Our goal is to provide you with beautiful and original internally lit decor to personalize your event in a completely unique way.
We need your help to do that.
Bringing Your Ideas to Light.
Our many years of experience in helping clients find the right illuminated element within their budget allows us to get a potential job underway as quickly as possible.
The first step of every job we embark on is to generate a quote so that you have a clear idea of costs.
Using art , photos or specs that you send us, we sketch a digital layout of your centerpiece or shade and determine a price per item.
If you are happy with the price and concept, we proceed to the next stage of building a sample. We can then send digital photos of your piece. If need be we can ship out an actual sample to you at cost.
We work with your graphics, or we can design the piece entirely in house. If you need an event logo generated, we are happy to create one for you.
If your designers will be doing the graphic design for your centerpieces we can provide specs for the job for them to "fill in".
We charge a design fee of $50.00 per hour.
Production and Shipping
When you order centerpieces or shades from Illuminaria, you will be getting something that is custom designed and hand-made specifically for you.
After you have given us the go-ahead to produce your centerpieces or shades, we move on to the building of your pieces. Our custom cut infrastructure pieces and bases are ordered to your job specs, and test prints are made to ensure correct color and quality.
Our goal is to build each job to the highest standards possible. We do our best work with a minimum of 3 weeks production time from final sign-off of the design to job completion.
We charge a rush fee of 30% on jobs with less than a 2 week production time.
We prefer to ship via Fed Ex Ground. Our centerpieces and shades are lightweight but bulky. Shipping Ground allows us to send larger boxes at the lowest rate. The transit time is generally 2-3 business days so that must be factored in to your turn around time.
We can also ship many of our designs in "kit" format for final assembly your end. All of our larger columns and shades are shipped this way. This cuts down on the number of boxes needed to ship a job, and lowers the price per item a little.
A Few Helpful Hints
These few pointers will speed up the process our end and will allow us to design the highest quality decor for your event.
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Files we use: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop,and InDesign - versions CS6 or earlier.
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Logo File formats: Logos are best in line art or vector format: .eps, .ai or .pdf.
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Photo Format and Resolution: Photos are best in jpeg format at 150 dpi.
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Color Space: All photos must be either in grayscale or CMYK color mode.
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Fonts: All fonts/type must be converted to outlines or sent with your file
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File size: Files larger than 10MB are best sent via Dropbox or Usendit.
Our centerpiece prices do not include lighting. We provide links to the best fixtures for your job.
For certain designs, we can provide lighting fixtures on a rental basis.
Our larger shades and columns are lit by your event lighting vendor.