Marissa Mehling The 2009 Holiday Fashion Show and Luncheon Hosted by the Garden City Welcoming Club was a huge success! The Cherry Valley Club was beautifully decorated for the holiday and the lunch was delicious!

The shopping was great! The club had terrific vendors. Some new and some of our old favorites such as Mosaics by Joanne, Jewel Wear by Toni, Belle Cose, Just Lauren, PM Dreams, 1871 Brands LLC, Discovery Toys, T.F.A. In-Home The Finest Accessories, My Sassy Soaps, Flexi8 Hair Clips and Custom Fabric Made Hand Bags. The very generous vendors all donated beautiful raffle prizes with all the proceeds going to the philanthropic cause IFOND, International Foundation for Optic Nerve Disease.

The fashion show was incredible! All of the models looked awesome as the strutted down the runway wearing fashions from the Wardrobing Room and Designing Dreams. Thank you to the Wardrobing Room for providing discounts to all the models and guests.

Cameron Yeun Also huge thanks to Lindsay Bert and staff at The Red Door Salon for so generously donating their services with the models hair and make-up! The models, Jeannine Votruba, Lisa Loughlin, Jessica Oxenham, Bernadette Lane, Liz Delligatti, and Kerri Andersen all looked amazing!!

Designing Dreams in Mineola provided the children’s fashions. The adorable models were Emma and Abigail Katinas, Sydney and Nina Votruba, MiKayla and Marissa Mehling and Nicholas Bambino. They had so much fun.

If you are interested in learning more about the Garden City Welcoming Club please call Melissa Katinas at 516 750-5015.

Nina Votruba, Nicholas Bambino, Abigail Katinas, Sydney Votruba, Emma Katinas, MiKayla Mehling and Marissa Mehling
Jeannine Votruba, Bernadette Lane, Lisa Loughlin, Liz Delligatti, Kerri Andersen, and Jessica Oxenham
Peggy Smith, Melissa Katinas, Allison Kelly, Claire Katinas, Deanna Devine, Jackie Hance, Isabelle Herbrich, and Joan Katinas
Kerry McElroy, Jeanne-Marie Buccellato, Dorie Mehling, Jeannine Votruba, Courtney Keenan, Cynthia Welch, Cory Shafron, and Candice Dunn
Roseann Lew, Mary Trapani, Debbie Andreuzzi, Christine Phillipedies, Beverly Hegarty, Tracy Lawson, Cynthia Salvanatico, Jeanette Marshall and Kelly Buccafula
Melissa and Abigail Katinas