12 Glow-in-the-Dark Ideas to Brighten Up Any Event

For a trippy twist on team building, the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel and the JW Marriott Grand Rapids in Michigan offer glow-in-the-dark yoga. The one-hour class keeps groups focused thanks to the lack of visibility. By practicing in the dark, attendees are forced to tap into their senses while stretching. Groups start the session by drawing on themselves and each other with glow-in-the-dark body paint, then the class wraps with a dance party and glow-in-the-dark healthy cocktails. Snacks including fresh juices and fruits are provided.

In partnership with the (Red) campaign, Belvedere staged an AIDS awareness takeover of New York's meatpacking district in November 2012, featuring a one-hour Chromeo concert. During the performance, the crowd waved oversize red glow sticks, which matched the glowing red look of the promotion.

Lit with LED lights in customizable colors, the Peacock Egg cocktail at Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria Orlando is served in a hollow egg-shaped ice cube, containing lavender syrup, blue Curacao, Bombay Sapphire gin, and fresh lemonade.

At the welcome reception for Univision's “Leading the Change” event, held at the SLS Las Vegas hotel in Las Vegas in November 2015, a ballerina flash mob wearing glow-in-the-dark makeup surprised guests.

Guests could pick up various glow-in-the-dark items such as necklaces, bracelets, and rings at the Outback Bowl’s Gridiron Gala, held in Tampa’s A La Carte Event Pavilion in January 2012.

An acrobat dressed in a bright fluorescent costume performed in a hoop suspended from the ceiling at the Gridiron Gala.

Magnolia Bluebird Design & Events created walls of cotton candy served on LED glow sticks for a Pop Art-theme sweet sixteen party, held at the Musikfest Café at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in January 2015. “It smelled like a Katy Perry concert when you walked in the door,” said Danielle Couick, principal of the Columbia, Maryland-based event planning company.

A Respawn Entertainment employee walked the show floor of the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, sporting a dramatic logo Mohawk that glowed in the dark. (A buddy walked behind with a black-light flashlight to activate the effect.)

A trio of iLuminate dancers in bespoke LED suits performed during Alienware's laptop launch event at E3 in 2013.

Guests could grab packages of green glow-stick earrings as party favors at the National Pancreas Foundation's Young Professionals' "Punk Goes to Discotheque" benefit, which was held at the Oberon at the American Repertory Theatre in Boston in 2010.

At the "Night of the AdEaters" event, which took place at Terminal 5 in New York during Advertising Week in 2009, organizers provided glow-in-the-dark ice cubes to help guests keep track of their drinks.

Performers twirled LED hula hoops at an App Annie event, held at Mezzanine in March during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.