Houston Event Planning

12/25/2025

✨ Giving Back This Holiday Season ✨

At Houston Event Planning (HEP), the holidays are about more than celebrations—they’re about community, impact, and paying it forward. This season, we are proud to support initiatives that uplift, inspire, and care for those who need it most.

🎓 Scholarship Fund for High School Students
Investing in the next generation of leaders by helping students take confident steps toward their future.

📘 Junior Achievement
Empowering young minds with financial literacy, career readiness, and real-world skills.

🏠 Homeless Outreach Projects
Providing support, dignity, and hope to individuals and families during the colder months.

🧸 Toys for Kids Holiday Drives
Because every child deserves joy, magic, and a reason to smile during the holidays.

🏫 Supporting Local Alief ISD Holiday Drives
Standing alongside our local schools to support students and families right here in our community.

👵 Senior Programs
Honoring and supporting our seniors with warmth, connection, and care during the holiday season.

We are grateful to our team, partners, and clients who make it possible for us to give beyond events. Together, we don’t just create memorable moments—we help build a stronger, more compassionate community.

💙 From all of us at HEP, thank you for being part of the giving spirit.

12/23/2025

After producing 80+ holiday parties, timelines perfected, guests delighted, and magic delivered on repeat… we officially pressed pause.

Today’s agenda:
🎨 Paint
🍹 Sip
😂 Laugh
🧘‍♀️ Relax

No headsets. No run-of-show. No huddle hustle. Just a well-earned play day for a team that ran the holiday season like absolute pros.

Because when you give everything during the busiest time of the year, you deserve a day that’s just for fun.
We don’t just celebrate events—we celebrate the people who make them happen.

12/21/2025

✨ Meet Alice Sun | Event Sales & Planning ✨

🎄 Tele-Marketing Elf
Calling, texting, reminding, gently nagging, and making sure everyone gets exactly where they need to be—repeatedly and always with cheer.

✨ How Alice makes the magic happen
Keeping the team snack-happy and properly caffeinated, because strong morale fuels flawless events.

🔁 Three words
Connect. Entertain. Repeat.

🎬 Main character moment
Arriving last-minute with a fully caffeinated drink in hand, stepping straight into a table of eager gamers—and instantly owning the room.

12/20/2025

At Houston Event Planning, we believe every event should be a reflection of your unique vision. Our team expertly manages every detail—from initial concept to final ex*****on—ensuring your event is seamless, memorable, and stress-free. Whether it’s a wedding or corporate function, we handle the logistics, so you can focus on creating lasting memories.

Bring your vision to life: https://www.houstoneventplanning.com/

12/20/2025

Meet our Décor and Operations elves, the creative magic-makers of Houston Event Planning.

Jaime and Alejandra are the hands behind the florals that wow, the backdrops that frame every perfect photo, and the balloon installs that make guests stop mid-conversation. They style, build, lift, and finesse every detail until it feels effortless even when it is anything but.

Leading the workshop is our fearless head elf, Arely, who has been with HEP for over 10 years. With steady leadership, sharp instincts, and an eye for perfection, she keeps every install running smoothly from first load-out to final touch-up.

Fueled by coffee, powered by sweets, and driven by pride in their craft, this team does not just decorate spaces.
They create moments.
And they make the magic happen every single time.

12/19/2025

🎄✨ Holiday Team Spotlight | Lisa Diaz — Assistant Event Planner ✨🎄

Cue the confetti, twinkle lights, and a dramatic cape entrance because Lisa Diaz is our holiday Superwoman, saving events one checklist at a time.

December in Lisa’s world:
Madness and chaos wrapped in sparkle, powered by caffeine, and handled with a smile ✨

Holiday title: Holiday Chaos Wrangler with superhero clearance

Her superpower at work:
Anticipating the unexpected before anyone else even senses it.
What she’s proudest of:
Her laser sharp attention to detail. Call it dedication, call it precision, we call it excellence.

Fun fact: Loves crafting and baking because even superheroes have creative flair

12/18/2025

12/18/2025

🎄 Holiday Team Spotlight | Shauna Fererro Donahue
Event Manager
Houston Event Planning

If the holidays feel magical to our clients it is often because Shauna is calmly holding everything together behind the scenes.

