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Revolution's Bumper Tables debuted at Fish Tales in Ocean City, Maryland.

11 Event Decor Ideas and Products Designed to Keep Guests Safe

At Engage!19, which was held at the Baha Mar Resort in Nassau, Bahamas, last June, 400 wedding and event industry professionals gathered to attend speaker and panel sessions, as well as networking activities including two on-site pool parties, one in the evening and one in the afternoon. The luxury-wedding business summit, which is produced by Rebecca Grinnals and Kathryn Arce of Celebration, Florida-based Engaging Concepts, was designed by Emily Clarke Events and featured an updated tropical look with pastel shades.

#ThrowbackThursday: Get Inspired by These Vibrant Summer Soirees

First up was 'Grad at the Pad,' a celebration for the class of 2020 that took over a front yard in Orange County, Calif. 'Instantly my mind went to entertainers on stilts,' said event designer Alexandra Rembac, nodding to the requirements to stay six feet apart from others.

Can Socially Distanced Pop-Ups Help Bring Back Live Events?

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2016 Costume Institute benefit—which celebrated Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology and was produced by Raul Avila—the 'red' carpet in the arrivals tent (inspired by a DNA double helix) was patterned and handpainted sisal, with a red-and-pink double helix extending up the steps and into the museum's Great Hall. It took six months to stencil the carpet, a first for Avila and his team. 'We decided for the first time to bring the helix concept to guests the moment they arrived,' said Avila, the Met Gala's long-standing producer. 'It’s the party of the year, so you really have to make it look like the party of the year.'

#ThrowbackThursday: 10 Steal-Worthy Event Design Ideas from the Met Gala

Staffing outfits also tied into the theme. 'Taking our cue from [Sawaya], we looked at fashion that pulled inspiration from Dutch painter Piet Mondrian,' explained the museum's Christina Sion. 'We worked with Artists Creating Entertainment to create costumes for a dozen performers mirroring the Mondrian Collection, designed by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1965—but with a cheeky, creative twist. These human LEGO 'mini-figures' provided key guest engagement roles at the event, as well as fun photo ops throughout the cocktail party.'

How This Annual Gala Used Eclectic Decor to Keep Things Fresh

Floral

“Visitors to the pop-ups actually thank us for being there, and you can see on their faces just how happy it makes them to see these gardens appear in their neighborhoods,” says Tom Kehoe about Kehoe Designs' Green Market Gardens.

How These Industry Pros Are Keeping the Flower Business Blooming

Angel Salazar Design (@angelsalazardesign) arranged florals for a Tiffany & Co. event in 2018. See more: Trend Spotted: Floral Installations In Cars

26 Floral Designers You Should Be Following on Instagram

The V.I.P. kickoff event took place June 20. Guests mingled and sipped cocktails under the rear of the structure, where they could view FlowerCult's floral installation.

See How St-Germain Brought a Floating Meadow to Brooklyn

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Design Stories: The Top 50 Event Designers

Award season parties this year tended to stay away from minimalist decor, with many incorporating complex, colorful patterns. HBO's annual Emmys party, for example, had a lush Garden of Eden theme with large floral patterns covering the carpeting, pillows, and other rentals. The event was a collaboration between the network's Cindy Tenner and Ashley Covarrubias and event designer Billy Butchkavitz; it was Butchkavitz’s 20th consecutive year producing the party.

5 Event Design Trends From Award Season's Coolest Parties

Gifts & Swag

Keep Your City Smiling sells gift boxes that benefit struggling local businesses. The boxes include goods such as chocolate, art cards, craft coffee, candles, mugs, and lotions.

After COVID-19 Cancellations, This Company Found a Way to Stay Afloat—and Support Other Struggling Businesses

Arm travelers with serious germ-fighting tools including a travel humidifier, collapsible water bottle, and hydration multiplier, along with hand sanitizer, screen cleaner, and all-purpose wipes. This kit helps streamline packing with compact solutions that emphasize portability and practicality.

Event Canceled Due to Coronavirus? Send Attendees This Swag

Count down to Christmas with the 25 little surprises featured in Diptyque’s Advent Calendar ($425). Limited-edition products in the decorative box include candles, eau de toilette, eau de parfum, and skincare items.

12 Luxe Corporate Gifts for Those Who Want to Spend a Lot of Jingle

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Five Easy-to-Make Customer-Appreciation Gifts

Scarborough & Tweed introduces new eco-friendly gifts and giveaways!

Go Green With Scarborough & Tweed!

Printing & Graphics

Your Event, Your Data, Your Business Intelligence

Event Boosterapp—App to Boost Networking and BI at Events

For a private wedding, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington in March 2018, Favored by Yodit Events & Design created golden menus with cherry blossom frames to mimic the event’s theme.

10 Creative Menu Designs Your Guests Will Eat Up

From left: Ashley Clay, Eyal Simko, Christine Traulich

What Is One Way You Made an Event Invitation Exciting or Effective?

