The Venue 308 Team

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." – Phil Jackson

Bretton Grassie

International Marketing training, wedding, lifestyle & corporate photographer, and 4 year business owner and creative product maker. Seeing weddings and corporate events from the chaos to fabulous, Bretton has often been relied upon to help a fraught ridden bride, or make a surprisingly mediocre business event seem spectacular.

She has learned and work with some of the best event planners in our city and brings a wealth of experience and networking contacts to the business.

Visit brettongrassiephotography.com to learn more about Bretton and see a gallery of her work.

Penny Dyte

37 years of business experience in sales, marketing, client service, board governance, team and event management As a partner in both a public and private firm, Penny has worked with clients and teams, internationally, to bring out the best innovation in strategy, culture, people and corporations.

Penny’s forte in personal branding, negotiation, continual learning and coaching are key to realizing personal or corporate potential. With corporate and personal experience to bring to the business, Penny sits as an invaluable resource and guide to clients and the team.

Chris Grassie

A wicked golf swing, an enviable collection of shoes, and a pretty awesome dad. That’s just the start! Chris has an old school work ethic with the enthusiasm of a millennial - cool.

Skills on the tools, and downright likeable personality? You bet he’s hired! He’s an invaluable piece of the puzzle at Venue 308.

Sarah G. Schmidt

Sarah from ‘IT by Sarah G. Schmidt’; personal stylist, movie stylist, pop-up guru, event wrangler and public speaker on all things interesting. She lends us her advice, good style and go-get-em attitude at Venue 308.

We celebrate you, Sarah!.. Seriously glad you are willing to entrepreneur with us. Follow Sarah in some of our world but we entirely recommend following her alongside her own.