Renee Patrone Rhinehart's Blueprint for Crafting the Ultimate Party Experience

Renee Patrone Rhinehart's Blueprint for Crafting the Ultimate Party Experience

Ever dreamed of hosting the ultimate bash without breaking a sweat? That's where Renee Patrone Rhinehart, the event-planning maestro, comes into play. On the latest episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast, Bob Blaisse interviews the party guru to share her entrepreneurial journey with the two companies she founded over ten years ago: Events by Renee and Party Host Helpers.  Listen as Renee shares how her team's ability to create memorable occasions for any event, from swanky corporate luncheons to cozy dinner parties at home is accomplished with staff, ideas and referrals to vendors when needed. Renee's anecdotes and sage advice are not just entertaining but packed with the know-how to ensure you're the toast of the town at your next gathering.

As Mother's Day looms on the horizon, imagine gifting the perfect soirée where mom doesn't have to lift as much as a pinky—Renee makes this dream a reality. Her crew of professional bartenders, servers and helpers are the secret ingredient to a flawless festivity. So grab a drink, kick back, and let this episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast whisk you away to party-planning nirvana with Renee. You'll come away not only with a bunch of great tips but also with the inspiration to elevate your future celebrations to legendary status through the use of event planning services so at your next event, the only finger you'll be lifting will be the fingers you wrap around a chilled glass of your favorite beverage while chatting with guests as the host of your next party or event.

Website: EventsbyRenee.net and PartyHostHelpers.com
Call: (484) 432-7202

--- About The Show--- Good Neighbor Podcast is a spotlight on local businesses in and around Delaware County, PA (“Delco” ) and Beyond...  The executive producer and host, Bob Blaisse, is a community sponsorship advocate, business branding specialist, and publisher of several hometown magazines, including: Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors, Marple Friends & Neighbors and Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors, mailed monthly to more than 12,000 homes in Western Delaware County, PA, and also available for reading online.
 

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:00

Hello, delco. This is Michael Barkan, welcoming you to the Good Neighbor podcast, where fans of local businesses and their neighbors come together. It's my pleasure once again to introduce my friend and neighbor, our host Bob Blasey.

Speaker 2 0:18

Hello everybody and welcome to the Good Neighbor podcast. My name is Bob Blasey and I'm here from Delaware County, pennsylvania. It's the county that is in the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, but we're a national program here because we like to call Delaware County Delco. We think it's the center of the universe here in the US and our job today is you and I listeners to be able to listen to a business owner who we've invited to come on the Good Neighbor podcast because they are a good neighbor. And what do I mean by that? Not necessarily a good neighbor to their neighbors where they live, but a good neighbor business to the residents, homeowners of Delaware County and beyond. And this is a good one because everybody loves a party and everybody loves a person that can help with a party or an event, corporate event. Let me introduce to you today the owner of two businesses that are involved in hosting parties and providing persons to help with parties the owner of Events by Renee and also the founder of Party Host Helper. Let me introduce to Renee Reinhardt. Hello, renee.

Speaker 3 1:32

Hello.

Speaker 2 1:35

Thanks for coming into the program today and thanks for sharing a little bit about your businesses. These are not new businesses, are they, renee?

Speaker 3 1:41

They are not. I've been at it for quite some time. My first company is 16 years old this year and that's Events by Renee, a wedding social and corporate planning company. And then I've had Party Host Helpers for 11 years. That's a nationwide party staffing company that provides bartender servers, general helpers. We celebrated our big 10 years last year and it was really exciting.

Speaker 2 2:05

Well, it's exciting that it's national. We love when we get national companies to come on our program, and when I say exciting, it's because we have listeners all over the US and beyond. But the point is that there's parties going on all over the US and beyond. Let's start with that. When Party Host Helpers and the fact that that is a national company, it's national from a perspective of your organization, providing the local staff to be able to manage a party or a corporate event. Talk a little bit about that.

Speaker 3 2:35

Yeah, sure. So you know my first company. I was dealing with brides and parents of the brides and they were coming back to me saying Renee, I know you plan this big event for us, but now I need someone in my home to bartend for a dinner party, or my office is throwing a big lunch in and we need someone to help with the food. So that's why I created Party Host Helpers. We provide professional experience, people that will come in and take over so you can actually enjoy your party. I was used to hosting parties for friends and family and then waking up the next day thinking, oh my gosh, I didn't even get to talk to anyone because I was too busy serving, doing dishes. All the dirty work that goes into hosting a party, not the fun stuff, is what we handle.

