The Marin Convention & Visitors Bureau (MCVB) defines resource partners as clear partners of our organization that are beyond the hospitality scope but do provide a certain program or service to our hospitality members and partners, as well as visitors and residents. A few examples of our resource partners include business & educational organizations, advertising companies, media and graphic design agencies, catering services, and artisans, including photographers, soap makers, floral designers, and other artsy businesses.
Audio-Visual Equipment Rentals
Corporate Media Systems
1261 Andersen Drive, Suite K
San Rafael, CA 94901
415-457-9500
www.cmsrents.com
Corporate Media Systems (CMS) serves the Bay Area as the premier provider of audio-visual rental services, providing a comprehensive range of solutions, equipment, and support for both companies and individuals wishing to conduct successful events.
Catering Services
Alta Cuisine
1555 South Novato Boulevard
Novato, CA 94947
415-898-3230
415-898-3231
www.altacuisine.com
When it comes to making any party or event truly memorable, the cuisine always plays a critical role. So don't leave it to chance. Alta Cuisine has satisfied thousands of discerning customers over the years with innovative, plentiful, full catering services, especially designed to meet your needs and budget. From an intimate gourmet dinner for 4 to a full-course banquet for the largest extravaganza, Alta Cuisine is the right choice.
Delicious! Inc.
26 Medway Road #7
San Rafael, CA 94901
415-453-3710
www.deliciouscatering.com
Bay Area Green Business
An award winning, full service catering and event firm, Delicious! Inc. has served the greater Bay Area since 1975. We are committed to helping you create the event of your dreams. Our clients have enjoyed a consistent level of professionalism coupled with a personal touch. Our event consultants are trained to work very closely with you. Every event has its own unique flavor. We consider it a privilege to help bring that flavor out, offering you and your guests the opportunity to savor your event to its fullest. It is our pleasure to provide our clients with complimentary full-service consultation, including table and buffet design, floor plan layout, lighting, color coordination and a customized event timetable. We also provide on-site event management, accompanied by highly trained serving staff to ensure your event runs flawlessly.
Park Avenue Catering Co.
591 Mercantile Drive
Cotati, CA 94931
707-793-9645
707-793-9874
www.parkavecater.com
Bay Area Green Business
Park Avenue Catering Co. celebrates the bounty of Northern California season by season, always pleasing clients with delicious food and outstanding presentation. Cooking with local products such as gourmet mushrooms and olive oils, farmers market tomatoes, baby greens and berries, and artisan breads & handcrafted cheese is another reason each dish is so good! The key is to convey freshness and abundance with every meal.
Executive Chef Bruce Riezenman is the driving force behind Park Avenue Catering Co. The company was founded in 1989 when Bruce decided to expand on his talents as a successful restaurateur, and bring his fine dining menus to the extraordinary venues of Sonoma County's Wine Country. Having established a reputation for culinary creativity, boundless energy and an eye for detail, Bruce has the vision that keeps Park Avenue Catering Co. growing. With the combined talents of his kitchen crew, sales team and event staff, Park Avenue Catering Co. now specializes in catering and event production throughout Northern California.
Chamber of Commerces
Corte Madera Chamber of Commerce
129 Corte Madera Town Center
Corte Madera, CA 94925
415-924-0441
www.cortemadera.org
Fairfax Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 1111
Fairfax, CA 94978
415-453-5928
www.fairfaxcoc.com
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Marin
P.O. Box 4423
San Rafael, CA 94913
415-721-9686
www.hccmarin.com
Larkspur Chamber of Commerce
P.O Box 315
Larkspur, CA 94977
415-686-2062
www.larkspurchamber.org
Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce
85 Throckmorton Ave.
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-388-9700
www.millvalley.org
Novato Chamber of Commerce
807 DeLong Ave.
Novato, CA 94945
415-897-1164
www.novatochamber.com
San Anselmo Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 2844
San Anselmo, CA 94979-2844
415-454-2510
www.sananselmochamber.org
San Rafael Chamber of Commerce
817 Mission Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901
415-454-4163
www.sanrafaelchamber.com
Sausalito Chamber of Commerce
10 Liberty Way, Suite 250
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-331-7262
www.sausalito.org
Tiburon-Belvedere Chamber of Commerce
96B Main Street
Tiburon, CA 94920
415-435-5633
www.tiburonchamber.org
West Marin Chamber of Commerce
415-663-9232
Email: info@pointreyes.org
www.pointreyes.org
Entertainment
STEEL JAM
Contact: Mary Spalding
415-731-3550
Email: mary@steeljam.com
Steel Jam energizes corporate, private, and community events with fun, festive steel drum music for all occasions!
Choose 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 musicians to fit your budget and event. Utilizing mp3 technology, Steel Jam sounds like a 5 to 20-piece band in its repertoire of Caribbean-flavored reggae, calypso, Jimmy Buffet, salsa, samba, Hawaiian, jazz, pop, disco, and even classical music (popular at our wedding bookings).