Engaging Invites recently launched a new product that incorporates a virtual-reality touchscreen into an invitation or brochure. It allows the recipient to interact with the embedded video with the touch of a finger, such as navigating around a venue’s floor plan. Pricing for the custom-made items varies depending on quantity and design needs.

4 New Event Products You Need to Know About

The report found that boomers are the most active in tracking activities at B-to-B exhibitions. Gen Xers and millennials are more likely to take photos of products that interest them.

Report: 7 Takeaways on How Different Generations Feel About B-to-B Exhibitions

Rentals

Kagan sofa, $1,050 per day, available nationwide from Patina Rentals.

Smooth Like: 12 Velvet Items For Rent

Rock the Bike, based in Oakland, California, brings bicycle-powered activities to events throughout the continental United States. The company offers the Recharge Station, a bike that can charge as many as eight phones at once, and offer a fun icebreaker and stress relief option at conferences such as Adobe Max in 2018 (pictured). An integrated 'pedalometer' shows attendees how hard it is to pedal to maintain consistent charging. The desk and wheels can be branded with company logos and custom colors.

12 Event Rentals That Reinforce Health and Wellness Values

Waterlily linen, $80.85, available throughout the U.S. from Over the Top Rental Linens

8 Floral-Pattern Furniture Items for Rent

See why brands are choosing Photoboxx over traditional photo booths at their events.

Unique Photo Experience That Drives Engagement at Events

Transparency matters to #eventprofs, including your employees.

5 Reasons Employer Transparency Matters

Social Events

'Just because your plans have been altered due to the outbreak doesn't mean that you're not entitled to commemorating a special day—in a modified but meaningful way,' says Karen Norian of Simply Eloped.

How Weddings, Birthday Parties, and Other Life Events Can Still Be Celebrated Virtually

Washington, D.C.-based Occasions Caterers includes cookie decorating kits as part of its Mother's Day offerings.

Celebrate Mom and Support Event Companies With These Festive Delivery Options

At Engage!19, held at the Baha Mar Resort in Nassau, Bahamas, June 10 to 13, guests gathered for an afternoon pool party.

The Hottest New Ideas and Products for Hosting a Pool Party

Hundreds of balloons filled the space, highlighting a performance by Dallas & Doll.

This Toddler's Birthday Party Had a Gucci Claw Machine

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Q&A: 'Everyone Is an Event Planner,' and Other Insights From a Veteran Google Producer

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The Lodge at Sonoma recently launched its Sonoma Bike Tour program, created in partnership with Mission Bicycle Company, a boutique bicycle shop in San Francisco. The program features an insider’s guide to spots in Sonoma within biking distance, and the Ultimate Wine Country Bike Tour Package (starting at $344) includes the use of two custom wine-colored bikes made exclusively for the lodge. Plus, guests can go on a scavenger hunt with stops and tasks at participating locations such as tasting the special “Vella” cheese at the Vella Creamery.

Forecast: 10 New Products & Ideas for Summer Events

At the WIPA event, Anything But Gray Events also evoked the 1990s with a colorful, graffiti-inspired print from BBJ Linen.

5 Cool Ways to Use Graffiti at Events

For a private wedding, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington in March 2018, Favored by Yodit Events & Design created golden menus with cherry blossom frames to mimic the event’s theme.

10 Creative Menu Designs Your Guests Will Eat Up

Novita Communications partnered with design studio Maiarelli Studio to create an installation that aimed to connect reading with the feeling of empathy. Instead of plates, open, overturned books, each covering the topic of AIDS, occupied the place settings and stacks of books served as table legs.

18 Dining and Tabletop Ideas From Diffa's 2019 Dining by Design

It’s A Thing, a head and neck cancer nonprofit founded by Nicola Stephenson—president of experiential branding and communications agency Troika/Mission Group—held its first interactive exhibition and fund-raiser at RXR Realty’s Starrett-Lehigh Building October 24 to November 15. The organization partnered with street artist Mr. Brainwash, who curated more than 100 custom pieces of artwork for the exhibit. One installation showcased rows of vintage typewriters, which spool pages with words and phrases typed by attendees. Each piece of artwork created by Mr. Brainwash was intended to celebrate body functions made possible by the head and neck.

10 Best Ideas of the Week: a D.I.Y. Gin Spritz Wall, Warhol-Inspired Poppy Centerpieces, a Vintage Typewriter Installation

Strategy

If it is necessary to ask participants their gender, include an option for folks to identify as non-binary and/or 'other.'

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Earlier in May, Hard Rock Stadium in Miami—home to this year’s Super Bowl—announced it will be the first pro football stadium to attain the GBAC STAR accreditation.

Why Venues Across the U.S. Are Focusing Efforts to Attain GBAC STAR Accreditation

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Ask BizBash: How Long Should a Virtual Event Last?

Geoffrey Zakarian hosted City Harvest's 'The Great New York Foodathon,” which aired on local New York stations on April 17.

