Des Moines tea shop providing gifts for Oscar party
A central Iowa shop that sells tea is among a very select group of merchants that will have its products featured at an exclusive star party in Hollywood prior to the Oscars on Sunday night.
Rusty Bishop, of Gong Fu Tea in Des Moines, says they sent 200 gift baskets to L.A. for the party at the request of the hostesses — Leeza Gibbons of “Entertainment Tonight” and singer-actress Olivia Newton John.
Bishop says, “During the dinner, they’ll have a VIP bag that they’ll be giving to everyone that comes to the event and the VIP bags will include six different companies’ products and ours will be one of them.”
He says the party planners in Hollywood found the shop on-line using Google and contacted them directly to see if they’d be interested in contributing the four-tea gift samplers to the gift bags.
