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AWARDS CATEGORIES
Party Stylist of the Year
Rising Star Award
Balloon Stylist
Balloon Artist
Boutique Partyware Supplier
Cake Decorator
Cookie Decorator
Custom Decor & Prop Maker
Custom Favours & Giftware
Custom Stationery Designer
Eco Party Business
Face Painter
Grazing Specialist
Party Entertainer [Individual]
Party Entertainment Business
Party Hire
Party Venue
Picnic Party Stylist
Specialist Baker
Specialist Sleepover Parties
Party Stylist of the Year
$99
- The Party Stylist of the Year Award is open to all Australian businesses who create, design, style and output complete parties and small events.
- Eligibility: This can include collaborative ventures where you coordinate other vendors, but they must all fall under the banner of your own business.
- eg The client hires you and you do the coordination and facilitation.
Rising Star
$77
- This category is open to businesses established on or after 1 January 2021.
- Eligibility: Open to all businesses operating in Australia who supply or work in any capacity to serve the party industry.
- Hint: you can look at the other categories to get an idea of what types of businesses are being recognised.
Balloon Stylist
$77
- The balloon stylist category seeks to recognise the best large scale balloon installation designs.
- Eligibility: To enter this category you need to be designing and installing stylised pieces that show technique, volume, visual interest, creative flair, artistic design, use of texture, composition. They should balance the relationship between the balloons and the additional styled elements.
Balloon Artist
$77
- The Balloon Artist category seeks to award a balloon business or individual who creates pieces that are artistic themed design representations on a small scale.
- Eligibility: This category includes singular pieces that are artistic representations of themed design.
- These can be small scale or gift sized, and often purchased as one offs. The skills required include the ability to recreate elements like flowers, or intricate ornate highly artistic Balloon sculptures, table centrepieces, and one-off balloon gifts.
Boutique Partyware Supplier
$77
- The Boutique Partyware Supplier Category recognises small partyware suppliers who provide curated partyware products for the Australian market.
- Eligibility: Boutique style businesses who provide bespoke and unique partyware and are considered a small, solopreneur, or micro business.
Cake Decorator
$77
- The Cake Decorator category seeks to recognise businesses who decorate cakes for parties and events.
- Eligibility: The cake decorator embellishes and creates a complete design including all painting, buttercream, sugarcrafting, and ganache. All fondant and decorative elements must also have been handmade by the cake decorator.
- *[please note wedding cakes are excluded from this category]
Custom Decor & Prop Maker
$77
- The Custom Décor and Prop Maker category recognises businesses who design and make custom party décor for the purposes of styling an event.
- Eligibility: Businesses who create custom props and decorations for staging themed parties. This includes character cutouts, backdrops (ie MDF walls and metal structures), streamer walls, candy carts, plinths, acrylic and mdf signs, cake toppers, and other custom decorations.
Custom Favours & Giftware
$77
- The Custom Favours and Giftware category recognises providers of custom themed favour items and party related gifts.
- Eligibility: This includes favour boxes, gift boxes, baby shower, christening gifts etc
- This category also includes Balloon gifts, eg stuffed balloons.
- [Please note this excludes wedding and bridal specific businesses]
Custom Stationery Designer
$77
- The Custom Stationery Designer draws, illustrates, or creates all types of party stationery.
- Eligibility: Designs can be either digital or hand drawn or both.
- Stationery items can include invitations, chocolate wrappers, milestone boards, labels, party hats etc.
Eco Party Business
$77
- The Eco Party Business category recognises all types of party businesses who include an ecological approach to their operations.
- Eligibilty: All types of party businesses can enter this category. Businesses must demonstrate their eco-principles clearly and be proactive in offering eco-friendly alternatives.
Face Painter
$77
- The Face Painter category recognises businesses who design and paint artistic designs on people at parties.
- Eligibility: All businesses that hand-paint and apply designs at in-person events. These can incorporate all decorative elements and embellishments.
Grazing Specialist
$77
- The Grazing Specialist category includes all businesses who provide grazing style catering for celebrations.
- Eligibility: Businesses can provide in person catering or delivery of grazing boxes for all party and events.
- You must be able to provide evidence of required food handling licences to enter this category.
- [This excludes wedding catering]
Party Entertainer [Individual]
$77
- The Individual Party Entertainer category is for entertainers who operate as a solo performer.
- Eligibility: Entertainers provide an in-person performance. They are skilled in an artform – eg magicians, balloon twisters, bubble artists etc.
- Solo character performers [cos-play entertainment] are included in this category.
Party Entertainment Business
$77
- The Party Entertainment Business category recognises businesses who provide entertainment for parties.
- Eligibility: Businesses who comprise teams that employ two or more people for the purposes of entertaining an audience.
- This can include character costumes, cosplay, character performers, pamper parties, glitter bars, mobile party entertainment eg gaming trucks.
- [Excludes Soft Play and Jumping Castle Hire – See Party Hire Category]
- [Excludes solopreneurs or individual performers – See Party Entertainer [Individual] Category]
Party Hire
$77
- The Party Hire category recognises suppliers of all hire items and elements that set the scene for a party or event.
- Eligibility: All businesses that hire out furniture, backdrops, plinths, candy carts, light up letters & numbers, jumping castles, softplay, linens and finishings, movie screen hire etc.
- This can include both dry hire businesses or those who offer full installation services.
Party Venue
$77
- The Party Venue category is for venues that host parties for all types of celebrations.
- Eligibility: Businesses must provide amenities to their clients. This includes offering an option to host entertainment, styling and theming the space, catering options (including from external suppliers). You have an onsite function coordinator or host who engages the clients and is present during events.
- [Blank space venues that are hire-the-hall only type setups are not eligible.]
- [Please note your venue can provide wedding services but your entry must exclude wedding content. If you primarly host weddings this is not a suitable category for you]
Picnic Party Stylist
$77
- The Picnic Party Stylist category is for businesses who create, design, and deliver bespoke luxury picnic style parties.
- Eligibility: Your business delivers a service which includes designing, theming, and installing the elements necessary for your clients to arrive and enjoy their event.
- Images that include grazing or food are able to be submitted but you will not be assessed on the food elements of your entry.
Specialist Baker
$77
- The Specialist Baker category recognises those businesses specialising in the design, baking, and decorating of alternative options to cakes.
- Eligibility: All baked goods and specialist cake items eg cupcakes, cake pops, cakesicles, small bites, brownies, donuts, macarons, cookies*.
- (This category includes non-decorated / and non-iced cookies. See Cookie Decorator)
Specialist Sleepover Parties
$77
- The Specialist Sleepover Party category recognises businesses that create a themed sleepover experience.
- Eligibility: Businesses that design, style, hire and/or install teepee parties, including large bell tents that include bedding cushions bunting etc.
Party Stylist of the Year
Rising Star Award
Balloon Stylist
Balloon Artist
Boutique Partyware Supplier
Cake Decorator
Cookie Decorator
Custom Decor & Prop Maker
Custom Favours & Giftware
Custom Stationery Designer
Eco party Business
Face Painter
Grazing Specialist
Party Entertainer [Individual]
Party Entertainment Business
Party Hire
Party Venue
Picnic Party Stylist
Specialist Baker
Specialist Sleepover Parties