Bat Mitzvah at The Graduate

We absolutely loved being a part of planning and designing Maddie’s Bat Mitzvah. The Bat Mitzvah celebration centered at The Graduate Hotel in Downtown East Lansing. The design featured warm and cool jewel tones ranging from hot pink and fuschia to eggplant and navy. The color palette popped against the eclectic, yet traditional MSU-detailed boutique hotel.

Planning Process for The Bat Mitzvah at The Graduate

Our planning process always starts with creating and budget and securing a venue. From there, we are able to then create a day’s timeline and room layout. With this information Lynette can get started on the remaining vendor recommendation hires using the timeline and budget she’s created, while Emily gets started on the design.

The Graduate and Day of Logistics

This venue is one of our favorite places to work at both during planning and design. For Maddie’s Bat Mitzvah at The Graduate, her family wanted an area for kids, socializing, and dancing while keeping the quieter dinner area separate. The Graduate has their main ballroom and a number of auxiliary breakout rooms near the Ballroom to allow for this type of event flow. Our team, impressively, flipped the entire dining room, alongside their staff, laying linens and centerpieces in just under 20 minutes. How’s that for efficiency?

From the Designer

This event was fun to design and posed a fun challenge to create a fun atmosphere that felt elevated without using any floral. Floral is one of our top design specialties so it was a fun, change-of-pace design to focus heavily on jewel-toned candle collections. We paired the jewel-toned linens and candle collections with the most incredible velvet soft seating vignettes from Modernly Events. Modernly is one of our very favorite rental companies to use for boutique rental items!