Top 10 Reasons to Attend Wine, Women & Shoes
June 4, 2010
Vivanista’s partner Wine, Women & Shoes has collaborated with Hall Winery and Planned Parenthood: Shasta-Diablo (PPSD) to provide an afternoon of delicious wines, delectable foods, incredible fashion, and a look into how Planned Parent-hood helps women, families and our community stay healthy. The PPSD Napa Valley Board of Advocates is thrilled to introduce the event’s Celebrity Host, David Eigenberg (Steve Brady from Sex and the City). Here are ten reasons to attend the fundraiser.
Top 10 Reasons to come to Wine, Women & Shoes
- Gather your best pals and spend a summer afternoon enjoying popular wines, shopping stylish fashions, and learning about the impactful work that PPSD is doing in your community.
- David Eigenberg (Steve Brady from Sex and the City) in action on stage!
- Moulin Rouge inspired Fashion show by Cake Plate, shoes by Kate Spade.
- Sample over 50 Napa and Sonoma wines.
- Charismatic Shoe Guys sporting silver trays of featured shoes.
- A chance to win a “Key to the Closet” full of outfits, shoes, jewelry, personal shopping appointment, and much more!
- Taste foods from over 20 famous Napa restaurants.
- Peruse our Parisian-style marketplace with over 10 retailers selling designer shoes, handbags, and jewelry—a portion of sales will benefit PPSD.
- Enjoy the romantic and unique historic barrel room at Hall Winery.
- Support PPSD! Providing 161,000 client visits each year throughout 16 health centers in Northern California.
Planned Parenthood helps build healthy communities by providing life-saving cancer screenings, birth control, STD testing and treatment, along with many other health care services at low to no cost to individuals and families. Last year’s Wine, Women & Shoes raised over $200K for PPSD and the “fund-a-need” raised $60 k that supported the purchase of 2 new cervical cancer screening machines. Every day we supply women with the most sophisticated instrument in medicine: accurate information, which can help them make the best decisions about their health.

















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