Corporate and Launches
Product launches, gala dinners, award nights and end of year functions. November and December book out early across every good venue and supplier in Sydney. More on corporate work.
Event Decorating
Event Decorator Sydney
Event decorating is a different discipline to wedding work. The install windows are shorter, the room usually has a job to do beyond looking good, and somebody upstairs has a brand guideline. Shabz designs and installs events across Sydney from $1,200.
Event decorating from $1,200, quoted on the scope of the room.
Decorator, Designer, Stylist
Three words for overlapping work. Here is how Shabz uses them.
Event businesses in Sydney answer to all three titles and the boundaries are genuinely blurry. What matters is which parts of the job you actually need, so here is the honest split.
- Event design
- is the concept. What the room should feel like, how it carries a brand or an occasion without turning into a trade stand, and what is worth building given the budget and the space.
- Event decorating
- is putting it there. Sourcing, delivery, build, dressing, lighting and removal, inside whatever window the venue can give you.
- Event styling
- is the term Shabz uses for the two together, which is how most events are actually booked. Event styling covers concept through to pack down.
If you have an internal team who have already decided the look and simply need it executed, say so. That is a decorating brief and it is cheaper than a full design engagement.
What Makes Event Work Different
Four constraints weddings rarely have.
- The window is short and immovable
- A hotel ballroom running a conference by day and your event by night might hand over three hours. Anything that cannot be installed in that time is not a design, it is a plan that fails. Shabz scopes against the window venue operations will actually confirm, not an optimistic one.
- The room has a job
- Sight lines to a stage or screen, centrepiece heights that clear a presentation, camera positions, and table layouts that let service run during a program. These are settled before anything decorative.
- Brand has to be present without shouting
- Colour carried through linen, lighting and a couple of deliberate moments reads as considered. The same colour on every surface reads as a trade stand. Send the guidelines and Shabz will tell you where the restraint should go.
- Procurement is real
- Quotes that survive a purchase order process and invoicing that matches how the business pays. Corporate work is quoted in a form you can put in front of a finance team.
Events Shabz Decorates
From $1,200, quoted on the room.
Engagements
Warmer and looser than a wedding, with the investment concentrated on a backdrop or entry moment rather than spread across every surface. More on engagements.
Milestone Celebrations
Fortieths, fiftieths, anniversaries and christenings, at a venue or at home where there is no loading dock, no operations team and no back of house to work from.
Blank Spaces
Warehouses, galleries and marquees where the floor, the lighting and the cover are all your responsibility. The most creative freedom and by some distance the most work.
Common Questions
Event decorating starts from $1,200. Where an event lands above that depends on guest numbers, how much of the room is being transformed, whether anything needs rigging or specialist labour, and how tight the install window is, since a compressed bump in sometimes needs additional crew.
Design is the concept, decorating is the execution. Most events need both and Shabz provides both, which avoids the common failure where a designer specifies something the venue will not permit and the decorator discovers it on install day.
Yes. Send them with the enquiry and the direction is developed against them. The usual advice is to carry brand through a few deliberate decisions rather than every surface, because saturation reads as a trade stand rather than an event.
Six to eight weeks is comfortable for most events. November and December need several months, because that period books out across venues and suppliers alike. Shorter timelines are often workable depending on what has to be sourced, so it is worth asking.
Yes. Home events change the logistics rather than the approach, since there is no operations team, no loading dock and often no back of house. A site visit before the quote is finalised makes a real difference.
Shabz does not hold hire stock. Everything is sourced through a supplier network and coordinated as one booking, so you deal with one contact rather than five. More on how prop hire works.
Let's Create Something Beautiful
Tell Shabz about your event and a considered response follows within 24 to 48 hours.
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