One client-launch fee explanation, an editable discovery review, and clearer boundaries between sample tools and real account records.
Edit individual sections, keep your answers, and return to the final review. The final step now includes your story, services and working preferences.
Please try: Prepare a fictional brief, change the guest count from the review, then return and confirm the new value. Nothing is submitted until you authorize and save.
Review celebration discoveryThe website, discovery, portal fee notes and referral preview share the 5% standard fee, $199 event minimum, $50 credited deposit and lower marginal tiers. Checkout remains off.
Please try: Compare the pricing explanation in discovery and the client information page. Check that professional invoices remain separate.
Review client-launch pricingSample navigation preserves the selected event. The client sample profile stays in the sample, and both audiences can compare real-account tools with advanced demonstrations.
Please try: Switch between sample sections and paired client/professional views. Confirm the same event stays selected and open the availability guide.
Review the client sampleNew room, photo and blank-canvas starting points; editable objects, palettes, layers, draft recovery and branded presentation versions.
Please try: Build a small focal setting, move and recolor its pieces, save it, and share a frozen version with the fictional client.
Review the ComposerView only versions deliberately shared from the professional sample. Review decisions stay attached to the exact version.
Please try: Switch to the paired client view in this tab. Review a shared presentation, request a change, then compare it with the next version.
Review the client handoffSeparate today’s date from the latest release date, identify affected sections, check the loaded version and show the complete Council card photographs.
Please try: Check the update summary and section links on desktop or phone. Report confusing labels or cramped controls.
Review the Council entranceComposer is a fictional sample tool in this release. Sample designs save in this browser tab; Council feedback saves to your account. Real-project cloud saving, real delivery, AI rendering and production-ready artwork are not enabled.
Earlier changes: September 8 · old Client Council email links now forward to their current invitations. September 7 · private Council entry and section notes, client fee wording and sample invoice calculations. Unchanged sections do not need a full repeat review.
About Fête
Fête is Atlanta’s event community: one connected place for the people planning meaningful moments and the professionals, venues and resources that make them possible.
Event designer · creative entrepreneur · systems builder
One community · two equal doors
Fête connects the people planning meaningful events with the professionals who make them possible—then surrounds both with venue intelligence, useful resources and human context.
For clients
Prepare a visual, living event brief now. After the public client launch, complimentary Fête Matches will explain why each professional fits. You choose who to work with; confirmed roles become your event’s Fête Team.
Explore Fête for clients
For professionals
Approved membership is free during the professional pilot. Prepare your profile and explore tools as they roll out. Client introductions begin after the public client launch; official Fête Verified status follows a separate review closer to launch.
Explore Fête for professionalsReal spaces, understood beyond capacity and a photo gallery.
Fête Access is planned to offer preferred member pricing on printing, kitchens, storage and other business resources.
Fête is not another giant directory or quote auction. It is a curated ecosystem built around fit, context, relationships and accountability.
Field notes · Atlanta · 2022
Directional founder research: these results describe the study’s respondents, not all Atlanta businesses.
How Fête came to be · professional research
The original Fête vision was physical: a coworking and resource hub created specifically for Atlanta’s event industry. But before asking the community to fit inside a building, Fête asked what its professionals actually needed.
The research surfaced a network of needs that no single storefront, social platform or vendor directory could solve alone.
Fête began with a concept for a future shared Atlanta space where event professionals could work, learn, store supplies and grow together. This was the vision and research stage; no physical location had opened.
Research with roughly 200 Atlanta event entrepreneurs made the industry’s practical needs—and its appetite for community—visible.
The digital-first platform builds relationships, standards, local knowledge and real demand before a permanent facility is created.
Member behavior, client needs and working data will shape a future Fête House grounded in how Atlanta actually celebrates.
These 2022 findings are a starting point. The Founding Council will help test which needs matter most today. Meet the 12 professional neighborhoods.
The founder
Design is the visible layer. Infrastructure is the lasting one.
Kennay is the founder and creative director of Imagine THAT Event Designs, an Atlanta event-design company known for immersive environments, milestone celebrations and imaginative children’s experiences. Her work has required far more than making a room beautiful: it has meant finding the right collaborators, solving production problems, sourcing unfamiliar resources, understanding venues and building reliable systems around creative work.
