Autumn Night Marketplace

Thank you, Woody. Hopefully you have your tickets for this too. Fall shopping, food trucks, and live music all in one place. The Autumn Nights Marketplace returns to the Royal Oak Farmers Market tonight. And joining me this morning, we have Kalani Wheeler from Detroit Event Planners. Welcome back. Thank you so much for having me back, Jamie. Yes. Pleasure. Second annual Autumn Nights. Yes, already. How does it feel? It feels amazing. Love doing this business. It's all happening so fast. I can't believe it's already our second annual Autumn Nights Marketplace. Right. And I mean, you're keeping it going, so you're doing something right. Are you doing anything differently with this year's event than last year's? Nope. It's pretty much the same. We have a variety of vendors, a lot to choose from. We have a lot of repeat vendors, and we are so thankful for them. So not too much, but it's still going to be a great event. So no worries there. You do have some new vendors, though. Yes, I have some new vendors. I have Ardito Coffee Roaster. It's based in Dearborn, Michigan. He makes it specialty. So these are specialty coffee beans that he makes from scratch. You have light roasted, medium roasted, and dark roasted as well, and they smell amazing. So I'm very excited to try that out. Yes, I'm excited about this because I love reading, and this looks like a mystery book business situation. Tell us about that. So this is Blue Haven. This is actually her one-year anniversary, and she's a repeat vendor. We're so thankful for her. So she does have specialty books. So they come wrapped up as a surprise, but she does have like the description, whether it's a romance or a thriller. So it's really neat. And again, this is her one-year anniversary. She also has bookmarks as well. Really nice. Very nice. She's a mom of two, and we love her, and we're so thankful that she's coming back with us. See, I would grab the romance book. Sidney Little, the host of Lit Happens with Sid, at 2 p.m., she would be grabbing the thriller. So I love that she makes the little accessories that comes with the book too, the bookmarks, the pens, the highlighter. And this is wrapped so nicely too. So nicely, like you kind of don't want to open it, but you need to to see what book you got and so that you can actually read it. So I love that. This right here threw me off because it looks like a tray of chocolate, but what is it? These are chocolate cover dates. This is Oshawa. They are also a repeat vendor with us as well. So I'm not sure if you ever had dates before, but they are delicious. But I've never ever seen chocolate cover dates until they came on the scene. So they are actually delicious. My son loves them. They are really, really good. Would you rather have a regular date or a chocolate cover date? Chocolate cover. That's what I'm talking about, okay? I've never had an actual date. I'm not interested in having an actual plain date, but I'll try a chocolate cover date. And she made them look so beautiful. I mean, oh my gosh. White chocolate, milk chocolate. Looks like she has some Dubai chocolate type thing going on. Yes, love all of that. Okay, we have these fabulous bags here. Tell us all about them. So this is Jemai's in handbags. So she doesn't actually make the handbags, but she does the art on the handbags, which is really amazing. She has these cool little straps. So if you don't want to purchase the whole bag, you can get the straps separately, but it does have a strap that's actually inside of it. Oh, that's cool. Yes. So she does amazing artwork. Yes, I love it. She does all this on her own. All right. We love the apparel, the hoodies and t-shirts for hoodie season. So we got a vendor that's making some cool stuff to represent the D. Yes, what up those certified since 1983. So this is also a repeat vendor. So thankful for them as well. They have a lot of street wear, a lot to choose from. So if you come out, you're going to see their display. They have so many things to choose from. Very nice. And then we're going to spend this around because this looks cool. Yes. Oh, look at the back of that. That's nice. That's a nice English D. What? That is very cool. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. And then I love this. What up, though, with the the lion. Very nice. Yes, very nice. So do people come to you when they want to be a part of the farmer's market? Or are you on the hunt for these unique businesses? Well, at first I was on the hunt when we did our first one. Remember our first one that we did last year. But now because we're such, you know, good business owners and we treat our vendors with respect and love, they actually come to us and we do a lot of promoting on social media. So it's been it's been amazing so far. We're so thankful for everybody that reach out to us first. It just goes on the website. It just sounds awesome. I love it. All right. When and where can the people check out today's event? It's going to be a Royal Oaks farmer's market. We're also going to have some food trucks as well. A coffee food truck and the dump truck. They got it all. They got food. They got the fashions, you name it. Be sure to check them out today. We'll have more information on our website, Fox2Detroit.com. Good seeing you, as always. Good to see you as well, Jamie. We'll see you for the next pop up shop you're going to be hosting very soon. Yes, you know us. We'll be right back after this break.