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Planning Your Dream Event

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Planning Your Dream Event


These event consultants are masters at organizing elaborate engagement parties and weddings down to the last perfect detail. Here are a few of their stories:

 

Red daisies and Swarovski crystal (Photo by Geoff Chesman)

Red daisies and Swarovski crystal (Photo by Geoff Chesman)

 

Last Minute Miracles 

By Kathleen Doyle, Sales & Marketing Coordinator 
Janet Flowers Wedding and Event Design
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A recent “adventure” occurred when a bride called six weeks prior to her wedding (instead of the usual nine-to-twelve months in advance) after a dispute with her previous consultant. She needed complete design, production, and management for her ceremony as well as the reception. Our entire team immediately went to work, putting in calls to many of our industry friends to help us pull it off. Without these solid relationships, the task would have been impossible to accomplish within such time constraints. 

The chic, modern reception was based upon a red, white and black color palette, with each custom-designed table requiring an equally unique floral design. For example, each white lacquer shadow box surface was tailored with unique patterns and textures beneath one-inch Plexiglas toppers. Another “cabaret effect” table design required glass cylinders filled with red gerbera daisies and topped by dripping red Swarovski crystals.

Our client was thrilled that we fulfilled all her wishes for a “dream wedding.” Remember, confidence and trust in your design team is critical to your peace of mind as well as the ultimate success of any event. 

 

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Sister Act

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Sister Act


 

Photo by Clay Blackmore

Photo by Clay Blackmore

 

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter and her sister Tweed transform a Georgetown house into an elegant stage for bipartisan networking

By Deborah K. Dietsch

Photography by Clay Blackmore

 

The red door swings open and Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chairwoman of the American Red Cross, graciously offers a tour of her house on O Street NW in Georgeown. “How many houses have a foyer big enough for an entire party?” McElveen-Hunter asks rhetorically, standing under the chandelier in the airy entrance hall. “This is where everybody congregates because they can see all the rooms from here.”

Since purchasing the 1927 home four years ago from man-about-town Robert Corby, she has turned it into an elegant setting for entertaining Washingtonians of nearly every stripe – philanthropists, business leaders, Bush loyalists, and Obama administration newcomers.

“I look at my home as a means of sharing and communicating with other people, whether they are related to politics, the Red Cross or the arts,” she says.

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The 2009 Balls and Galas Chairs Photoshoot

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The 2009 Balls and Galas Chairs Photoshoot


 

From left: Kerry Troup, gala co-chair Annual Taste of the Stars Gala; Joseph E. Robert III, gala chair Fight Night; Don Peebles, gala co-chair 2009 Dare to Dream; Simone-Marie L. Meeks, gala co-chair Ambassadors Ball; Joe Solmonese, President Human Rights Campaign; Barbara Merola, gala co-chair Corcoran 1869 Society Fall Fête; Tiffany Gates, gala chair The Choral Arts Society Holiday Concert and Gala; Jimmy Smits, gala co-chair Noche de Gala; Nina Pillsbury, gala chair Sibley Hospital Gala; Ann Walker Marchant, gala chair The Washington Ballet Spring Gala.

From left: Kerry Troup, gala co-chair Annual Taste of the Stars Gala; Joseph E. Robert III, gala chair Fight Night; Don Peebles, gala co-chair 2009 Dare to Dream; Simone-Marie L. Meeks, gala co-chair Ambassadors Ball; Joe Solmonese, President Human Rights Campaign; Barbara Merola, gala co-chair Corcoran 1869 Society Fall Fête; Tiffany Gates, gala chair The Choral Arts Society Holiday Concert and Gala; Jimmy Smits, gala co-chair Noche de Gala; Nina Pillsbury, gala chair Sibley Hospital Gala; Ann Walker Marchant, gala chair The Washington Ballet Spring Gala.

 

Photographs by Clay Blackmore
Styling: James Cornwell, PR @ Partners
Makeup: Myken Garcia & Francesca Mastri, PR @ Partners
Hair: Alicia Renee Jones & Dyan Zurich Smith, PR @ Partners
Photographed at the Mandarin Oriental, Washington, D.C.

 

For full listings of all upcoming galas and events, please see our Social Calendar widget.

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Photographers

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Photographers


Remember your event forever with photographs by these talented artists.

