Baby, it's cold inside. When Dan Vazquez, CMP, president of Miami-based AOM Events, was tapped to design an 18-day holiday showcase for the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, located in Coconut Creek, Fla., his directive was to “create a holiday...
Design Mind: Diann Valentine, D.R. Valentine & Associates, Studio City, Calif., www.drvalentine.net ...
Two huge party occasions--the Academy Awards in Los Angeles and Mardi Gras in New Orleans--hit this week, and event professionals on both ends of the U.S. says business has been at least steady...
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The bride and groom made their wedding plans clear. “They said, ‘We don't want a traditional wedding; we want a blast,’” recounts Joe Mineo, president and chief creative director of Canfield, Ohio-based Something New Events. To fulfill their...
Design Mind: Mark Wells, Hello Florida!, Orlando, Fla., www.hello-usa.com ...
Cool colors, clean lines and an elegant Asian aesthetic will mark this year's Academy Awards Governors Ball, which follows the Oscar ceremony on Feb 22. The event team headed by Los Angeles-based Sequoia Productions offered a media preview at the...
Whether it's an intimate wedding or a blow-out corporate bash, event pros know that looks matter. “Decor” is the most popular section on the Special Events Web site, and to give you even more dazzling decor ideas, we're kicking off our new “Divine...
Entitled “A Walk Through the Seasons,” an August gala hosted by Chinese real estate development firm Vanke could just as easily have been called “A Study in Contrasts.” Contrast, after all, was the foundation of a design scheme created to echo the...
When the professionals tell you that you've got the goods, then you know it's true. As Leslee Bell was working with her husband on a convention, the DMC she hired to produce spouse activities commented that she “had a real talent for the industry...
