WHAT SHOULD I DO BEFORE THE EVENT?
Send in your guest lists & select your entrées:
1. Garlic Honey Glazed Salmon over Couscous
2. Sirloin Steak with Demi-Glace (GF option available without sauce)
3. Cavatappi Pasta Primavera (Vegetarian)
Plan Your Outfit:
Get out your best ensemble that represents our theme of Simply Sapphire for the big day.
DID YOU KNOW? Sapphire gemstones represent Strength & Protection - Just as sapphire was historically worn for protection, cancer patients seek protection through treatments and support systems - The stone's legendary durability (second only to diamond) mirrors the inner strength needed during treatment.
Purchase Your Victory Sweepstakes Tickets!
Available NOW!
1st Prize: Sapphire State of Mind
Travel Voucher to anywhere via Central Travel
Book a cruise or a Disney Vacation; Travel to far-off destinations; The world is your oyster!
$3,000 Value
2nd Prize: Sapphire-ior Skin
Professional Laser Treatment & Skincare Products from Blush Aesthetics
TNS Essential serum: Anti-aging serum that improves the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines, and uneven skin tone and texture. Can be applied morning and evening to face and neck after cleansing. Blush Signature Glossy Complex: An anti aging evening serum with ingredients to promote skin retexturizing and overall brightness. (retinol, vitmain c, vitamin e, ferulic acid ester, growth factor). Blush Signature Intensify cream: A morning anti aging hydrating cream to moisturize and imporve skin texture. (vitamin e, vitamin c, ferulic acid, lipids, fatty acids, cholesterol, ceramides). IS Clinical Youth Eye Complex: Provide hydration to the eye area and reduced the appearance of periorbital lines and wrinkles, enhances appearance and firmness, and soothes and brightens the undereyes. Sciton light/laser $2500 certificate: Blush is honored to have available tools to treat concerns such as sun spots, age spots, melasma, acne, acne scars, surgical scars, rosacea, fine lins and wrinkles, general signs of aging, loss of collagen production, and more.
After a consultation and skin analysis, the certificate will cover whatever treatment is recommended as best by one of our excellent providers to treat the winners skin concerns.
$3,386 Value
3rd Prize: Shimmering Sapphire
14k White Gold Necklace featuring 1/2 carat Round Saphhire and NINE brilliant 27pt Diamonds from Alan Miller Jewelers
$995 Value
The Morning Of the Show:
Doors open at 10:30am
Browse raffle baskets (ticket sales are in-person, beginning at 10:30am on February 28, 2025 at the event)
*Need not be present to win*
Raffle sales close at 12:00pm
Winners will be announced immediately following the fashion show
Tickets are $20 for a sheet of 25
All proceeds benefit The Victory Center.
PLUS—Enter to win our Door Prize: $500 value 45-minute portrait session donated by WithLovePhotography (one entry per sheet of raffle tickets).
What are my Drink Options?
We are proudly partnered with the Hilton Garden Inn Perrysburg to provide alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages at the event.
Choose from Kona Blend coffee, Iced Tea, Tazo Tea, or water.
Three cash bars will be open for service for the duration of the event. Credit cards accepted.
Premium brand cocktails sell for $7 each. Wine by the glass is $7. Beer is $5-6. Soda is $2.
Consider our Signature Sapphire Cocktail! Bombay SAPPHIRE Gin & Tonic.
$1 from the purchase of each glass will go back to The Victory Center.
What time should I get there?
Doors open at 10:30am on Friday, February 28th, 2025
Enter at the back of the hotel (opposite the lobby) for easy access to the ballroom.
What's the Parking situation?
Parking is free and abundant at the back of the Hilton Garden Inn: 6165 Levis Commons Blvd. Perrysburg, OH 43537
Click HERE for directions to the venue. Valet is not available.
What is the Schedule of events?
10:30AM | Doors open along with our raffle marketplace!
(3) Cash bars open in Lobby
Wandering Photography by Kurt Neilsen, Jerry Finfera, and With Love Photography
Purchase Victory Sweepstakes, Raffle Tickets, Signature Cocktails, and Mystery Jewelry Pull boxes
All Cancer Survivors may enter the Survivor Raffle for free!
Hang your loved ones' names on our Hope Tree if they’ve passed after a cancer diagnosis.
11:30AM | Head into the ballroom; Find your table!
12:00PM | Raffles close; Welcome speech given by Presenting Sponsor Mercy Health
12:05PM | Lunch is served; (2) Cash bars remain open in Lobby
12:15PM | Celebrity Guest Emcee, Chrys Peterson, takes the stage
12:20PM | Jewelry Pull winner announced in 3...2...1...!
12:25PM | Simply Sapphire Fashion Show Part 1
1:20PM | Intermission: Acoustic set by Spencer Elfring
1:25PM | Simply Sapphire Fashion Show Part II
1:45PM | Finale
1:50PM | Raffle winners announced
2:00PM | Pay for your centerpieces on the way out
What is the Survivor Table?
Every year, we honor the cancer survivors in attendance with a specialty raffle and survivor ribbons. Enter to win a one-of-a-kind healing package, complete with Reiki session, Reflexology, and Oncology Massage provided by the therapists who volunteer and work at The Victory Center. Put on your sapphire ribbon, and fill out a raffle ticket before entering the ballroom.
What should I wear?
Honor the cancer survivor in your life with the simplicity of sapphire. Sapphire shoes, accessories, handbags, dresses, tops, pants, all welcome!
What is the Hope Tree?
The Victory Center is all about honoring the cancer survivor and ensuring no one faces their battle alone. We have lost many friends and loved ones over the years that we keep in our hearts with this year's Hope Tree. Stop by the Survivor Table to enter to win our raffle and add the name of a loved one who has gone through cancer to the tree. Once the art installation piece is finished, it will find a forever home at The Victory Center to provide hope and encouragement to those currently undergoing treatment.
What is the Jewelry Pull?
For just $20 per 'pull', you get to select a mystery box of jewelry from our table display or wandering sales-gals. Everyone goes home with something sparkly. One lucky winner will pull a genuine pair of sapphire & diamond earrings generously donated by C. Sterling Jewelers.
Who are the Tie Guys?
Volunteer salesmen will be wandering the Lobby from 10:30-11:30am to sell raffle tickets! Track them down in their dashing ties or head directly over to the credit card table to pay with plastic. Tie Guys can accept cash or check.
