2 formats from NZ$7,200
Borrow a place for a night.
Nights that borrow a place or a season: an Italian coast supper in the middle of Southland, or a midwinter room full of light. The scenography does the travelling.
The Italian Coast Supper
A coast supper built inside your venue: long tables, lemon-and-linen dressing, 30 m of festoon overhead and a trio-register playlist. Your caterer serves, our host runs two short interludes, and the room does the rest.
What is included
- Long-table dressing for up to 80 covers with linen, 60 candle holders and 14 centre pieces
- 30 m of festoon lighting plus 12 warm LED light points
- A scenographic wall 3 × 2.4 m with shutters and planting
- 1 host for two interludes, including a 20-minute tasting-style game
- Acoustic playback for 4 hours and 2 wireless microphones
- 1 coordinator and a bump-in crew of 4
- Guests
- up to 80
- Programme
- 5 hours
- From
- NZ$7,200
- Range
- NZ$7,200 – NZ$10,400
Venue: A room of 120 m² or more with 2.6 m headroom, permission to hang festoon, one 10 A circuit for light and one for playback.
What moves inside the price: The interludes can be dropped for a purely seated night, and the dressing can move from coastal to alpine without changing the quote.
The Midwinter Lights
A midwinter room for the darkest part of the Southland calendar: 400 points of warm light, a mulled-drinks station your caterer stocks, and a slow programme that gives people time to talk. Our most-booked June and July format.
What is included
- 400 warm light points across festoon, fairy curtain and 14 lanterns
- A photo corner 3 × 2.4 m with a winter set and 12 props
- A drinks station structure 2 × 1 m — we build and dress it, your caterer stocks it
- 18 LED light points in two warm states and 6 uplights
- 1 host, 1 technician and 1 coordinator for 5 hours
- Acoustic and choral-register playback with a 2-speaker system
- Guests
- up to 100
- Programme
- 5 hours
- From
- NZ$7,850
- Range
- NZ$7,850 – NZ$11,500
Venue: A room of 130 m² or more with 2.6 m headroom, two 10 A circuits and venue permission for hanging light.
What moves inside the price: The light density, the photo corner set and the length of the music section all move. A choir or a soloist can be added to the quote.
On the night
How an evening in this direction runs.
Both formats here are scenography-led. The programme is calmer than a dance night and the room carries the idea, which makes them a good fit for groups that mix ages and want to actually talk.
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The reveal
Guests walk into a finished room. Nothing is still being built once doors open — that is what the bump-in window is for.
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Long table or stations
Your caterer serves while our host runs two light interludes between courses.
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The soft middle
Acoustic playback, the photo corner, and a slow circulation around the room.
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Close
A short thank-you from the host, then music until the agreed finish time.
The host and the crew come with the format. One coordinator holds the timing plan and is your single point of contact all evening.
Before you book a venue
What the room has to give us.
- At least 120 m², with 2.6 m of headroom for the hanging elements.
- One 10 A circuit for lighting and one for playback.
- Long tables or rounds with chairs from the venue.
- Written confirmation from the venue that we may hang or free-stand decorative elements.
Setup windows: bump-in up to 3 hours before doors, bump-out 1 to 2 hours after the finish. None of that is counted as programme time.
Worth saying plainly
No gambling in any of this.
Nothing in this direction involves a stake, a wager or a cash prize, and none of it happens online. Where an evening includes casino-style tables as an added element, those tables follow the same rules as our flagship: the chips are props that are never sold or exchanged, guests are 20+, and participation is voluntary.
Questions
About this direction.
Do you decorate outdoor venues?
Yes, if there is a solid wet-weather option. Southland weather decides more than we do, so both plans go into the timing document.
Can the theme follow our brand colours?
Within the format, yes. Printed brand material is produced by you and we install it.
Tell us the date and the town.
We will tell you whether we are free, which of these two formats fits your room, and what it would cost as one total.