Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s Butterfly Ball
The Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s 20th annual Butterfly Ball, held in May, raised more than $2.3 million in support of the museum’s science education initiatives. The event decor by the Flower Firm included cobalt blue linens and a stage backdrop with giant cut-out butterflies; the three-course dinner was provided by Calihan Catering.
Photo: Ana Miyares
Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Gala 2018
The Victorian garden theme of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Gala 2018, which was held earlier this month and produced by MDR Creative, featured lush floral arrangements around the company’s complex on Navy Pier. The event raised $1.6 million for the organization’s classroom and community initiatives.
Photo: Michael Litchfield
For the Television Academy's Governors Ball in 2016, which took place after the Emmys in Los Angeles, Sequoia Productions created a “Nature’s Elegance” theme. Centerpieces by LA Premiere alternated between low birch-wrapped looks and towering, colorful designs rising more than three feet tall off tabletops in trumpet-style vases; overall, the look included more than 50,000 hydrangeas, 80,000 roses, and 20,000 succulents. Fabrics were done in neutral, earth-inspired tones, and sequin mesh, metallic silks, and floral sequin organzas added an element of glamour.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
For the City of Hope Spirit of Life gala, held in Los Angeles in November 2016, Namevents created a stage that resembled the moon's pocked surface and used fiber-optic panels in the roof of the tent to resemble stars. The sides of the tent were also draped black, and the carpeting was black as well so that the focus remained on the stage.
Photo: Line 8 Photography
One highlight was an ombré, watercolored cake topped with blue and white macarons and flowers.
Photo: Belen Aquino, Gerber Scarpelli
Enchanted garden embraces guests with rose and twining ivy table scapes
Enchanted garden embraces guests with rose and twining ivy table scapes
Photo: Michael Blanchard
A classic tale updated
A classic tale updated
Photo: Allegro Photography
The dining tablescape at New York’s 9/11 Memorial & Museum benefit dinner in September featured a hologram prism, which displayed the Survivor Tree through the four seasons (the charred trunk of a Callery pear tree, which became known as the “Survivor Tree,” was pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center site after the attacks and remains alive on the grounds today).
Photo: Michele Laufik/BizBash
