Questions from friends and family needing help with planning dilemmas for personal, school, church or work events have always been part of Leigh Crank Perry’s everyday life. 

She has been practicing the art of entertaining since the Cinderella costume party she helped her mother give to celebrate her eighth birthday. That introduction to the excitement of executing festive party themes set her on the path she has followed ever since.

Theme parties for family and friends, school dances and proms, and many other church and school events gave Leigh lots of practice in party-giving.  After college and graduate school, Leigh taught high school English before taking a position as a church administrative assistant after her children were born.
  
Motherhood gave Leigh more reasons to celebrate—she loved giving large backyard birthday bashes for her preschool sons.  One memorable celebration was an “arty party.” All the preschool Monets wore trash-bag smocks and white painters’ hats and went to multiple activity stations to try different painting projects.  They hung their finished paintings on a clothes-line for their parents’ viewing while refreshments were served.

As Leigh’s children grew up, so did many new opportunities to be a creative entertainer-- as a volunteer at her sons’ schools and at her church and through her work, in addition to those at her workplace.

All these events have helped Leigh hone her creative party-giving skills, and she looks forward to sharing them with you.  Designing a thoughtful theme and creative partyscape is a way of showing your guests that they are very special to you. 

Leigh teaches party classes for the University of Richmond's School of Continuing Studies and Chesterfield County Public Schools Adult Continuing Education. She also is a popular guest speaker, having made presentations for Chesterfield Public Libraries and a number of local women's clubs and church groups.

Let Leigh Crank Perry help you find your own “party-giving persona” so you can start today making the loved ones in your life feel uniquely honored.