Pink Color Scheme

Miniature bright-colored donkey piñatas from Oriental Trading party supplies were suspended from clear balloons in the Silver Corridor, which lead guests into the Grand Ballroom for the main event.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Amaryllis created a mini Japanese garden inside the ballroom complete with a pond, wooden bridge, live plants, and a cherry-blossom tree.

Some of the long dinner tables were decorated with giant pink peonies.

The 80 dining tables were covered in custom tablecloths (the undercloth was linen, the overcloth was burlap) spray-painted in a pink, black, and white graffiti motif. Centerpieces held anemones in bright colors, while the dais was custom-made and whitewashed. Avila's team also made table number card holders out of two large six-inch safety pins, which were welded together. The napkins were hand-printed with the word "Punkature."

Hotel Sofitel's Le Bar served a Pink Fog martini made with vodka, lemon, cherry puree, egg whites, and a dash of ginger beer. Chandon-sponsored bars served a signature cocktail of rosé poured over a dollop of lemon sorbet and garnished with a lemon wedge.

A gold-painted tree stood at the entrance to the reception space, offering guests boxes of gourmet chocolate strung from pink ribbons.

Dinner chairs were slip-covered in cream fabric with black or pink grosgrain-trimmed zippers inserted on their backs and sides. The entertainment and dessert portion, sponsored by Givenchy, followed at the Temple of Dendur, where a custom 40- by 18-foot black smoke Plexiglas stage was built on the east side of the room overlooking black velvet couches, fluorescent red cocktail tables, and banquettes, benches, and poufs covered in fabric with black and red graffiti.

Pink butterflies covered the large wooden tree at the center of the main bar.

Soft pink flowers in the centerpieces contrasted the industrial materials that dominated much of the decor.

In the center of the museum's Great Hall, a 40- by 24-foot chandelier made by London-based artist and designer Simon Kenny was constructed from 14,000 aluminum "razor blades," each 4- by 5-inches in size. The installation hung above the information desk, which was covered in three different shades of pink roses set five feet high all around. Two months in the making and having arrived from London via boat in about 25 pieces that were then constructed on site, the metallic nature of the chandelier allowed it to shine, lit by beams of light from the balcony. A red carpet and cherry-blossom trees flanked the chandelier on all four corners. Guests then proceeded up the main staircase directly behind.

Guests got into the spring break theme by cooling off in the party's on-site pool.

Fashioned after a French discotheque, Cipriani 42nd Street was transformed into a pink-hued world of glittering excess, with ostrich feather chandeliers, diamond-strewn tabletops and a 30-foot fountain for the premiere of The Pink Panther.

Edgar Bar and Kitchen served small cups of white chocolate cherry panna cotta topped with dark cherries.

A beveled mirror bar swathed in hot pink velvet-embossed wallpaper was the main attraction of Cipriani's massive hall, topped off with a 30-foot marble fountain in its center.

Held at the Waldorf-Astoria, as it has been for many years, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Hot Pink Party filled the storied hotel's ballroom with its namesake hue. This year the April 30 fund-raiser saw more than 1,200 guests and paid tribute to the organization's founder Evelyn Lauder with the theme, "My Fair Evelyn's Dream." As part of this, the planning team and decor consultant Monroe Alechman incorporated the word "dream" into the evening's design, with gobos illuminating the walls of the dinner space.

Chalkboards encouraged guests to write messages.

Another French-inspired room had all pink linens, chair covers with white lacy overlays, and gold napkins to match the rose-colored walls.

Cipriani's Italian-French fusion buffet, which included croque monsieur, baby lamb chops, and tagliardi with lobster thermidor, stretched along both sides of the main hall.

Caterwaiters from Match Catering were on hand to serve drinks to guests.

Chrystalline chandeliers added drama to the museum space.

The "Dream Closet" Barbie soirée boasted a 9,000-square-foot wardrobe that included dressing room vignettes, a booth for DJ Mia Moretti, and 270 linear feet of closet corridor space. Six live Barbie fashion models were styled after iconic Barbie looks with apparel loaned by the Albright Fashion Library.

Dressed in a uniform of black and pink, waiters passed hors d'oeuvres such as pink prosciutto on fig blinis from DVD trays that displayed the same graphics as the video wall.

BlackBerry's new phone was part of the decor, inside illuminated cocktail tables.

Pink hues tinged desserts and hors d'oeuvres like California rolls.

The alcoholic beverage brand took the opportunity to display its pink lemonade, a flavor created in support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Draped in bright pink fabric, another cart held a large assortment of pink candy.

A takeaway for BlackBerry was the "Pink Prose" chalkboard wall, where guests scribbled down answers to questions like "What woman has inspired you the most?" "What does pink represent in your life?" and "Which famous woman would you like to meet?"

Matching the theme and the gobo lights shining on the walls of the space, illuminated bracelets that read "Dream" served as napkin holders at each place setting.

DJ Rashida played a mix of contemporary and old-school music from her podium in front of a padded wall lined with pink globes (to represent pearls) and the new phone.

Taking full advantage of the building's large, high-resolution video wall—at 120 feet, one of the longest indoors—the production team created a kaleidoscope of pink graphics that played throughout the night.

Mattel hosted a 50th anniversary bash for the Barbie doll at a private beach house in Malibu.

A pink carpet welcomed guests.