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By Aaron Kaniecki Working with Good Gracious! Events is never dull, someway or another GG! gets involved in some experimental, inspiring projects. Well this was defiantly one for the books. GG! volunteered to contribute to a wedding gallery which was going to be presented by WIPA (Wedding Industry Professionals Association) at The Special Event in Phoenix in January 2011. To conjure up this creation, four A � type personalities came together, along with their colleagues, in order to devise a gallery so unique, so amazingly different, that it would be the talk of the show. These four personalities were Pauline Parry of Good Gracious! Events, Eddie Zartsian of Tic � Tock Couture Florals, Vanessa Rockafellow of Cachet Wedding Designs, and Erin O�Donnell of BBJ Linen. Of course a special mention goes out to Dan Smith and Michelle Nowak of GG! who also contributed to the project. Now where do I come in? To read the rest of the blog please click here.

Wedding Styles By Desire� Shall we dance? As we all know is the title of the movie that Richard Gere chose dance as an interest to bring energy back into his life and zest for living.   Maybe he had alternative motive to begin but the dancing actually helped him to express his inner passion and dance became a way of life to him.   In the end his love for dancing he was able to share with the love of his life   his wife! Anyway, the first dance is certainly a major part of any wedding celebration.   It is the moment that all the guests truly enjoy watching a couple�s first dance as newlyweds!    It is this dance and this song that will be remembered for always as couples continue the journey of love and life.   What song should it be for the first dance?   Quite often couples do not realize that they have a special song �. They really had not thought about it much until that moment.   Or they instantly know what that song is.   The song can be fast or slow paced, it doesn't matter j

By Pauline Parry Months before The Special Event in Phoenix this January 2011, a group of creative partners gathered at Good Gracious! Events one morning to brainstorm our wedding design contribution to the Wedding Gallery. We were represented the Wedding Industry Professionals Association (WIPA) of which we are members and so had a little more pressure to work as a team than if we were just doing this ourselves. This room at the Phoenix Convention Center was our, ahem, inspiration ... Just a little pressure! But our thoughts on that day of brainstorming our design and concept was a wedding brunch in a meadow ... cows, flowers, wine, cheese. All very bucolic and lovely. But of course that wasn't enough. What if we turned that on its head in some artistic, Phillip Stark sort of fashion? So the initial sketch that came from Eddie Zaratsian at Tic-Tock Couture Flowers was this ... It was bold, fun and ripe (sorry for that cheese pun) with design opportunity! From there the team k

At Good Gracious! Events, our culinary team is SERIOUS about its commitment to delicious, quality cuisine ... ... but you won�t find any attitude here! Our culinary core team from left to right: Laurie England-Smith, Benjamin Esquivias, Joanne Purnell, Irma Delgadillo, David Cho, Margarita Hernandez, Dennis Quintanilla, Rosina Esquivias, Gabina Martinez Meet our culinary core team... Margarita Hernandez, Executive Chef As the heart of our kitchen, Margarita keeps our reputation for quality alive. Tiny but mighty she is fiercely committed to creating food that is not only exceptional, but that fulfills the culinary expectations and desires of our clients. Joanne Purnell, Chef de Cuisine Every day, Joanne tries some new way to present or prepare a dish, keeping our menus fresh and innovative. When she comes around the office with a new delicacy for us to try, all we can say is thank goodness for job perks like this! Dennis Quintanilla, Sous Chef And of course, behind every great ch