleasure of working on. From working endlessly on our hypothetical projects to working real events such as Ray Ban and Target I have honestly learned so much. I will be sure to take this knowledge with me on my future endeavors! I am so proud of all of the work we have accomplished in the past three months and honestly am astounded by what an incredible company MKG truly is. This internship has without a doubt exceeded all of my expectations. Each and every one  of you has made an impact on my life, and for that I am forever grateful. You are all truly amazing, innovative people and it has been an honor to have worked with all of you! Once again you will never know how thankful I am for providing me with the wonderful opportunity of working at MKG. I will miss you all and will be sure to keep in touch! 

My email is reden@uvm.edu

Please don't be shy to email me! I would love to hear from all of you and all of the amazing things going on in your lives!

Best,

Rachel 

Almost done with November. I can't Believe how fast the time goes when your working here at MKG. November was full of fun events and I am glad I got to work on the Cipriani event. What a beautiful venue they have at their 42nd street location. The event went smoothly as does all our events. A personal favorite moment of the night was when the ceremony was over and Ms lady Bunny started the after party. We all danced it up and had a great time as we watched Ms Zeena Divanni strut her stuff on the stairs. We all danced for about an hour and didn't want to leave the dance floor because the music was oh so good. 

Back at the office everyone is getting their talent ready for the retreat. I cant imagine how some of the performances will turn out, we have alot of talent here at MKG. But besides preparing for the talent show everyone has been pretty busy with events. The interns have been working in collaboration with Lizzie and Diane for our clients at Leahman Maupin . We really want to fill that space with some holiday events. We all called over a few hundred companies requesting their event planners contact information in hopes of getting some emails. It was all a numbers game because with a combined effort we managed to get over a hundred contacts for our email blast.Im confident that we will get some positive feedback. I hope this work makes Diane and Maneesh very proud. That's all for now. Hope everyone has a great retreat.