Thursday, November 4, 2010

Eat, Drink & be Merry*

Well, it's that time again...

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The Holidays are upon us!

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One of my many favorite things about this time of year is the holiday parties! Whether I'm hosting or attending, holiday parties are the best way to reunite with friends, exchange gifts, share stories, spread cheer... and so much more! There's no better way to get into the holiday spirit!

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Lucky for me, The Texas Wedding Guide invited me and a guest to the 2nd annual Holiday Hostess Soirée, hosted by Design Guide Publications! The party was held in the Dallas Design District at a really amazing place called The Kitchen Source. (It's basically a super upscale retailer and design group for high-end kitchens, bathrooms, closets, etc. If you can dream it, they can do it. They have model kitchens, closets and bathrooms throughout the venue, and they are absolutely jaw dropping. I'm talking incredible-- like, $6,000 stove-top-ranges and $1,800 heated-drawers-in-your-closet-that-warm-your-towels kind of incredible.) Maybe one day I can call up The Kitchen Source and have a custom kitchen designed for me... but definitely not in the next couple years, haha!

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The Holiday Hostess Soirée has a couple different purposes:

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The most obvious purpose is to give ideas and inspiration to attendees to prepare them for their fabulous holiday parties and help them become the ultimate hostess.

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The less obvious purpose is to collect proceeds to benefit the

Dale Clark Scholarship Fund.

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I invited my beautiful friend, Rebecca Mason, to attend with me...

and we had a BLAST.

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There were free beverages, snacks, desserts... and so much more. We attended three "classes" during the course of the evening; the first was a "mixology" class to teach us how to make the ultimate beverages for our guests, the second was a cooking class hosted by the chef of the Magnolia in Dallas, and the third was a party planning class hosted by Ed Barrett of Signature Productions.

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We had such a wonderful time :)



Desserts were provided by
(she did our wedding cakes!)














Happy Holidays :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sooo the mixologist...Sly I believe...she is awesome I have had a mixology class with her before! Looks like yall had a great time. <3