We are your corporate event experts.  Our most frequent corporate events are holiday themed parties, cocktail receptions, awards celebrations, employee appreciation events, launch parties, meetings and grand opening celebrations.  Below are a few summaries of our work.

Holiday parties - We usually hire live entertainment and coordinate room decor around eye-catching tablescapes and trendy color combinations.  Using a combination of 8-top square and rounds tables or a mix of caberet tables with bar stools and ultra lounge furniture, we are able to manipulate the flow of movement and keep the room full and balanced in appearance.  What are HOT holiday colors?  We've mixed turquoise/gold, apple green/silver, and black/silver with red accents.  For special touches, we've hired carolers to welcome guests in song and also sing in the background during the cocktail hour.  In lieu of a full bar, we've offered peppermint martinis (bright red) and sour apple martinis (green).  We've dressed our service staff in elf costumes (don't ask if they were happy about this).  Opposite our coat check, we've sometimes positioned a magnificent sleigh prop, which doubled as a backdrop for guest photographs.  These are all things that you can do too!

Cocktail receptions - To loosen up a fairly conservative bunch of guests, we changed their usual menu of beef tenderloin-veggies-brie, etc. for a more exciting, latin inspired menu of saffron rice, black beans, chicken breast marinated with tropical juices and, of course, flaming bananas foster for dessert.  A salsa band crooned in the background and, though this wasn't a dancing affair, hips swayed underneath blue suits and conversation flowed throughout the room.  Definitely the way to warm up a crowd.  Of course, we did our homework beforehand to make sure this "change" would be well-received.  Turns out that the client requested the exact same party for the next year...with an extra hour on the end for dancing!

Awards celebrations - During events, our staff is trained to "be the eyes and ears of the party".  As such, we often hear and see things that our clients miss.  We'll share this little secret with you:  Most guests do not enjoy attending awards celebrations.  Even awards recipients agree that, but for the 3 minutes they take the stage to receive an award, the remaining hours are merely tolerated.  What can you do?   Make the food spectacular!  Replace the iceberg salad with mixed organic greens-seared pear-gargonzola or spinach-grapefruit-avacado.  Replace the chicken breast with a duet plate - perhaps grain fed beef & crab cake or scallops in wine sauce & chicken florentine.  Also, make sure every guests gets a "take-away".  Allow room in the budget for great gift bags and also give away the obvious items, including floral centerpieces, decorations, and even petite plates of leftover dessserts.  Lastly, keep the presentations short and sweet.  For one client, we coordinated a pre-awards banquet 'VIP reception' at another location.  During the reception, 50 attendees received their awards.  Later, at the banquet, that occurence was summarized in an "earlier this evening awards were handed out for...." Oscar-type announcement.  For our client, this was a great solution for keeping the event to a favorable timeframe.

Employee appreciation events - We've hired massage therapists to give guests' 10-minute chair massages as well as students from the beauty colleges to provide manicures.  We've set up a Jeopardy-like game show, giving guests the chance to compete answering trivia questions we create based on the key facts and people to the company.  We have access to caricaturist, magicians, hypnotists and even belly dancers.  We can coordinate and call Bingo as well as Sneaky Santa and we can bring along the prizes.  Whether we host the event at a property suitable for 18-holes of golf or one that will allow us to bring in sand for a castle building contest, we  will plan a variety of activities to engage every guest.