One of the hottest invites during MTV Video Music Awards weekend wasOcean Drive magazine's glitzy affair, hosted by Jamie Foxx and presented by Bodog.net at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel.
Lana Bernstein, Ocean Drive's vice-president of public relations, hired Randi Friedman from Logistics Management Group to spearhead the event. Friedman created a purple pearlescent atmosphere inside the Loews' 28,000-square-foot ballroom.
Friedman's design team included Garrett Production Group, which built a massive multitiered stage abutting the dance floor. The center platform housed DJ Irie's booth, where he spun hip-hop, R&B, and 70's hits throughout the night. Two side platforms completed the set, offering private lounges for celebrity guests such as Colin Farrell, Eddie Murphy, Ludacris, and Christina Milian. Nuage Designs Inc. filled these lounges with white sofas with lavender chinchilla-and-silk pillows and white acrylic cubes.
EventSource International jazzed up the stage's metal scaffolding with royal purple fabric and pearls and suspended plexiglass banners of sponsors Florida InsideOut magazine and Bodog.net on the wall above the platforms. EventSource also hung a frosted, backlit plexiglass box to display the Ocean Drive magazine logo in front of the DJ booth. The company filled roomy seating lounges scattered about the ballroom with angular white furniture topped with royal purple cushions. A fishbowl vase with a floating candle and strands of pearls decorated each low table. Each lounge had an illuminated archway entrance with a curtain of pearl strands.
Dancers with purple-and-black lace corsets and matching elbow-length gloves painted onto their bodies from Hot Jam Entertainment plus the lingerie-clad Dance Attack dancers from C & J Productions danced atop platforms on the stage and on two cubes on the dance floor. Two aerialists, supplied by C & J, performed briefly, and additional eye candy came in the form of female models promoting Bodog.net and half-naked men with Bacardi's Big Apple logo painted on their chests.
Bacardi stocked two large bars at each end of the room with a variety of spirits, which Foxx poured directly into the mouths of female fans hovering near the stage. A tapas bar catered by Loews featured mussels, tuna nicoise, salmon, smoked trout, grilled vegetables, and assorted cheeses and breads. Guests also indulged in a hot buffet with risotto and pecorino cheese croquettes with saffron; salmon and.phparagus soufflé in phyllo cups; Peruvian beef brochettes with spicy ponzu sauce; and chicken empanadas with chipotle and garlic dipping sauce. Chefs dished up roasted turkey and churrasco with chimichurri sauce at carving stations. When the dessert and coffee buffet opened, guests dipped cubed tropical fruit and pastries into white, dark, or milk chocolate fountains.
—Vanessa Goyanes
Lana Bernstein, Ocean Drive's vice-president of public relations, hired Randi Friedman from Logistics Management Group to spearhead the event. Friedman created a purple pearlescent atmosphere inside the Loews' 28,000-square-foot ballroom.
Friedman's design team included Garrett Production Group, which built a massive multitiered stage abutting the dance floor. The center platform housed DJ Irie's booth, where he spun hip-hop, R&B, and 70's hits throughout the night. Two side platforms completed the set, offering private lounges for celebrity guests such as Colin Farrell, Eddie Murphy, Ludacris, and Christina Milian. Nuage Designs Inc. filled these lounges with white sofas with lavender chinchilla-and-silk pillows and white acrylic cubes.
EventSource International jazzed up the stage's metal scaffolding with royal purple fabric and pearls and suspended plexiglass banners of sponsors Florida InsideOut magazine and Bodog.net on the wall above the platforms. EventSource also hung a frosted, backlit plexiglass box to display the Ocean Drive magazine logo in front of the DJ booth. The company filled roomy seating lounges scattered about the ballroom with angular white furniture topped with royal purple cushions. A fishbowl vase with a floating candle and strands of pearls decorated each low table. Each lounge had an illuminated archway entrance with a curtain of pearl strands.
Dancers with purple-and-black lace corsets and matching elbow-length gloves painted onto their bodies from Hot Jam Entertainment plus the lingerie-clad Dance Attack dancers from C & J Productions danced atop platforms on the stage and on two cubes on the dance floor. Two aerialists, supplied by C & J, performed briefly, and additional eye candy came in the form of female models promoting Bodog.net and half-naked men with Bacardi's Big Apple logo painted on their chests.
Bacardi stocked two large bars at each end of the room with a variety of spirits, which Foxx poured directly into the mouths of female fans hovering near the stage. A tapas bar catered by Loews featured mussels, tuna nicoise, salmon, smoked trout, grilled vegetables, and assorted cheeses and breads. Guests also indulged in a hot buffet with risotto and pecorino cheese croquettes with saffron; salmon and.phparagus soufflé in phyllo cups; Peruvian beef brochettes with spicy ponzu sauce; and chicken empanadas with chipotle and garlic dipping sauce. Chefs dished up roasted turkey and churrasco with chimichurri sauce at carving stations. When the dessert and coffee buffet opened, guests dipped cubed tropical fruit and pastries into white, dark, or milk chocolate fountains.
—Vanessa Goyanes