MWPH Storybook Gala

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital brought the Storybook Gala to the M&T Bank Exchange for their 2025 annual fundraiser. The theme was a complete Hogwarts-inspired castle environment. EventPro built it from scratch: stage set, scenic installations, a custom fabricated bar, corridor elements, printed floor, candlestick fixtures, and a deep purple lighting wash that transformed the historic bank hall into an enchanted castle for the night.

The centerpiece was a custom castle stage set built and finished by EventPro's fabrication team: a faux-stone arch with two flanking castle towers and four printed Hogwarts house crests mounted across the top. The tower brickwork and shingled rooflines were vacuformed in-house, giving the structure a dimensional surface that read as real masonry from every seat in the room. The set framed the main stage through the full program, from welcome remarks through the live band performance. LED video walls inside the arch carried the Storybook Gala branding and program content throughout the evening.

The environment extended well beyond the stage. A faux-stone castle bar was built as a full scenic piece: carved foam walls scenic-painted to read as masonry, a wooden bar top, lantern lighting, and a built-in back bar shelf recessed into the tower. A carved foam corridor wall with arched openings lined one side of the room, with silent auction items displayed in the recessed niches. A stone arch photo op framed a large printed Hogwarts castle backdrop for guests. EventPro built and finished custom tall gold candlestick fixtures that ran in a row along the perimeter. A printed floor wrap with a Hogwarts castle aerial graphic covered the dance floor in front of the stage, visible from every balcony seat and from every table in the room.