12 Hauntingly Perfect Halloween Parties

For this experiential Halloween party from Kristin Banta Events, guests traveled through eight highly stylized spaces of a private estate in Beverly Hills. After being greeted by a brazen Ringmaster, guests wandered into a carnival wasteland of expired ride parts and traveled on a funicular to the lower level of the property where they transitioned between 5 different spaces throughout the rest of the evening, including a highly experiential Haunted House.

With help from Nuage Designs, Christopher Confero Design planned this amazing birthday celebration complete with witches, goblins and some delicious (and scary!) treats!

Instincts Design Studio planned this fabulous Frankenstein-themed birthday celebration for a little boy named Frankie! The key embellishment for the party? Pumpkins! Lots of pumpkins!

Held at Morgan Manufacturing, this Halloween-themed Bar Mitzvah featured food from Entertaining Company, decor from HMR Designs and planning by Designer Event Chicago.

Howard Brown Health Center held its first ever Halloween fête at The Geraghty. To fit the naturally decorated bone and branch-themed event by Kehoe Designs, Pilsen partygoers had the option of arriving in costumes or creating original ones with elements from Howard Brown’s Brown Elephant retail shop. They later indulged in specialty cocktails and treats, danced to music from two local DJs and tried their luck in a 50/50 cash raffle and a silent auction. The party raised funds to support more than 18,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults and youth through clinical care, research, education and advocacy.

For this amazing Chicago wedding, the couple wanted a fun ambience with a nod to Halloween without feeling too literal (read: “black and orange”). To accomplish this, Life in Bloom opted to use white pumpkins as floral vases with a floral palette consisting of peach stock, Juliet garden roses, ivory and cream roses, and scabiosa pods. Other fun elements included custom carved pumpkins, which greeted guests as they entered and exited the venue. Life in Bloom also produced a large pumpkin with the couples’ initials carved into it that rested on the Place Card Table.

It’s not every day that designers from HMR Designs have the opportunity to use their impeccable eye for styling to arrange skeleton bones, rot flowers and scatter faux roaches. Perhaps it’s the rarity of a Halloween Party that makes it oh so much fun for an event designer. Or perhaps it’s just that Halloween reveals the darkness lurking in us all.

For this fundraiser and gala at Dallas’ Rachofsky House, the Todd Events team smartly used bats, crows and black-and-orange decor to create a spooky and fabulous night.

For this Abandoned Hotel-themed Halloween party, planned by RLE Charleston, guests were invited to “Check-In”… but never to “Check-Out.” With lighting by TEC Lighting, lounge rentals by 428 Main and other rentals by Snyder Rentals, this party was scary yet chic! The land props from PDA Lighting & Sound were incredible, as well. Catering by CRU Catering also proved to be a huge hit.

This charming bash at DL Loft in Chicago featured sweets from Sugar Hills Bakery and photos by Carasco Photography.

Impressively, Chicago’s Event Creative made the Sun-Times Gala at Union Station a spooky, yet stunning night to remember with spiders blending in perfectly with gorgeous table decor.

The pros from A Chair Affair prove that Halloween can be celebrated with a pastel color scheme. From skulls and jellybeans to black table clothes, they did it all.

It’s hard not to fall in love with this intimate dinner, posted by Navjot Design. From the tabletop skull to the fall florals, it’s a perfect Halloween dinner for two.

For this Anastasia Beverly Hills cocktail party, Maya Meyers Photography captured exquisite costumes, dramatic drinks and everything that made this party a raging success.

Chicago’s amazing decor firm, Kehoe Designs, shared its favorite Halloween party pics!

From zombies and ghosts to dramatic red tables topped with spooky tablescapes, the team from Ed Libby & Company clearly knows how to throw a killer celebration.