Holiday Parties

Servers greeted guests at the entrance with mistletoe shots, made with peppermint schnapps and pomegranate juice.

Centerpieces of white carnations designed by Feats Inc. evoked fluffy snowballs.

Eggnog shots with mini gingerbread cookies, by Schaffer’s Genuine Foods in Los Angeles

Swank Productions is offering a Winter Wonderland holiday party package for corporate clients that allows them to mix and match decor elements such as silver linens, votives in acrylic "ice fragments," and artificial snow. Although Swank recommends clients book as soon as possible for holiday parties to avoid rush fees, the company has pulled off past events in as little as three days.

Greenpoint bakery Cookie Road can deliver large quantities of its trippy-looking hand-decorated sugar cookies to private events. Holiday designs include tie-dye-effect stockings and mittens, Christmas trees, snowflakes, and snowmen. There is a minimum of 50 cookies with an average price between $3 and $7 per cookie.

Hargrove Inc. transformed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's H Street headquarters into a rustic ski lodge complete with a 20- by 30-foot faux stone fireplace, a lifelike stuffed moose head, six-foot-tall wooden reindeer, and a massive Christmas tree.