Fête grew from that lived experience. Kennay saw talented entrepreneurs repeatedly trying to solve the same problems alone—and clients trying to judge the right professional from a grid of pretty photos. She imagined a community where good work could be recognized, relationships could compound and access did not depend entirely on who someone already knew.
The idea at the centerFête is the community Kennay kept wishing existed every time a celebration needed the right person, a trusted answer or one more pair of capable hands.
Our north star ↗
Our mission
We help clients reach the right people with more confidence—and help event professionals build stronger businesses, teams and working relationships without having to carry every challenge alone.
Our vision
When someone needs a trusted professional, a capable collaborator, venue knowledge, crew support or an execution resource, Fête should be the place they think to look first.
Clear standards, accountable relationships and recommendations clients can understand.
Real working relationships—not a feed full of strangers competing for attention.
Better visibility, stronger businesses and room for emerging talent to develop well.
Local intelligence, venues, people, tools and resources made easier to reach.
The shared reason behind every brief, introduction, collaboration and build.
Why clients need Fête
Atlanta clients can find thousands of images and businesses. The harder work is translating a feeling into a viable event, understanding who belongs on the team and knowing what good fit looks like before committing.
One host · one event · many connected decisions
See how complimentary matches, consultations and your client workspace fit together
Atlanta market research · sources and dates
Population, visitors and life milestones help put Atlanta’s event landscape in context. Here are the published figures behind that picture.
Each figure covers the place and time named above; these are different measures, not a combined market-size estimate. Fête’s interpretation: a large, growing region creates an opportunity to make event planning and professional connections easier. These figures do not measure demand for Fête or searches for specific celebrations.
Google keyword research · Atlanta
Our September 2026 research captured Google search interest in celebrations beyond weddings. These are the historical monthly ranges behind the examples.
Atlanta, GA August 2025–July 2026 Exported September 1, 2026
estimated searches per month
Keyword: “baby shower”estimated searches per month
Keyword: “kids birthday party”
estimated searches per month
Keyword: “bounce house rental”| Monthly search range | Keywords researched |
|---|---|
| 100–1K | balloon decor · birthday party venue · event decorator · event planner · gender reveal · graduation party · party decorations · private event venue · soft play rental |
| 10–100 | birthday party planner · character entertainment |
| Not reported | baby shower venue · kids party venue |
Source: Google Ads Keyword Planner, historical Keyword Stats exported September 1, 2026. The export identifies Atlanta, GA and August 1, 2025–July 31, 2026. The research session used English and Google Search.
Shown as broad ranges from the original research, not exact counts. Google’s rounded estimates can include close variants. Searches are not unique people, bookings or demand for Fête, and these keyword ranges should not be added together. “Not reported” means the export left the value blank, not zero. Images illustrate the occasions.
Download the source keyword data (CSV) ↓How Google defines search estimates ↗
The standard · not the sales pitch
The promise behind the platform
The Fête Standard is the accountability layer beneath the community. Membership creates access to the professional community; it does not automatically make someone Fête Verified or eligible to appear in client recommendations.
The directory is not the product. Trust is.
Business practices, portfolio, reputation and collaboration readiness are considered before entry.
Fête Verified is an earned, current status tied to the Fête Standard—not a badge purchased with dues.
Fête Fit considers capability, investment, aesthetic, experience, working style, collaboration and logistics—then explains why a Fête Match makes sense.
Fête support begins with the event context. The Fête Promise applies only when clients book professionals or approved teams that Fête has verified and presented through the platform. SOS is not a staffed emergency service; replacement availability and optional standby are not guaranteed.
The future: Fête House
The platform is not a substitute for the original physical dream. It is how Fête learns what that dream must become—using proven needs, real usage and a community already connected before the doors open.
Choose a space to see the full image and everything envisioned for it.
These parts of the long-term vision connect the spaces and extend support beyond the building.
Fête House is a long-term vision, not a currently operating facility. The digital community, Fête Access network and real member behavior will help determine what is ultimately built and when.
A note to Atlanta’s event community
The hope for this community
That clients feel cared for before they ever choose a vendor—and can make decisions with context instead of guesswork.
That professionals can be known for how they work, not only how loudly they market—and find collaborators they can trust.
That emerging talent can grow near established talent, knowledge can circulate and opportunity can reach beyond familiar circles.
That Atlanta’s celebration industry becomes stronger because its relationships, resources and standards are stronger.
There is a place for you here
