WHOLESOME EVENTS //

We choreograph flow, food and sound so people feel at home together.

Belonging is the brief.

Venus By Design - EVENTS

Our first altar: love-led event design in a trend-choked era.

The Challenge:
We were learning to balance authenticity with expectation. Early on, the brand chased what was ‘in’ and dimmed what was true. Trying to integrate love into a mechanical events world while balloon garlands, bouncy castles, and Cricut assembly lines had everything in a chokehold—meant sensory design felt foreign and, to most, unnecessary.

The Approach:
As ‘just girls’ carrying aesthetics and harmony in our DNA, we rebuilt from hearts-led by love, beauty and the belief that design should feel like sunlight on skin.

Instead of following, we led with our whole selves: sense-driven experiences (scent, sound, touch, rhythm), Pinterest-worthy detail made real and care for the exact souls who were sent to us. It wasn’t just an events business, it was our initiation and training for a world we didn’t yet know we were going to build.

The Result:
Venus by Design became our first altar, a living embodiment of love as strategy and beauty as service. It taught us the cost of dimming our light and the exponential impact of turning it back on.
This project set the foundation for everything we now build: brands, spaces and experiences that feel radiant, intentional and unforgettable.

Sliced cucumbers on a wooden cutting board with skincare products, candles, and a flower arrangement in the background.

Decorative display of three glass boxes with the letters L, O, V, and E inside, surrounded by flowers, greenery, and string lights.

Those who interacted with us were blessed.

iT TAKES A VILLAGE

Spring Feastival

Part I: Where it all began

It’s 2017. Two of us—Tatenda and Tarisai, touch down on Zimbabwean soil for the first time since calling New Zealand home. We can hardly contain ourselves. As we drive past Harare Gardens, where our parents used to take us, nostalgia washes over. We glance at each other and grin.

This is it.
‘HONEY-(pause)-WE ARE HOME!’

Part II: Triggered

‘So where are you girls from?’ a stranger asks-eager, familiar. We’ve heard it a thousand times in Aotearoa, around the world, but why here? Why in Zimbabwe, from someone who looks like us and speaks our mother tongue?
We say, ‘We’re Zimbabwean.’ He presses: ‘But where are you really from?’

Part III: Holy kaka!

Sunday afternoon. The sun is kind, not scorching. The place is buzzing in a way Auckland Sundays never are. Sidewalks burst with vendors—fruit, veg, electronics, airtime, bits and bobs. Oliver Mtukudzi is blaring from nearby speakers.

Boerewors, chicken giblets, pork chops-everything we grabbed from the butcher up the road-sizzle on a half-drum, wood-fired braai. In the middle of the grounds, women work steaming pots of sadza. Cars ring the space, people posted at each one. Mazi tunes on heavy rotation. Laughter. Plates passed. Strangers becoming cousins.

Not a single ‘So where are you girls from?’
This is life. This is PaMereki.

Part IV: Planting the seed

Back in New Zealand, we tell our brother-who grew up in Zim-about this ‘new’ revelation. Disbelief, excitement, confusion all over his face. It never occurred to him that his sisters had never known one of his favourite pastimes. In the exchange, the disconnect becomes obvious.

Black and white graphic design with the number 20 and the word story in a Gothic font, with a small '@highrisque' text at the bottom.

So we built a bridge. Our partnership began.PaTomu was born.

A collage of photos from a village spring festival celebration, including people eating barbecue, balloons decorating a space, a DJ, and various festival decorations with colorful text and graphics.

Sliced and halved oranges with a backdrop of green grass, a small wooden log, and a textured surface.

Black background with white text reading '20 RISO' in gothic font, and '@highrisque' in smaller font below.

PaTomu Creation Story

Belonging is not a theme. It’s the brief.

-Tha Silk Pōrticō

BESPOKE mAGIK

We grew up hosting the popping neighbourhood parties-door open, music right,all our mates fed. Everyone seen. That muscle memory became our method. In a world lonely on purpose, we host on purpose: rituals that soften edges, food that says ‘you belong,’ sound that guides the room back to itself.

Our Sweet Spot
(What we do. Best)

Multisensory Design: Sight. Sound. Scent. Taste. Touch. FEEL.
Considered from invite to aftercare.

Ritual & Hosting: Arrivals. Blessings. Love always. Gentle choreography of flow.

Invites & Collateral: Concept, Design & RSVP shepherding (so you don’t chase).

Styling & Catering: Tablescapes. Menus. Service that feels like home.

A group of six people, including children and adults, enjoying a picnic on a grassy field with trees in the background.

Sonic direction: DJs/live sets to score the room (we brief & book).

Memory capture: photographer/filmmaker to hold the moments.

Parting gifts: small tokens with meaning (we design & source).

Event types we’ve designed: Chiropratic Clinic Opening • Christening/Baby Shower • Birthdays • Chiropractic Clinic Information Night • Sick Home Parties for those we loved.

Big on Feeling

Small on Numbers.

Venus x Design Experiences
Mini Case Notes

Now That Quarantine is Over
Private Home Party

Reconnecting our tribe after the first lockdown: self-funded, soul-funded.

Why: Rest, reconnection, recentre.

Services: Event design & planning • Invitation + collateral • RSVP management • Styling & catering • DJ • Parting gifts

Vibe: Warm, unpretentious, full plates and fuller laughs.

Outcome: People lingered; cortisol lowered; community remembered itself.

Now That Quarantine is Over
(Limited Seating Ticketed Event)

A tiny sanctuary in a loud world.

Why: Holding space for exhaustion: mental, physical, spiritual.

Services: Design & styling • Intimate catering • DJ (mood architect) • Photographer (memory keeper)

Format: One table, limited seats, deep soul connection, even deeper rest by design.

Outcome: Guests left grounded, nourished and softly changed.

Collage of event photos featuring social gatherings, decorated tables, people preparing and serving drinks, and an outdoor pool area, with floral and leaf motifs, pink bows, and event flyers.

Arrive as you are

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Leave more You

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Arrive as you are 〰️ Leave more You 〰️

Venus x Design Events
Mini Case Notes

Chiropractic Clinic Opening (Bespoke Brand Welcome)
From clinical to warm welcome

Focus: Showcase the new space to select guests before opening to the public, intimate gathering to gently bless space, ribbon moment without the cringe.

Touches: Carefully designed space to accommodate guests without losing the magik of the space, Delicious catering service for guests, micro-tour choreography, personalised take away treat boxes for each guest.

Baby Christening
Ceremony that feels like sunlight on skin.

Focus: Blessings woven into the run-of-show,

Touches: Transformed a gym space into a magikal ‘wondaland’, Delicious catering service for guests, personalised thank you gift from the host for each guest to take home.

Collage of images showcasing a decorated party or celebration setup with floral arrangements, balloons, tables set with food and desserts, and backdrop decorations.

Birthdays
A party that fits like their favourite jacket.

Focus: Their story, their soundtrack, their people-translated into table, menu and vibes.

Touches: Transformed everyday spaces into a magikal sanctuaries, Delicious catering service for guests, always, personalised thank you gift from the host for each guest to take home, everytime. Guests left nourished.

Collage of photos from a birthday celebration, featuring decorated indoor and outdoor tables, jewelry display, decorative signs, a variety of food tables, a teddy bear, framed art, and outdoor picnic setup with a sign, all arranged in a festive and creative manner with flowers, bows, and decorative elements.

Belonging is the brief. Always.

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