The Glass Slipper Company is a children’s character entertainment company based in Paris, Ontario, and its business is one based on sending princesses, superheroes, pirates, dinosaurs, and villains to birthday parties, fundraisers, festivals, and community events across southern Ontario.
Since 2017, founder Alexandra Boyd and her cast of about two dozen performers have built a company on a simple promise, summed up in their tagline: “Bringing magic to life, one child at a time.”
This is the story of how a music theatre graduate turned a two-year stint as a party princess into one of the Ontario’s best-known family entertainment companies.
What Is the Glass Slipper Company?
The Glass Slipper Company is a children’s character entertainment agency based in Paris, Ontario, that provides costumed performers for private parties and public events.
Its cast of roughly 26 performers appears as princesses, superheroes, pirates, dinosaurs, mascots, villains, and fairies at birthday parties, community festivals, fundraisers, graduations, weddings, and corporate meet-and-greets throughout Brant County, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, and surrounding communities.
Founded in 2017 by Alexandra Boyd, the company also produces its own ticketed public events, including the annual Storybook Stroll, the Boo Bash Halloween Fundraiser, and the Bibbidi Bobbidi Winter Ball.
The name is a Cinderella reference. The glass slipper is the most famous piece of footwear in children’s storytelling, and for a company whose core business is princess parties, it is branding that does its job before a single performer walks through the door.
The Cinderella connection runs deeper than the name. The company’s founder performs under the title “Fairy Godmother,” the production leads carry titles like Head of Royalty and Head of Villainy, and the whole operation is built around the grammar of fairy tales: transformation, wonder, and the moment a child’s eyes go wide when a beloved character walks into the room.
The name promises magic, and the company’s entire business model is delivering it in person, at kitchen tables and community halls across southern Ontario.
Alexandra Boyd: The Fairy Godmother Behind the Magic
Every character company reflects its founder, and The Glass Slipper Company reflects Alexandra Boyd completely.
Boyd is a graduate of the Music Theatre Performance program at St. Lawrence College, arriving in the entertainment business with formal training in singing, acting, and stagecraft — not just a costume and a smile.
Before launching her own company, she spent two years working as a princess performer with an established character company called Grand Parties, learning the trade from the inside: how to stay in character with a room full of sugar-fuelled six-year-olds, how to manage parents, how to make a forty-five-minute party feel like an event.
Boyd is both the executive making booking policies and the performer who understands what happens on the living-room carpet. She also works as a film and television background actor, bringing professional on-camera experience to your event.
In April 2026, she also gave a keynote talk on performer safety, a subject that matters enormously in an industry where young performers work in private homes.
From Grand Parties to Her Own Company: The Rise of the Glass Slipper Company
The company’s early history follows the classic founder’s arc: learn the business working for someone else, then build a better version.
Boyd’s two years with Grand Parties gave her a performer’s education in what families want and what goes wrong. When she launched The Glass Slipper Company in 2017, she was building on that foundation with her own standards.
One of the company’s earliest public moments came in May 2019, when its performers appeared at the Hike for Hospice fundraiser.
The event marked the debut of the company’s Rose Princess in a gold gown, and it established a pattern that has defined the company ever since: showing up for community causes, in costume, from the earliest days. The Hike for Hospice appearance is still part of company lore, tied to a community story about a participant named Walter that the company retells with obvious affection.
The pandemic could have ended a business built on in-person parties.
Instead, 2020 became the year The Glass Slipper Company created the Pixie Dust Fund, a charitable initiative funded by a cut of every booking. The fund pays for free visits to hospitals, schools, and charities — performances for children who might never get a birthday party with a princess.
The fund was created during the lockdowns, when parties were impossible, and it was later revived as the company rebuilt. It remains one of the clearest expressions of what the company believes it is for.
The Storybook Stroll, the company’s flagship public event, has been running since about 2020, bringing more than fourteen characters together for a single day at Whistling Gardens.
In 2025, the company partnered with the Paris Performers Theatre on events, and in February 2026 it launched its first Sweetheart Soirée.
The calendar from October 2026 into January 2027 is packed: mall appearances, farm residencies, Santa Claus parades, and a winter ball.
The Characters You Can Meet at the Glass Slipper Company: Princesses, Heroes, Villains, and Dinosaurs
The Glass Slipper Company’s cast list reads like the table of contents of a children’s library.
The princess roster is the core of the business — the characters little girls ask for by name at birthday parties. The superhero lineup serves the kids who want heroics instead of tiaras. Pirates bring swashbuckling energy, dinosaurs bring stomping spectacle, and the villains bring something the company takes particular pride in: properly theatrical baddies, led by a dedicated Head of Villainy.
The character names used in marketing are descriptive stand-ins — the Snow Sisters, the Brave Princess — rather than the trademarked names from films, and the company’s materials carry a copyright disclaimer.
The mascot and fairy options round out a roster that can cover nearly any theme a child dreams up.
And the company’s KPop Demon Hunters package — a pop-star party offering — is booked solid through December, which says something about how closely the company tracks what kids actually want right now.
