Hello Penny Bar

The Hello Penny Bar project was something that sprung up over night. My fiancé and I got engaged August 2016 and we started the never ending process of wedding planning. We choose our venue, food vendor, dialed in our guest list, and then she said that we needed some sort of bar. We looked around online and couldn’t find anything we liked. She wanted something mobile, like an old trailer or something that you could walk up too and order a drink. Being the crafty future husband that I am, I said “why don’t we just build one?” A quick scan of Craigslist and 2 weeks later I found the perfect trailer to turn this dream into a reality. A 1946 Mobilglide Globetrotter 12’ travel trailer. Hasn’t been registered since 1966, was completely gutted but had good bones and knew she was the one. I sold my dirt bike at the time, took that cash straight to the guy selling it, and bought it on the spot. I moved the trailer to my friends house in Vista, where she then sat outside for 3 months while I figured out just exactly what we were going to do with it.

After countless inspirational Pinterest boards, building diagrams, sketches, layouts, wiring plans and material hunting, it was time to get started. Every year, my brother hosts a big, Fiesta Del Sol block party outside his apartment complex. This was less than 3 months away at the time, and knew it would be the Penny grand reveal. So I worked on the trailer every afternoon after work for 9 weeks straight until she was finally done and ready to share with the world. We got TONS of great feedback on the trailer, and knew that we couldn’t just use her for our wedding, and that we had to let others experience her as well. So after a I created a few ads on Craigslist, a profile on The Knot and Wedding Wire, made this beautiful website and we were in business! I told a few close friends to get their off-site alcohol serving licenses so they could work as bartenders and as they say, the rest is history! We are super stoked to continue on this Journey and love connecting with wedding couples and people interested in using Penny at their next event. Cheers!