The Office

Stationery e-tailer Minted is now selling indie artist-designed party decor supplies, including customizable bunting banners, plates, napkins, confetti, stickers, and paper centerpieces. Currently, there are 119 unique themes available for holiday parties, birthdays, baby showers, and a variety of other occasions, with new options launching regularly. Complete packages start from $65.

Brooklyn-based Susty Party specializes in eco-friendly party supplies and compostable tableware made from alternative materials like sugarcane stalks, plant starch, palm leaf, and bioplastic. The company’s party kits cost $59 and include enough supplies—like bowls, plates, cups, straws, cutlery, and confetti—for 24 people. New color combinations are introduced monthly.

Earlier this year, J.C. Penney and Martha Stewart joined forces to launch MarthaCelebrations. The extensive line includes color-coordinated party products such as patterned paper cocktail plates and cups, table runners, place cards, candy containers, oversize balloons, metallic garlands, tissue pom-poms, cupcake stands, and gummy candies. Even though the majority of the products sell for under $15, the quality is top-notch—some of the paper napkins and tablecloths even manage to resemble real linen.

Revelry House delivers curated boxes filled with themed party products (think linen napkins, bamboo cutlery, striped paper straws, treat bags, confetti, balloons, candles, and decorative food picks), as well as set-up instructions, easy-to-follow recipes, and playlist suggestions. The online retailer’s stars-and-stripes-themed summer party box is now on sale; coming soon to the site are birthday, summer barbecue, bridal shower, baby, Christmas, and New Year’s collections. Each box serves as many as 24 people and costs from $159 to $250.

Epson’s latest addition to its LabelWorks line is the Printable Ribbon Kit. The gadget can print text and images (14 fonts and more than 300 symbols are available) onto colorful satin ribbons, which can then be used to decorate party favors, balloons, vases, candy containers, and more. The kit retails for $69.99 and includes the lightweight LabelWorks LW-300 printer and two ribbon cartridges.

Los Angeles PR firm BWR hosted an event in March to preview its clients' spring and summer offerings for media guests. Appropriately, the event in the firm's offices included a dessert bar decked out in shades of pink and green. There was also a make-your-own fragrance bar, nail art, treats from Georgetown Cupcake, and juices from Pressed Juicery.

To make online sharing easier for the influential media crowd in attendance, BWR printed out a social media map that clearly laid out the locations of each of its clients’ setups around the office space, plus the appropriate handles and hashtags for Instagram and Twitter.

With the thinking that a design-conscious crowd should have a design-conscious party, Raw Design celebrated its new office in Toronto with a raw-themed event. Kim Graham & Associates worked with the architectural firm's founders, Roland Rom Colthoff and Richard Witt, to transform the office into a minimalist, party-ready space. The food at the event carried the raw theme, with Barone and Tong providing a sashimi station, an oyster bar, and hors d'oeuvres like organic beef tenderloin tartare and tandoori wild salmon with coriander yogurt served on platters like granite slabs and light boxes. A long table showcased greens in planters, which catering staff turned into salads. Guests received raw maple on a stick as they exited the party.

Try serving the crowd-pleasing dessert du jour in a creative way: For a Boston event, the Catered Affair set up a doughnut-on-a-stick bar, where folks could top their own treats with colored sugar, candy, and more.

To celebrate a milestone anniversary, Leo Burnett hosted a celebration in each of its worldwide offices, and in Chicago approximately 1,000 employees began the day with a Hearty Boys-catered spread of Thai custard buns, sesame balls with bean paste, and coconut-sprinkled pumpkin pastries. "Our U.K. office took the lead on developing a theme, and they came up with 'Try Something New,'" said Michelle Mahoney, director of work life for the company's U.S. operation. After brainstorming ways to play out the theme, which left "endless possibilities," Mahoney said, she and her team came up with the idea of "swapping offices for the day with the Leo Burnett Thailand headquarters."

In a slight break from the Thailand theme, other floors hosted activities such as a disco-themed shuffleboard tournament, which employed a sand-covered conference table, lights, and an Afro-wearing announcer. "Apart from the lobby, the main hub of the event was on the 21st floor," Mahoney said. There, employees collected $74 in cash, as part of a Leo Burnett anniversary-party tradition that annually gives employees $1 for each year that it's been in business.

For no-fuss catering, try arranging the food through Seamless, which links companies and employees to hundreds of local restaurants and caterers, offers fast online ordering, and sends a single, simple invoice for all orders placed. The service is currently offered in more than 40 cities including New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, Houston, and San Francisco.

The first stop for guests on the office tour was a photo booth from Instacam, and guests could pose with a number of props.