Over summer I had the pleasure of engraving at wedding held at the Prestigious W Hotel in Beverly Hills. The guests got to enjoy stunning views of Los Angeles and Hollywood in the comfort of your own W lounge chair or private luxury cabana during cocktail hour. The main reception was indoors and everything was planned out to the tee.
The engraving started once the guests had dinner and each guest came up and write down the names they wanted to be engraved. After engraving the glasses the bride and groom had provided a little brown bag for the guests to place their glass in! Every detail again was taken into consideration. I was able to complete all the glasses by 11PM and had a little fun with the bride at the photo booth. The videographer by the way was one of the best in the industry!
Here's a clip of the video...
W Hollywood Hotel Wedding | Cheryl + Kevin
From Anything Everything Productions
Watch “W Hollywood Hotel Wedding | Cheryl + Kevin” on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/137917471
The bride also left me the best review of all and I was quiet touched... Thank you again, Cheryl.
Here is the review.
MightyMangs said...
We hired Akoko to do on-site glass engraving as a wedding favour for our August 2015 reception. We were so excited to find her because we really wanted to give personalised wine glasses as a party favour. We did a lot of research, trying to find someone that would do on-site engraving Southern California. We found three vendors in total (including Akoko). One was WAY too expensive, another one was not very pleasant to deal with but Akoko was just perfect! Here's why: 1. She's experienced. Akoko does a lot of on-site work for big companies like Nordstrom, Macy's, Bloomingdales, Hennessey and Stella Artois where she'll engrave perfume bottles, beer glasses, liquor bottles, etc. 2. She's super nice. We were determined to surround ourselves with nice people on our wedding day because who needs the stress of dealing with meanies and drama queens? Akoko was really responsive and easy to work with from the start, and most importantly, was very friendly and sweet to all our guests throughout the night. 3. She's reasonably priced. Bear in mind that this is a specialized service. But at the end of the day, the cost-per-guest still worked out to be within our budget. 4. Her work is solid. Everything is hand-done. The "font" is like an elegant calligraphy. How We Made It Work: We purchased stemless wine glasses with our names imprinted on them (we went through DiscountMugs.com). The glasses were then placed at each guest's place setting at the reception. Throughout the night, guests had the opportunity to go up to Akoko's station to get their glasses engraved on the spot. We got a ton of compliments after the wedding about the personalised party favours! We ended up having her engrave names on musical jewelry boxes for our flower girls as well (I dropped the boxes off with her and then picked them up about 2 weeks later). If you're looking for something unique for your wedding... Akoko is your girl!
Below is a hand sculpture that I did this morning on Silver. Really liked the way it turned out...this was a commission that Was brought to me after the client had visited several engraving places and they had told her that it was impossible to get it engraved..I absolutely agree that laser engraving cannot work on hard to reach areas but that's where hand engraving comes in handy!
