The corporate embroidery program that actually gets worn.

Design the piece as logo-plus-person

The formula that works: company mark stitched small and confident (left chest or cap front), and a personal line the guest chooses live — their name, their team, their start year. The logo makes it official; the personal line makes it theirs. Pieces built this way show up in Monday's elevator, which is the only swag metric that matters.

Pre-collect sizes; personalize live

Split the decisions. Sizes get collected through your planner two weeks out, so garments arrive staged alphabetically and nobody digs through boxes. Personalization stays live at the event, because watching the stitch-out is the experience. This split is how a 400-person all-hands avoids becoming a 400-person coat check.

Respect the digitizing deadline

Your logo becomes a stitch file exactly once, and doing it well takes real days. Vector art in our hands ten days before the event returns an approved sew-out photo with buffer to spare. Rush digitizing exists, but it is the most avoidable rush fee in event production.

The budget math, stated plainly

A staffed bar starting near $5,000 plus garments sounds different when divided by heads: at 200 attendees with mid-range pieces, the program lands in the range of a modest catered lunch — and unlike lunch, it is still visible in the office in March. Crew time bills at $250 per hour including setup and strike, and every quote itemizes it, which procurement teams tend to appreciate more than event vendors expect.

Foyer hours beat session hours

For summits, run the bar during registration, breaks, and the reception — not while the keynote holds the room. Machines pause cleanly, so split windows cost nothing extra. The foyer photos in our gallery are exactly this format at work.