Besides our crowd-pleasing music, we pride ourselves in our utmost professionalism and taking the best care of our clients—from your initial inquiry right through to the final pack-up after the event. We make the process easy for you and take care of all the entertainment details so you don’t have to!
Whether it’s a 20-person party, receptions of 100-500, a company function for thousands, an intimate indoor setting or a major league ball park, Steel Jam will make the entertainment a success!
Event Planners
Bronwyn Events
Contact: Bronwyn Smith
415-531-1623
Email: bronwynfirst@gmail.com
As an Event Coordinator, Bronwyn is organized, personable, and exceptionally skilled in creating an environment of comfort and ease with all types of people and events. Bronwyn's experience is vast and varied - her resume includes helping host corporate events, movie premier parties, weddings, and cookie-decorating soirees. She helps examine and clarify any gaps in planning, and tackles managing of the details so you can relax and enjoy, allowing you to feel like one of the guests rather than one of the hosts. Bronwyn is dedicated to making each event a pleasantly memorable experience. Please review her resume for more details.
Mod Proper Events
P.O. Box 2229
San Anselmo, CA 94979
Contact: Allison Chapman
415-828-5451
allison@modproperevents.com
www.modproperevents.com
Wedding and Event Planning. Serving Northern California. Specializing in Marin.
MOD PROPER EVENTS is dedicated to making each wedding a sensation - through attention to detail and by bringing unique visions to life! We are here to guide you along this momentous journey, to alleviate the stress of planning, and to be involved in as many or as few of the decisions as you desire. From vendor selection to budget planning, we offer our expertise to best compliment your event.
Graphic Design / Marketing / Interactive Communications
C3i3 Interactive, Inc.
1151 Harbor Bay Parkway, #120
Alameda, CA 94502
510-523-2343
www.c3i3.com
C3i3 Interactive is a bay area web design company servicing clients in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and the Bay Area cities. C3i3 Interactive is located in the San Francisco Bay Area providing real business solutions to both small and large scale bay area companies. We are a full service one stop digital advertising agency that delivers the best services on the Web. Our talented team of experts provide web design, web development, search engine marketing, database development, content management solutions, graphic design and IT technical solutions to businesses looking for a way to improve marketing efforts on the Web. Outsource Your Web Initiatives to the experts at C3i3 interactive. Getting started is easy. Call or Email us today for a free consultation.
Combined Resources
736 McClay Road
Novato, CA 94947
415-898-1166
Jason Headley
415-420-8484
www.jasonheadley.com
"Headley for Freelance, Inc. brings together good people to come up with good ideas. Drawing from a pool of marketing talent from the top agencies and brands in the country, Jason Headley builds the team that fits the job. It's a no-nonsense approach that avoids ego, promotes creativity, and bypasses all the b.s."
Swope Creative
David Swope, Creative Director
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-272-4420
www.swopecreative.com
David concepts and produces strategic, integrated media-agnostic advertising. His portfolio includes print, broadcast, interactive, outdoor, guerilla marketing, B to B, direct, promotions and logo design. And he has fun doing it. David has 18 years' experience, working with a range of clients from Jelly Belly to California Cheese, from FOX Sports to Microsoft. Locally, he has created advertising campaigns for the Marin Convention & Visitors Bureau, as well as the Marin Farmers Market.
Wine Country Travelhost
1535 Farmers Lane, Suite 350
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
707-578-8799
www.travelhost.com
TRAVELHOST, America’s #1 destination resource, is found in the finest hotel rooms as a guide for business and leisure travelers. For more than 42 years, TRAVELHOST has highlighted the best that the market offers. Wine Country Travelhost is distributed in more than 7,500 hotel rooms and visitor centers. As a travel resource, TRAVELHOST helps local businesses tap into the $11 billion spent by travelers to the #1 wine destination in the country. Tools for reaching the traveler include print, full feature web page, online promotions, editorials, and exclusive smart phone and PDA applications.
VIA Magazine
150 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-565-2454 x2335
www.ViaMagazine.com
VIA is a bimonthly travel magazine for AAA members in Northern California, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Oregon, and southern Idaho.
West Marin Citizen
P.O. Box 158
Pt. Reyes Station, CA 94956
415-723-6948
www.westmarincitizen.com
Mail & Print Services
Ace Printing & Mailing Center
1925 E. Francisco Blvd., Suite 15
San Rafael, CA 94901
415-460-2800
www.acepms.com
Bay Area Green Business
Ace Printing and Mailing Services was established with the mission to deliver high quality work with competitive prices. Our customers' needs comes first, and we treat each of our customers like our family. Look at our testimonials to see what our customers have to say about us. We provide a wide range of services from simple copying, to professional design and customized printing, in any size, any color, and any paper quality you need. We also provide mounting solutions for posters, and t-shirt printing.
We guarantee that you will be satisfied with our service, so contact us before you go anywhere else for your design, printing and mailing needs. We are located in San Rafael, and we work with customers in Marin, North Bay, South Bay, and East Bay.
Photography
Dennis Anderson Photography
Blue Water Pictures
415-971-0722
www.bluewaterpictures.com
Recently named as one of the 10 great hospitality photographers by Hospitality Design Magazine, Dennis Anderson is an internationally known commercial and residential photographer whose fine art photography is in the permanent collections of the New York and San Francisco Museums of Modern Art. As an accomplished master of lighting, Anderson has traveled to Asia, South America and throughout the United States shooting feature assignments for resorts, restaurants and designers. His photos have appeared in numerous books and magazines including Architectural Digest, Hospitality Design, Interiors, Art and Antiques, California Homes, Vogue Living, Resorts and Great Hotels, Oceans, Maritime Life and Traditions, and Rolling Stone.
Anderson's seminars on the Magic of Architectural Photography have become very popular with architects and designers. The American Society of Interior Designers has made him a part of their national Distinguished Speaker Series. The success of his latest book, Hidden Treasures of San Francisco Bay, is a testament to his talent and his desire to inspire us all to cherish and protect our environment.
Judith Love Pietromartire Photography
415-331-5726
415-456-6527
415-299-0682 cell
Email: jpietromartire@msn.com
Judith Love Pietromatire is an award winning photographer with over 16 years experience photographing portraits and events. She specializes in capturing the spirit of the moment and designing images that fit you personally. Judith photographs a wide range of special events and occasions, from all of life's major milestones. They could be described as a circle of life or life's passages: weddings, portraits & headshots, pregnancy & newborn portraits, as well as Christenings, and birthday, engagement and anniversary parties.
Promotional Products Products
AD INFIN ITEM
Michael Bates
39 Pleasant Lane
San Rafael, CA 94901
415-459-1146
www.adinfiniteminc.com
Ad Infin Item specializes in placing company logos on a wide variety of products, such as mugs, key chains, calendars, pens, pencils, bags, balloons, shirts, etc. Our goal is to provide excellent service while helping you promote your business. We put your company name on places you wouldn't have thought possible. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, want to place an order, or if an item you want is not shown here.
Public Relations
Elissa Giambastiani, Public Affairs
415-472-3847
Elissa Giambastiani provides public relations services and public affairs consultation for business and nonprofit organizations. Her editorial services include: press releases, copy for newsletters and brochures, guest editorials, website copy, advertisements and public policy statements. During her 18-year career as the CEO of the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce, she created close business relationships with Marin County's business and community leaders
Realtors
Marty Wickenheiser, Broker Assoc. Pacific Union Real Estate
189 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
Greenbrae, CA 94904
415-264-6564
Regional Convention & Visitor Bureaus
Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau
1608 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-808-7777
www.discovergold.org
San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau
201 3rd St
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-974-6900
www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com
Visit Mendocino County
525 Main Street, Suite E
Ukiah, CA 95482
1-866-GOMENDO (1-866-466-3636)
Wedding Planning / Wedding Hair Services
Association for Wedding Professionals International (AfWPi)
916-392-5000 Sacramento
800-242-4461 Outside Sacramento
www.afwpi.com
Marin Destination Weddings
Dove Place
Marin, California
415-382-8494
www.marindestinationweddings.com
Bay Area Green Business
Intimate wedding packages, all-inclusive elopement packages include: location, officiant, flowers, photography, music, planning & design. Beach, Garden, Hilltop, Chapel with San Francisco Skyline & Beautiful Mt. Tam. Visit the "The Sunny Side of the Bay". Where memories shine.
Mod Proper Events
P.O. Box 2229
San Anselmo, CA 94979
Contact: Allison Chapman
415-828-5451
Wedding and Event Planning. Serving Northern California. Specializing in Marin.
MOD PROPER EVENTS is dedicated to making each wedding a sensation - through attention to detail and by bringing unique visions to life! We are here to guide you along this momentous journey, to alleviate the stress of planning, and to be involved in as many or as few of the decisions as you desire. From vendor selection to budget planning, we offer our expertise to best compliment your event.
Wedding and Event Hair & Make-up On-Location
334 Blackstone Drive
San Rafael, Ca 94903
415-264-2762
Contact: Gayle Parker
Wedding and Event Hairstyling & Make-up Services On-Location. Serving Northern California
Specializing in Hairstyling & Make-up “On-Location" for weddings and special events. Owner/Stylist, Gayle Parker, loves what she does, prides herself on her work, client service and personal touch. She always takes that extra step. With a team of very talented artists, she travels to your wedding or event location to help make your special day stress free! Recently chosen as Wedding Wire 2010 Choice Award recipient; read all about it here.
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