The ballroom at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel was set to look like an alfresco dinner party with brightly patterned linens, rustic chairs, and bowls filled with lemons. Dinner was an endive salad, Angus beef tenderloin with whiskey pink-peppercorn sauce, and citrus cheesecake with flourless chocolate cake for dessert.
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This year, planners put a cap on the number of $25,000 sponsorships, and created a wait list for that level. To ensure that they would secure a table, some companies moved up to the $50,000 sponsorship level.
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![At the entrance to the event, a lemonade stand offered blueberry-lemon-vodka cocktails. During the tasting, planners tried the cocktail and it inspired the evening's overall theme. '[The catering team] came up with a couple lemon cocktails and we fell in love with that one,' Kite said. 'We started saying, 'At the after-party, we should have a hot dog stand, and we should have a newsstand, and we should have a bus stop.' All of these things just started to emerge in our conversations about what would be on an urban street if we could put it there [in the hotel].'](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2014/05/american_cancer_society_discovery_ball_2014_1274_0185.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
At the entrance to the event, a lemonade stand offered blueberry-lemon-vodka cocktails. During the tasting, planners tried the cocktail and it inspired the evening's overall theme. "[The catering team] came up with a couple lemon cocktails and we fell in love with that one," Kite said. "We started saying, 'At the after-party, we should have a hot dog stand, and we should have a newsstand, and we should have a bus stop.' All of these things just started to emerge in our conversations about what would be on an urban street if we could put it there [in the hotel]."
Photo: Adam Novak Photography
![At the entrance to the event, a lemonade stand offered blueberry-lemon-vodka cocktails. During the tasting, planners tried the cocktail and it inspired the evening's overall theme. '[The catering team] came up with a couple lemon cocktails and we fell in love with that one,' Kite said. 'We started saying, 'At the after-party, we should have a hot dog stand, and we should have a newsstand, and we should have a bus stop.' All of these things just started to emerge in our conversations about what would be on an urban street if we could put it there [in the hotel].'](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2014/05/american_cancer_society_discovery_ball_2014_1274_0185.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
