Our Creative Dream Team 

Creativity, making something beautiful, or even just taking a step outside your comfort zone is at the heart of what this week in Paris is about. While we already have all of the knowledge needed to give tours around our magical city, we knew we would need to call in the experts to fuel the creative atmosphere! Enter, some of the most talented and wonderful ladies in the industry. Attendees will experience a once in a lifetime week-long experience featuring curated workshops ranging from calligraphy, watercolor, flower arranging, and more. 

While you don't need any prior creative experience to take part in Fat Tire Rendezvous, we can guarantee that you will leave feeling inspired with memories and smiles that will last a lifetime. 

  • Lauren Essl | Calligraphy Class
  • Jenna Rainey | Watercolor Painting
  • Estelle Preston | Flower Arranging

Lauren Essl | Calligraphy Class

Jenna Rainey | Watercolor Painting

Estelle Preston | Flower Arranging

Anna Barzin | Photographer

Anna is Fat Tire Tours’ photography golden girl. When she’s not traveling around the world with her husband, she’s a full-time portrait and wedding photographer in North Carolina.
She will be joining us on Fat Tire Rendezvous to document and capture every special memory we make along the way, and her infectious personality will have no problem making you smile for the camera!  

 

We are honored to have Lauren Essl host calligraphy classes at Fat Tire Rendezvous this coming June. Creator and owner of Blue Eye Brown Eye, Lauren is a calligrapher and designer with years of experience creating beautiful calligraphy for clients in addition to leading wildly popular calligraphy classes out of her studio based in Fort Worth, Texas.

She has been featured on blogs like Style Me Pretty, designlovefest, Ruffled, Grey Likes Weddings, Green Wedding Shoes, 100 Layer Cake, Oh So Beautiful Paper, and Wedding Chicks, in print in The Knot Texas, D Weddings, FD Luxe, 360 West Weddings, and Zooey Magazine and her stationery has been sold nationwide at Anthropologie stores.

When she’s not leading workshops and making the internet swoon, you can find her drinking a glass of rosé and cuddling her three sweet rescue dogs at home with her husband. We could not be more excited to have Lauren join us in Paris where guests will have the opportunity to take her world-famous workshop in the most magical city on earth!

 

Picture you, a blank canvas, and the beauty of Giverny, France to inspire you. Now add in self-taught illustrator, designer, and Instagram wizard Jenna Rainey - owner and creator of Southern California design agency Mon Voir as your personal instructor. Step aside Monet!

Jenna loves instructing others how to find their own unique voice and style when it comes to art, and is never afraid of getting her hands dirty when diving head first in a project. In addition to joining us for Fat Tire Rendezvous in 2017, she is also releasing her first book, Everyday Watercolor, which you can preorder here. 

Mon Voir is a loose translation of French words meaning “My Vision”, and our vision for Fat Tire Rendezvous could not be complete without Jenna at the helm to lead our watercolor class!


Photograph Courtesy of Catherine O'Hara

There's nothing quite like strolling the streets of a Paris market, flanked by rows and rows of the most beautiful flowers you will ever see. We are delighted to have esteemed local florist Estelle Preston join us for Fat Tire Rendezvous. 

Estelle has called Paris home for over 20 years and has been creating stunning floral arrangements ever since. After the intial years in Paris, she was accepted as a florist under world-renowed florist Christian Tortu who taught her how to buy the very best flowers at local Paris markets and elevated Estelle's technique to another level. Her prestigious portfolio includes clients ranging from the British Embassy (including creating flowers arrangements for the Queen's State Visit!), Hotel Bristol Paris, the French Prime Minister, Harry Winston, and many, many more. She specializes in luxury weddings and events and loves working with couples to make their vision come to life. 

Utilizing both her lovely personality and decades of experience creating floral arrangements, Estelle will be leading an exclusive flower arranging lesson for guests of Fat Tire Rendezvous in the heart of Paris. 

Profile Photograph of Estelle courtesy of Audrey Neracoulis