VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: Travis-Lee Moore with Functions Event Group

This month we'd like to introduce you to the fabulous Travis-Lee Moore. The guy has incredible artistry and talent, not to mention a personality you'll fall in love with. You can contact him and check out more of his work here:

 

• Travis-Lee Moore, CPCE 
• travis-lee@bookfunctions.com 
• 888.339.4499 
• www.bookfunctions.com 
• www.functionseventgroup.com

Q: Tell us about yourself... Did you always want this to be your career or did you stumble upon your talent by chance?

A: Are you kidding?  My poor mother would come home from work at the hospital all day and I would have rearranged all the furniture.  But there was dinner that I found in Southern Living, on the table, so it kinda balanced out.

Q: How did you get started in doing this for weddings?

A: I started on the other side of the stove, in the kitchen.  Graduated from the Culinary Hyde Park, NY in 1990 and was Chef de Sauté at the Fairmont Pyramid Room (the older, amazing one – not the thing that’s there now) and then moved upstairs and did a lot of pastry work.  Spent two years as Sommelier for the Delta Queen Steamboat Co.  Came home and got involved with a shady group of people called “Off-Premise Caterers” and felt way at home.  It’s a good fit for how ADD I am – creative, fast paced, always a different location, changing menus, and once the client loves you, they want you to design everything else too.  So, I’ve spent the last fifteen plus years designing party experiences for groups from 2 to 1500.

Q: What is the best part of your job?

A: Doing what I love and getting paid to do it for really great people.

Q: What’s your best wedding story or your most memorable event?

A: I have really great memories of flying down 29^th Street in Austin, behind the box van, in my black Camaro convertible, both packed to over-flowing with waiters, wedding cakes, canapés and columns.  Not that that was the pinnacle of anything, but it was just fun and kinda Priscilla Queen of the Party.

Q: What’s been your biggest accomplishment to date… personal or professional?

A: Living past 30?  I dunno – achieving some sort of balance between work and life.  I have a really sweet family and am glad that I know that and that we all make time to hang out together.

If you want my “pageant answer” – the year that I swept the NACE national awards at a glamorous supper party in San Diego!

Q: What words do you live by?

A: “If it’s worth doin, it’s worth over-doin.” Paraphrase from Mick Jagger