Second October booking of the month walks in, sees the same orange and black room the first one had, and asks whether you can do something different. You can. You just need to stop treating Halloween palettes as a two color problem.
Orange and black is not wrong. It is just exhausted by the second weekend, and it is the one palette every competitor on your street is also running.
Purple over black velvet
This is the costume party palette and the one that photographs best under function room lighting, because purple holds saturation where orange goes muddy.
Build it with purple 6.75 inch paper dessert plates at 240 per case and purple 9 oz hot and cold paper cups at 240 per case. Purple guest towels measure 7.75 inches by 4.5 inches and ship 600 to a case, which covers a large room comfortably. Purple round plastic table covers at 82 inches come 12 per case for the guest tables, and a purple plastic tableskirt at 29 inches by 14 feet, six per case, dresses the buffet front.
Then drop black velvet underneath. Black velvet 2 ply beverage napkins run 1200 per case, and the black velvet crepe streamer at 81 feet ships 12 packages per case for ceiling and doorway work. Black latex balloons come 180 per case.
Purple reads playful. Black keeps it from reading juvenile.
Hunter green and black for the restrained bookings
Corporate clients, wine dinners, anything where the word spooky would get you fired. Hunter green does the seasonal work without the costume shop association.
Hunter green 3 ply beverage napkins ship 500 per case and the sturdy style 8.75 inch paper dinner plates run 240 per case. For a longer service, the hunter green sturdy style banquet plates at 10.25 inches also come 240 per case. Hunter green plastic table covers at 54 inches by 108 inches ship 12 per case, or run the 100 foot banquet roll at 40 inches wide for an unbroken buffet line.
Pair it with black velvet cutlery and black napkins and the room reads autumn rather than Halloween. Add a single seasonal centerpiece and it flips back. That switch is worth having.
Sunkissed orange without the black
The overlooked move. Take the orange out of the traditional pairing and put it against ivory or hunter green instead, and you get a harvest palette that runs from early October straight through November.
Sunkissed orange 100 foot banquet rolls, sturdy style 8.75 inch dinner plates at 240 per case, 6.75 inch plastic dessert plates at 240 per case, and orange and white striped flex paper straws at 144 per case all sit in that range. Sunkissed orange plastic spoons and forks ship 288 per case each.
This is the palette to build if your October and November calendars share a storage room. Nothing gets stranded on November 1.
Solid color tableware is where the depth is
Worth stating plainly. The Halloween collection here runs about forty products, which is a good accent range and a bad foundation. Solid color tableware runs past six hundred, and every one of these palettes is built almost entirely out of it. The seasonal print is the last five percent of the order.
One thing to skip: metallic gold at Halloween. It looks rich in a photo and cheap in a room, it fights with orange, and it costs you the ability to reuse the stock in December when gold actually belongs. Save it.
Pull the palettes from purple, hunter green, black velvet and sunkissed orange.
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