Dec 01, 2005

LOOK around and you'll find tents everywhere. Once limited to garden parties and golf tournaments, tent structures are showing up on city streets, in public parks, even attached to the sides of exhibit halls. But along with the diversity of tent...

GET INTERACTIVE

Dec 01, 2005

Looking for ways to add an interactive element to your next event? Hamburg, Germany-based Zelfmade has introduced a mobile-to-screen tool that allows guests to transfer images and messages from cell phones onto an LED wall during an event. Guests...

RAISING THE STAKES

Dec 01, 2005

WHETHER they help keep guests dry or give a more permanent appearance to temporary structures, the latest accessories add style and functionality to special event tents...

MASTERS OF DISASTERS

Nov 01, 2005

IT'S no party, that's for sure. Yet the tents and generators that shelter guests at fancy weddings have at many rental companies been providing vital shelter in areas devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in late summer...

30 Top Event Rental Companies

Oct 31, 2005

Where's the party? Right here! Taken as a group, the big event rental companies profiled here predict a 9 percent boost in business over last year. While some clouds on the horizon threaten to crash the party--including rising fuel and labor costs...

TAKE A SEAT

Oct 01, 2005

CERTAINLY a beautiful chair can have event guests sitting pretty. But if that chair is uncomfortable or — worse yet — unsafe, it can ruin an event. Here, top chair manufacturers describe how they work to create seats that can't be beat...

WAX POETIC

Oct 01, 2005

San Francisco-based Imageglow Candles adds a new twist to an event staple with its collection of candles and lanterns that feature eye-catching images embedded in the wax. The cool designs include the retro-chic Paris series and botanical-inspired...

BACK AT THE PARTY

Oct 01, 2005

THE way Richard LoGuercio tells it, he never wanted to leave the thrill-a-minute world of event rental in the first place. Even when the prospective buyers of his Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals offered him “all the money I could ever...

ONCE UPON A (SHOW) TIME

Oct 01, 2005

DEALING with snow queens, witches and mermaids is not part of many job descriptions, but for Bettina Buckley, chief effects orchestrator at Clermont, Fla.-based Wow!Works, working with these characters became a full-time affair. Early this year...

TLC FOR INVENTORY

Sep 01, 2005

WITH an intricate inventory management system at work amid rows of colorful linen, stacks of white wood chairs and piles of folded canvas ready for the next special event, multimillion dollar event rental company Abbey Event Services counts on...