Downsized Holiday Season
Needs Your Design Flair

Lavish corporate parties won’t play well this holiday season but your expertise as event planners will still be in demand, only you’ll be working in smaller rooms with smaller budgets. Decorating a stark office building may be far more challenging than working with a luxury hotel or resort but how well you create a warm atmosphere for guests in a tough season impacts whether you will get the call again the following season.

• Establish gathering areas as central points of social activity
• Pay attention to foot traffic patterns
• Set a gift area to support any Secret Santa or other gift-giving programs
• Put colors everywhere to boost the mood and spirit

These poly balls add big drops of red, green or several other colors. They are weatherproof, lightweight polyethylene and can be placed outside within landscaping or lining walkways and can be placed inside in baskets, on shelves or anywhere a splash of color is desired.

This gurgling, two-tier baby fountain fits on a table to bring the serenity of a garden inside. It creates a memory point and fills empty corners or areas with the soothing sounds of water.

Click here to see the baby fountain and colored poly balls.

Numbers for New Year’s In New Color for 2009

Put a date stamp on New Year’s celebrations with this perennial favorite set of numerals. They stand 19-1/2” in height by 11-1/2” wide by 7-1/2” deep and are set on a 51-3/4” long platform base that raises and unites the numerals for added dramatic effect.

Available in white and new black millstone. It looks like solid rock, is almost as durable and can be placed indoors and outdoors but is lightweight for easy handling and setup.

The set of four numerals for 2009 with base is priced at $341.85 wholesale. Mix and match white with black millstone for same price.

Click here to see the numerals.

New in the Photo Gallery:
Reversed Arch System

Without spending a cent, wedding planner Will Hall of Your Wedding Solution, Balto, Md. created a new and different look for a wedding stage by rotating his colonnade arch system 180 degrees. (He turned it around.) Highlighted with warm, yellow lighting, the reversed colonnade created a welcoming circle that hugged the wedding party and focused attention on the central attraction.

Click here to see a larger photo.

Click here to see more photos of decorated colonnade arch systems.

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