The Boston Red Sox left the chilly weather behind and headed to the Sunshine State to begin spring training, but before hitting the field, the team gathered at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs for a swamp-themed reception. Cyndi Humphrey, the event planner with John W. Henry & Company, wanted to combine the Everglades with baseball and asked DECO Productions to bring her idea to life.
A tent pitched adjacent to the hotel's pool was converted into a swamplike environment. More than 200 guests walked over a wooden bridge into the reception, which was filled with fog, foliage, and vines. Three animal exhibits were set up in the tent. One featured a Florida panther nestled on a platform next to a jeep and trees; a bobcat lounged nearby on top of a tank that held a live alligator. The final exhibit was a large fiberglass tree with three separate glass sections where a lizard, tarantula, and rabbit were on display.
The tables mimicked the wild surroundings and were alternately set with burlap, brown, or green linens with snakeskin, camouflage, or leaf-patterned overlays. Each place setting had brown leather chargers and tiger-shell napkin rings. In the center of each table, tall wrought iron stands were overflowing with tropical plants and flowers, such as birds of paradise, heliconia, and protea. Faux palm trees completed the look. DECO incorporated the sports theme tastefully by adding baseballs to the palm trees to resemble coconuts and projecting the team's logo on both ends of the tent's walls.
In the back of the tent, lounge areas were set up with modular sofas and ottomans, animal-print pillows, raffia accents, and more tropical foliage. Enclosing each lounge was an eight-foot bamboo frame with mosquito netting. Even the bar and buffet stations were transformed with natural thatched skirting to blend with the swamp theme.
—Vanessa Goyanes
A tent pitched adjacent to the hotel's pool was converted into a swamplike environment. More than 200 guests walked over a wooden bridge into the reception, which was filled with fog, foliage, and vines. Three animal exhibits were set up in the tent. One featured a Florida panther nestled on a platform next to a jeep and trees; a bobcat lounged nearby on top of a tank that held a live alligator. The final exhibit was a large fiberglass tree with three separate glass sections where a lizard, tarantula, and rabbit were on display.
The tables mimicked the wild surroundings and were alternately set with burlap, brown, or green linens with snakeskin, camouflage, or leaf-patterned overlays. Each place setting had brown leather chargers and tiger-shell napkin rings. In the center of each table, tall wrought iron stands were overflowing with tropical plants and flowers, such as birds of paradise, heliconia, and protea. Faux palm trees completed the look. DECO incorporated the sports theme tastefully by adding baseballs to the palm trees to resemble coconuts and projecting the team's logo on both ends of the tent's walls.
In the back of the tent, lounge areas were set up with modular sofas and ottomans, animal-print pillows, raffia accents, and more tropical foliage. Enclosing each lounge was an eight-foot bamboo frame with mosquito netting. Even the bar and buffet stations were transformed with natural thatched skirting to blend with the swamp theme.
—Vanessa Goyanes
DECO Productions created an Everglades-themed reception to celebrate the spring training season of the Boston Red Sox.
The buffet stations were decorated with natural thatched skirting and tropical flowers.
A bobcat observed the surroundings from the top of a tank that held an alligator.
A quicksand vignette added to the Everglades environment recreated at the event.
