Six Hosting Formats

Occasion Types

From intimate private receptions to large-scale corporate productions — each occasion type we host has its own character, its own needs and its own kind of guest experience.

Format 01

Private Receptions

A private reception deserves a hosting team that treats your guest list as a guest list — not a crowd. We design the evening around who is in the room, what the occasion is for and how you want the gathering to feel from arrival to close.

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Private receptions are among the most personal events we host — birthdays, anniversaries, milestone gatherings and private celebrations where every detail matters. Our hosts understand the stakes of a private evening and bring the same level of care to a twenty-person seated gathering as to a larger hosted reception.

We work closely with hosts and venue coordinators ahead of the evening to ensure the room setup, table placement and hosting approach all serve the occasion's tone.

Ideal Guest Count

15 – 80 guests

Suggested Package

Frontier Entry or Signature

Guest Mood

Warm, celebratory, intimate

Format 02

Corporate Evenings

Corporate events work best when they don't feel corporate. A well-hosted evening takes the pressure off structured networking and replaces it with a shared experience that relaxes people into genuine conversation. The tables become the programme — and the right host makes every guest feel at ease.

We've hosted leadership dinners, team celebration evenings, client hospitality nights and year-end events for organisations across Canada. The constant across all of them: guests who arrive as colleagues leave as people who've had a genuinely good evening together.

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Guest Audience

Leadership teams, mixed-level staff groups, client and partner audiences, executive hosts seeking a considered event format.

Recommended Formats

Blackjack for high turnover and social flow. Poker for focal table energy. Roulette for spectacle. Combinations available across all package tiers.

Ideal Guest Count

20 to 200+ guests. All package tiers available, with Signature Hosted Night most commonly selected for corporate formats.

Format 03

Retreat Gatherings

Off-site retreats carry a particular kind of expectation. Guests have stepped out of their usual surroundings and they're open to something genuinely memorable. A hosted evening is the moment that defines the social tone of a retreat — the point where the day's agenda gives way to something more relaxed and more human.

We travel to lodges, resorts, conference centres and private estates across Canada. Our full production — tables, equipment, hosts, setup and teardown — travels with us, so your venue coordinator doesn't need to source or manage anything on-site.

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Why Retreat Evenings Work

Guests are already in an open mood.

The retreat context removes the usual office dynamic. People are more willing to engage, less guarded and more likely to form genuine connections at a social table.

The evening becomes the memory.

Most retreat participants recall the evening activity more vividly than the daytime sessions. A well-hosted evening becomes the defining moment of the trip.

No venue prep required from you.

We bring everything. Setup before guests arrive, complete teardown after — your team organises nothing beyond the arrival time.

Format 04

Wedding After-Hours Events

After dinner, when the speeches have finished and the formalities have passed, the best wedding evenings offer guests something to gather around. Game tables are a natural fit — social, visually appealing and genuinely entertaining, without competing with the occasion itself.

We set up discreetly during the meal service and are ready before guests arrive at the after-hours space. Our hosts manage the tone of the table with awareness of the occasion — celebratory, inclusive and exactly as relaxed as a wedding evening should be.

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Hosting Notes

Tables styled to complement the wedding's visual theme

Hosts briefed on the occasion tone ahead of arrival

Mix of accessible formats — blackjack and dice work especially well

Quiet setup and professional teardown — no disruption to your venue

Ideal guest count: 40 – 120 after-dinner guests

Format 05

Brand Hospitality Nights

The way a brand hosts reflects on the brand. A considered, generously delivered evening tells your clients and partners something genuine — that you invest in the details, that you care about their experience, and that your hospitality has character.

Maple Frontier Club provides branded hospitality evenings that feel like a natural extension of a premium brand identity — frontier warmth, professional delivery and an atmosphere your guests associate with you.

Ideal for Client & partner entertainment
Guest count 30 – 150 guests
Suggested package Signature or Maple Collection
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Format 06

Premium Venue Receptions

For hotels, private clubs and premium event venues looking to elevate their hosted evening offering — Maple Frontier Club operates as a fully managed entertainment partner. We bring the game tables, the hosting team, the atmosphere styling and the production management.

Your guests experience a refined, professionally hosted evening. Your venue gains a distinctive, repeatable entertainment format that clients return for.

Ideal for Hotels, clubs, private venues
Guest count Flexible — 40 to 300+
Partnership format Recurring or one-off
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Every occasion is different.

Tell us about
your gathering.

We tailor our approach to the occasion, the venue and the guest experience you're building. Start with a conversation.

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