Two Gala Award Nominations!

The Special Events Magazine Gala Awards nominations were just announced and we are thrilled to have received two!

Best Decor $20,000 - $50,000
DREAM FOUNDATION

The Dream Foundation fund-raising event and fashion show was held at the Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara. (The Dream Foundation is the first and largest national non-profit focused on fulfilling the dreams of adults facing life-limiting illness.)

This year the featured designer at the foundation's fund-raising event was Salvatore Ferragamo. Usually designers want a neutral color palette for a stage and runway show so that their clothes "pop." But for the first time, this fashion designer wanted to add a color -- red -- to the room design so it also popped.

Best Decor Under $20,000
ROOM WITH A VIEW

To welcome an exclusive group of 80 international sales executives to a company's 10-Diamond Dinner in Los Angeles, the client asked us to find a venue with a breathtaking view. Guests were staying in the heart of the city at the Marriott LA Live and it turned out that our "room with a view" was right on property at Wolfgang Puck's WP24 on the 24th floor of the adjoining Ritz Carlton hotel.

The awards will be presented in January in Tampa at The Special Event Conference.