Anacortes Rotary Club’s fundraiser drew more than 200 people for a dinner, auction and aerialist performance in an airplane hangar.
› See Cirque du Vin Fundraiser gallery
Calliope Circus Arts of Bellingham performed a portion of their act under a 40′ x 60′ floating liner.
Check out photos from PeaceHealth foundation’s elegant gala in Bellingham earlier this year. The event raised $250,000 to support medical services and facility upgrades.
The event for more than 400 guests was held in a 60′ x 150′ pole-style tent with halo lights on the center poles.
Check out these new party pictures by Brown Studios Photography from a recent bash in Ferndale. It’s not often that we see a birthday party (or the photography from a birthday party) of this magnitude.
A floating liner hides the cluttered ceiling of a barn and forms a dramatic backdrop for the celebration. Assorted banquet and bistro tables, swagged pipe & drape and a beverage/cigar bar fill out the space. Guests get into the spirit with period party garb.
See a complete gallery of photos from this 50th birthday party.
A floating liner is a soft, billowy, white fabric lining that is suspended from the ceiling and walls of your event space with cables. It’s great for masking an unsightly or industrial-looking ceiling or just softening the atmosphere for your event.
Here’s the wedding gallery we promised from Kayla Lynn Photography. Don’t you love the warm, inviting colors this couple chose?
Check out the complete gallery of photos from this Bellingham wedding.
Red and white check linens complement this wedding’s all-American summer feel, where the reception spread included carved watermelon baskets of fruit, jars of cookies and glass bottles of root beer.
For this event, we installed two tents:
See the rest of the wedding photos in our Galleries.
Q: Where’s the balance between blah and overdone when it comes to table decor?
A: That age-old battle of form vs. function comes into play on this one. Since most people we work with seem more concerned with function than form, we take that stance as well.
Our philosophy is that you hit the mark when the table design dovetails with the rest of the event. We’re blessed with such an abundance of breathtaking rural venues in this area. Some of the best table designs we’ve seen have played a supporting role to the event’s setting, either complementing the site with linens of blue and green or contrasting with violets and cherry red.
Kayla Lynn Photography just shared photos — including the one above — with us from a recent event for which we provided red and white check tablecloths (check back for an wedding gallery next week!). It was a humble decor choice, but the result was terrific: an all-American summer feel that complemented the couple’s reception, where they served fruit in carved watermelon baskets, jars of cookies and glass bottles of root beer. It was simple and appropriate, and to us that’s a well-designed tablescape.
Stay away from precarious towers of candles and baubles. It’s a hopeless situation for people who talk with their hands, and really, no guests can have a relaxed conversation with lit tapers tottering between them.
One way we’ve found to keep tablescapes from feeling cluttered is to keep the decorations below guests’ eating and talking spaces (or, alternately, above them).
Use beautiful linens and chargers layered under the dinnerware or on the chairs. Similarly, keep floral arrangements and favors low, or at least in scale with the table, to avoid crowding guests. Short vases stuffed with monochromatic flowers like mums work well with a modern, urban style, while keeping the scale intimate.
Photo by Kayla Lynn Photography
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