Eventective.com Announces Winners of 2009 Planners' Choice Award for Best Wedding Places

Portland, ME, February 16, 2009 — Eventective (www.eventective.com),
the Web's most complete resource for meeting and event space and event services,
is proud to announce the 2009 Planners' Choice Award for Most Popular Wedding Places.

Thirty wedding places, from mansions and gardens, to banquet facilities and ballrooms,
to party halls, banquet halls, and reception halls, this year's winners represent
the wide variety of wedding places listed on Eventective.

Total potential event revenue from event requests sent through Eventective in 2008
ranged anywhere from $300,000,000 to $1,500,000,000.

The winners of Eventective's 2009 Planners' Choice Award for Best Wedding Places
were chosen based on the number of event requests received during 2008.

Eventective's top 30 best wedding places in 2009, listed according to state, are:

• Inspirador, Chandler, AZ


• The Waterfront, Tempe, AZ


• Elegant Beginnings, Colorado Springs, CO


• Country Day Castle, Jacksonville, FL


• Hollis Gardens, Lakeland, FL


• Coral Gables' Venetian Pool, Miami, FL


• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL


• The Zen House, Miami, FL


• Bahia Shriners Event Center, Orlando, FL


• Ballroom at Church Street, Orlando, FL


• Historic Pensacola Village - Old Christ Church, Pensacola, FL


• Tanner Hall, Winter Garden, FL


• Gwinnett Historic Courthouse, Lawrenceville, GA


• Galleria Marchetti, Chicago, IL


• South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, IL


• Stan Mansion, Chicago, IL


• Indiana Roof Ballroom, Indianapolis, IN


• Casa Paz Y Amor, Albuquerque, NM


• Grand Prospect Hall, Brooklyn, NY


• Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH


• Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, OH


• St. Elizabeth Banquet Hall, Columbus, OH


• Walters Commons at St. Charles Preparatory, Columbus, OH


• Greystone Hall, West Chester, PA


• Easton's Beach Rotunda Ballroom, Newport, RI


• Mediterranean Villa, Arlington, TX


• Groovey Grill Mansion, Houston, TX


• The Tuscany Gardens and Villa, Houston, TX


• Chalet On The Lake, Woodbridge, VA


• Grand Holiday Ballroom, Olympia, WA

About Eventective
Eventective, the web's most complete resource for event planners searching for meeting
and event space and event services, is visited by 40,000-50,000 planners daily and
more than 1.2 million event planners monthly. Headquartered in Portland, Maine,
Eventective is one of the most popular online resources for venues and vendors on
the Internet and is recognized as an authority site on Google for wedding places
and party halls. As the only complete national search portal with a local focus,
planners can browse a metro area for venues and vendors located within a specific
area. Eventective provides planners with a selection of more than 110,000 venues,
324,000 event spaces and 80,000 vendors nationwide. As the Internet's most complete
resource for meeting and event spaces throughout the U.S. and Canada, Eventective
lists many niche and special-interest facilities ranging from galleries and museums
to cruise ships, conference centers, hotels, resorts, restaurants, inns and mansions
that are difficult to find elsewhere. Every day, planners in the U.S. and Canada
send thousands of leads through Eventective, resulting in increased bookings and
revenue to venues and vendors. Eventective leads generate an estimated $4.5 billion
in event business annually for the meeting and events industry. Eventective, Inc.,
480 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101. Phone: 207-253-1653. Web: http://www.eventective.com

Posted On: Apr 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM