Choosing the Best Entertainment for Your Event

The type of event you are
holding will greatly influence
what entertainment you
should hire. Whether it be a
formal corporate function, a
wedding, a 21st birthday, a family reunion or a fund raiser,
you need to choose the right
entertainment to suit the
personalities of your guests
and also the occasion. You may
choose to organise the whole event yourself, including hiring
the venue, choosing the food
and booking the
entertainment, or you may
prefer to contact a party hire
company and get them to handle everything. Whatever
you choose the entertainment
still needs careful
consideration.

For a formal event, whether it
be a black tie dinner or
business orientated do, suitable
entertainment needs to be
arranged that is more on the
conservative side. Having a roving belly dancer would not
be appropriate, nor would a
heavy metal rock band. You
may choose to start the
evening with drinks in a
separate foyer and have a string quartet playing or an A
Capella group singing. Your
entertainment could also be in
the form of ice sculptures
which are positioned around
the venue and are carved into shapes that best represent the
evening or the company.

Themed events could range
from an elegant formal
evening, to a casual party, or
day time get together. Themes
are great to work to when you
are planning an event because you can link everything in,
from costumes, food,
decorations and also your
entertainment. For a corporate
gathering you might choose a
masquerade ball or an Arabian Nights theme. This is where
hiring a belly dancer to
entertain guests is appropriate,
even if it's a more formal
occasion, it is acceptable within
the theme. Themes open the doors to a huge range of
entertainment ideas, limited
only by your creativity. Choirs,
face painters, story tellers,
dancers, bands, puppeteers,
artists or even a fire eater. The event could become quite a
spectacle if you have the right
theme to work with.