Successful decoration of your seminar or corporate gala

A seminar or corporate gala is not only judged on the program and on the base. Your guests will spend several hours in a room, and this room already tells something about you before the first speech. Good news:decoration of a corporate seminardoes not ask for a marriage budget, but for consistent choices and a little anticipation.

Here is the method that we recommend to organizers, caterers and communication services that call us every year, from the first briefing to Sunday evening repacking.

Leave the message before choosing colors

A trade agreement that needs to remobilize 200 employees and a gala dinner that thanks historical partners do not call the same atmosphere. In the first case, energy, readability, clear visual markers between spaces are sought. In the second, we look for restraint, matter and low light. Ask yourself the questions in this order: what effect I want to produce, what colours and what materials really serve it.

This detour avoids the most common error, that of the catalogue. We add some nice items taken separately and the room ends up lacking direction. Two dominant shades plus one reminder touch are almost always enough. The rest is played on the volumes: table height, density of the seats, breathing between the traffic zones.

A table dressing that lasts until the end of the evening

It is the position that changes the rendering the most, including a photo, and the one that is underestimated the most. A poorly sized tablecloth that goes up on the knees, a buffet whose textile yawns in the corners, and the neat effect falls in ten minutes. Two families of solutions coexist very well in the same room: the classic tablecloths for the tables of guests, with their soft fall, and the tight covers for the buffets, the technical tables and the reception counter, which remain clean all evening without getting screwed.

For banquet tables, the material counts as much as the color. Polyester holds the passage well, quickly defrosts and supports serial washings, making it the reflex of the teams who reuse their stock from one event to another. Cotton brings a more dressed touch to a gala dinner. If you hesitate between table linen and cover adjusted according to the type of table, ourguide to choose its table coversdetails the situations. Textile table, our selection ofTablets for professional receptionscovers the most common event formats.

Your brand colors, present without being invasive

Making an identity live in a room is not replicating a logo on each surface. The best-performing teams select two or three strong anchor points, often the reception counter, the stage and the standings of the cocktail, and then leave the rest in neutral tones that highlight the color.

A simple reminder of tint on the chair straps or on the covers of the high tables is often enough to create the visual link. The printed marking deserves to be reserved for areas seen from afar and photographed: this is where he really works for you. Think also of the setting behind your speakers, since it is this framing that will circulate on the networks the next day.

Logistics counts as much as aesthetic choice

A seminar often takes place at a distance, in a room that the team only discovers the day before. Three points deserve to be locked early:

• the actual dimensions of the furniture on site, as folding tables vary greatly from place to place;
• the installation window granted by the site, which determines the number of people to be mobilised;
• the textile return circuit after the event, including washing and storage.

Also provide a small margin of clean textiles, of the order of five to ten percent, to absorb a spilled glass early in the evening without improvising. And if you work with rented furniture, check the templates before ordering your covers rather than the reverse: it is the tape meter that has to decide, not the catalog. When you prefer to grant both at once, our collectionreception furnitureclearly simplifies the preparation.

Two questions that come back every year

Should you rent or buy your textile?If you organize a single event a year, the rental keeps meaning. By two or three annual appointments, the purchase usually becomes more interesting, provided that storage and washing are provided. A well folded, flat-lined textile goes through several seasons without difficulty.

How long does it take to dress a room?Count one to two minutes per adjustable cover for two people, and a little more for tablecloths, which require a careful alignment. Out of 150 cutlery, a team of three people usually clasps up the tables in an hour and a half, with fine decoration aside.

In summary

Successful decoration of a seminar or corporate gala is ultimately a matter of little: a clear intention, impeccable table dressing and logistics set in advance. The rest, colors, marking, formats, decides much faster once these three points are settled.

If you are preparing an event for the re-entry and want to validate the dimensions or quantities before ordering, our team will look at your room plan with you. All we have to do issend a quote requestand we come back to you with concrete proposals.