EventShop Inc.

✨Yesterday we celebrated among family, friends and some incredible clients. Five! Five years and it really has flown by. The lessons learned are immense, and the growth keeps us going. Being able to work with such amazing humans, and the very best of friends, is beyond a dream. We’ve been through so much, and the pandemic *almost* closed the doors; but we pushed and hustled. We made all the pivots and created something out of nothing. We are now running three different businesses, and have diversified from necessity. And you know what, that’s the dream. And it’s hard. So hard. But, it’s totally worth it.

So today, we rest. We are thankful, and so genuinely grateful for all the messages and love. We have only just begun, we appreciate every single person who has shown us support in any way…usually by way of a last minute request for something crazy. ✨

📸 a few bts and fun team pics
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🎂 these cakes were/are divine, could not be happier and blown away by these Magpies Bakery

Our sister company TopShelf Tasting Co. is hiring for spring & summer. Check out the details and application in the link below. We are looking for the best of the best, and can't wait to expand our amazing team!

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Truly the best. All the love for this incredible organization and the events they produce!

Congratulations Dogwood Arts, you all deserve it! 🏆💐

7 Best Dogwood Festivals In The U.S. Get out and welcome spring at a beautiful Dogwood Festival in Missouri, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, or Tennessee.

Happy New Year from our team to all our fabulous friends! Whether you are putting that disco ball up or down, we hope you have the most epic year. We are channeling new adventures, new event experiences, and a whole lotta living in the moment. Cheers to 2023, we won’t even try to know what to expect! 🍾🥂💛

The unpacking never ends around here.... come help some planners out!

🌸It’s Dogwood time!!! Super excited for our local festival ! This committee team is incredible, plus over 100 juried Artists, all the food and bevvies…it’s going to be an awesome weekend in !

Come down and see us, buy some awesome items, eat local grub, sip cold beverages from and , and stay for the music each night!

Festival opens Friday at 10am, can’t even wait!!

A Blooming Success here in DC! 🌸 Over 40k guests, 100 vendors, 30+ performances, countless permits, logistics like WHOA 😳, a truly amazing client team…and it works like magic!

Feeling so grateful to be working consistently again, and so thankful for .is.always.better who absolutely killed this project!! Well done, badass planner lady. 😘

Celebrating these badass ladies today. With a team like this, you get to celebrate every day. 💫💪💛

We are BLOOMING here in Knoxville, and super excited to be underway for the 2022 House and Garden Show at the 🪴

A full week of load-in, walkie-talkies on blast, over 100k steps, and one amazing team made it all happen. Our client and committee for this show is absolutely EPIC!

So grateful to be back, check out stories for some super fun BTS all weekend!

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We were ecstatic when came to us with the proposal of a seven-week concert series in downtown Knoxville at (and the eventual addition of four concerts at the World’s Fair Park!) I mean, isn’t it everyone’s dream to work in Rock and Roll? 🤟

For the next two months, our lives were dedicated to producing stellar events with unique experiences at each to reflect the vibe of the band. We were tasked with some of the usual planning: creating a footprint, hiring vendors and general logistics, BUT we also created a semi-private VIP experience and interactive backstage artist hospitality. Touring can be a drudge, so we wanted to provide a relaxing, homey area for the performers. 🪄

BONUS: We made some of the best new friends, had some of the best times, and learned sooo much. There are a TON of people who made this all happen (with only 6 weeks to plan), and we are so grateful to have been part of the team. 🥰

Special Shoutout to the guys at Born & Raised!
Did you know that these guys can also DJ your next event, and literally run Knoxville’s BEST Silent Disco?? We have booked both with these guys, and they know how to keep the party going. Check them out , BOOK THEM! 👏👏

LIGHTS. CAMERA. LOGISTICS. ACTION! 🎬
This year we got to transform our favorite downtown patio Merchants of Beer into a Vintage Hollywood set meets Tennessee Football Tailgate Party….VOLLYWOOD!

We had a total blast at this 44th Annual soiree, and it all started with allll the namebadges. Luckily, our friends RockStar Passes always deliver! 900 badges + the best badge trays from pc/nametag (IYKYK), made registration a breeze!

Guests were then greeted with some Big Orange Neon and a life-sized football Oscar, designed by our pals Alder & Co. 👏👏Ya’ll, the full bar with FOUR signature cocktails, massively grande and delicious buffet created by the amazing team Bridgewater Place, our 1936 Plymouth photo opp (complete with vintage furs) 📸made this one of the BEST parties we’ve done for this super special client. 🧡

OH! Did we mention that this was an outdoor party with the BEST TV set-up in town? Yep, our friends at SpringBoard came through with seven gigantic TV’s, stellar sound, and Rocky Top on point 🎶. We could not have done this without them, and each guest had their own viewing party with their friends…it was epic!

Here’s a fun list of the people we rely on to really help make this happen. HUGE thanks to the incredible staff ….they are the real MVP’s of this game!

