CHICAGO — Chrishon Lampley always envisioned her 40th birthday would be celebrated in the cliched family setting with a loving husband and their beautiful kids.
Instead, her lavish 40th birthday party was at a West Town art gallery with glasses of her own brand of wine, Love Cork Screw, gracing the hands of more than 300 esteemed guests.
Not too shabby.
“It’s like they say, ‘The universe laughs at your plans,’ but I’m enjoying this journey,” Lampley said.
The party also inspired the latest expansion of her wine brand: “It was gorgeous that night, 74 degrees in September, and the party was outside in their courtyard. It was unreal and, literally, everyone had a cigar in their hand,” said Lampley, who had decided a cigar bar would make her party unique.
“I knew a lot of serious cigar aficionados were going to be there, so why not give them a treat?” she said. “The cigar company approached me after and said they sold over 300 cigars and wanted me to start my own cigar brand. That’s when I said, ‘I think I got it.’ It was just a no-brainer and an easy transition.” (Click here to read the full article)
