Meet Courtney Price | Children’s Event Planner

We had the good fortune of connecting with Courtney Price and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Courtney, where are your from? We’d love to hear about how your background has played a role in who you are today?
I was born and raised in Houston, Texas and I enjoy everything about our city! Houston is such a melting pot of diversity and it shows in the areas of art, entertainment and dining. Another huge appeal about Houston, we have hidden spots around town that are cultural gems and expose us to foreign traditon, food, and experiences. I feel the diversity impacted who I am today because I have an openness and willness to learn about people, places and things that are different than me. Any given weekend I may be dining at a Greek restaurant, taking in the sights at an Italian heritage festival, sitting at a Nigerian food tasting, crashing a local dive in Eado or snapping photos at new art installation at Discovery Green. There is always a new experience waiting and it makes me more of a well rounded individual to be a part of it all.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
Children’s event planning is an art form as you have the opportunity to visually celebrate important milestones. I love speaking with clients, discussing ideas and finding a way to execute their vision with mine! I started this business on shoe string budget and had no money to hire companies to help me with marketing and branding. I did everything myself such as designing my own website, shooting marketing videos or creating my own advertising materials. This was fun in the beginning but I learned over time, its okay to DIY, however as your business grows know when hire help and not stretch yourself too thin! I also remember feeling like I wanted to offer everything the competition was offering, which only overwhelmed me. I realized I needed to stay true to my vision and remember quality is way better than quantity. So over time, I have simplified my event planning offerings and came up with a formula that worked for me and my company! What I would like the world to know about my brand and company is that Glamour Avenue Parties looks a bit different from even a year ago as I navigate a small business during a pandemic. The company went from providing on site events to have to tweak our offerings and change with the times, by offering party kits. This change scared me at first because I thought, will people be receptive to this? However. I learned, if you have a great brand or product, your customers will change with you. As the face behind the brand, I have to keep learning and evolving so that I may continue offering new and fresh ways to connect with clients!

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
If I wanted to highlight some of the cool things we had going on the city and surrounding areas I would take an out of town friend to Surfside Beach in Freeport, Texas, shopping at the Galleria, check out the fun and colorful interactive art exhibit, The Color Factory, drive to San Marcos to go snorkeling in the San Marcos River, jet skiiing in Lake Travis and ziplining in Austin. Houston has a ton to offer and even better, a full tank of gas may lead you too Galveston, Dallas, Austin or even Lake Charles for a fun day trip excursion.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
As the owner of a family owned event planning company as much as I try to do it all, I can’t! There have been many occasions that I enlisted my mom, Catherine Price, for her help and she always showed up in one capacity or another! My mother is a woman of many hats and apparently she has one for every occasion because she has showed up as a hostess, baker, costume cleaner, seamstress and nearly any other area I needed help in!

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