To celebrate a 70th birthday, a couple chose a Casablanca theme in an homage to their favorite movie. JOWY Productions designed and produced a party at the family’s Los Angeles home that recalled a stylized ‘40s supper club. JOWY turned the front yard into a Moroccan lounge decorated with seating groups, pillows, tables, glass lamps, and hookah pipes evocative of the North African locale.
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Each table was different and had white tablecloths, wood bistro chairs, and a mixture of Moroccan lanterns and candles. Infusing the dining space with color, JOWY’s design included cobalt blue plates, colored tea glasses for wine, and Moroccan platters and salt and pepper dishes. Guests supped on regionally inspired dishes family style.
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Guests gambled at a roulette table and noshed on tray-passed Moroccan-influenced hors d’oeuvres such as mini crab cakes with harissa remoulade, smoked salmon on potato pancakes with cardamom crème fraiche, lamb meatballs with tomato and minted yogurt dipping sauce, and spanakopita. A quartet played vintage ‘40s tunes.
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Valet attendants and waiters wore fez hats to advance the theme.
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Yahoo C.E.O. Marissa Mayer recently celebrated her 38th birthday on the San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island with a beach boardwalk theme. A huge tent housed a massive sand castle decked with beachy props and entertainment, according to Business Insider.
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Samantha Sackler and Tammy Morgan Ratner's new social event production firm Social (a division of Samantha Sackler Productions) produced a destination 50th birthday party in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, that treated guests to a weekend filled with events. The festivities kicked off with a welcome dinner on the beach featuring a live-action taco bar, a piñata hung from a truss structure, live entertainment, and s’mores over a fire pit. The weekend included activities like poolside cocktails and beachside volleyball tournaments. It was all capped off with a dinner at one long table overlooking the ocean.
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At the end of the evening at the 50th birthday party in Mexico, a fireworks display was coordinated to the honoree's favorite songs.
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Sackler and Ratner's Social also produced a winter-wonderland-theme child's birthday party that created a snowy look and feel in Los Angeles. A custom-designed treat display offered sweets—and real snow allowed for sledding activities.
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The Washington area's Events In the City designed a Great Gatsby-theme 30th birthday party for an intimate 38 guests with a cake done in 1920's-inspired designs.
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Events In the City's design details included mini handmade gold sparkly swizzle sticks in champagne saucers.
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So-called "Prohibition punch" was wrapped in paper bags for a speakeasy feel.
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Maria Menounos recently celebrated her birthday with a luau theme at her home in Hollywood, sponsored by C. Wonder and Patrón. She blew out candles on a summery multicolored tiered cake.
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A live snake added drama amid the celebrity guests.
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A fire dancer advanced the Hawaiian luau theme.
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To celebrate a 75th birthday and pay tribute to the honoree’s birth era, JOWY Productions designed and produced an event with a Coconut Grove-style, ‘30s and ‘40s vintage feel. The Los Angeles event for 200 took its inspiration from the theme “Let’s Relish Life,” a theme announced on the event’s printed materials. The entire party was black and white with silver and crystal accents.
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A custom-designed ice sculpture positioned in the center of the entrance held champagne glasses in the round with a Krug jeroboam centered and elevated for all to see.
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Relief From High-Heel Suffering
After a long Oscar night, host Seth MacFarlane's official after-party included a station from Tkees, which encouraged guests to check their heels (similar to the way they would at a coat check) and pick up a pair of flip-flops—in gold, appropriate to the occasion.
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Shelter From Rain
Guests arriving at USA Network's event atop the High Line in New York last summer found a receiving line of umbrella-wielding staffers, who provided shelter all the way to the entrance of the covered bash.
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Sun Protection at the Ready
At Lacoste's Coachella pool party in the blazing desert sun, cigarette-style girls, clad in Lacoste gear, passed Kiel's sun-protection products.
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Custom Fragrance Gifts
For a recent press event in Los Angeles, Paul Frank brought Starring Fragrances for a station that gave guests the chance to take home custom fragrances, made on the spot according to their individual tastes.
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