 

Group portrait from 2008 Balls and Galas by Clay Blackmore

Group portrait from 2008 Balls and Galas by Clay Blackmore


Joseph Allen
Portrait, event and editorial photography
www.jallenimages.com
joseph@jallenimages (703) 980-8688

Clay Blackmore
Weddings, portrait and editorial photography
www.clayblackmore.com
(301)-670-3232

James R. Brantley
Weddings, portrait, events, and editorial photography
www.jamesrbrantleyphotography.com
jrbrantley@mac.com, (240)476-2285

Luke Christopher
Weddings, portrait, and event photography
www.lukechristopher.com
luke@lukechristopher.com, (202)494-2525

Betsy Spruill Clarke
Portrait, event and editorial photography
www.betsyphotography.com
foto.maven@gmail.com, (240)731-8485

Tim Coburn
Portrait, advertising, and editorial photography
www.timcoburnphoto.com
timcoburn@timcoburnphotos.com, (202)368-4557

Rory Cox
Portrait, advertising, and editorial photography
www.4-optic.com/
erin@4-optics.com, (410) 633-4540

Len Depas
Weddings, portrait and editorial photography
www.lendepasphoto.com
ldepas@aol.com, (202) 362-8111

Michael Domingo
Natural light, portraits, fashion, wedding, events
www.michaeldomingo.com 
michaeldomingo@gmail.com, (530)746-8642

Jonah Koch
Weddings, portrait, editorial and event photography
www.kochfoto.com
jonah@kochfoto.com, (202)674-2428

Gary Landsman
Corporate, advertising and editorial photography
www.garylandsman.com
gary@landsmanphoto.com, (301)-529-6155

David Michele
Wedding and portrait
www.davidmichele.com

Tony Powell
Event, editorial, and Fine Art photography
www.tonypowell.smugmug.com
tonypowells@gmail.com, 301-343-7805

Kyle Samperton
Event and editorial photography, portraits and weddings
irishfoal@aol.com, (301)928-1499

Douglas Sonders
Portrait, advertising, and editorial photography
http://www.sondersphotography.com/
douglas@sondersphotography.com, (703)618-4110

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The 2008 Balas and Galas Chairs Photoshoot

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The 2008 Balas and Galas Chairs Photoshoot


Meet some of the go to personalities behind this season’s top events, galas, and charity events.

Pictured, from left: Cathy Jones (Choral Art Society Holiday Gala), Jeffrey Zell (Starlight Taste of the Stars), Kristen Olson   (The Meridian Ball), Shelia Johnson (Sibley Hospital Celebration of Hope & Progress Gala), Beth Dozoretz (Harman Center for the Arts  Gala), Winston Bao Lord (Washington Ballet’s Jete? Society), Samia Farouki (Harman Center for the Arts Gala), Abigail Blunt (Multiple  Sclerosis Society Ambassadors Ball), Curtin Winsor (Starlight Taste of the Stars), and Ashley Taylor (Washington Ballet’s Jete? Society)

Pictured, from left: Cathy Jones (Choral Art Society Holiday Gala), Jeffrey Zell (Starlight Taste of the Stars), Kristen Olson (The Meridian Ball), Shelia Johnson (Sibley Hospital Celebration of Hope & Progress Gala), Beth Dozoretz (Harman Center for the Arts Gala), Winston Bao Lord (Washington Ballet’s Jete? Society), Samia Farouki (Harman Center for the Arts Gala), Abigail Blunt (Multiple Sclerosis Society Ambassadors Ball), Curtin Winsor (Starlight Taste of the Stars), and Ashley Taylor (Washington Ballet’s Jete? Society). (Photo by Clay Blackmore)

Photography Clay Blackmore
Makeup Carolya Myers
Hair Franko and Mara Fontanez for Carola Myers Makeup & Hair Artists
Photographed at the St. Regis Hotel

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Power to Shine

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Power to Shine


Power Accessories for Spring 2007 are all about shine … leathers, plastics, molten metals. Pour it on and go boldly where basic black has abdicated a spot! Enter the drama and shine of WL’s power statement in bags, shoes, bangles and belts. Do not shy away from solid silver, platinum, pewter and gold … or mix your metals and “wedge” your bets.

By Barbara McConaghy
Photographer Clay Blackmore & Company

“It’s the bag of the season.” – Nordstrom spokesperson John Bailey, on Marc Jacobs’ pewter handbag.

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MIXED METALS: MARC JACOBS pewter handbag, $1,650, Nordstrom; MAX MARA pewter ankle wrap gladiator sandal, $370, Max Mara; YSL gold and silver platform sling backs, $630, YSL at Saks Jandel; MARC JACOBS satchel, $1,475, Neiman Marcus; YSL pewter parabola handbag, $1,595,and YSL pewter leather belt, $375, both YSL at Saks Jandel.

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