ABOUT WILDFLOWER LINEN
Wildflower Linen is the leading designer and producer of specialty table linens and chair covers for event rentals. Founder Youngsong Martin, formerly a nationally known fashion designer and marketer of high-style women’s apparel, launched Wildflower Linen in 2001 in Southern California. Her full-service rental company has since redefined the special-event linen field in terms of style, glamour and customer care while becoming a prestigious provider to clients nationwide and abroad, for functions of all sizes, budgets and occasions. In addition to lavish weddings and large-scale banquets, Wildflower Linen creations have been featured at the post-Oscars Governor’s Ball and Vanity Fair after-parties, aboard charter yachts, in noted resorts and country clubs, at several Presidential library events, even at the gala party for a DreamWorks premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. However, Wildflower Linen’s extensive inventory of fashion-forward and traditional decor is also available for your smallest-scale and most intimate of functions.
Today, Wildflower table linens and chair covers are sought after by everyone from discriminating brides and noted event planners to acclaimed designers and celebrities — by any party producer looking to add the utmost in style and elegance to a function’s tabletops and place settings.
Since Wildflower Linen’s inception, the company has added an international clientele and expanded with showrooms and customer service specialists in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco. Wildflower Linen also has sales representatives in Dallas, Las Vegas, Nashville and New York.
THE WILDFLOWER TEAM
Youngsong Martin
Lily
Yeung
Yeung
Josh
Spector
Spector
Additional Team Members
YOUNGSONG MARTIN
Youngsong is the dynamic entrepreneur and designer who propelled her high-style rental firm Wildflower Linen into prominence in the domestic and international special-event industries.
She began her career as a fashion designer, converting her formal training in South Korea and the United States into a dream come true as the creator of namesake lines of women’s apparel sold in boutiques and department stores throughout the U.S. Youngsong also was a senior instructor at the prestigious Otis/Parsons Art Institute’s School of Design in Los Angeles.
Youngsong later melded her affinity for entertaining and fine dining with her expert knowledge of textiles and fabrications to create a thriving decor rental business, Wildflower Linen.
Since founding the company in 2001, Youngsong has grown it into a preferred source for celebrity event planners, leading hotel and catering executives, discerning organizers of corporate and social functions, and the hosts of gala weddings of all sizes. As her business evolved, it outgrew two Southern California headquarters facilities before moving in 2006 into a large complex in Buena Park. Youngsong also has launched branch showrooms at the landmark Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood and in San Francisco’s popular SoMa warehouse/loft district. Her newest Wildflower Linen showroom began serving coastal Orange County in summer 2009 at an upscale design and decor center in Costa Mesa. In addition to alliances with sales representatives in major cities nationwide, Youngsong has pending deals for exclusive branding alliances in Europe and Asia.
At home in the United States, as abroad, numerous print and broadcast media have showered attention on Youngsong and her banquet fashions, in reports and pictorial features in wedding and design magazines, The Wall Street Journal and on various network and cable television programs. She also has been a featured keynote speaker at several special-event trade conferences.
In 2007 Youngsong was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year by an Orange County association of Asian businesses. For that recognition she was presented with more than a dozen formal commendations from the U.S. Congress and the California Legislature. In 2009 Youngsong was nominated for the Women in Business Award, presented by the Orange County Business Journal.
LILY YEUNG
Lily has been a part of the Wildflower Linen team since 2007 and was hired on to facilitate the opening of the San Francisco location. She is now currently the Director of Business Development for the Wildflower Linen Brand, searching for new ventures and opportunities to build strong partnerships. She also manages the San Francisco showroom for her clients in the Bay Area and the Northwest United States.
Her strong communication skills and ability to effectively operate independently makes her an asset to the company. Because she can truly assess her client's visions and draw from their personality, Lily has the ability to create table designs that meet her client's full expectations. Her great sense of humor and bright smile is an added bonus.
JOSH SPECTOR
Josh has a bachelor’s degree from NYU in film and television and has been with Wildflower Linen since 2006. He started out as a sales representative, but now is manager of the company’s Pacific Design Center showroom in West Hollywood.
With a background in the Los Angeles entertainment industry, Josh brings a unique perspective to the Wildflower Linen team. Along with his keen eye for style, he has an extensive knowledge of the company’s specialty linens and latest designs. Josh’s rental linen customers have learned they can rely on him to be organized, efficient and empathetic, three qualities that yield exceptional results at glamorous functions.
ADDITIONAL TEAM MEMBERS
Teresa Woodral
Every business needs an employee who can remain composed and in charge in the face of crisis. For Wildflower Linen that individual is account manger Teresa Woodral. Teresa’s sunny disposition and “can do” attitude is exactly what the client needs to experience when things occasionally go awry. Indeed, this 2004 Le Corden Bleu graduate knows how to please her clients and takes pride and joy in steering event planners and their brides to the perfect elements that will create an overall masterpiece of table design. In addition to working directly with clients, Teresa also oversees and maintains Wildflower Linen’s Damaged/Missing Inventory Department.
Desiree Patterson (Southern California)
Desiree earned an associate of arts degree in graphic design from Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising before joining Wildflower Linen in 2006. Desiree's design background helps her comprehend her clients' visions. She has worked with top florists, wedding and event planners nationwide and collaborating with them in choosing linens and chair covers that create an inventive and memorable event. Many of these tabletops have appeared in top wedding and design publications. Her expertise is sought after among industry professionals from the up-and-coming planners and designers to the industry veterans. Her attention to detail and sense of style are important to her as well as to helping her clients achieve their goals.
Mary Ann (M.A.) Reilly, CMP (Nevada)
Mary Ann (M.A.) Reilly, CMP, a 30 year veteran in the special event industry, has remained as passionate about the industry as she was years ago when she owned Ambiance Catering in Pasadena, CA. While working as National Director of Special Events for a major international law firm, M. A. oversaw more than 300 events annually. In 1996 M. A. became the Event Director for The Special Event sponsored by Special Event Magazine. Mary Ann is very excited to be living back in the city of Bright Lights, Viva Las Vegas while representing Wildflower Linen.
Amanda Hauge (Tennessee)
Amanda is an experienced event planner and designer currently living in Nashville, TN. A native of Wisconsin, she has a degree in Sports Management from the University of Minnesota and has completed graduate work in the MBA program at Arizona State. Prior to graduate school, Amanda spent several years in Southern California producing high profile weddings and social events. In 2008, she had the honor of working for MLB's Special Events Department on the last All-Star Game in Yankee Stadium and in June 2009, received a Masters of Sport Administration from Ohio University. Today, in addition to representing Wildflower Linens in Tennessee, Amanda is the owner of Squiggle Event Studio, a boutique event production and design firm focusing on VIP hospitality events for the sports and entertainment industries.
Carrie Smith (Arizona)
Carrie Smith has 20 plus years experience in high end interior design, model home design, hospitality design and country club design. Carrie's interior design work has taken her all over the country and she has had the opportunity to work on many diverse projects. For the past 15 years Carrie has had her own high end residential firm with a client base including professional athletes, top level executives and clients in the entertainment business. It is with this level experience and enthusiasm for beautiful and well executed design that Carrie joins Wildflower Linens as the Phoenix Representative. Creating beautiful environments is a passion of Carrie's that she excited to bring to the special events industry attention.