Decor

Inside mega-club Muzik is the new Grey Goose Lounge, a 35-person space with its own distinctive design and cocktail menu that opened in March. A mixologist from the vodka brand created the cocktail list, and Muzik can provide catering.

Chairs surrounded the central all-white ceremony area on three sides. Black-and-white garden images were projected onto white draping that hid the altar from view as guests arrived. As the clock struck midnight, Blackmann kicked things off by singing “You Make Me Feel So Young."

Black-and-white personal snapshots of the couple’s guests gave the hallway an art gallery-style look.

During the Frieze New York art fair weekend, Visionaire magazine and its issue partner G-Shock threw a bash at the Clocktower Gallery in TriBeCa. All the furniture was hand-wrapped in traditional kitchen aluminum foil. Forty pounds of Mylar confetti covered the floor, and the brick walls were painted silver and purposefully left unfinished.

The staircase at the May 6 gala in New York was flanked by oversize American and British flags made entirely of 150,000 red, white, and blue roses.

Social gaming giant Zynga, best known for Facebook game FarmVille had its first foray into the NewFronts with a May 3 event at Openhouse Gallery. FarmVille was represented as a petting zoo, with actors dressed in animal costumes inviting guests to, well, pet them. Trays of snacks were set into the top of the white fence surrounding the area, like a trough.

Carasco Photography hosted "Brides, Bubbles, and Bliss" at Chicago's Bridgeport Art Center on May 1. The event showcased tabletops from different vendors. Ashland Addison Florist created a hanging table strewn with hundreds of pink and white orchids.

The Carlu hotel in Toronto hosted a 10th anniversary bash on May 3. IceCulture created a "salmon chandelier" by freezing real fish in 10 blocks of ice.

Industrial elements dominated the Tate Americas Foundation's Artists Dinner on May 8. Designer David Stark used giant metallic tubes, florescent lights, and galvanized metal accents in New York's raw event space Skylight at Moynihan Station.

The fund-rasier took over the Artists for Humanity Epicenter in Boston on April 27, and an abstract sculpture hanging over the dance floor underscored the eco-conscious theme of climate change. The piece was meant to evoke the ghostly, transparent look of melting glaciers.

The Storyscapes pop-up, held at New York's Dune Studios April 18 to 21,  offered many interactive media projects for guest participation. Robots in Residence was a project that used programmed robots to direct and shoot ongoing documentary footage at the event.

Dubbed "Passport to Discovery," the American Cancer Society's Discovery Ball at Chicago's Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel on April 27 had a travel-inspired theme. Based on an old-fashioned train station, HMR Design Group's decor included suitcases, trunks, and street lamps; the registration desk looked like a ticket counter.

The presentation of the James Beard Awards took place at New York's Avery Fisher Hall on May 6. Grant Achatz and his team from the Aviary brought in several infusion vessels to house their 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-inspired cocktail, which was flavored with lemon peel, three kinds of seaweed, oolong tea, and lychees.