Hats Themed Decor

When DTM Nissan in the Strand contacted me and asked that they want us to do their yearend function again – but the theme they chose is HATS… my immediate thought was: How on earth! That thought lasted only for a few minutes.

Then I started thinking about all the possibilities and my head started to spin. So much you can do with hats – but so little space in a venue. You have to remember that the one golden rule on event décor is that old cliché…. Less is more! I don’t have to like it always but it stays true.

Can you imagine if planned the décor and just add random hats of all shapes and colours into the mix. Place them randomly in the venue without a specific purpose…. It will look like a mixture between a badly organized kid’s party and a Halloween freak show. First of all I decided I would like to bring in a colour scheme, a little bit of a theme just to link all the décor to each other – and knowing the client for years – I knew that a sexy Moulin rouge theme mixed with the hats theme will just do the trick.

Now to decide what to do with the hats so that I can have a look and feel of Moulin Rouge. This is where teamwork and brainstorming is so important! I got my team together and we started throwing ideas around.

·         What is available on the internet – that is always a good starting point

·         What hats do we have in our store room

·         What hats is available for us to buy at our wholesalers

·         How can we use ordinary hats and display it in interesting – out of the box – ways.

First we got our intern – Suandri to start researching the possibilities on the internet and we’ve put a mood board together for the client. From there the ideas started to flow instantaneously. What about using the sexy Moulin rouge legs to display hats on, What about we use the silver wire balls that we’ve got in the store to display the sexy hats in….. And so we went on!

The result: One outrageously, sexy, Moulin rouge themed HATS party for DTM Nissan in STRAND. Well done Imagine Events!

Photo’s for the initial mood board from the following sites:

trendytree.com; http://pinterest.com/pin/67061481922763925/; foreverthehostess.blogspot.com; http://pinterest.com/pin/142426406936626675/; http://blog.hwtm.com/2012/04/monopoly-birthday-party-ideas/; http://www.celebrationideasonline.com/hat-decorating.html; http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mini-Hat-Police-Cap-Costume-Theme-Party-/160849537767#ht_1009wt_906; http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/inspiration-hats-as-decor-91019; http://pinterest.com/lesley_anne/michigan-living/; http://pinterest.com/cherilynfhv/decorating/; http://keep.com/santa-hat-christmas-glass-decorations/k/130305/

Photo’s for the Hats Themed Design Board from Imagine Events: www.imagineevents.co.za