Happy International Museum Day!

Today is a special holiday - International Museum Day! So let's go out and celebrate the best way we know how...by throwing a party. And to ensure that our celebration is for the right reasons, let's host this fabulous event at a museum! You might be thinking that a museum isn't your typical event venue. But a museum can offer all sorts of surprises that a hotel ballroom cannot!

We have helped execute several fabulous events at museums. For the past few years, for instance, we have assisted with the Floral Symposium at the Dallas Museum of Art. This is such an elegant venue to host an event. My personal favorite space within the DMA is the Hamon Atrium, which features windows framed by beautiful Dale Chihuly. This space offers the perfect canvas for any special event. Other spectacular venues within the Downtown Dallas area are the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas World Aquarium and Reunion Tower. Although some of the rental fees might be pricey, these gorgeous venues offer built-in decor that you can't find anywhere else. (Unless you hire Magic Moments Parties and Events to custom create something fabulous for you - shameless plug.)

But don't think that your venue has to be a museum that already has elegant decor. We recently did a corporate event at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum. Picture a large, empty garage-like space. Talk about a blank canvas! The flight museum offered two antique airplanes and the rest was up to our team. And boy did we deliver! Here are some before and after pictures. We absolutely loved working with the flight museum's staff and had such a great time planning and installing for this event.

So the next time you are planning an event, think outside the box and book a museum (in honor of today, of course)! Your guests will love a walking buffet tour through the aquarium that ends with dessert in the shark tank; your friends will marvel at the most spectacular view of Dallas at Reunion Tower; your event will be the talk of the town! Just beware that when word gets out that you're throwing these amazing events, your friend count will multiply because everyone and their mother will want to be invited to the next soiree!