Where to Find Vendors for the Party You're Hosting
How to hire a bartender, chef, servers, or a coordinator (& more!) for your event
Find service professionals for your next gathering
Heading out to the Hamptons for the weekend? Planning a bachelorette in Nashville? Organizing a couples baby shower in Dallas— you live in Seattle and know nothing about the Dallas entertainment scene. How do you find the support? Where do you look and who do you call to find a venue or a bartender or basic support of the party?
Or, maybe you're thinking about how to throw a party at home, and want to elevate things a tad. For this very reason, you're looking forward to hiring day-of event help. But where to find the professionals?
Now, Partytrick is happy to answer you: Sit back and relax. Here is our party planning guide for how to hire out event services. Whether you use these resources in your hometown or for an event you’re throwing hundreds of miles away, we’ve got the resources for you to find the vendor team to help you.
Services to search for party vendors
Venue
- Splacer: the Airbnb of event planning
- Peerspace: spaces to rent worldwide for events, parties, corporate gatherings, fitness studios
Chefs
- Tivity: Creating one-of-a-kind meal experiences in your home
- Party Host Helpers: From coordinator, to chef, to server, to ticket scanner, they've got you covered
- Thumbtack: connecting you to professionals everywhere
- Bark.com: catered questions to cater your meal
- Table at Home: find the private chef for your next dinner party, in these cities:
- ~Chicago
- ~Los Angeles
- ~Miami
- ~New York City, parts of New Jersey & Connecticut
- ~San Diego
- ~Washington D.C. / DMV
- ~Austin
- ~Boston
- ~Houston
- ~Nashville
Bartenders
- Tivity: Creating one-of-a-kind meal experiences in your home
- Party Host Helper: Also arms your bar with certified bartenders to serve cocktails and/or bartenders to open and serve beer and wine
- Thumbtack: multi-task this site for food and drinks
- GigSalad: select your city and book a local bartender
Printed Materials
- Papier: specially printed menus, place cards, thank you cards
- Minted: globally-sourced artists and makers shipped straight to your home
DJ
- Thumbtack: same same, but different
- Bark.com: really a do-it-all platform
- GigSalad: you’ve seen it before
Flowers
- Farm Girl Flowers: Choose from burlap accents and the Big Box Shop: 100 stems to play with!
- UrbanStems: With next-day delivery available…#sendhappy makes sense
- Bouqs.com: Farm-to-doorstep; option for monthly subscription, easy to skip!
- FTD: Delivering flowers for 110 years
- Proflowers: Guaranteed 7-day freshness
For a more hands-on event assistance experience in select locations only, check out eventassistants.com.
So whether you’re hosting in your hometown, somewhere you just moved, or for your friend in a state far away, try outsourcing some of your party vendors to free up your hands come party time. Partytrick, we’re here for you.
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