The Special Events Magazine Gala Awards judges — all members of our Advisory Board — have read through the hundreds of entries we received to find the best-planned, most beautifully designed events in 35 categories covering everything from the top...
Domestic diva Martha Stewart launched her DVD series, developed by Warner Home Video, with a pretty party at the Celeste Bartos Forum within the New York Public Library...
WHEN Janis Dinwiddie, owner of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Dinwiddie Events, came aboard as producer for the First Team Real Estate Invitational Regatta fund-raiser, she knew the event needed to make waves to reel in donor dollars. Designed to...
Special Events Magazine is proud to present the nominees for the 2005 Gala Awards, as selected by our Advisory Board. The winners will be announced at a black-tie celebration on Jan. 13 at The Special Event show in Dallas. Watch for our January...
THE Grammys, the Emmys, the Oscars: Three-hour-plus awards shows have become the norm, not to mention a running joke among hosts. But when Monroe, La.-based marketing and sales organization The United Group wanted to cut the three-hour running...
NOTED wine expert Ian Blackburn has been hosting an ongoing series of Friday night wine and food tastings through his Santa Monica, Calif.-based company LearnAboutWine. The tastings are extremely popular and boast 200 to 300 participants...
WHILE a corporate event firm's heart may be in the right place, says Marcy Manley, when it comes to choosing charity events to support, “You just can't be everything to everyone.” Instead, the president of Chicago's The Experiential Agency is both...
Telling the audience about the brand is one thing, having them experience it is another. New York-based EventQuest created a stirring brand experience last month for electronics manufacturer Samsung...
Some 2,800 guests at the Emmy Awards Governors Ball last week sailed away to an art deco dream thanks to the team headed by Cheryl Cecchetto of L.A.-based Sequoia Productions (www.sequoiaprod.com). This year's Emmy gala was one of four events...
REPEAT events pose challenges for any producer. In the area of incentives, the pressure's that much more intense. Intended to show corporate employees what's in store for them if they work their hardest, these events must be sensational enough...
