OIMDE is the Berkshire Business That's Packing Up Kindness One Box At A Time

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COVID-19 Restrictions spur couples and wedding planners to adjust expectations and get creative.

Only in My Dreams gives the Berkshires in a package

Imagine fresh coffee, or tea and honey, and granola sweetened with maple syrup. Imagine them coming to you as a gentle surprise, like breakfast in bed. You can drink from a mug made by a local artist, a cup as smooth as cream or fluted like a chantarelle.
You can give zest and restoration.
“It’s like Harry & David meets the Berkshires,” said Oskar Hallig, co-founder of Only in My Dreams.
He and his husband, Mike Zippel, have made a name for five years as Berkshire event planners, and in the pandemic they have evolved into locally sourced care packages and gift boxes.

Only in My Dreams Events Offers Event Planning, Drag Shows and More in the Berkshires Hills of Massachusetts and Beyond.

When our team at Only In My Dreams Events sat down to think about who we are and how we fit into our community, we came to the conclusion that we act as a table. A four-legged, giving place, for people to gather and have a great time.

Our legs are symbolized by the four services that we have to offer: event planning, staffing for events, Events in a Pack, and finally our Drag shows. Each of these come together to create a unique experience for everyone in our community. We'd love to be a part or your next event and invite you to our table!

Planning

No matter what type event you're looking to put on, we have the experience. Whether assembling a nonprofit gala, a wedding or a 50th birthday celebration, our team has you covered. Through our extensive list of vendors, we can make your event as special as you are. We pour our hearts into every function and give you "the gift of presence."

Staffing

Here at Only In My Dreams Events we manage a staffing team of close to 30; all ready to help make your next event as seamless as possible. We offer servers, bartenders and even a team to clean up afterwards. We truly leave no stone unturned or dish not washed and dried.

Events in a Box

In 2018 Only In My Dreams came out with a brand new line of trademarked products called Paraphernalia Packs: Events in a Box! We offer a box for nearly every holiday or celebration. Each box contains the bare essentials that anyone would need to throw a small gathering at home (perfect for days with COVID-19); we also offer Berkshire County themed care packages filled with only the finest locally sourced products; all of which can be sent to you or anyone on your list.

Drag Shows

We love putting on our main two yearly Drag events. The MX Nogood Pageant heading into its 4th year and our Annual Drag Pageant and Dance Party at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Hosted by the fabulous Brita Filter (of NYC and RuPauls Drag Race fame) with pageant coordinator extraordinaire Boxxa Vine; the event crowns a new Miss/ Mr Berkshire and culminates with a huge dance party on the stage of the Colonial. These truly are events not to be missed.

The Rural We: Oskar Hallig

Oskar Hallig and his husband, Michael Zippel , are the creative team behind Only In My Dreams Events. Hallig, a Mount Washington, Mass. native met the German Zippel while working in Berlin and the two moved to the Berkshires in 2001 to run The Hilltop House Bed & Breakfast. In 2013, after more than a decade at Iredale Mineral Cosmetics, Hallig thought it was time to revisit his teenage dream of running his own event company. Only In My Dreams specializes in non-profit fundraising events, and throws the annual gay pride dance party and cabaret held each June at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. On Friday, Jan. 19, OIMD will bring the region something new and fabulous: The “Miss Nogood” Drag Pageant at The Barn at the Egremont Village Inn. Recently I was looking through old papers, and back when I was in high school I’d started writing up plans for a business called Only In Your Dreams. I thought that name was a little too sassy, so I changed it to Only In My Dreams. I’ve always been an entertainer, and was always on non-profit boards and planning galas; that was my comfort zone. I grew up in a family in the television world — my dad was a TV producer — and I spent a lot of time at Tanglewood as a kid.

This June will be our third year hosting the big dance party/cabaret at the Colonial for gay pride month, and we always have a big drag component to it. To lead up to that, and to celebrate local queen Nancy Nogood’s dragiversary, we’re throwing the “Miss Nogood” Drag Pageant. Nancy and another local drag queen, Boxxa Vine, are hosting. Whomever wins will be entered into the “Miss Colonial” pageant at this year’s cabaret party on June 9. The judges include Broadway star Alison Fraser, actor and comedian Shawn Hollenbach and Heather A. Thomson from The Real Housewives of New York City, as well as renowned New York City drag queens Gilda Wabbit and Gina Tonic. I reached out to some people I know to come in as judges, and Nancy found the participants. This is much more of a real show featuring drag queens, than it is just a night out at a bar with drag performers there in the background. The Barn is such an intimate space, and we’ve worked hard with them to bring you a truly fabulous evening.

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Berkshire Record | South Egremont event organizing business offers a taste of planning in a box

EGREMONT — Picture this: It’s the day of your wedding. The tables are set with intricate centerpieces. The three-tiered chocolate raspberry truffle cake is even more beautiful than expected. The band is ready to play. Everything is running smoothly until you realize the caterer forgot napkins. Then you snap the heel of your ivory pumps.

Don’t dismay, a South Egremont-based event planning business has got it covered.

Berkshire Eagle | Only in My Dreams has kits for all occasions

EGREMONT — Event planner Oskar Hallig knows there's potential for something to go wrong at every party, gala or gathering. So, he comes prepared.

A few years ago, Hallig and the team at Only in My Dreams Events, out of Egremont, began making their own "emergency" kits to bring to weddings and parties they organized.

Berkshire Eagle | "Alison Fraser recreates a horror in staged reading at The Mount"

PITTSFIELD — Alison Fraser covets original roles. She played Martha in "The Secret Garden" when the musical premiered on Broadway in 1991. She received the second of her two Tony Award nominations for her performance.

"To be a part of an origination of a piece is wildly exciting," she told The Eagle during a recent telephone interview.

But debuting a psychotherapist and recovering alcoholic in Aaron Mark's solo horror play, "Squeamish," Off-Broadway last fall was a stomach-turning experience.

Berkshire Eagle | "LGBTQ community celebrates Pride Month in the Berkshires in style"

PITTSFIELD — When Oskar Hallig started an annual dance party and cabaret in June of 2016 to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month in the Berkshires, he wasn't sure what he was doing.

"It was sort of taking best guesses," the Only in My Dreams Events LLC president said by phone last week.

The Colonial Theatre's Garage served as a piano bar and drag show area for the event. Dancing was on The Colonial's stage.

Video | John Krol Show | 3rd Annual Dance Party & Cabaret

We talk to Oskar K Hallig, Boxxa Vine & Nancy NoGood. Don't miss the 3rd Annual Dance Party & Cabaret & "Miss Berkshire" Drag Pagent at Berkshire Theatre Group. For tickets and information visit Only In My Dreams Events!

Berkshire Eagle | "Drag with attitude in Berkshire County"

SOUTH EGREMONT — Growing up near Greenville, S.C., Philip Calabro didcqn't like the drag scene.

"It was pageant drag, which I was not interested in at all. It was all these girls with the big sequin dresses and the big hair and the same makeup, and they looked beautiful, but it was never anything I wanted to pursue," Calabro said during a telephone interview.

Then he moved to New York City.