Stellar Event & Presentation Resources, a provider of event services and equipment, has acquired Alford Media Services, a corporate event staging company based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Alford Media founders Steve and Tom Alford and Danny...

The dinner fork has been popular since 1700, the knife and spoon far longer. Many staples of party rental haven't changed for years, but other aspects of the business are changing by the minute. Special Events Magazine spoke to top operators to...

Whether the goal is to keep gate-crashers out or company property in, security plays a role in most special events. And the overload of hype surrounding the millennium will make security challenges tougher this year for event planners...

What do the National Association of Catering Executives, the International Special Events Society, the Convention Liaison Council and the National Caterers Association have in common? Member Shelley Pedersen, CPCE. "Association involvement gives...

Now you've done it! In the September issue of Special Events Magazine, we featured nine fabulous floral arrangements and asked you to decide the best design for each category. Your responses came in by mail, fax and e-mail...

Money may not grow on trees, but theme decor does. Case in point: For an October military wedding, North Tonawanda, N.Y.-based Tiddledybinks Catering collected thousands of leaves to bring fall indoors for the event's "enchanted fall forest" theme...

New Year's Eve venues are not filling up as quickly as their hosts expected, according to a survey conducted by New York City-based Paint the Town Red, a special event firm that runs a free location-referral service. The firm conducted a random...

For the 10th anniversary celebration of a furniture manufacturer, Mary Tribble Creations brought both heaven and hell to North Carolina. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company turned a working warehouse into an otherworldly party site for client...

Some tent events impress because they are big, others because they are beautiful. Still others impress because they are big, beautiful and mystifying-how did they pull that off? Here's how...

Even with all the hype over this New Year's Eve, I don't think anyone truly believes our lives will change at the stroke of midnight. On the other hand, no one can deny that our lives and the events within them change at a faster rate than ever...