APC19 Ideas

August 3, 2018

Rosé Day L.A.

The team created several Instagram-friendly moments throughout the day to take advantage of the Malibu location. In one area, guests could pose inside of an oversize frame.

Photo: Line 8 Photography

Rosé Day L.A.

Furniture from FormDecor and rentals from Town and Country added an appropriately pink touch to the outdoor event.

Photo: Line 8 Photography

Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts

Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts is celebrating its French heritage all summer with Au Soleil: a Summer Soirée by Le Méridien. The global event series, which is taking place at the brand’s 100 hotels around the world, offers a Petit Plates menu with light, local fair, plus a soundtrack curated by Nouvelle Vague and backgammon games. Six varieties of rosé spritzers and aperitifs are also on the menu; options include the Campari Lavender Spritz, made with Campari, sparkling rosé, soda water, and lavender syrup.

Photo: Courtesy of Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts

Kim Crawford Wines' "Sip Into Summer"

The event served a variety of rosé-infused cocktails, including the “Rosé and Tonic”: a mix of Kim Crawford rosé, rose water, tonic, and lime. Wine bottles served as a simple—but eye-catching—bar backdrop.

Photo: Stewart Cook/startraksphoto.com

Kim Crawford Wines' "Sip Into Summer"

Another creation was rosé sorbet. The team shared the recipe: Bring sugar and water to a boil and allowing it to simmer until the sugar dissolves. Cool and mix in Kim Crawford Rosé, then freeze in a loaf pan. Process in a food processor until its smooth, and then freeze again until it’s firm and ready to serve.

Photo: Stewart Cook/startraksphoto.com

Eatertainment Office Party

When Toronto-based Eatertainment Special Events & Catering relocated its offices in July 2017, the company threw a summer bash with a rosé-theme room. In addition to featuring five varieties of the wine, all from Provence, France, the space offered a variety of pink macarons and a chandelier made of roses from Bloom Plus.

Photo: Courtesy of Eatertainment

The Skylark

New York bar and lounge the Skylark is offering a customizable menu dubbed Rosé Your Way. Available on Wednesdays throughout the summer, the menu offers twists on traditional rosé beverages, created by head mixologist Johnny Swet. In the Frosé Your Way option, guests can order rosé mixed with St. Germain, cranberry juice, simple syrup, and lemon wheel, then choose between toppings including rosé gummies, seasonal fruit, or edible flowers.

Photo: Courtesy of the Skylark

The Skylark

The Midtown venue is also offering popsicles made with coconut sangria and Whispering Angel rosé.

Photo: Courtesy of the Skylark

An ice sculpture of the Empire State Building, courtesy of Iceculture, stood in the centre of the martini bar, where servers poured four cocktails inspired by the film's four female characters.

Photo: BizBash

Black PVC fabric dressed cocktail tables topped with loose Swarovski crystals, tea-light candles, and black vases filled with pink flowers from San Remo Florist.

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A Marilyn Monroe impersonator from Camilleon Impersonators was the night's opening act, singing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."

Photo: Alexis Corchado for BizBash

New Century Dance Company performed a cabaret-style act inspired by Frank Sinatra's music.

Photo: Alexis Corchado for BizBash

E & J Cigars rolled Cuban cigars during the cocktail hour.

Floral and event design company B Floral hosted a circus-theme showcase in the Southampton Social Club in August 2018. The Hamptons event had several on-theme photo ops, including an elephant-shaped topiary topped with colorful florals.

Photo: Courtesy of B Floral

Elderflower French liqueur St-Germain and landscape artist Lily Kwong celebrated the summer solstice by creating a floral installation and a hedge maze, which debuted in June 2017 on the High Line in New York. The maze included a bicycle covered in greenery, designed to resemble topiary.

Photo: Benjamin Lozovsky/BFA.com

To celebrate the start of summer and its French heritage, Grey Goose hosted outdoor pop-up markets and one-night dining experiences in collaboration with chef Christophe Dufau in four cities across Canada in June 2018. The Toronto event showcased topiary of the vodka brand's signature goose.

Photo: Ryan Emberley

For the SAG Awards after-party in Los Angeles in January 2014, designers Event Eleven worked with Floral Art to create topiary-like greenery studded with white orchids.

At the Adam Lippes for Target preview event, held in August 2015 in New York, David Stark Design & Production brought the designer's buffalo plaid-inspired collection to life with a fall-inspired event. Two Target bulls-eye topiaries decorated the pool area, creating a fun—and effective—photo op.

Photo: Courtesy of LaForce & Stevens

In June 2016 in New York, the Friends of the High Line’s Summer Party was underwritten by Coach and featured plenty of on-theme brand integration. A total of four dinosaur topiaries, ranging from five to nine feet tall, were peppered throughout the event as a playful nod to Coach's dino mascot, Rexy. Not only were they event centerpieces, they also served as popular selfie photo spots.

Photo: Kevin Tachman

In July 2011, model and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova worked with designer Bureau Betak to recreate a Russian winter in the middle of summer in Paris. Raising $3.27 million for the Naked Heart Foundation, the event was inspired largely by the wintry scenery described in the novel Doctor Zhivago. Large animal-shaped topiaries were frosted with fake snow.

Photo: Courtesy of Bureau Betak

For the Governors Ball music festival in New York in June 2016, Bacardi hosted a house party in a two-story structure on the event grounds. The open-to-the-public space included an upstairs V.I.P. area, where topiary in the shape of a Bacardi bottle offered an eye-catching touch.

Photo: Taylor McIntyre/BizBash

The 2015 Epcot Flower and Garden Festival in Orlando featured topiary shaped like familiar characters. In one such arrangement, a leafy Miss Piggy sat atop a suitcase, waving at passersby.

Photo: Mariah Wild

Logos created from topiary have long been a staple at events, but the Museum of Modern Art put a more unique spin on the idea using different shades of moss and greenery. The display mimicked the English countryside-inspired feel of the rest of the museum’s May 2014 fund-raiser, which featured traditional boxwood hedges, sculptured topiaries, and a faux lawn.

Photo: Carolyn Curtis for BizBash

For a June 2017 press event in New York, Marriott worked with BMF Media to create a series of vignette’s showcasing the company’s various brands. In the Tribute Portfolio section, a vertical garden featured a topiary shaped into the slogan "Live Your Now."

Photo: Courtesy of Marriott

At Tommy Hilfiger’s 25th anniversary party, held in New York in September 2010, designer Raúl Àvila created a 10- by 24-foot topiary in the shape of an American flag. The flag is a central element to the Tommy Hilfiger vernacular, and the topiaries were a dominant element throughout the event.

Photo: Jim Shi

The main character in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands had a particular knack for topiary, which made it an appropriate design choice for the Museum of Modern Art’s film gala, which honored the director in November 2009. Dinner guests spent the cocktail hour in a makeshift garden designed by event producers SPEC Entertainment.

Photo: Jessica Torossian for BizBash

Vegan “ceviche” with lime-marinated cashews, hearts of palm, cucumber, leche de tigre, tiny cilantro, avocado mousse, and crispy blue corn