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At a recent fundraiser held in Livingston, N.J.’s Crystal Palace for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, 500 guests experienced competition table-top design by 36 top designers from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The attendees were treated to numerous food stations as they browsed through displays of the freshest and most innovative table décor available. Among the five award winners who received a coveted Tiffany plate as a prize was OffShoots!, a new floral and décor division of Feastivities Catered Events. Feastivities’ Meryl Snow designed a collection of table creations that featured the colors, textures and fragrances of fresh fruit. Lemons and Granny Smith apples decorated other tables in the set. Seen here is the table of Granny Smith apples with vibrant, fresh shades of green that absolutely pop!

1. Glass cylinders of varying heights filled with carefully arranged cymbidium orchids created glistening columns that carried the eye to the table and provided varying levels of height.

2. The plates from Party Rental Ltd. were clear-glass hammered pasta plates. Selected for texture, they contrasted with the other glass components while still providing transparency.

3. Sixty-inch rounds of glass were custom-fabricated by Berwyn Glass of Berwyn, Penn. The glass required three gloved workers to place it exactly over the arrangement of apples. For the sliced-lemon table (not shown), glass was placed both above and below the lemons to protect the linens from the citrus juice.

4. OffShoots! arranged 4.5 cases of Granny Smith apples, procured from a local supplier. Snow started placing them along the outside of the circular table and worked toward the center, which allowed her to form the perfect outer edge necessary for the clean-cut appearance of the table.

5. The table linens were selected to match the color of the fruit. For the apples, green moss crushed iridescent cloth from The Total Table was selected to enhance and complement the green fruit.

6. Apples were sliced in half, and then silverware with accents of sheet moss was added before toothpicks were used to put the apples back together. Snow suggests that this technique would best apply to items such as place cards, even though it is a very effective look.

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