Lawrence Crane already had a decent ice carving business going when he and the about-to-be-former Susan Cannon, who owned a festive-balloon business, decided to merge their companies — and their lives. They married and created The Party Concierge in 1993.
“I started out as a chef at the (former) Red Lion Hotel,” Lawrence Crane says. I mention that the hotel had been one of my favorite places for brunch back in what all of us vaguely call “the day” and he says, “I did all of those ice…
