Seasonal blaze in Vieux Carre restaurants set the date for a brace of back-to-back babe parties. Both alleged for "black tie" as the dress cipher and mode. On a Friday evening, accompany and ancestors of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Reginald Hoefer Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Carter Sherrill aggregate at Arnaud's Restaurant for a affair in account of their corresponding daughters, Elizabeth Grace Hoefer and Katherine Simmons Sherrill. For the Saturday socializing, Antoine's was the breadth and Mr. James Parkhurst Favrot, Mr. and Mrs. Lynes Robinson Sloss and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ellender Stall, the hosts. Their leash of honorees were Celeste Freret Favrot, Nina O'Brien Sloss and Lindsay Lane Stall.
The Hoefer-Sherrill invitation, backwoods blooming in color, appear dancing as one of the party's highlights. Additional ones for the baby banquet ball were the actual breadth -- "The French Quarter at Christmas is consistently festive, " said both families; the decorations, which included Arnaud's Christmas garlands of gold magnolia leaves with baby white lights in the capital room, breadth cut-glass windows casting reflections of the revelry; the white flowers (such as quince, amaryllises, hydrangeas and roses) done by Meade Wenzel, as able-bodied as the beam garlands in the Jazz Room; and music by the Johnny Parker Leash and the bandage Eturnity. The restaurant's comestible offerings were abounding with arrange of seafood, raw oysters and desserts amid the appetizing treats.
More adorableness came from the four ladies, the two mothers and their daughters. Kitty Sherrill chose an emerald blooming design, while babe Katherine sported a dress of abysmal dejected with sparkles at the neckline. Amethyst was the blush sported by Libby Hoefer in her dress and white with swirls of gold outfitted babe Grace.
Because the hosting families are close, their bedfellow lists overlapped. Special associates included deb brothers Bruce Reginald Hoefer III and Stephen Carter Sherrill Jr. and William Duncan Sherrill, forth with Katherine's grandfather, Brooke Helm Duncan (attending with Nancy Jean Miller), and Grace's grandmother, Mathilde (Mrs. Bruce Reginald) Hoefer.
Milling about, and praising the merriment, were Mr. and Mrs. Brooke Duncan III, the Foster and Kelly Duncans, Mr. and Mrs. William Francis Grace III, the Marshall Ballards, Mathilde Conway Farrell Hoefer with Joseph Leary, the Karl E. Hoefers, Westervelt and Cecile Ballard ("Westy" and "Cissy"), Anne and Bill Grace, Robert Downman Grace, Mr. and Mrs. Charles LeBourgeois, the inferior Westervelt Ballards, and Kate and John Werner.
Noted, too, were Ransdell and William Prieur, Anne (Mrs. George R.) Montgomery, Ron and Sally Forman, Jonathan and Jane McCall, Steve and Melanee Usdin, the aloft Slosses, Terry and Kathleen White, Lynne and Hunter White, King and Anne Milling, Jimmy and Pixie Reiss, Chip and Elizabeth Goodyear, Vaughan and Mary Fitzpatrick, Henri Schindler, Christy and Kia Brown, Timothy Sean Reily, the Edward Johnsons, Dr. and Mrs. William Davis, Rivie and Cathy Cary, Jerry Boyce and babe Whitney, and Mr. and Mrs. Duggan Ellis. To name a blithe few.
Guests aboriginal congregated in the capital dining breadth and as the atramentous progressed confused about into the added rooms, exchanging news, adequate all the acceptable things to eat as able-bodied as the beauteous ambiance and, as the affair clip quickened, concluded up in the Jazz Room, breadth the music dictated some active night moves.
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Gallery: Favrot, Sloss, Stall Debs Party
The aggregate affair eye was wowed at every bend acknowledgment to Urban Earth's flowers (white peonies, red roses, cymbidium orchids, and accessory branches) and decorations, amber uplighting, and an Eiffel Tower ice carve in the Rex Room. More admiring glances angry to the two mothers and one grandmother and the leash of honorees. Liz Sloss and babe Nina were outfitted appropriately in a canteen blooming cottony dress by Kathleen Van Horn and a Debra Settinieri red applique dress; Celeste Favrot additionally chose a Van Horn architecture in red, a blush sported by her grandmother, Kay (Mrs. Mortimer "Tim") Favrot; and Susu Stall wore a Monique Lhuillier atramentous applique dress, while Lindsay angry out in a floral-embellished one by Dolce & Gabbana.
Parker, McKell and Caroline Favrot partied with deb sister Celeste (whose backward mother was Kelsey Favrot), as did grandparents Kay and Tim Favrot. Others were Sheila Kuebel, Kathleen (nee Favrot) and Charlie Van Horn, Caroline and John Trube, Alison and Randy Copeland, Barbara and Billy Alpaugh, Helen and Woody Morrison, Sandy and McNeil Kimmerly, Laura and Rob McNeal, Monique and Bob McCleskey, Maureen and Whit Huguley, Ann and Shaw Thompson, Margaret and Ken Beer, and Linda and Pierre Conner.
As they formed about, they enjoyed Crawfish Cardinale, Oysters Foch and added Antoine's favorites. At the cafe line, Oysters Rockefeller and trout amandine were amid the best offerings. Champagne -- pink! -- flowed. And back it was time for dessert, the Parisian-themed offerings by Zoe were candied marvels.
Noted too, were Sloss pals Christy and Kia Brown, Sally and Jay Lapeyre, Mimsy and Russell Lindner, Cabby Boone and Doug Gossman, Parker and Julie LeCorgne, the Hardy Fowlers, the Donald Bohns, Rookie Leopold and Ann Holden, the Michael Christo-viches, Monty and Julie Burlingame, Jimmy and
Marguerite Kock, Anne and Bill Grace, the Robert Monsteds, the Vaughan Fitzpatricks, and Tommy (also Dugan) and Linda Westfeldt.
Lindsay's siblings, Andrew Jr., Eugenie and Thomas Stall, fabricated their Antoine's rounds, as did deb granddad and stepmom Merritt and Nickie Lane, step-grandfather Jimmy Gundlach (spouse Susan was beneath the weather), and grandparents Susan and Albert Stall. So did Merritt and Elly Lane, David and Mary Lucy Lane, Lizzie and Brent Peus, Al and Nicole Stall, Diane and John Irvin, Kris Stall, Clay and Malise Kearney, Helen and Kim Butcher, Sean and Fifi Laughlin, Michael and Connie Winsberg, and John and Boo Kallenborn.
For the bristles deb luminaries, Grace, Katherine, Celeste, Nina and Lindsay, the French Quarter gave ability to their bashes, both eliciting acclaim and gratitude, and for the latter, a huge "merci."
