With Event Farm's Digital Gifting Wall, guests can have offers emailed to them by tapping a badge. Gifts include coupon codes, music files, and digital content.
Through SugarWish, the sender picks a SugarWish gift and e-card, and the recipient picks four candies from options that include sugar-free gummy peaches and regular M&M’s. The boxes, from $16.50 to $95, are then immediately shipped out and can be sent throughout the United States and Canada. The company recently launched a corporate platform where companies can send customized e-cards with logos and personalized messages.
GCI is a digital gifting company that has a dedicated "Gift Card Shop." The site allows users to "wrap" gift cards, which are redeemable online, with personalized photos, videos, text, music, and sounds. Cards can be redeemed at retailers such as the Gap and Lowes; they can also be redeemed at spas.
Stress-relieving coloring books for adults from Scarborough & Tweed offer a creative alternative to traditional party favors and corporate gifts. Coloring pencils are included. Pricing is available upon request.
During the Soup'er Sandwich event at the New York City Wine & Food Festival in October 2013, Martin's Famous Potato Rolls handed out squeezable stress balls shaped like packages of the brand's bread rolls.
Wool and the Gang delivers full “knit kits,” including yarn, chunky needles, easy-to-follow patterns, and a link to online video tutorials, to offices or event spaces for knitting parties. (The repetitive action of needlework can reportedly induce a relaxed state like that achieved with meditation and yoga.) Projects range in difficulty from a clutch, pillow cover, knit snood, crochet snood, and hat; items will change for spring and summer season. The party hosts receive their kits for free, while guests receive discounts on their kits, ranging from $27 for a clutch to $35 for a snood or hat. Knitters can also attend preplanned parties that Wool and the Gang hosts in cities around the country. Tickets are approximately $40, depending on the project; the price includes the materials needed.
At last year's Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, Whole Foods offered guests scented sprays as well as sunscreen, hair ties, and bobby pins. A sign nearby read, "Refresh yourself before you wreck yourself."
To bring more energy to the trade show floor, organizers of the 2013 National Auto Dealers Association Convention & Expo created four destinations that offered activities such as makeovers, 20-minute dance workouts, health screenings, and chair massages. One section provided pinball machines, arcade games, Nascar simulators, a photo graffiti wall, and golf swing analysis for attendees to play.
Zeel sends massage therapists to meetings and events in several cities throughout the United States, including New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Washington. Massage therapists arrive at venues with their own massage tables and can perform services such as Swedish or deep-tissue massages for 60, 75, or 90 minutes. For meeting breaks, therapists can give 10- to 15-minute chair massages. The services can be booked 30 days in advance.
IMEX America, as part of its Be Well at IMEX program, offered a meditation room at last year's conference, which was held in Las Vegas in October 2015, to encourage the mental and physical well-being of attendees.
The mobile spa At Your Service travels to events and meetings throughout greater Toronto and specializes in providing services at fashion shows, media events, corporate gatherings, and spa parties. Hosts can book services including facials, manicures, pedicures, hairstyling, and eyelash application.
To promote health and wellness, Bonnaroo organizers expanded its yoga program in 2013, offering a variety of classes each day including vinyasa and meditative yoga.
Stress-relieving coloring books for adults from Scarborough & Tweed offer a creative alternative to traditional party favors and corporate gifts. Coloring pencils are included. Pricing is available upon request.
Inspired by Burning Man, Billion Jelly Bloom's bright performer-articulated jellyfish make for some interesting visuals. For large events and festivals, planners can book the creatures; the service includes staff, equipment transport and set up, and training sessions for performers. Pricing starts at $2,500 for 10 jellies. D.I.Y. rental packages are also available, starting at $425 for five jellyfish, and include the equipment, along with instructions for setting up and packing up the jellyfish.
The gourmet edible cookie dough from Dō Cookie Dough Confections comes in classic flavors like chocolate chip and cake batter, as well as seasonal favorites, such as Pumpkin Chai Chocolate Chunk. The sweet treat is also bakeable and is packaged in customizable containers. Prices start at $14 for 16 ounces, with multi-packs available.
High Style Rentals' new Pop collection features vibrant side and highboy tables and stools (prices are available upon request). The items are available for rent in the Northeast region in a range of hues—blue, purple, fuchsia, black, orange, yellow, white, and mint.
Guests can morph into zombies, celebrities, and even other guests with L.A. Photo Party's morphing activation option. Companies can add their own branding, custom graphics, and music, plus L.A. Photo Party provides on-site printing. The booths are available globally; pricing is available upon request.
Packnwood recently debuted its Kraft paper collection featuring functional takeout packages, including cups and sandwich boxes, with a trendy Kraft paper look. Pricing is available upon request.
New York-based Pizza a Casa Pizza School provides private classes for corporate teambuilding, client entertaining, and celebrations. The Hands-On Pizza Workshop ($2,200 for as many as 16 guests) includes a reception with drinks and pie, then a start-to-finish pizza-making class. Each participant (or teams of two) creates as many as four pizzas. The Gourmet Pizza-Making Demo and Pizza-Making Party ($2,400 for 17 to 24 guests) features a meet and greet and a pizza demo, where instructors show how to make dough, then guests get to top and cook their own pizzas.
Picture Mosaics, which creates photo walls with unique mosaic designs at events, recently introduced its stand-alone kiosk called Mosaic Me. The on-site device prints 8- by 10-inch and 5- by 7-inch images with different pattern options, plus it can be wrapped in custom signage. Pricing starts at $4,000.
LIQS Cocktail Shot is a cocktail-shot hybrid sealed in a mini plastic glass. The shots are available in single-flavor three-packs ($7.99) of four drink options: vodka with lychee and grapefruit, tequila with cinnamon and orange, lemon drop, and kamikaze. Plus, the lids can be customized.
For personalized party favors, Magnetic Memories shoots guest photos and prints them with customizable designs, then transforms the images into magnets on site. Pricing is available upon request.
Acute Inflections, a New York-based duo featuring vocalist Elasea Douglas and upright bassist Sadiki Pierre, offers a jazzy, sultry sound for weddings and events, performing interpretations of well-known songs and original music.
