Hello RPF community!!!
My name is Stewart Stephens and I work as a costume developer for a company called Fairytale Entertainment based out of Auburn Hills, MI with new offices in California and Naperville, IL. This company is a privately owned business where we work hard everyday to offer high quality party and event entertainment. We primarily offer a variety of pop culture character entertainers ranging from Disney Princesses to Avengers and Superheroes to Star Wars characters with quite a bit of character/product variation in between. We also offer some balloon twisting for the brand new Jimmy John's Field Minor League games in Utica, MI.
We are very excited to continue expanding our area of service as well as our variety of characters for events and birthdays; however, this process always comes second to offering the highest quality experience we can for the characters we currently have and in the areas where we are already established.
One thing that makes this process difficult from time to time is finding and creating the proper costumes and props to ensure all of our characters are both highly accurate to their source material in addition to the need for costumes/props that will be reliable even after consistent use and normal wear and tear from being sent out to events and parties each week. The popularity of our characters is always in flux depending on current media trends and new source material availability (for example, the resurgence of Star Wars in the form of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has greatly increased the popularity and demand for Star Wars characters both new and old); however, we do have certain characters that are considered staples of our business and which can see use anywhere from 2-5 times per weekend.
I won't go into our full collection of characters here; however, if you are interested in seeing what look-alikes and character experiences we offer you can visit our site at
http://www.fairytaleyourparty.com/ or you can use this site to plan your own party experience if interested. Bookings are available so check and see if we offer anything in your area!!!
As a costume developer, it is my job to ensure quality and functionality for our costumes and to repair any issues that may interfere with accuracy or functionality. I often have to refer to forums and chat groups like RPF to gain some further knowledge about how others might have dealt with similar issues, needs, repairs, assembly, or alterations for specific costumes/characters/etc. So, in advance, I would like to to extend my highest gratitude to the makers of this site as well as to any of you who may offer any helpful advice, guidance, tips, or anything else in my search to maintain and increase the quality of current character experiences as we continue to expand and progress as a business. Anything you can do for me will be massively appreciated!
So I just wanted to take a second to introduce myself here and begin getting comfortable with the RPF as I hope to make it my costume and prop/replica Bible for my work with Fairytale Entertainment.
Thanks again for any help you may offer in the future and I hope to begin posting with questions, comments, and research needs very soon.
Kind Regards,
Stewart
This is my first time creating a costume let alone dressing up in 14 years!!
