Media Accolades
Events & Company works with clients from all over the world : the United States, Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Australia, India, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates. Here is a sample of their feedback.
We recently engaged with Events & Company for our annual award show in January 2018. This was the first time we brought this event to Paris and needed some local expertise. Finding Rachel’s company to work with was the perfect way to realise our vision. From first speaking with Rachel to site viewing trips, the options and range met the brief, and in only a short time we found the perfect venue. Events & Company met all our needs; amazing food for 300 people, spectacular venue, live music, DJ, awards, LED walls, photographers and camera men, and dancing until 3 am, it was no short order. Rachel and her team worked closely with us in all elements of the planning. By sourcing great suppliers from around Paris and all over France, we found the right combination to deliver exactly what we needed on the night. In the closing days before the event, every i was dotted and t was crossed!! With everything ready to go and planned down to the final detail. The event could not have gone better, our 300 guests had a night to remember. The feedback we have been getting is incredible and only a week later we are already being asked about tickets for our European Awards 2019. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Rachel and her amazing team for their above and beyond effort to realise one of our most important events of the year, it was a night to remember. We look forward to working with Rachel on lots of our events in the future.
Lisa Elliot
Events Coordinator The Firm Organisation
The Embassy would like to thank you for services rendered as Event Organiser for our National Day Reception of 5 July 2017 at the Mona Bismarck Foundation (34 Avenue de New York, 75116 Paris). We are very pleased with the quality of the event that you and your team had delivered. It has been a pleasure working with you, thanks to your responsiveness and attention to detail.
Rina Phua
First Secretary Singapore Embassy, Paris, FR
It was my 60th birthday and my dream was to have it in Paris with my friends. With the enormous complexity of 44 guests and 9 different events, I expected hiccups. How could you escape them? All the planning in the world can’t overcome the randomness of things happening. Except there were no hiccups. I’m a perfectionist and I can honestly say that Rachel made the three days perfect. I had hoped for a relatively perfect weekend. I got a perfect weekend plus a bonus. Rachel is a living encyclopedia of Paris history.
Ron Elliot
Chairman of the Board at MyChild Inc.
You did a fabulous job in organizing our very ambitious itinerary. Evident at every turn was your personal commitment to making our trip the best it could be. It was an experience I will never forget. Again, many thanks for a job very well done. I have spoken to several fellow travelers since I got home, and we are all still basking in the memory of a wonderful time. It was great to meet you, and we all benefited from your outstanding organizational ability. I sincerely hope we will meet again.
Judy McGuinn
I don’t even know where to begin. THANK YOU to Rachel and the entire Events & Co team for making our special 60th birthday celebration for Ron Elliott in Paris the memory of a lifetime. We asked for a daunting 9-event experience spread over 3 days with 42 of our friends and received an adventure that was one of those life defining moments for everyone involved. Rachel met the challenge with verve and gusto. She never left a single detail to chance, in fact, she was with us every moment to insure the time would be flawless. Our events were ALL amazing and extraordinary! The food, the caterers, the musicians, the photographer and the restaurants were all superb. I am sure that our request to have 10 vintage DS Citroen’s drive in a rally around Paris for an afternoon, with English speaking drivers and during a local road rally where many streets were closed, was no small feat. It came off flawlessly and Parisians waved to us as we travelled the cobblestone streets in classic style. So much to say and no way to really express how grateful we are to Rachel for the amazing feat she pulled off last weekend. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. You are the BEST!
Mark Tamagni
I want to give a shout out to Rachel Kaplan for helping us plan our outstanding trip to Europe. She did an excellent job of coordinating our hotels, transportation, tours, shopping and restaurants. Every detail of our trip was organized and because of her expertise, we were able to cover a lot of ground in a relatively short amount of time. She was a delight to work with and I would recommend her company to assist anyone planning a trip to Europe.
Mary Catherine Hudson Davis
You did a wonderful job, all the events were so perfect and pleasurable. Our people are very happy.
Heather Jewitt
Managing Director, ANT Trust
Thank you so much for all the efforts you made to make the ANT event a huge success. Your support and organization on the evening was very much appreciated in the overwhelming number of guests and continual changes. Your calm and direct approach with solving problems is valued. Quite a number of people wanted to give very positive feedback about the party. Thank you once again for everything, it was a pleasure working together with you, and I hope we have the pleasure of working together again.
Marlene Hier
Simon Wiesenthal Center of Tolerance
On behalf of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and myself, I wish to thank you for your cooperation in the success of our group’s visit last week to Paris. Your dedication and sensitivity to the finest details of the programme made all the difference. I look forward to continuing contact with you.
Dr. Shimon Samuels
Director for International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Center of Tolerance
Thank you for all that you did to make our Bates in Paris excursion successful. Everyone had a wonderful time — tres bien!
Jennifer Richard
Director of Campaign and Donor Programs, Bates College
On our recent client trip to Paris, you did an extraordinary job helping to plan and execute the event, and as a result both our clients and staff had a wonderful time. You managed the restaurants, car service, hotels and activities beautifully throughout the entire process. It was such a pleasure to work with you and I look forward to hopefully planning next year’s trip together. Until then, I cannot thank you enough.
Condé Nast Magazines
Special Projects Manager, Lucky Magazine
Your company was an integral part of the success of our recent client events at Wimbledon and the French Open.
Manager Events Resources
Merrill Lynch
If you want a brasher, nonstop, more American approach, contact Rachel Kaplan. She loves to show you what she calls “the deals”; she hates being interrupted (when negotiating). ‘You know what I call the flea market?” –The Louvre—except you can go shopping.’ Some may call that the perfect Paris outing.
New York Times
"At a Paris Flea Market, Tips for Treasure Hunters"
Just wanted to thank you for arranging our Louvre tour-it was truly one of the highlights of our week in France! I will enthusiastically recommend your services to anyone who wants a special experience in Paris.
Susan Horn
Rosica Mulhern & Associates, New Jersey
Kaplan, admittedly a big thinker, sees her job as much more than a nice way to make a living-she embraces it as a learning experience, and a chance to crash down walls to promote world peace.
CNN.com
If designer fashion is your passion, you can uncover a glittering treasure of hidden Parisian pleasures by tapping the highly cultivated resources of former New Yorker Rachel Kaplan. Ten years as a Paris resident, combined with knowledge and curiosity about the French, has given her a unique perspective on the city.
Avenue Magazine
Custom-tailoring (with minibus, sightseeing, lunch and negotiations in fluent French) is Kaplan’s forte, and make her trips a novel idea of a trousseau gathering hen-party or shopping excursion.
The Jewish Chronicle, London
Tell Rachel your interests, and she compose a personalized program of cultural sites, the newest restaurants and the finest shops.
Gayot's Best of Paris
Rachel Kaplan, an American long-time resident of Paris, provides customized tours for visitors with singular or specialized tastes…Whether it’s touring the sights of the French Revolution and Napoleon or the art of the Renaissance, or the Liberation of Paris, presents no challenges for her.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page
Shopping veteran Rachel Kaplan offers several cultural tours of the fashion capital. Her personal shopping service includes admission to a fashion show and tours of stores such as Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Emmanuel Ungaro and more.