Speaker 2 3:21

Well, you know, it's for someone who I don't necessarily say I've had those kind of big parties, but I've been to them and I remember meeting help probably your staff and I think I think the first thing that impressed me you know, poking my head in the kitchen or whatever was that they were putting dishes away in like milk crates and I was wondering like what's going on here, and then I realized they were not members of the family.

Speaker 2 3:45

You know they were not. They were, they were helpers and I should have recognized that. They had vests on and everything. But I was in a home and I made so much sense to be able to recognize that here the host was getting around the party. Even if they were coming around with a tray once in a while, it was really much more relaxing for them and impressive. And you know, if there's men out there that want to give you know, your wife and your family a treat, have a party but don't make them work at it. It's really what it comes down to.

Speaker 3 4:14

It's a great gift from Mother's Day. We sell gifts, yeah coming up soon?

Speaker 2 4:17

Well, tell me, does that? You know, hosting service also, of course, include not necessarily home residents parties, which is the thing people might not think of it first, but obviously the bigger events, like you know, companies having Christmas parties and the like do you actually provide bartenders? I know that's always an issue with serving alcohol at events. How does that work?

Speaker 3 4:38

Yeah, of course we have bartenders. We have back of the house people, we have front of the house people, chefs, not just residential clients. We service local universities that you know their dining team might need the extra help or support in their cafeteria or for a night dinners or president dinners that are maybe even off site at someone's home. We have department stores like Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus. When they host an event in store, they'll hire our team to pass out champagne, to help set up boutiques in the area, as well as car dealerships. They have a lot of events now. They like to show off their inventory and they'll hire our team to greet guests, give out name tags, help with the food, make sure everything's tidy and clean.

Speaker 2 5:26

You know, people in business have known this for years, but I think just ordinary folks that are living in homes, working jobs, they see it occasionally, hosted services like that. But where they really end up saying I might need some help here is the overwhelming feeling of actually planning a big family. I mean a big family event, a wedding, and is that where there's some crossover? I'm sure meaning that some type of events just need extra hands. Help. Bartender or other events are so big that, like I need you to tell me what I don't know about hosting an event like this. Where's the crossover to your business? Events by Renee.

Speaker 3 6:07

Sure. So that's more coordinating planning. People come to us typically from the start of their planning process. You know, we have a client right now who moved offices and they're celebrating a grand reopening of a new office, but also or grand opening, and then they're also celebrating 25 years. So we're weaving the two milestones together. We're helping them find a caterer, we're helping them find entertainment, helping them with branding to make sure that their guests really, you know, walk away thinking this is a great party, this is a great company. We want to hire them more, we want to keep working with them. So, and then my brides. A lot of them use us for day of services or smaller packages, but it's more hands-on. You're working with a professional planner and then a lot of times those clients will say we need helpers too. So then I can rely on my other company to bring in bartenders or servers or extra hands to help stuff gift bags, give out name tags, things like that.

Speaker 2 7:08

Renee, I have to tell you I'm very impressed for multiple reasons. You're a business woman. Here in this month of March, you know where it's Women's History Month and you're not only a woman with a history of having a business that's long-standing, meaning that 11 years, 10 years you know Party Post Helper, national company events by Renee. You know more of a local event company that is doing big events. I mean big, big weddings or even helping out with. You know Botnitzvahs or first communions that the families want to be able to have fun at the event, so that you know and walk away with this people walk away with this feeling that it was a great event. I took it all in. I think our listeners are taking it all in. But I have to say you're also a mom, right? I mean you're a woman in business. Tell us a little bit about your family life.

Speaker 3 8:02

Sure, yes, I am a mom. I definitely focused on my career when a lot of my friends were out finding their husbands and getting married. So I met my husband in my late 30s and it moved quickly. We got married in 2019. Covid hit, of course, right after our wedding, so I was happy we could get our wedding and honeymoon in, and then we welcomed our first daughter September 2021. So she's almost two and a half, keeps me on my toes. She's really fun and sweet and our family is just well that's.

