Garden inspiration

October 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

Sisal carpet over custom flooring lays the foundation for a botanical wedding. Nashville, Tenn., may be known as Music City, but in the early 20th Century, it was also home to the family behind good-to-the-last-drop Maxwell House coffee. After selling the brand in the 1920s, the Cheek family built t…
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All stations ready

October 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

An East Coast company meets security and weather challenges to provide tenting for nuclear submarine launches. When Steven and Helen Szondy emigrated to the U.S. from Hungary in 1950, they settled in Fairfield, Conn., a charming and vibrant coastal city that boasts five miles of shoreline on the Lon…
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Repeat performances

October 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

Classic Tents provides tents and flooring in its seventh year as official tent supplier to the PGA Championship, and Aggreko provides power for the eighth year. The 2014 PGA Championship at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., attracted more than 250,000 people, requiring more than 200 tents f…
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Old memories, new dreams

October 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

A new kind of tent debuts next to a family’s nostalgic stone chapel. For a bride who had her heart set on getting married in a small chapel with a 17-person capacity on her family’s historic farm in Chester County, Pa., figuring out how to seat 100 guests was a challenge. The family had …
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Jane Austen-inspired nuptials

October 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs, Trend Watch

Two tents bring romantic literature to life for a wedding ceremony and reception. By Michelle Hope and Jaime Newsom A client of Social Butterflies LLC of Memphis, Tenn., was inspired by author Jane Austen for a fall wedding and reception. At first she was skeptical of tents, but a plan to begin with…
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Southern fusion

August 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

A post-Civil War building, a modern tent and three styles of barbecue. With three environments taking guests from a clear-top tented porch to a post-Civil War building, a corporate affair by WM Events of Atlanta, Ga., merged old Southern charm with new Southern metropolitanism. Juxtaposition was the…
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Boston strong

August 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

Peterson Party Center provides tents for the 2014 Boston Marathon. One year after the bombings that killed three people and injured hundreds of others, nearly a million spectators gathered to watch the 118th running of the Boston Marathon® in April 2014. The number of spectators was an all-time …
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Garden party

August 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

An elaborate and eclectic design blooms amid a lush environment. By Heidi Lombardo Any number of factors can dictate design choices for weddings and special events. Often the style and feel of a venue nudge the design in a particular direction. Other times the personal tastes of the party’s ho…
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Elevated green

June 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

From putting green to ballroom in five days. What do a golf course and a swimming pool have in common? When it comes to tent foundations, quite a lot. For Party Line Rentals Inc. in Elmsford, N.Y., a tent installation at a golf course for an April wedding required building flooring over the putting …
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Coachella debut

June 1, 2014  |  Project Briefs

New structure features “breathtaking” views and branding options. Grammy award winning songstress Lorde wasn’t the only one making a Coachella debut in 2014. Tentlogix of Stuart, Fla., a provider of innovative event structures throughout North America, introduced the Bi-Directional…
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