Floral Sense: The Blog: Floral Sense's First ISES Orange County Chapter Event: Halloween Re-Vamped

There is no better way to bring in the new holiday season than with a fabulous networking event in full Halloween swing! ISES's Orange County Chapter held their annual Halloween party last Thursday which was hosted by Invisible Touch Events in Irvine. There were 16 vendors who sponsored the event to create a spookified evening and over 150 industry event professionals who attended. And it was Floral Sense's first ISES event in Orange County!

Upon entering, Colette's catering had a ghostly display of their menu. And being an overly obsessed fan of sweets, I headed straight over to the dessert bar first.

I was pleasantly surprised to find the food so appropriately served on an ice sculptured coffin created by Ice Bulb. How cool is this?! Chad of Ice Bulb was telling me that all ice sculpting is done with lazer inside a large, very cold room which was contrary to what I originally assumed...that it was all done by hand. Check out their website and you will be amazed at what can be created out of ice.

Oh, and see that big pumpkin shaped cookie on the left? Yeah, I took that and ate it and it was GOOOOOD! Thank you Colette's!

Meet the Director of Catering at Colette's, Natalie Good. She is one of my favorite people. Don't you love her kitty cat ears? And just in case you can't tell who I came as: an Asian version of Marilyn Monroe...or as I dubbed myself that night, Marilyn Mingcho.

I just ooh'd over this buffet table which was provided by Country Garden Caterers. Those red columns actually had red water running down them which gave an even cooler effect.

The decor was fantastic with a very creative use of manzanita branches.

Unfortunately, I can't report on the food here as I was too busy mingling around. But I did hear great reviews from the other attendees.

The beverage bar was dec'd out in this eye-catching green lighting. But its the actual furniture that is lit! Ilona Hobbs from Cort Event Furnishings brought these pieces in for the evening.

Here's a closeup of one of the cocktail tables.

I was having difficulty capturing the green light on my camera so I asked photographer Frank Salas for some tips. And you can see that the second picture looks so much better. Its always nice to get professional help! Thanks Frank!

Red Carpet Photo Booth even showed up! This was a great form of self entertainment.

I know the photo isn't the best but I how could I leave this one out? Anthony and his team looked so great in their costumes.

This is a fun thing that Red Carpet does: they let guests write on the actual booth!

I met some fun characters that night and one of the more impressionable people was Beetlejuice (AKA - Robert Arthur, President of Invisible Touch Events).

He acted in full character too! Hilarious! It was fun to find out that although his company hosted the event that night at their location, it is actually a wharehouse which they completely transformed.

Like the decor?