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Story Updated: Aug 19, 2010
Are you planning a “Special Event”? Whether it is a Corporate or Family event from Galas, Grand Openings, Recognition Dinners, Company Picnics or Fundraisers to Weddings, a Celebration of Life, backyard Baby Showers, a 40th Wedding Anniversary or a 100th Birthday Party, Party Time Plus assists individuals, organizations, businesses or a team of volunteers stage their special event.
Be creative and yet budget minded by focusing on one central prop, appealing stage treatment, a fabulous floral piece, or go with a mono-chromatic, one color look. By incorporating texture and choosing your color(s) carefully, you will be sending out the message you want sent since color is a “language” all unto itself.
Nothing makes a statement quite like red. Because red is bold and romantic it signifies power, strength and love – a perfect theme for a sweetheart ball or a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. Or start with a palette of oranges, browns, greens, burgundy and copper that are brought to life with floral sculptures, twigs, dried leaves, berries, and/or green foliage. By adding hanging votives, assorted pillars or floating candles your event continues to unfold in a dramatic, yet warm and cozy way, especially if you did the floor plan based on circles of round tables.
To make large areas appear intimate and warm, the décor must encompass every single area of the space. Whether it’s a room or a tent, light can emphasize, create a soft glow or dazzle the eye making the whole space inviting. Try one or two chandeliers, and or incorporate beam, pole, pin or spotlights, and add smaller globe or twinkle string lights around the perimeter, do ‘up-lighting’ with indirect or quad-pole flood lights, and incorporate standing globe or lantern street lights. In addition, you can use lots of candles in votives of every size and shape, cylinders, hurricanes, or floating candles – all of which add to the drama. Larger pillar candles can be used and re-used 5-6 or more times for the budget-conscious.
Centerpieces may include both low and tall pieces and may include candles, a single large flower or masses of a roses, tulips or daisies tied together in a bunch, fruits, feathers, rocks, twigs, LED lights submerged in water beads or balloon bouquets. The popularity of portable desserts displayed on decorative or tiered trays, plates or bowls as the centerpiece, has inspired some very creative confections, from smaller decorated cakes, cupcakes, to a tower of French-toast twists stuffed with chocolate cream & topped with whip cream or assorted bagels, keylime cheesecake lollipops, or fruit. The rule of thumb is that the taller the ceiling the more important it is that you utilize different height centerpieces and they do not all have to match. Variety can be the ‘spice of life’.
Engage your audience, family and friends with all five senses, not just with lighting and design elements, but with sound (from background music, to a band or other entertainment), with what they taste in a menu that meshes with your theme, in the textures they touch and even in the smells and aromas from flowers, scented candles, pine branches, spices, wood, and the like.
Having a separate lounge area for cocktails or a breakfast coffee nook may include everything from high top 30” round cocktail tables with linen floating to the floor with contrasting or monochromatic ties gracefully tied half-way down, to using a Palm/Tiki Hut and adding umbrella tables with umbrellas….even inside if the ceilings are tall enough. They break up spaces, enhance conversation and create interest.
The use of wood or colored chairs such as white or beige, with or without chair covers and ties, should coordinate with or match all table linens and napkins to create a stunning, impressive and unique event that not only reflects you or your business, but builds relationships, and most importantly, creates a memorable, total experience that is “anything, but ordinary”!
Submitted by:
Lynette C. Michael, Owner/V.P. of PTP
B.S. in Education, Adult Vo-Tech, and Health & Nutrition
Certified “Image & Etiquette” Coach
Be creative and yet budget minded by focusing on one central prop, appealing stage treatment, a fabulous floral piece, or go with a mono-chromatic, one color look. By incorporating texture and choosing your color(s) carefully, you will be sending out the message you want sent since color is a “language” all unto itself.
Nothing makes a statement quite like red. Because red is bold and romantic it signifies power, strength and love – a perfect theme for a sweetheart ball or a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. Or start with a palette of oranges, browns, greens, burgundy and copper that are brought to life with floral sculptures, twigs, dried leaves, berries, and/or green foliage. By adding hanging votives, assorted pillars or floating candles your event continues to unfold in a dramatic, yet warm and cozy way, especially if you did the floor plan based on circles of round tables.
To make large areas appear intimate and warm, the décor must encompass every single area of the space. Whether it’s a room or a tent, light can emphasize, create a soft glow or dazzle the eye making the whole space inviting. Try one or two chandeliers, and or incorporate beam, pole, pin or spotlights, and add smaller globe or twinkle string lights around the perimeter, do ‘up-lighting’ with indirect or quad-pole flood lights, and incorporate standing globe or lantern street lights. In addition, you can use lots of candles in votives of every size and shape, cylinders, hurricanes, or floating candles – all of which add to the drama. Larger pillar candles can be used and re-used 5-6 or more times for the budget-conscious.
Centerpieces may include both low and tall pieces and may include candles, a single large flower or masses of a roses, tulips or daisies tied together in a bunch, fruits, feathers, rocks, twigs, LED lights submerged in water beads or balloon bouquets. The popularity of portable desserts displayed on decorative or tiered trays, plates or bowls as the centerpiece, has inspired some very creative confections, from smaller decorated cakes, cupcakes, to a tower of French-toast twists stuffed with chocolate cream & topped with whip cream or assorted bagels, keylime cheesecake lollipops, or fruit. The rule of thumb is that the taller the ceiling the more important it is that you utilize different height centerpieces and they do not all have to match. Variety can be the ‘spice of life’.
Engage your audience, family and friends with all five senses, not just with lighting and design elements, but with sound (from background music, to a band or other entertainment), with what they taste in a menu that meshes with your theme, in the textures they touch and even in the smells and aromas from flowers, scented candles, pine branches, spices, wood, and the like.
Having a separate lounge area for cocktails or a breakfast coffee nook may include everything from high top 30” round cocktail tables with linen floating to the floor with contrasting or monochromatic ties gracefully tied half-way down, to using a Palm/Tiki Hut and adding umbrella tables with umbrellas….even inside if the ceilings are tall enough. They break up spaces, enhance conversation and create interest.
The use of wood or colored chairs such as white or beige, with or without chair covers and ties, should coordinate with or match all table linens and napkins to create a stunning, impressive and unique event that not only reflects you or your business, but builds relationships, and most importantly, creates a memorable, total experience that is “anything, but ordinary”!
Submitted by:
Lynette C. Michael, Owner/V.P. of PTP
B.S. in Education, Adult Vo-Tech, and Health & Nutrition
Certified “Image & Etiquette” Coach