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Large scale christmas displays do something ordinary decorations can’t — they become part of the experience itself. Holiday Designs™ has been supplying commercial holiday displays for zoos, aquariums, theme parks, resorts, casinos, arboretums, and entertainment venues since 1994. Built for high-traffic environments where the experience is everything and failure mid-season isn’t an option.
Made in Gainesville, GA. In business since 1994. We answer the phone.
Zoos, aquariums, theme parks, resorts, casinos, and arboretums operate in a different world than a shopping center or a downtown district. Your guests plan this visit. They buy tickets. They bring the whole family. The holiday display isn’t a backdrop to their experience — it’s part of the reason they came and part of what they’ll remember when they leave.
That raises the bar considerably. When a signature display fails at your venue during peak season, it’s not just an operations headache. It’s a guest experience problem — one that shows up in reviews, in social posts, and in the photos people share of what went wrong instead of what went right.
We understand what’s at stake when thousands of guests are counting on your program to deliver. We’ve been building large scale christmas displays for high-stakes venues since 1994. We build accordingly.
Commercial-grade isn’t always good enough for this environment. We build to the standard your venue demands.
From signature centerpiece trees to walk-through experiences and animated ground scenes, we manufacture and supply everything an entertainment venue needs to build a holiday program that matches the scale and quality of what you’ve built.
🎄 Signature Panel & Tower Trees
Commercial panel trees and tower trees from 12 feet to 40+ feet. The kind of centerpiece that becomes the anchor for your entire holiday program — modular, scalable, and built for years of nightly seasonal use. Walk-through tunnel configurations available for immersive installations.
Animated characters, reindeer scenes, and large-scale moving displays that give guests something worth stopping for. Built for high-traffic outdoor environments — weatherproof, durable, and engineered to run night after night through a full season without mid-season failures.
🔆 Walk-Through & Drive-Through Arches
Lighted arches that transform pathways and corridors into immersive holiday moments. The kind of display guests walk through, photograph, and post — generating the organic reach your marketing team can’t buy at any price.
Giant ornaments, oversized character figures, Santa scenes, and dimensional displays that stop guests in their tracks. Photo ops that become destinations within your venue — and create the kind of user-generated content no advertising budget can replicate.
🏙️ Pole-Mounted Pathway Displays
Snowflakes, silhouettes, and boulevard displays for pathways, corridors, and entry drives throughout your venue. Creates a cohesive holiday atmosphere from the moment guests arrive — not just at the centerpiece.
✏️ Custom Fabrication
One-of-a-kind display pieces designed around your venue’s specific identity — your characters, your brand, your story. We’ve built custom pieces for venues across the country. If you can describe it, we can build it.
We’ve supplied holiday programs for some of the most visited venues in the country — zoos, aquariums, theme parks, and resorts where the display runs nightly for thousands of guests and has to look right every single night. Here’s one example.
Holiday Designs™ has supplied Memphis Zoo with a comprehensive holiday display program — not just a centerpiece tree, but a full experience: a large-scale commercial panel tree, animated riverboat display, gingerbread scenes, animated character figures, and ground mount displays throughout the Zoo’s pathways and gathering areas. The kind of program where guests spend an entire evening moving from one display to the next — each piece built for nightly outdoor use across a full holiday season.
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A zoo or theme park holiday program isn’t a streetscape project. It’s a destination experience that thousands of guests interact with nightly. We design and build accordingly — larger structures, heavier-gauge steel frames, more robust electrical components, and displays engineered for continuous outdoor use across an entire season. When your venue is open every night from Thanksgiving through New Year’s, the display has to perform every one of those nights.
Entertainment venues have hard deadlines. Opening night is on the calendar, tickets are sold, and guests are coming. We build our production schedule around your install date — not the other way around. The earlier you contact us, the more options you have. Tell us your timeline and we’ll work backward from it to make sure everything arrives with time for a clean install.
We manufacture in our own facility. Your display isn’t sitting in a container overseas waiting on a shipping window. It’s built by our team, on a production schedule we control, which is how we can make real delivery commitments instead of hopeful estimates. For venues with non-negotiable install dates, that’s not a small thing.
