Let's Have a Celebration at a Smog Shoppe.
BY: AARON KANIECKI During my time at Good Gracious! Events , I have worked in many different locations -- glorious open ranches, beautiful mansions, historical sites, and more -- and now I can gladly add�. a smog shop. A smog shop (for my English readers) is a place where you take your motor vehicle for its smog check. Kind of like an M.O.T� basically a garage. This however has been transformed. Once a 1980�s smog check center, The Smog Shoppe is now a 100% solar-powered 6,500-square-foot event space. It offers a fantastic chic look with both indoor and outdoor capabilities. It really is a wonderful site for a celebration. Of late we have done two events at this venue. One was a small wedding for 60 people. The other a Bar Mitzvah for 125. Both of these events particularly appealed to me, not only because I haven�t worked at this amazing venue before, or because I have never been to a Bar Mitzvah� but because both events had a strong English element throughout. The wedding was a w...