December according to Shauna
Running a live action holiday production where the script changes hourly and somehow being the director stagehand and problem solver all at once.

Holiday title
The Spirit of We’ll Make It Work

How she helps create the magic
Shauna is the glue. She connects people plans and timing so the experience feels effortless even when there is a lot happening behind the curtain.

Her most “her” moment on event day
That quiet moment when everything clicks vendors are in sync guests are smiling and she is gently fixing three things at once without anyone ever noticing.

What she brings to the team
Calm care and steady leadership. Shauna brings organization and thoughtful solutions when things get fast paced or unpredictable helping everyone feel supported and confident.

What she takes the most pride in
Anticipating needs before they become problems and creating a sense of trust for both clients and teammates. When an event runs smoothly that trust is everything.

Quick love notes
Organized Adaptable Unflappable
Main character moment handling a last minute curveball with grace so the event unfolds exactly as it should.

Because the best events feel easy and the best people make them that way.
We are so grateful for Shauna this holiday season and always 💛

12/16/2025

Executive Vice President | Head Chief Elf Wrangler | Professional Chaos Coordinator

With 23 years at Houston Event Planning, Katherine Cheng serves as Executive Vice President, designing and producing events with precision, creativity, and an impressive ability to keep 100 moving parts from colliding. She leads event design, oversees logistics, and works seamlessly with vendors, hotels, and venues, translating big ideas into flawless ex*****on.

Katherine is the mastermind behind detailed Run of Shows (ROS), BEOs, timelines, and production plans, ensuring everyone is in the right place, at the right time, with the right expectations. If it’s organized, it’s intentional. If it runs smoothly, she planned it. If it doesn’t… she already fixed it.

On any given day, she wears many hats: Event Strategist, Vendor Liaison, Hotel Whisperer, Operations Lead, and the person everyone looks at before saying, “Okay… that works.”

A true jack-of-all-trades, multitasking expert, and keeper of the event universe:

If it’s running smoothly, she already handled it.
If it’s complex, she already planned for it.
And if it’s unforgettable… she designed it. ✨

In her spare time, Katherine is also a published author, with books available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble because apparently running events wasn’t enough. When she’s really off duty, she moonlights as the official Labubu stylist to a collection of 100+ Labubus, ensuring they are properly dressed, curated, and absolutely thriving.

Because even chaos deserves great styling. 🎄✨

12/15/2025

🎁 December at Houston Event Planning Where the Magic Actually Happens 🎁

Meet our Associate Director, bringing over a decade of experience and a Master’s degree from USC. She leads AV and sound logistics, oversees corporate events and our casino department, and handles everything SEO. If it needs a power cord, a signal, or a strategy, she’s already two steps ahead—calm, precise, and always plugged in.

How would you describe your job in December other than surviving the madness
✨ Turning chaos into charm with questionable sleep

If this role had a holiday title it would be
🧝 Elf in Charge of Making Things Happen No Matter What

Behind every seamless event is someone making sure it looks effortless even when the behind the scenes is anything but

💫 The real magic
Solving problems no one even knew existed

From structure and anticipation to calm confidence under pressure this is the kind of leadership that keeps events running smoothly and clients smiling

🏆 Proudest moment on event day
Keeping a cool head when it matters most

Three words to sum it up
✨ Magic but logistical

And yes there is always a main character moment
📻 Radio in hand headset on strutting like the venue was built for them

This is what holiday hustle looks like at Houston Event Planning and we would not have it any other way

🎄✨

12/14/2025

✨ The Team Behind the Holiday Magic ✨

Holiday parties may last a few hours, but the work behind them spans weeks of planning, coordination, and teamwork. At Houston Event Planning, every department plays a role in making each celebration feel effortless, welcoming, and truly memorable.

From production and logistics to catering, rentals, décor, AV, casino entertainment, staffing, and operations, our team works hand in hand to bring each client’s vision to life. Long days, late nights, and a lot of problem-solving happen behind the scenes so guests can simply enjoy the moment.

What makes our holiday events special isn’t just the décor or the entertainment, it’s the people who care deeply about getting every detail right.

We’re grateful for our clients who trust us with their celebrations and incredibly proud of the HEP team for showing up with professionalism, heart, and holiday spirit—every single time.

Houston Event Planning
Thoughtfully planned. Beautifully executed.

12/12/2025