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Christmas parties lacking the big party buzz this year
According to Naomi Parry of Black Communications, who organises chic parties for the luxury end of town think Louis Vuitton, Range Rover, Chiva Som, Paspaley, Hermes and Veuve Clicquot there has seen a seismic festive soiree shift.
been hearing about parties where staff have to pay for their own drinks, says Parry.
legendary, huge parties thrown by private banks with 2,000 guests, champagne flowing, lobster and caviar, and event production crews the size of a football team are all a dim, distant, lovely, preGFC memory. Parry says in corporate Christmas land, the trend is to downsize, but to dial up the quality that has been evident in the event world for a while.
She adds that guests are opting to kick back, even at their Christmas party: want to relax and enjoy conversation, reengage with colleagues and perhaps make some new friends or learn something new. For most hard workers, the Christmas party is the one time they get to either show off how good they can look outside of the office or see how generous their company or boss really is.
arrived at our work party last week and we were expected to pay for drinks, says Patsy Stone. (ok, it not her real name)
For fear of some workplace watercooler retribution, Stone said it was expensive enough booking a babysitter and catching a hourlong cab ride home from the party venue, let alone paying for a few bevvies.
least the company could have shouted us a few glasses of sparkling or some Peroni and could have eased up on the hundreds of cold pies that kept coming out, she said.
couldn believe it! According to Mandy FoleyQuin of leading hospitality staffing group, Stedman the party season this year is being planned at the very last minute.
previous year most clients had all locked away the details for their parties early in the year but this year it has been a mad scramble of quoting at the very last minute, FoleyQuin. as far as big budgets are concerned parties have mostly been down sized and budgets for decor in general don seem to exist. Mark Patrick of MPAgency, whoe has Moet and Dom Perignon amongst his stable of clients, says major companies are still very cautious to spend obvious amounts of money on entertaining.
are hosting more interesting and fun parties, such as hiring a boat and playing golf out the back of it or taking clients to really good restaurants for lunch.
"Big staff Christmas parties seem to be fancy dress with a keg, he laughs.
The year big festive party trend has been toward fancydress with "news story of the year" (Sunrise and The Morning Show) "Neverland/Childhood" (Fairfax Media); festive sparkle (News Limited) 70's/cricket (the Nine Network); Bauer Media (formerly ACP) is Hawaiian,[url=http://www.sport.fr/economie/airmax.html]air max femmes[/url], while Country and Western, a character that begins with your initial and Christmas Carols are some of the themes I heard used this year.
Event planner Alex ZabottoBentley says smaller and chicer is the current Christmas currency.
gatherings with a few very special moments with top end champagne, really delicate and premium canap while truffled anything is big again as are oysters, says ZabottoBentley.
are using vintage cut crystal glasses, decanting wine into antique glass vessels and beautiful silver trays while we are creating custom dirty martini stations for an upscale moment. But the final word is from party maestro, Mr Patrick: and Xmas parties really don't go together. It still pashing under the mistletoe and photo copy machine territory for many!