Entertainment venues often need something that doesn’t exist in any catalog — a character specific to your brand, a display sized to a specific space, a piece that fits your venue’s visual identity rather than looking like it came from a general supplier. We’ve built custom pieces for venues across the country. Bring us your concept and we’ll tell you honestly what’s achievable and what it takes.
We offer installation services in select locations. If you need installation support, contact us early — availability depends on your venue’s location and timing. We’ll tell you honestly what’s possible and help you plan accordingly.
Call us and someone answers. Email us and you hear back the same day. In a business where November timelines leave no room for slow vendors, that matters more than it should — and it’s not as common as you’d expect from suppliers in this space.
The best entertainment venue holiday programs we’ve supplied share the same structure. They create an experience from the moment guests arrive — not just at the centerpiece. And they’re built to run flawlessly night after night without the mid-season failures that become guest complaints.
The Arrival
Pole mounts and pathway displays along entry corridors that signal the holiday program before guests reach the main attraction. The experience starts at the gate — not at the centerpiece.
The Centerpiece
A signature panel tree, tower tree, or custom display that anchors the program — the thing guests seek out, photograph, and remember. Built to the scale your venue demands, not the scale a catalog happens to offer.
The Moments
Animated displays, walk-through arches, and photo ops distributed throughout the venue — the layer of discovery that keeps guests moving, engaging, and posting to social media long after they’ve left.
That’s a normal starting point for venue work. We design from scratch regularly — custom dimensions, custom characters, custom configurations built around your specific space. Reach out with what you’re envisioning and we’ll tell you what’s achievable and what it takes to build it.
We know. That’s why we ask for your install date on the first call and build backward from it. The earlier you contact us, the more lead time we have to build, ship, and deliver before your crew needs it. If your timeline is tight, tell us upfront — we’ll tell you honestly what’s possible within it.
We work with mixed programs all the time. We can coordinate with your existing inventory to make sure new pieces integrate rather than clash. You don’t have to replace everything to improve your program significantly.
Tell us about your venue — the spaces, the traffic patterns, the vibe you’re going for, and what your guests currently respond to. We’ll ask the right questions and help you think through a program that makes sense for your environment and your budget. No pressure to buy anything from that first conversation.
January through July is the ideal window. Venue programs often involve custom fabrication, which adds 6–8 weeks to production time on top of the standard 4–6 weeks for catalog items. The earlier you reach out, the more options you have. If you’re coming to us in August, reach out anyway — we’ll tell you honestly what’s achievable within your timeline.
Yes — custom fabrication is one of our strengths. We’ve built one-of-a-kind pieces for venues across the country: custom-sized trees, branded display elements, character pieces specific to a venue’s identity. Bring us your concept and we’ll work through what’s achievable and what it takes to build it.
Yes — that’s a design standard, not an option. We use high-tensile steel frames with powder-coated finishes, C7 LED bulbs that are individually replaceable, and motion and electrical systems engineered for continuous seasonal use. A display that fails mid-season at an entertainment venue isn’t just an operations problem — it’s a guest experience problem. We build so that doesn’t happen.
Installation is available in select locations. Availability depends on your venue’s location and timing. Contact us early — installation slots fill up as the season approaches. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can support your install needs and help you plan accordingly if we can’t.
Our panel trees and tower trees are available from 12 feet to 40+ feet. For larger custom builds, we work directly with you on specifications. Walk-through tunnel configurations are available on select tree models. Tell us about your space — including ceiling height if applicable — and we’ll recommend the right configuration.
We manufacture in the USA — in Gainesville, GA — so we control production quality and delivery timelines. We’ve been doing this since 1994 and we’ve worked with enough zoos, aquariums, theme parks, and resorts to understand what the stakes are when thousands of guests are counting on a program to perform. We’re not a national distributor with a warehouse full of imported product. We’re a manufacturer with a direct line to our production floor — and we answer the phone when you call.
Tell us about your venue — the spaces, the traffic, what you have now, and what you’re trying to create. We’ll ask the right questions and give you an honest picture of what’s possible with large scale christmas displays built for your environment. No pressure, no overselling.
Or call us at 1-800-516-4270. We answer.
