From the Charleston Post & Courier:

"It almost sounds like the beginning of a joke. Two guys walk into an event, one was a bartender, the other a dinnerware salesman. The salesman says to the bartender: 'Why don't we go at this together?' And the seed that would grow into a sizable event rental business was planted.

The salesman, Matt McKeown, and the bartender, Boris Van Dyck, forged the first of several strategic partnerships at that event that would become the basis for EventHaus."