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What is Event Transformation?
Great events don’t happen by accident. Discover what professional event design really means and how IOG II brings your vision to life.
Honoring the Past, Moving Toward the Future
Illusions of Grandeur II, Inc. is entering an exciting new chapter. After 40 years of transforming events across the Monterey Peninsula, founder Kristin Markus has passed the reins to Alison Baguio, the company’s longtime General Manager and the woman who has been running IOG behind the scenes for over two decades. In her first blog post as CEO and owner, Alison shares the story of that transition, pays tribute to Kris, and introduces herself to the clients and community she looks forward to serving. The legacy, the team, and the commitment to exceptional event design in Monterey remain as strong as ever.
100 Things to Celebrate
It's official ~ summer is here! On June 21, people around the world are celebrating the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Always interested in global celebrations, I researched it to see how people are celebrating. From music...
100 Things to Celebrate – Our Story
Here at Illusions of Grandeur when planning a big event for a client we try to understand their "story". It helps us with the design in order to make their event both meaningful and applicable. In thinking about this, I decided to write a little about OUR story. Of...
100 Things to Celebrate – Lunar New Year of the Ox
Time Marches On and So Do We….
To Our Dear Clients and Friends, The last time I reached out with an update was the end of May. It is hard to believe that we are almost into December and still what seems to be an unending pandemic. A lot has happened in that time. Our Illusions family has had...
100 Things to Celebrate – Trees
100 Things to Celebrate: Summer
Celebrate Summer and the nature and abundance that comes along with it!
100 Things to Celebrate : Thinking Big
As some of you may know by now, we have started a weekly Instagram post that we call Throwback Thursday. Given the fact that we have not had an event since mid-March, we have decided to dig into the history and recycle some of our favorite and sometimes "not so...
100 Things to Celebrate: Flowers
Among the many exciting projects we have been able to work on this year, I have to say that watching the beautiful floral creations going in and out of here has certainly been a joy.