9 Lessons These Event Pros Learned From Hosting Virtual Fundraisers

In addition to the upcoming virtual site visit videos, Avenue Event Group offers Google Maps-like virtual tours for each of its venues, allowing event planners to drag their mouse to walk through a venue virtually and see it from all angles.

How Event Planners Can Get a Head Start on Future Events—From Home

Revolution's Bumper Tables debuted at Fish Tales in Ocean City, Maryland.

11 Event Decor Ideas and Products Designed to Keep Guests Safe

At Engage!19, which was held at the Baha Mar Resort in Nassau, Bahamas, last June, 400 wedding and event industry professionals gathered to attend speaker and panel sessions, as well as networking activities including two on-site pool parties, one in the evening and one in the afternoon. The luxury-wedding business summit, which is produced by Rebecca Grinnals and Kathryn Arce of Celebration, Florida-based Engaging Concepts, was designed by Emily Clarke Events and featured an updated tropical look with pastel shades.

#ThrowbackThursday: Get Inspired by These Vibrant Summer Soirees

“Visitors to the pop-ups actually thank us for being there, and you can see on their faces just how happy it makes them to see these gardens appear in their neighborhoods,” says Tom Kehoe about Kehoe Designs' Green Market Gardens.

How These Industry Pros Are Keeping the Flower Business Blooming

First up was 'Grad at the Pad,' a celebration for the class of 2020 that took over a front yard in Orange County, Calif. 'Instantly my mind went to entertainers on stilts,' said event designer Alexandra Rembac, nodding to the requirements to stay six feet apart from others.

Can Socially Distanced Pop-Ups Help Bring Back Live Events?

'Just because your plans have been altered due to the outbreak doesn't mean that you're not entitled to commemorating a special day—in a modified but meaningful way,' says Karen Norian of Simply Eloped.

How Weddings, Birthday Parties, and Other Life Events Can Still Be Celebrated Virtually

Washington, D.C.-based Occasions Caterers includes cookie decorating kits as part of its Mother's Day offerings.

Celebrate Mom and Support Event Companies With These Festive Delivery Options

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2016 Costume Institute benefit—which celebrated Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology and was produced by Raul Avila—the 'red' carpet in the arrivals tent (inspired by a DNA double helix) was patterned and handpainted sisal, with a red-and-pink double helix extending up the steps and into the museum's Great Hall. It took six months to stencil the carpet, a first for Avila and his team. 'We decided for the first time to bring the helix concept to guests the moment they arrived,' said Avila, the Met Gala's long-standing producer. 'It’s the party of the year, so you really have to make it look like the party of the year.'

#ThrowbackThursday: 10 Steal-Worthy Event Design Ideas from the Met Gala

Staffing outfits also tied into the theme. 'Taking our cue from [Sawaya], we looked at fashion that pulled inspiration from Dutch painter Piet Mondrian,' explained the museum's Christina Sion. 'We worked with Artists Creating Entertainment to create costumes for a dozen performers mirroring the Mondrian Collection, designed by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1965—but with a cheeky, creative twist. These human LEGO 'mini-figures' provided key guest engagement roles at the event, as well as fun photo ops throughout the cocktail party.'

How This Annual Gala Used Eclectic Decor to Keep Things Fresh

In 2013, architecture firm Raw Designs hosted an industry event on the rooftop of a parking garage. The event, which was produced by Kim Graham & Associates, celebrated human power. 'While buildings and cranes seemingly build our urban landscape, we wanted to remind guests of the power people have in creating the ideas of shaping our future environments,' said Raw Designs director Roland Rom Colthoff in a statement. Teams of triathletes pedaled bike generators provided by Arizona-based ASE Power. The athletes' motion discharged electricity into the event's power grid.

#ThrowbackThursday: Stylish, Sustainable Events Over the Decade

A selection of tabletop designs from the #DreamersAlwaysDream challenge on Instagram. Clockwise from top left: Mindy Rice Floral and Event Design, Ed Libby & Co. Events, Robbins Otoya Destinations, Bryan Rafanelli, Jose Villa and Joel Serrato, and Rishi Patel.

Top Event Designers Are Creating Jaw-Dropping 'Quarantine Tables' From Items Around Their Homes

Segall said the concept of the photo shoot was inspired by the movie’s message: “Through the darkness, you’ll find beauty.' Adding that, “You see a lot of shoots that are light and airy or full of color, but not too many that are dark and sophisticated.”

Stay Inspired with Event Design Ideas From This 'Mulan'-Theme Dinner

Keep Your City Smiling sells gift boxes that benefit struggling local businesses. The boxes include goods such as chocolate, art cards, craft coffee, candles, mugs, and lotions.

After COVID-19 Cancellations, This Company Found a Way to Stay Afloat—and Support Other Struggling Businesses

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30 Movies to Watch for Event Design Inspiration

For the Alvin Ailey gala, which was held at the Kennedy Center in Washington in February, the team at Events by Andre Wells used graphic black and white table linens, along with pops of red florals and Lucite chairs, to transform the space.

A Look Back at Event Design Ideas From Winter Benefits