Marley Majcher Named Small Businesswoman of the Year
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Marley Majcher is the CEO of The Party Goddess!, a nationally acclaimed full service event planning and catering company that originates all aspects of large scale functions including menu planning, cuisine preparation, prop styling, floral design, furniture and accessory rentals, staff hires and music. Since the company's beginnings in 1992, her client list has included Earthlink, Cedars-Sinai, Georgetown University, Art Center College of Design, Rusnak Automotive Group, San Diego Polo Club, See's Candies, Cal Tech and Whole Foods Market. Majcher has also produced notable events for the Hollywood Bowl, the Critics' Choice Awards, luxury car manufacturers Porsche and Rolls Royce's Bentley brand as well as celebrations for Britney Spears, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall, Pierce Brosnan, Katherine Heigl, Snoop Dogg and Cesar Millan (Dog Whisperer). From understated elegance to rock star fabulous, Majcher is known for creating the most well talked about parties of the year.

As a regular on air contributor to the nationally televised Fox and Friends program and with appearances on Entertainment Tonight, CBS Morning News in Los Angeles, HGTV, KABC - Los Angeles, E!, The Wedding Channel and MTV, Majcher is the expert that people turn to for all things entertaining. Her featured articles and interviews in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, In Style Weddings, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Robb Report, OK! and Us Weekly, have allowed Majcher to champion her unique style and inspire many to create lasting memories of their own. And, in addition to guest spots on various radio programs such as Martha Stewart's Sirius Radio show and speaking engagements across the United States on small business, entrepreneurship and entertaining, Majcher has contributed to several books including Extreme Entertaining Made Simple, by Eduardo Xol, the star of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," Restaurant Newsletters that Pay Off, Nobody's Business But Your Own and How to Plan an Elegant Second Wedding.

In Majcher's home town of Pasadena, California, she has served on the Board of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and chaired its' Million Dollar Business Series, which showcased entrepreneurs whose businesses grossed at least one million dollars in annual sales and was meant to inspire individuals through entrepreneurial success stories. She has won the Chamber's Entrepreneur of the Year Award three years in a row and was named an Outstanding Young Woman of America. In 2006, she was honored by the State of California as Small Businesswoman of the Year and in January of 2009, Majcher was honored by Pasadena Magazine, a premier lifestyle magazine, as one of their "40 under 40". Winners included those who give back to their city and keep it vibrant and energized.

Majcher is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Business where she earned a degree in Marketing with a focus on Entrepreneurship. With her continuing desire to be on the leading edge of gastronomy and design for her company and clients, Majcher has blanched, flambéed and fricasseed her way through the Smithsonian Institution's culinary series and cooking schools in both Paris and Normandy. She is constantly seeking out cool and creative individuals with style and personality to work with and attends premier design exhibitions whenever she can. Majcher currently spends any free time she might have, usually between 10:45pm and 11:15pm on Tuesdays planning her own annual blowout party every November.