The 13th annual Storybook Ball was held October 20 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Sound of Music-themed decor included centerpieces of wildflowers accented with tiny guitars, designed by Winston Flowers.
The greater Washington, D.C., chapter of the National Association for Catering & Events held its Capital Style gala on November 11, which had a "Once Upon a Time" theme. Several of the dinner tables, designed by Edge Floral, displayed dramatic branches growing out of a base of greenery, peonies, and roses.
Caviar Dreams produced a pink-carpeted gala for Total Impact Resource Centers at the Penthouse at AT&T Center in Los Angeles on October 27. Candy-colored centerpieces sat atop crystal candelabras, and aqua-blue glassware popped against silver linens and Chiavari chairs.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago kicked off its 58th season with a performance of Richard Strauss’s Elektra on October 6. Following the performance, the Opera Ball was held at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, where the moody decor by Heffernan Morgan Designs included towering arrangements of berry-covered branches.
LUNGevity Foundation's second annual Musical Celebration of Hope was held at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington on September 14. Produced by Events by Andre Wells, the event had a Spanish theme. Tables were covered in striped linens and displayed brightly colored tropical flowers in glass containers of various heights. Decor was handled by Design Foundry and florals were by Blue Vanda Designs.
To fete the launch of the "Imagining the Lowline" fund-raising initiative, the project's co-founders hosted an "anti-gala" dinner and exhibit on September 13 at the Essex Street Warehouse in New York. Van Wyck & Van Wyck brought in reclaimed wood dining tables and decorated them with candlelight and centerpieces of potted rosemary, lavender, mint, geranium leaves, and olive branches.
The Knock Out Abuse gala held at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington had a Moulin Rouge theme, designed by Events by Andre Wells. Amaryllis topped dinner tables covered in black-sequined linens with centerpieces of black plumes and deep red roses.
In September, New Yorkers for Children celebrated its fall gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. David Stark’s table designs had an organic look with high and low glass containers filled with moss, ferns, and candles, and low arrangements in birch-wrapped vases.
Held in late September at Skylight One Hanson in Brooklyn, BAM’s 30th Next Wave gala featured floral decor by Fleurs Bella. Some guests dined at the former bank's deposit slip tables, where the built-in lamps were engulfed in greenery, roses, and calla lilies.
Elle magazine held its annual Women in Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles on October 15. Caravents handled the event design and production, creating a minimalist look with coral-colored floral arrangements set atop matte mirrored Perspex rectangles.
The Metropolitan Opera celebrated the opening of its latest production, Otello, with a post-show reception and dinner on October 9. Designed and produced by Tyger Productions and held on the Met’s Grand Tier, guests sat at 24-foot mirrored tables that reflected the dramatic architecture. Tall gilded crystal candelabras holding boxwood topiaries ran down the center of the tables, while gold Venetian glass chargers and flatware added to the look.
