Wristband - Wristbands
A wristband is a colorful, decorative or distinctive band worn around a guest’s wrist to denote special privilege or access at an event. The wristband is basically a way of separating your guests from one another. The wristband can be used for:
- VIP access
- Drink passes
- Open bar access
- Age restrictions
- Seating arrangements
- Press
- Security
The wristband only works if every person on the event staff is well informed about what the wristbands mean. It is very unprofessional for your guests to have wristbands and then be denied access because security doesn’t know the procedures. Often times, a security team is hired by an event planning company to work a particular job so it is important to discuss procedure with them either before the event or the day of. Wristbands are supposed to make everything more efficient so let them work for you instead of against you. Guests should be able to flash their wristbands to easily gain access into a certain area of the venue. Security should be able to discretely decipher which guests should be allowed to enter and which guests should not. This saves a lot of time and headache especially at an entertainment event where everyone wants to be in the VIP section.
VIP guests could have many privileges depending on the reason for the event. If it is a corporate gala and the President of the company is present, then he or she might be privy to their own selection of drinks and wait staff so that they don’t have to wait in line. If the event is something like an Oscars after party everyone is VIP, so wristbands probably aren’t even necessary. Wristbands can denote which guests are privy to an open bar and which guests need to pay for their drinks.
Wristbands can even denote those guests who are underage so that the bartender doesn’t have to card each person that walks up to the bar. The most important thing about wristbands is that they can mean whatever the event planner or host needs them to. Maybe you are planning a game or raffle of some sort- the wristbands could denote teams. If you are trying to seat 400 people, maybe you could use the wristbands to denote the seating arrangements. As stressed before, it is so important to make sure that everyone on your event planning team is aware of what the wristbands mean because otherwise the entire system could be a disaster.
