Millenium Party
Client: Microsoft UK
Client's Objective: The client wanted to give staff an exceptional party, in excess of their usual high standards, and worthy of celebrating the dawning of a new Millennium. In the light of the potential Y2K Bug, the event was pushed back to February 2000, and the extreme stress that the possible threat created within this industry in particular necessitated an unsurpassed end product - it needed to be the party of a lifetime.
Numbers: 1500
We Provided:
Complete Events were involved from the initial concept of the event. We started by sourcing a venue, a beautiful and prestigious stately home, capable of coping with the vast infrastructure required.
We put forward theme ideas that would capture the client's imagination, complete with artist's impressions of the major installations. A futuristic Space theme was finally selected.
We supplied extensive AutoCAD designs of the proposed marquee complex required for the success of such a challenging brief. All in all the complex covered over 3,200 square metres, incorporating 22 individual but interlinked structures. These areas included:
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As well as the basic infrastructure, Complete Events also provided:
Themed props: design, build and installation
- Hand Built bespoke props, including 25' long ceiling-suspended Millennium Cruiser, floor standing
- Alien Landing Craft, numerous backdrops and signage
- Extensive Balloon decoration, including starbursts, holographic stars, shooting stars, shimmer curtains etc
- Suspended UV reactive Planets
- Starlight canopy roof linings
- Pulsing 6' square Brain installation!
Lighting: Design, Installation and Event Engineering
- Vast Intelligent Dancefloor Rig
- UV Cannons throughout
- Extensive Fresnel & Profile Dining Lighting
- Bespoke Gobo lighting 'projection' designs onto walls and floors
- All functional lighting for caterers, storage, crew and staff areas, as well as Power Maintained Emergency Lighting throughout
- External lighting for features and safety
- Flambeaux Olympic Flames for guests' walkway entrance
Static Entertainments
- Space themed Arcade Machines
- Air Hockey
- Pool Table
- Virtual Reality Units with Operators
Catering
We designed huge food stations serving food from 3 different areas of the world, with a keen eye on the fact that up to a thousand guests may want to eat at once! Thai, Italian and French food was prepared live, a feast for the eyes, noses and of course taste buds of the guests.
Under the title of 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' each dining 'zone' had its own relaxed eating area, with guests free to wander between each to sample all the delicacies on offer.
An enormous back of house operation was required, which was managed with precision and without tempers being lost!
Furniture
Naturally a huge quantity of furniture was required, and Complete Events provided everything from:
- Funky purple 'space aged' seating and matching tables to chrome bistro chairs
- Coffee tables to dividing screens
- Sofas and chill out furniture from black & chrome to rattan
- Cheval mirrors for guests to make-up mirrors for artistes
- Coat rails to themed linen
- Waste bins to Bar Units
Full Bar Services
This party was thirsty work, and two enormous and very busy bar areas were slickly staffed by Complete Events. We provided all drink for the evening, uniforms for staff, and all sundry items from ice bins to a truck load of drinking vessels!
All Plant & Related Hardware
- Luxury Guest & Disabled Loo Units, and separate crew loos
- Generated power for whole event
- Full Power Management & Distribution
- Heating
- Tower lights, gas floodlights, halogen lighting
- Thousands of metres of Trackway
- Waste Skips
Event Staff
- Bar Staff
- Catering back & front of house
- Security
- Electrical Maintenance Engineers
- Lighting & Sound Engineers
- St.John's Ambulance
- Cloak Room Staff
- Car Parking & vehicle movement control
- Event Co-Ordinator
The success of any event can be read on many levels. In our opinion the client's response is by far the most valuable guide. By all other criteria this party was an unsurpassed success, but especially so when the client said:
The Client said:
"Just a short note to congratulate you and your team on the truly first class job that you did for us at our Millennium Party on Saturday. Nothing was ever too much trouble and the end result was a great party thanks to all of you. All in all I very much looking forward to working with you in the future"
