It's About Time: Joe Mineo Creative Keys on Clocks for a Hospital Gala

“It’s About Time” from Joe Mineo Creative celebrated the 125th anniversary of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in grand style, with a design that mirrored the venue’s modern industrial architecture using expanses of glass and open spaces for unique art installations and performances. Thoughtful branding was a focus in printed graphics and projected animations; “The Time Keeper,” a unique character in the ballroom projection, spoke directly to the 1,000 guests and led the program of the evening.

Overdrive: Rolls-Royce Taps Good Gracious to Entertain VIP Guests at Car Reveal

The multi-day Concours D'Elegance car show in Pebble Beach, Calif., gave guests the chance to view and test drive the new Black Badge from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Befitting the upscale setting, the Good Gracious! Events catering team offered bistro-plate choices to 1,500 guests in an elegant mansion setting, which included a vertical mirror salad wall with three salad selections, a risotto bar, a California market experience, and colorful macarons on silver mirrors perched on a bed of chocolate nibs.

Presenting the 2017 Special Events Gala Award Nominees

Big, bold and beautiful: Here, we present the nominees for the Special Events Gala Awards, the oldest and most prestigious award in events. The winners will be named at a gala celebration on Jan. 12 at The Special Event in Long Beach, Calif.

Everything's Coming Up Tulips: MB Events Creates a Tulip-Filled Wedding

Tulips were the design touchstone at this beautiful wedding for 300 guests in Montreal's historic Bonsecours Market. The venue offered three distinct rooms—for ceremony, cocktails and reception—featuring such dramatic event elements as a champagne station, 60-inch round tables made from double-layered tempered glass with tulips tucked inside, and some 8,000 tulips suspended upside down lining the entrance hallway.

Play with Your Food: Four Five One Events Offers Lively Stations for Company's 20th Party

A company celebrating its 20^th anniversary turned to Four Five One Events to create an event with innovative food stations and trend-setting design concepts.

Despite unexpected snow, the catering team decked out an old brick factory with a DJ suspended above a floating dessert buffet, a 12-layer doughnut cake, and a "Jerky Gallery" of three 7-foot-tall gallery frames offering jerkies made from different types of meat.

Close-up on Gala Gold: Extra Images of the 2016 Gala Award Winners

You cheered for them at the Gala Awards ceremony at The Special Event 2016--now take a closer look at this year's winners of the Special Events magazine Gala Awards. Here is the work that the judges fell in love with.

What's Renting: Big Rental Companies Share 2016-2017 Decor Trends

From the glow of gold to the beat of tribal patterns, from layering to jewel tones, here are some of the top decor trends, according to event rental companies on the 19th annual Special Events "30 Top Rental Companies." 

Read business predictions from the top rental companies here.

'Tis the Season: 12 Fun Corporate Gift Ideas for Generous Givers

Don't look now but the year-end holidays are almost here. And so we present a dozen great gift ideas for the 12 days of holidays. You might find yourself setting a few of them aside just for you ... 

By the Book: Events by Fabulous Creates a 'Storybook' Theme Gala for CHLA

Events by Fabulous creates the "Once Upon a Time" storybook-theme gala for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, complete with Snow White, Cinderella and the most wonderful storybook princess of all: Katy Perry! 

More than 1,200 guests raised a whopping $4 million in unrestricted funding for the hospital--truly a happy ending.

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