The Outdoorsy Raid Pierpont Place!

It's no secret that being a local Salt Lake City company ourselves, we at Pierpont LOVE working with our fellow natives. So when the SLC market experts, Experticity, ask us to throw their clients a good party, we hear them loud and clear. As many of the companies Experticity represents are in the outdoor product industry, it was fitting for us to host them an event during Salt Lake's pride, the Outdoor Retailers Convention. Being as we all love the outdoors (and great parties), it was fitting for us to throw a one of a kind event for our friends.

With Premer providing our classic beer and wine service and Park City's own, High West Whiskey keeping the drinks flowing out of a massive ice sculpture, guests certainly got their lips wet. This party consisted of many flannel shirts, puffy coats, and talk about the newest innovation in outdoor gear. After those darn hippies drank all the whiskey dry, they hit the dance floor with their woodland inspired moves.

The end of the evening brought the end end of the Outdoor Retailer parties for us at Pierpont. Having hosted another excellent Scarpa event the night before, it was times for us to rest our tired heads and gear up for more more more Sundance!! We look forward to the Outdoor Retailers partying with us again this summer!

Quite a Posh Start to Sundance 2013

As Utahns, we either love or loathe the annual Sundance Film Festival.  It brings big crowds, makes restaurants difficult to get a table at, fills our state with the rich and famous, and permits everyone be a film critic (at least for a week).   It’s a festival synonymous with fancy parties and exclusive events making it right up our alley.

Sponsored by Ciroc Vodka, Zions Bank Corporation, Stella Artois, Nalgene, and Brita Water Filters, the Salt Lake City Sundance Premier Gala was held at Pierpont Place last week to a huge crowd of locals, visitors, and a few celebrities here and there.   

The food included a wide spread of local cheeses, fruits, and desserts prepared by Main Event Catering.  Drinks flowed as guests mingled and discussed the film seen earlier that evening at the Rose Wagner Theatre. 

It was a fantastic start to what certainly turned out to be another well-done Sundance.  We here at Pierpont Place and Premier Event Services have been producing excellent events for the festival for years and are looking forward to Sundance 2014 already!

Upcoming Sundance Events with Pierpont Place & Premier!

It's that time of year again when our humble state becomes all the rage with SLC International packed with private jets, guest lists exclusiveness, winter fashion explosion, and of course, a few decent movies here and there. Sundance Film Festival starts this Friday and we at Pierpont Place are so very excited to be hosting a number of events over the next few weeks.

This Friday, we are hosting the Salt Lake City Sundance Gala downtown in conjunction with the very first film screening of the festival. Let's hope you know somebody who knows somebody because this event is by invitation only.

In addition to Sundance, we are hosting parties for Experticity and Scarpa. We really can't wait to feast our eyes on some hot new climbing gear and remind ourselves that summer will come again soon and the gym will be a thing of the past.

Lastly, January 26th is the Essent ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships sponsored by the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation. The races will be held in Kearns, but the after party will be at Pierpont Place that evening.

We've got a lot coming up for the rest of the month and we look forward to seeing you at one of our many events!

A Tasty Winter Pop-Up Farmers Market

One of my favorite things about Salt Lake City in the summer is the Farmer's Market every Saturday in Pioneer Park. I hop on my old 1960s Schwinn and cruise on over to with my reusable bags in my backpack and a list of all the veggies and other ingredients I need for the week. People watching at the Farmers Market is top notch as the city's eclectic come out to perform, barter, and sniff trees (the dogs are my favorite). It is a weekly event that brings the community together and I am always sad when November nears and it's over for the season.

Well, imagine my excitement when the Downtown Alliance chose our very own Pierpont Place to be the location for the Winter Pop-Up Farmers Market this month! Volunteering our venue and services, Pierpont Place helped to create yet another successful market in Downtown this past Saturday. 

The winter storm managed to scare off just a few vendors that were meant to be outside, but inside our space was packed with artisan cheese, soap, meat, organic produce, chocolates, and even flour made from crickets! Premier offered up a selection of delicious morning beverages not commonly seen at the normal Farmers Market including Mimosas, Bloody Marys, and Irish coffees. We certainly enjoyed ourselves as well, getting our street food fix from World Dog who was set up outside and sipping on the tasty orange juice and basil concoction created by our neighbors, Zest.  

It was our pleasure to host the Downtown Alliance and we are so happy to be a part of the Downtown Salt Lake community.  If you were at last weekend's market, we are interested in your feedback. And if visiting our space has inspired you to book your next event with us, please contact one of our amazing event planners to set up a meeting!

Janice @ 801-598-4444
Ashley @ 801-792-2581
Danielle @ 801-647-4060

Support local vendors this weekend at Pierpont Place!!!

Even Funeral Homes Like a Good Party

Throughout the world, the death of a person is commemorated differently.  In Vietnam, the deceased person’s mouth is propped open so that visitors may drop in grains of rice and gold coins.  In many countries in Africa, only when a deceased person’s surviving relative have gone, and there is no one left to remember him or her, can the person be said to have really “died.” 

Here in the U.S., it is most often a somber event, with guests expressing their love and admiration for the deceased, and a laying to rest of the either the ashes or actual body.  It is an event that most of us would choose to limit our attendance.  Thankfully, in Utah we have Dignity Memorial, who is happy to take over the services and create the best sendoff possible for our loved ones.

That being said, the employees at Dignity Memorial deserved a lovely dinner party, hosted by Pierpont Place.  Our crew created a cream and olive green inspired event, with Moroccan lanterns as centerpieces.  Main Event Catering served a delicious meal that included Caesar salad, crusted Parmesan chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, ginger carrots, and herb crusted beef tenderloin.  To accompany the meal, guests enjoyed a make-your-own hot chocolate station with everything from mini marshmallows to peppermint candies.

We truly appreciate the work that Dignity Memorial does and look forward to hosting their next company event.  Keep checking back on this blog for updates on our events with the Outdoor Retailers convention and the Sundance Film Festival in the next few weeks.

“New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” – Mark Twain

2012 has been a year for highs and lows to say the least.  We all survived the presidential election and the Mayan end of the world.  The Mars rover captured our hearts while a pudgy man from South Korea made us pretend like we all rode imaginary ponies.  The U.S. women’s gymnastics team dominated at the London Olympics and Mitt Romney shoved his “binders full of women” where the sun don’t shine.  Americans showed the greatest of compassion to natural disaster victims along with love for those taken too soon.  To say the least, 2012 was one to remember, or forget.  So what better way to finish it off than an epic party at Pierpont Place?  

Decked out in sequins, heels, and red lipstick, the ladies grabbed the dapper-looking men out onto the dance floor.  With the dubstep pounding, the drinks flowing, and the questionable decision making, 600 balloons dropped from the ceiling onto the hundreds of guests, ringing in 2013.  

The party continued with promises of diets starting tomorrow, quitting bad habits, and countless other resolutions that I’m certain we’ve all broken by now.  But if for what other purpose does New Years Eve serve than a reason to act ridiculous, just one more time?  Around the world, people love December 31^st as it is the one evening that we can globally have a night to remember, but most likely forget.  It’s the start of new beginnings and at the same moment, the end of an era.  Let us not ignore all that we’ve learned in the last year, but instead be a little bit wiser, or at least tell ourselves we’ve grown.

Happy New Year from all of us at Pierpont Place!