2 formats from NZ$7,650
Dress codes earn their keep.
Formal evenings with a stage, a host on a microphone and a seated dinner your caterer serves. For award nights, anniversaries and the end of a long year.
The Red Carpet Gala
A formal evening built around a stage and a running order. Arrival on carpet, a seated section your caterer serves, a stage block for speeches or awards, then a late floor. For milestone years and award nights.
What is included
- A staging deck 4 × 3 m at 400 mm with steps and skirting
- A red carpet run of 8 m with 2 posts and rope at the entrance
- 1 host on a wireless microphone for the full running order, plus 1 spare mic
- A 75-inch screen with playback and a confidence feed to the host
- 16 LED light points, 4 of them warm front-light on the stage
- A DJ for the last 2 hours with 2 speakers and 1 subwoofer
- A photo corner 3 × 2.4 m, staffed for the first 2 hours
- Guests
- up to 100
- Programme
- 5 hours
- From
- NZ$8,900
- Range
- NZ$8,900 – NZ$13,400
Venue: A room of 160 m² or more with 3 m headroom, a 16 A circuit, a 1 m loading door and venue tables set before bump-in ends.
What moves inside the price: Running order, award count, the length of the seated section and the balance between stage time and dance time are all yours to set.
The Gatsby Supper Club
A 1920s supper club: brass-register playback, a long table dressed in period style, a short charleston lesson and a photo corner that guests queue for. Quieter than a gala, with more detail in the room.
What is included
- Long-table dressing for up to 80 covers: runners, 40 candle holders and 12 centre pieces
- A 2.4 × 2.4 m art-deco backdrop with 12 period props
- 12 warm LED light points and 20 m of festoon over the table
- 1 host and 1 dance instructor for a 25-minute charleston block
- A DJ set of period and modern-swing playback for 3 hours
- 2 wireless microphones and a small 2-speaker system
- Guests
- up to 80
- Programme
- 5 hours
- From
- NZ$7,650
- Range
- NZ$7,650 – NZ$11,200
Venue: A room of 120 m² or more with 2.6 m headroom, a 10 A circuit near the table and permission to hang festoon.
What moves inside the price: The dance block is optional, the table layout can split into rounds, and the playback can stay instrumental all night.
On the night
How an evening in this direction runs.
These two formats are for the nights with speeches in them. We build the stage, light it, run the sound and keep the running order moving, so your people can arrive and be guests rather than organisers.
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Arrival
Carpet, a lit entrance and a photo corner that is staffed while guests are still coming in.
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Seated section
Your caterer serves. Our host holds the running order and cues the room between courses.
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Stage block
Speeches, awards or a short presentation with two wireless microphones and screen playback.
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Late floor
Tables are cleared to the sides, the lighting state changes and the DJ takes the last two hours.
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.
- A room of at least 160 m² with 3 m of headroom for the stage deck and lighting.
- A 16 A circuit for lighting and sound, plus a separate 10 A circuit for playback.
- Round or long tables and chairs from the venue, set before our bump-in ends.
- A loading door at least 1 m wide for the staging deck sections.
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.
Can we hand out our own awards?
Yes. Send us the running order and the names and the host works from your list. Trophies and certificates come from you.
Do you provide the dinner?
No. Catering and bar service stay with the venue or your caterer. We build the timing plan around the service times.
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.