Bat Mitzvah

April 18, 2015

The September wrap party for So You Think You Can Dance Canada, produced by Mafalda Productions Inc., offered a black, mirrored DJ booth illuminated by LED tube lights from Westbury National Show Systems.

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To give the façade of the DJ booth a dynamic, interchanging look, producers placed three seamless LCD screens that displayed a loop of sponsor images as well as videos created for DJ duo Nervo (pictured) and Tiësto.

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In a new take on the traditional photo backdrop, guests bounced on a trampoline before having their photo taken. Side rails around the custom station kept guests safe.

Photo: Roderick Peña

Guests had to win their dessert—a Sprinkles cupcake—by shooting a toy dart gun into the cupcake cutouts.

Photo: Roderick Peña

BuzzFeed’s BFF Clubhouse’s Emoji Fortune-Teller at SXSW

BuzzFeed's BFF Cluhouse at SXSW in Austin featured an emoji fortune-teller for the day. By looking at guests’ most recently used emoji on their smartphones, the fortune-teller picked the person’s fortune, including an emoticon to use more.

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'The Price Is Right' Wrap Party

The game show's wrap party had a '70s theme in 2011, and guests danced on a colorful, light-up dance floor. The Los Angeles bash was produced and designed by Poko Event Productions.

'Vanity Fair' Social Club

Vanity Fair magazine annually stakes a huge presence in the lead-up to the Sunday-night ceremony. It presented a entire week of programming known as Campaign Hollywood, which included a setup known as the Vanity Fair Social Club at the WeWork space in Hollywood. There, social media prompts adorned everything from lanyard-hung credentials to a touch-screen vending machine activated by social media posts. The Projects produced the space.

Photo: Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Vanity Fair

The five birthday cakes were arranged on fabricated pedestals intended to evoke a stalagmite.

Photo: Geoff Chesman Photography

For a tailgate-party-theme bar mitzvah, Sara Renee Lowell of Sara Renee Events in South Florida and lighting company Designs by Sean created sleek cube-shaped photo centerpieces that were illuminated from within.

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Another bar mitzvah designed by David Stark Design and Production featured LED light installations on the dinner tables as well as suspended overhead. “Instead of using LED to illuminate your decor, the lights themselves become the decor,” Stark says.

Photo: Susan Montagna

In the music room, hundreds of mylar balloons were strung across the ceiling and along the walls to create an elegant yet festive cocktail party atmosphere. The chandelier and wall and curtain treatments were preexisting elements, while all furniture was brought in.

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Montreal-based caterer Agnus Dei created a popular interactive sorbet station. Rings of raspberry, mango, and coconut sorbet spun around a wheel, while guests simply had to hold a scoop up to the device to build their own cone.

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