Creating upscale events is nothing new for Los Angeles-based event planner Sonia Sharma, owner of Sonia Sharma Events, so she was quick to take on a high-end Sweet 16 party. Inspired by her teen client's interest in French history — particularly...
In the case of the annual Celebrity Fight Night fundraiser in Phoenix, the stars come out for boxing legend-turned-humanitarian Muhammad Ali. But once they've signed on, it's the production work of Phoenix-based M Group Scenic Studios that makes...
“‘The more rust the better’” might be an unusual decor mantra for a bride, but it's a phrase Joanne Hulme heard many times while designing an October wedding. To give the bride the vintage, flea-market feel she wanted, Hulme — owner of Joanne...
With precise detail and expansive imagination, innovative designers created entire worlds atop tables for the 2008 Tabletop Gallery at The Special Event in January in Atlanta. From green scenes to urban dreams, from geisha allure to finding the...
One difficult venue, two consecutive nights, a thousand-plus tough-to-please guests. What's a production company to do? In the case of Laguna Niguel, Calif.-based Elite Productions, tasked with creating two events for client Roth Capital Partners...
Tasked with creating a magical environment for the opening-night party celebrating the Broadway debut of Disney's “The Little Mermaid,” New York-based McNabb Roick Events had to decide between a blank-slate hotel ballroom and a venue with plenty...
The event team behind the 50th Grammy Awards after-party--set for Feb. 10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center--will offer a lush, Victorian look “not unlike an evening at the opera in turn-of-the-century Europe,” said Branden Chapman, vice...
Hollywood's most famous icons--the gold Oscar trophy and the red carpet--will set the design motif for the 80th annual Academy Awards Governors Ball, slated for Feb. 24 in the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles. At...