Moving Certain Events From iPhoto Library to new mac

I just bought a new macbook pro. i want to transfer my iphoto library to my new MacBook Pro, BUT i only want to transfer certain events.
Ex: i have events A,B,C, and D on my iMac but i only want events A and D on my MBP due to space concerns.

Link the two Macs together and use iPhoto Library Manager to move the selected Events plus associated metadata between the libraries.
Regards
TD

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