🧊 Vollywood Ice Luge with Custom Coloring and Lights from Ice Mill - Ice Sculptures & Cocktail Ice
🍸 Spirits were flowing, and guests were loving Dripping Springs Vodka
🤳 Always amazing The Knoxville Photo Booth Company with the roaming and prop-happy photo booths
🍿 Our girl Laura Musgrave keeping the snacks rolling at the popcorn station
🚽 The always necessary “pretty potty” from UnitedRentals
🍬 Throwback candy station thanks to OldTimeCandy.com
👨‍🏭 On Demand Welding by
📸 Professional and Drone Photography by Photographfee

Also, because events be crazy, special shoutout to for actually saving the day when a front entrance gate decided to break an hour before the event. Skyler brought his welding equipment on-site and fixed it in 30 mins! 🧑‍🏭

What happens when you take a vintage cathedral-style country club ballroom and add a dash of modern bride? Pure magic for the Manske’s! Sable Manske Chris Manske

The bride was referred to us by a colleague Mal Alder(who we love and appreciate 😉) and we knew right away it was a match made in heaven. Sable and Chris wanted to provide a beautiful and interactive reception for their guests to enjoy. From the curated wine blending and the custom cigar bar (ft. Cigartender Shane Moore) to the super glam mantles, each detail created a local-luxe vibe for their incredible day.

Our team, and a host of amazing vendors👇, then poured on the magic by bringing the outdoors into the ballroom using a TON of fresh greenery for the mantle and family-style table, then added a “coordinated mismatch” of taper candle holders that really took us back to the days the Club was built in the ’20s. Throw in some bold colors, an open bar, live band and an awesome buffet, and Voila! Perfection! 🕯🌿

Per usual, we LOVE that this gorgeous day was captured so beautifully by Katie Hannah. She is the absolute best, and we get truly excited when we are able to team up with her. 🍾

Bonus! Sable and Chris are true gems. We are so grateful for their trust in our team for their big day. They both have the sweetest families, and it was an honor to make their wedding dreams come true. They have also become great friends, and that is what it’s all about! 🥰

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🎀💗🌸 POP of PINK? Yes, please….but, not at all what we are used to planning as “pretty in pink.” Nope, we created a whole new brand, learned many new skills, and had a ton of fun.

In summer 2020 pinkladyfoods came around as a way to truly just not go crazy. With every event we had cancelling-and no income-desperation led to innovation and lots of mess! So, we recreated a regionally famous warm and gooey cinnamon bread, plus a couple of other unique treats, and hit the road. 🚗

By 2021 we were up and running, and doing so many fun things with this new brand. Had a blast doing pop-up events, trial and error on bread tastings, and partnered up with our fave people Merchants of Beer by opening up the post-Covid spring with a couple awesome patio concerts featuring the amazing Smooth Sailor .🛥☀️

Look for LOTS more to come from this Pink Lady; she’s got a lot cooking, and always up for a good time! 😘

NETWORK, BUT MAKE IT FUN.
A few months ago, we got to work with one of our favorite clients, in the cutest little City of Clinton. Here are some super cool details from the event, and let's just say, that 90+ heat index had us sweating it all out! ☀️

Shut down the street...make it a margarita+burgers in paradise kinda night. We had an awesome time with DJ Jason Hammock keeping it hopping, JAET for this super cool Airstream bar, Clinch River Brewing for keeping the craft beers flowing, and Apple Blossom Catering for a super spread of island fare, always fantastic tacos from our great friends at Captain Muchachos , and the best sweet treats from Pink Lady Foods .

We had so much support from the local community, as well, these folks really know how to come together. Special thanks to Hoskins in the Flats for special decor help, Legend Photography for capturing group shots, Young Professionals of the ACCC who brought the cigar and jello shot station, and every single person who came out to celebrate this awesome Chamber community. 💃🕺

EventShop is always grateful to work on super-fun and creative events, but the team at ACCC is truly the best! ✨

(tap for vendor call out)

Merry Christmas from our team, families, kids and pup kids. Yesterday was so much fun, we all unplugged to share the merry today. 🥰🎄🍾

Hoping everyone celebrated and enjoyed the day in a way that made you happy. Sending love and good vibes for a fabulous end to the season. 💚❤️

Now, hold the phone so we can get into these leftovers! 🥘🎅

‘Twas night before festival, and all through the grass, the committee was scurrying, time was moving so fast!🎄Hard stop. Let’s just celebrate that this annual festival was our FIRST back from pandemic, and it felt soooo awesome!

Having been involved for over 12 years, this one hit different. And, despite SO many restrictions, guidelines, new processes, actual freezing rain which led to summer weather the following day, we freaking did it! The client/family, plus huge and incredible committee, really pulled it off last April. 👏🏁

So, what do we actually DO? Our wheelhouse for this event is lots and lots of logistics. We help produce the diagram, place all programming, manage food trucks and other vendors, create and manage the mother of all load-in and out schedules, and assist with the overall design and feel of the festival. And, we are already rolling along for an epic festival in 2022.

Fun fact: As a kid, Brooke danced in the Dogwood Arts Festival every year (on concrete, lots of ripped suntan tights and skinned knees.) It is a passion project every year, and helping to create and bring this free festival to Knoxville is truly a dream come true.💭

We had the absolute honor to work with Dogwood Arts to produce 10,000 Art Kits. If you think, "I wonder who does that?"...it's likely that WE DO!

What did WE do?? We unboxed more than 22,000 individual boxes, created the mother-of-all assembly lines, called in the team from far and wide, did so much inventory work, and knocked it all out in a warehouse...in masks, of course. And, ended up with these amazing, totally packed with cool stuff, art kits featuring Sharpie Newell Brands donated products. 📝📦

And ya'll, this project made an impact on our community in a big way. If you have a random project, need some additional production assistance, or overall don't know where to turn, GIVE US A SHOUT! 📲

It’s like a Christmas miracle for us, our fellow event partners, and the awesome concert goers coming sown this evening. It’s been far too long, and seeing this stage go up gives us all the best vibes. 100% excitement and gratitude.