When planning a celebration one of your first decisions is most likely going to be in regards to your menu. Many times people put a lot of thought into what they want to serve, but not necessarily how they want it served. The service style...
April showers are rote, but severe flooding is an issue for any planner—especially for one about to welcome 600 guests to a high-end garden party. Luckily, a major storm didn’t put much of a damper on the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Antiques & Garden Fair Preview...
Chicago’s premiere ballet company hosted a Valentine’s Day benefit (on the actual date) that offered appetizers from chef Charlie Trotter. There was a lavish oyster and caviar bar festooned with gold linens and flowers, and passed snacks—including quail eggs—were presented on trays holding red roses....
Big-name Chicagoans including Mayor Rahm Emanuel donned spiffy attire to attend a $1,000-a-head gala. But when they arrived, they punched a time card, entered into a dimly lit warehouse, and feasted on soup served out of trash cans. The Museum of Contemporary Art’s ArtEdge gala,...
Gregory Perrine, Creative Director at Jewell Events Catering, proposed to partner Michael Hall in the observatory of the John Hancock Center with the help of friends below. While looking through one of the observatory’s digital viewfinders, which have the ability to zoom in and zoom...
On Saturday night, chef Homaro Cantu left the kitchen of Moto to prepare hors d’oeurves at the Museum of Science and Industry. The Columbian Ball, the museum’s annual black-tie fund-raiser, raised $1.9 million this year and celebrated the permanent, rotating exhibition “Fast Forward… Inventing the...
George Jewell of Jewell Events Catering was inducted into the BizBash Hall of Fame during the BizBash Expo & Awards in Chicago on August 18. The remarks he made that day—reflecting on an event career spanning more than 40 years—prompted some of the attendees present...
On Saturday night, the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Summer Dance took place on the institution’s flowery grounds. John and Neville Bryan and Jim and Louise Glasser—both couples from the North Shore—led the planning committee, which devised the “Night in Napa” theme. According to the co-chairs, the...
On Saturday night, the Children’s Place Association’s “Once Upon a Time” gala returned to Union Station after a year at another locale. The venue swap was a sign of increased attendance: While least year’s gala drew around 315 guests, 345—or about three more tables’ worth—made...
On Monday afternoon, Saks Fifth Avenue celebrated the opening of its Stella McCartney boutique with a luncheon for 10 local fashion writers. The meal took place in the boutique, at a long table set with BBJ’s pin-tucked linens, Epoch’s springy flower arrangements, and the designer’s...