Party Packages and Pricing: Hire the Glass Slipper Company For Your Event
The Glass Slipper Company publishes its pricing openly, which is worth noting in an industry where many competitors make you inquire for a quote.
The 45-minute princess party packages are tiered:
- Enchanted package at $225 plus HST
- Glitter and Pop Star packages at $250 plus HST each
- KPop package at $250 plus HST
- Premium Snow and Wicked packages at $350 plus HST each.
- The superhero offerings run from the $225 Galactic package to the $250 Legendary package.
- Pirate parties come as the $250 Scallywag or the $350 Captains package.
Meet-and-greets are priced by duration: $300 for one hour, $400 for two hours, $500 for three hours, and $600 for four hours, plus HST, for the first character, with attendants available at $75 per hour for every two characters.
Interactive shows start at $400 plus HST, and add-ons run $10 to $30.
The pricing reflects the economics of the business honestly. A 45-minute princess party at $225 to $350 pays for a trained performer, a professional-grade costume, travel, insurance, and the company’s overhead. For parents comparing options, the published prices make The Glass Slipper Company easy to evaluate against competitors who hide their rates.
The House Rules: Magical Integrity
Every good entertainment company has policies, but The Glass Slipper Company’s read like they were written by someone who has seen everything go wrong at least once — and two of them are genuinely distinctive.
The first is the “magical integrity” rule: the company will not perform alongside other character companies at the same event.
The reasoning is pure show business. If two different Cinderellas show up to the same party in different costumes with different voices, the illusion collapses and the children are confused. One company, one cast, one consistent magical world. It is a policy that protects the experience, and it tells you the company thinks about its product the way a theatre company thinks about a production.
The second is the bouncy-castle rule: inflatable bouncy castles must be deflated during the performance.
Anyone who has tried to hold the attention of twenty children while a bouncy castle operates in the next room understands this rule completely. The magic requires focus, and focus requires the competition to be switched off.
The company asks clients to book four to six weeks ahead — popular characters and dates go quickly, as the sold-out KPop package demonstrates. Weather policies are reschedule-only, not refundable, which is standard for outdoor event work. Travel is included within 25 kilometres of Paris, with travel fees applying beyond that, up to a 60-kilometre service radius.
The Pixie Dust Fund: Giving Back
The Pixie Dust Fund deserves its own section, because it is the clearest window into the company’s values.
Created during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, the fund takes a cut of every booking and uses it to provide free character visits to hospitals, schools, and charitable organizations. Children facing illness, children in under-resourced schools, families served by charities — the fund brings the same performers, in the same costumes, with the same commitment to the illusion, to audiences who could never afford to hire them.
The fund was born in the darkest period for the business, when in-person parties were illegal and revenue had collapsed.
Launching a charitable giving program at the exact moment the company itself needed help was either reckless or visionary, and the company’s survival suggests it was the latter. The Pixie Dust Fund was later revived as bookings returned, and it now operates as a permanent part of the business model.
A children’s entertainment company that donates children’s entertainment is giving away the thing it does best, to the children who need it most.
Ticketed Events: Storybook Stroll, Boo Bash, and the Winter Ball
Alongside private parties, The Glass Slipper Company produces its own ticketed public events, sold through Ticketscene.
The Storybook Stroll is the flagship: an annual event at Whistling Gardens featuring more than fourteen characters in a single day. It has been running since about 2020, making it one of the company’s longest-running traditions, and it draws families from across the region for a day of meet-and-greets, photos, and performances.
The Boo Bash Halloween Fundraiser takes over a lavender farm in Ayr on October 24, 2026, combining trick-or-treating atmosphere with the company’s costumed cast.
The Bibbidi Bobbidi Winter Ball, scheduled for January 2027 in Burford, promises a formal fairy-tale evening — the kind of event where children dress up and the company’s princesses lead the festivities.
The company also holds residencies and appearances at venues across the region: Brantwood Farms in Paris, Lime Ridge Mall and Stone Road Mall for Halloween events, and Harmony Square in Brantford, where the company presents “Scare in the Square,” sponsored by ServiceMaster.
The mall and farm appearances put the characters in front of thousands of families, and the Santa Claus parade appearances through the holiday season keep the company visible all winter.
Ready to Bring A Little Bit of Magic to Your Child’s Party?
The Glass Slipper Company has spent eight years proving a simple thesis: children can tell the difference between a costume and a character. A costume stands in the corner for photos. A character plays games, tells stories, remembers the birthday child’s name, and holds a room full of six-year-olds spellbound for forty-five minutes.
The company’s growth suggests parents can tell the difference too.
For families in Paris, Brantford, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Ancaster, Norfolk, and the communities between them, the options are straightforward. Book a private party through the company’s website or sample the magic first at a public event — the Storybook Stroll, the Boo Bash Halloween Fundraiser, or the Bibbidi Bobbidi Winter Ball, with tickets available through Ticketscene.
Either way, the Fairy Godmother and her court will be ready, and for forty-five minutes, the magic will be real. Get your tickets today here.