Speaker 2 8:37

it's great because you know, get to be at home with your, with your daughter. The idea of event planning it is by its very nature there's a day of, but the planning in advance is all of it. So that is kind of a remote work in advance to be able to do. And that, I'm sure, is one of the main benefits for people who hire your services, because it takes away all that stress, all that stress leading right up to the event. They feel like they have someone who's holding their hand or is actually leading them or in charge and whatever that level of participation that someone would need to be the host, while they have a planner.

Speaker 2 9:13

You work on an individual basis with every one of your clients that way, I'm sure? Yeah, let me just mention to everybody who is listening that again, renee Reinhardt is really the founder owner of two companies. But listen how related they are and get the big difference here. Party host helper is what I heard. Renee is a National company and it's primarily staffing for hosting events yeah, people. So, so really it really I really got it when I when you mentioned universities that, in other words, it's kind of like a people company that what do you need? We have people and they're familiar with food and service and bartending exactly in that category. It's amazing that you can be national.

Speaker 2 9:55

I'm sure there's a lot of individuals out there who would want to gig out their services, but they really don't know how to get the work and this is an umbrella company that can. They can work for you as an independent contractor, but then you know, with the insurances and the services and the training, be a trusted entity that you can recommend on a national basis. So if there's anyone out there that it fits that gig economy, make sure you're going to the website party host helper com and take a look at Renee's company. You may want to become an affiliate contractor with Renee and to be able to fulfill services in your part of the country under a wonderful company that has great branding. But the crossover, as I understand what you said Renee is is actually, um, your company that might be more Philadelphia Metro region-based is is your company. Events by Renee and that's.

Speaker 2 10:46

That's a Pretty nice. It kind of like sounds like a like a wedding planning kind of a company. You've done really big work from corporations to really big weddings and and I can't, I can't let you go without asking that question, because when we think about weddings and we think about wedding planners, uh, sometimes it's a comedy right, sometimes it's just a tragedy and and sometimes there's, uh, you know what do they call those bride zillas or wedding moms and stuff. Have you seen it all in your work with?

Speaker 3 11:14

I've seen it all. I've seen it all, and now it's a lot of groom zillas. Grooms are very.

Speaker 2 11:22

Rooms are very involved in the planning, or what they'll do is the bride will assign them a few areas to handle right and you probably have to be counselor to, you probably talk with them and and and Probably healing up a marriage before it almost doesn't happen, you know uh, it's more.

Speaker 3 11:40

It's more um the mom and daughters, mom and daughters, right?

Speaker 2 11:44

well, uh, you're a mom, you're a daughter and and, uh, you know it's, it's.

Speaker 2 11:49

I'm sure she's gonna grow up in the business and before you know it She'll be walking around with a tray, or sure you know it, she'll be taking calls. How wonderful that you've got the opportunity to be a woman in business and With great rich history, to successful businesses, renee, and and what I'd like to say often is some guests on our program Just by the very nature of what your business is, you are a good neighbor business, because we all need help and we all have that stress. You're willing to take it on and you're willing to bear it up. Of course, you're getting paid for those services, but they're great services that can make parties more fun and, in that regard, what a, what a great neighbor that you are. I want to thank you, renee, for being a guest on our program today, but, more importantly, I want to make sure our listeners know how to get a hold of you. Is it best that they simply just go to the website, or is there a phone number you'd like to give out?

Speaker 3 12:41

Yes, if you want to go to our website, you can enter your Events details, and what we do is we send you a personalized quote. Our website is party host helpers, calm, and, and then we also.

Speaker 3 12:56

I'd love to give you a promo code for your listeners short yes we can do G and P25 for $25 off your future event if you'd like to hire party host helpers. And then I just want to put it out there to the community too. We often donate gift certificates for Community charity auctions, silent auctions, so please feel free to reach out. We we give four hours for free helper. They usually raise a lot of money and that's my one big way that I like to give back to our community.

Speaker 2 13:31

So well, that is perfect, because the very, the very gift certificate that you would give out is often at an event that is meeting some help. So what a wonderful thing for an auction silent auction. Renee Reinhardt, thank you for being a guest today on the Good Neighbor podcast.

Speaker 3 13:47

Thank you.

Speaker 1 13:49

Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor podcast hosted by Bob Lacey. This is Michael Barkan inviting everyone to get on the Good Neighbor team. Nominate your favorite local business to be featured on an upcoming episode by going to GNP delcocom or by calling Bob at 610-557-3745.