Made by Meg catered the luncheon at a tabletop decorated with boldly colored ribbons and Munchkin products.
Photo: Jessica Claire
Last March, the Los Angeles PR firm BWR hosted an event for media to preview its clients' spring and summer products. Held in the company's offices, the intimate afternoon included a candy bar rendered in preppy pink and green.
Photo: Courtesy of BWR
Last summer, Svedka hosted a Rio carnival-inspired party in Beverly Hills to fete its new mango-pineapple and strawberry-lemonade flavors. The colorful event design included fruits arranged in a logo decor piece that floated in the pool.
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In February, Mindy Weiss and Wedding Paper Divas feted their social stationery collaboration with a Los Angeles party meant to show off specific wedding trends represented in the new collection. Among them was Chinoiserie, represented at the event in an area decked with upturned blue parasols strung overhead.
Photo: Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for Wedding Paper Divas
Another of the wedding trends represented at the Mindy Weiss and Wedding Paper Divas event was color blocking. A white seating area demonstrated the look with jewel-toned pillows, and a vibrant runner topping a mirrored table.
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Held in Los Angeles in November, the J. Paul Getty Trust’s medal presentation at the Getty Center featured illuminated tabletops inset with distinctly springlike butterflies.
Photo: Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging
At the TEDActive conference in the Southern California desert in 2013, the La Quinta Resort & Club provided a sprawling venue where individual seating groups in intimate settings encouraged interaction. Oversize orange lettering spelled out words to inspire conversation and creative thinking.
Photo: Marla Aufmuth
For an Arizona Jeans Company event targeting millennials in New York last year, Mexican-style paper lanterns and flowers hung from the ceiling for a vibrant look and feel.
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The Chicago Flower and Garden Show
The Chicago Flower and Garden Show ran at Navy Pier from March 14 to 22. Peach Blossom Creative Designs created an inventive spin on a beer garden, with a tabletop that had a beer bottle chandelier hanging overhead. The vignette also featured "floral kegs" made with cylinder vases, beer bottles, and tubing.
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Flower & Garden Show
Chicago Flower and Garden Show
Citygirl event production created a tabletop inspired by "the viewpoint of a sophisticated city lifestyle with an emphasis on sustainable elements."
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Flower & Garden Show
Paramount Catering and Events in Chicago offers whimsical pretzel Âstations. The pretzels hang on stands, and guests dip them in sauces, including whole-grain mustard and tomato-bacon jam.
Photo: Courtesy of Paramount Catering and Events
Paramount Events suggests utilizing a tabletop pegboard to present breakfast items like bagels and doughnuts in a fresh, new way for a bridal brunch.
Photo: Courtesy of Paramount Catering and Events
Lollipops can be sweet or savory like the seared tuna version with togarashi, avocado mousse, arare, and micro shiso from Paramount Catering and Events.
Photo: Courtesy of Paramount Catering and Events
The Incentive Research Foundation's Incentive Invitational
The invitational took place May 27 to 31 at Trump National Doral in Miami. The welcome dinner was held poolside and featured appetizers on a swing-set-like structure decked with patches of grass. The snacks represented the host cities of different Trump properties. New York, for example, came to life with a variety of miniature cheesecakes.
Photo: Moris Moreno
Pumpkin Desserts
For a more sophisticated pumpkin dessert, Ballantyne hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina, is offering a Pumpkin Tonka Verrine at its Gallery Restaurant throughout October. The dessert, created by hotel pastry chef Noelle Gogg, consists of Valrhona Orelys 35% Blond Chocolate cinnamon namelaka, pumpkin mousse, tonka bean cream, brown butter sponge, and Orelys chocolate garnish.Â
Photo: Ray Sepesy
At the Engage! wedding summit held in Colorado in 2014, the event's dessert party offered an easy-to-eat lollipop version of campfire s'mores. (The event's rustic location inspired other various camp-inspired details.)
Photo:Â Tammy Swales/Engage!
Last year, Abigail Kirsch Catering in New York began offering colorful mini ice cream sandwiches for events. Flavors include pistachio coconut pineapple and carrot butter pecan caramel, served in matching foil for easy, neat eating.
Photo: Andre Maier
For the Recording Academy's official Grammy Awards after-party in Los Angeles, known as the Grammy Celebration, new caterer Patina this year set up dessert buffets where cotton candy hung from tree branches.
Photo: Dan Collopy
Abigail Kirsch in New York created smoked cheddar-glazed mini doughnuts dusted with peanut brittle for a surprising sweet-and-savory twist on a classic glazed doughnut. To serve them, the caterer repurposed a plate display rack by turning it on its side and threading the doughnuts through.
Photo: Andre Maier Photography
At Allison&Partners’ Late Night Saloon at South by Southwest in 2014, pastry chef Dominique Ansel debuted what was then his newest creation: the chocolate chip cookie milk shot. (His famous Cronuts made cameos too.)
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