Now available in Toronto through the Idea Hunter, Original Beverage Toppers are edible disks that can be branded with corporate logos, colors, and taglines. The discs float on top of hot, cold, iced, or frozen drinks and are easy to apply.
For a wedding in Big Sur, California, producer and designer Sterling Engagements suspended a 12-foot dream catcher decor piece above the dance floor.
The Big Sur couple traveled through three draped arches on the way to the ceremony. Each sign bore a third of a romantic quote: "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
Luxe teepees decked in greenery provided seating, as well as added visual interest.
The Sterling team built a framed house with no walls or ceiling along the coast of Big Sur and covered it with trailing greenery.
Karen Tran's floral wall served as a backdrop for a white settee.
For a wedding in Mexico produced by Signature Event Consulting & Design, a photo booth with a donkey encouraged guests to "interact and enjoy being silly," said Signature creative director and founder Saraí Flores.
For authentic touches that incorporated local culture at a wedding in Bali on the beach of the Amanusa Resort, Helmstetter created a structure overlooking the Indian Ocean and brought in street vendors, plus lounge furniture and linens created from local batiks.
For a wedding in Stowe, Vermont, Helmstetter built a reclaimed-wood structure in the middle of an open field to create a hidden-garden feeling for the ceremony.
A bride and groom flew from Mongolia for their wedding at the St. Regis Princeville hotel in Kauai, Hawaii, where Belle Destination Events hung strands of white flowers from trees.
For the 2005 event in New York, Guests passed through Raul Avila's 16- by 12-foot curtain of hand-strung orchids before entering the cocktail reception area.
To separate the perimeter—where cocktails were held—from the dinner area for the event's 2010 iteration, the team hung large lampshades from the ceiling. The pieces measured about two feet high and 22 inches in diameter, and their black and white embellishments were replicated in a pattern projected on the floors. The event again took place at the New York Public Library, with Bakula Design overseeing decor.
Held May 20 at New Yorks's Skylight at Moynihan Station, the event featured foliage in its entry gate. The plants included passion flower vine, plumosa fern, ming fern, steel grass, and sheet moss. Van Wyck & Van Wyck handled design.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express inspired the theme of the 2008 gala benefit for the Children's Place Association. To separate the reception from the dinner area, Joseph Leigh Designs hung fabric panels from the ceiling of Union Station.
