Rebecca Grinnals
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| Rebecca Grinnals |
| Rebecca is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the business of weddings. She is the founder and President of wedding and honeymoon industry consulting firm, Engaging Concepts based in Celebration, FL. Rebecca is a sought after industry consultant and trend expert. She has been a featured guest on CBS’ “The Early Show,” CNN, Entertainment Tonight, CNBC and hundreds of other national and international television & radio programs. Prior to creating Engaging Concepts in 2001, Rebecca co-founded Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings & Honeymoons for The Walt Disney Company, and spent ten years developing the concept into an unprecedented success. She has directly produced wedding events and remotes for, among others, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "The TODAY Show," “Good Morning America” and "LIVE with Regis & Kathie Lee.” Rebecca has orchestrated some of the industry’s most innovative wedding related promotions and partnerships including the Sandals & Beaches Resorts ground-breaking partnerships with Celebrity Wedding Designer Preston Bailey and Cake “Diva” Sylvia Weinstock, the Guinness World Record setting “World’s Largest Vow Renewal” for Harley-Davidson, The Travel Channel’s 6-episode Destination Wedding series featuring The Cayman Islands (“Weddings Away-Cayman Islands”) and promotions with strong industry brands such as Ritz-Carlton, Martha Stewart Weddings/MSLO, BRIDE’S Magazine, TheKnot, the Platinum Guild, Crate & Barrel, Bed Bath & Beyond, Henri Bendel, David’s Bridal, HPNOTIQ, Ladies Home Journal, Williams-Sonoma and many more. Clients include: Sandals & Beaches Resorts, the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, Disneyland Resort, InterContinental Hotels-Asia Pacific, LUXE Destination Weddings, the Caribbean Wedding Association, the Kessler Collection, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Magazine/Bonnier Corp, Harley-Davidson as well as hotels & resorts in Barbados, Shanghai, Tokyo, Grand Cayman, the Bahamas, Colorado, Georgia, New Mexico, Florida, Aruba & Jamaica, as well as many leading high-end wedding and event professionals worldwide. She speaks around the world on the business of weddings & honeymoons. Most recently, she and business partner Kathryn Arce have created an innovative series of Luxury Wedding Business symposiums called engage! which bring together the wedding industries key influencers and tastemakers from throughout the US, Caribbean and Canada to exchange ideas, network and be inspired to take their successful businesses to the next level. All 4 of the initial events have been complete advance sell outs with attendees coming from over 35 states and 15 countries and have met with rave reviews from attendees and speakers alike. |