Common Questions
We provide event services throughout the Gulf Coast area including Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Contact us at 1-800-488-3836 for availability in your area.
We specialize in conventions, trade shows, corporate events, food shows, state fairs, home shows, and large-scale productions. We are the exclusive decorator for multiple annual shows across the region.
We carry a large inventory of pipe and drape in Black, Blue, Burgundy, Gold, Green, Red, Silver, and White in a variety of heights.
We offer professional event carpeting in Black, Blue, Green, Red, and Silver.
Yes! We offer event kits with exhibitor online ordering and handle expo shipping and logistics for conventions and trade shows.
Call us at 1-800-488-3836 or email office@gcevents.biz. You can also use the contact form on our website and we will get back to you promptly.
Pipe and drape is a modular system of upright poles, horizontal crossbars, and fabric panels used to build booth backwalls, siderails, room dividers, and stage backdrops. It goes up and comes down quickly, needs nothing attached to the venue’s walls, and is the standard way an exhibit hall gets divided into individual booths.
Pipe and drape is normally priced by the linear foot, so the drivers are how many feet of wall you need, how tall it is, and how many booths have to be built. Height matters most — a 3 ft siderail costs considerably less per foot than a 12 ft or 16 ft backdrop. Every show floor is different, so we quote per event rather than publish a rate card. Send us your booth count and floor plan and we will price it exactly.
The most common exhibit booth is 10 ft by 10 ft, built with an 8 ft tall backwall and 3 ft tall siderails between neighboring booths. Larger islands and premium spaces are usually sold in 10 ft increments — 10x20, 20x20, and up. We stock drape in a range of heights, so taller backdrops and full room division are no problem.
A general services contractor, or GSC, is the company a show organizer hires to physically build the event: booth drape, aisle carpet, signage, furnishings, labor, and the logistics behind all of it. Using one contractor for the whole floor means a single point of contact instead of separate vendors for drape, carpet, and signs. That is the role we fill.
An exhibitor kit is the packet a show organizer sends every exhibitor explaining what comes with their booth, what they can order, the deadlines, and where to ship freight. Ours includes online ordering, so exhibitors book their own furnishings and extras directly with us rather than routing every request back through the organizer.
Drayage is the handling of exhibitor freight once it reaches the venue — receiving it, storing it, delivering it to the right booth before setup, then returning empties and reloading after the show. It is one of the most commonly misunderstood line items on an exhibitor invoice. We handle expo shipping and material handling as part of our services.
Installation and dismantle are part of what we do. We arrive on the venue’s dock schedule and build the floor before doors open, then come back after the show closes to break everything down and clear out. Nobody on your team ends up assembling drape or rolling carpet.
The earlier the better, particularly for spring and autumn convention season when several shows can land on the same weekend. If you have a date and a venue, get in touch then — even without a final booth count. We would rather hold the date and refine details later than turn you away because the crew and inventory are already committed.
Yes. We run an electrical department that powers everything from corporate food shows to state fairs, and we can coordinate booth power alongside the rest of your floor. Some venues require their own in-house electrical provider, so tell us where the show is and we will confirm what applies there.
Either. We do individual booth carpet, aisle carpet, and complete wall-to-wall coverage — we have carpeted the entire New Orleans Superdome floor. Carpet is stocked in Black, Blue, Green, Red, and Silver.
Across the Capital Region we regularly build shows at the Raising Cane's River Center, the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, Pennington Biomedical, the Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel, and LSU and the PMAC. In New Orleans we have carpeted the Superdome and work hotel ballrooms and meeting space across the metro area. Those are just some of the rooms we know well — we can work any venue in the region. See our venues page for more.
Trade shows and conventions are our core, but we also decorate corporate meetings, food shows, galas and banquets, career fairs, state fairs, home and consumer shows, and hotel ballroom events. If it needs drape, carpet, staging, or signage, we can set it.
Yes. We install and dismantle on the venue's dock schedule and work around union-designated labor where a venue requires it. Tell us the venue and we will know the rules going in.