It's a surreal life I'm living here in London sometimes. Izzy's school had a black tie auction gala this past weekend.
Leading up to the event, some other Moms and I were talking about what we were wearing to the Gala. Most went to big name designer stores on Regent St to purchase their dress but the best part of the conversation was the subject of shoes. They all threw around names like Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin & Manolo Blahnik without a blink of the eye. Tony couldn't understand why this astounded me so much until we went to the Auction.
Here is a sample of the ridiculous amounts of money spent...
12 Needlepoint Nutcrackers -- £30,000, roughly $41,600
6 tickets to U2 concert -- £15,000
10 Penthouse tickets to Indy 500 -- £10,000
3 night private Greek cruise -- £32,000
Plate of Christmas Cookies delivered to your home -- £800
I'm wearing Vintage Ralph Lauren, circa 2001 and bling courtesy of Teri Schriver.
The venue was Guildhall. My picture doesn't do it justice... it looked like Harry Potter's wedding reception at Hogwarts.
The woman in red is Isabelle's teacher, Ms. Shaw.
Picture of the $40,000 Nutcrackers!!
Wow...so what did you guys buy?
ReplyDeleteI have to tell you, you look gorgeous in your vintage RL...his stuff never goes out of style:)
We miss you guys...we are starting to warm up to the new neighbors that is of course till the next holiday...
Soccer and flag football have started back up so we are busy busy...Boosterthon just started this week too:)
Love to you all
Christina & Isabella
How very glamorous you are! :) Was there a red carpet too?!?
ReplyDeleteHa! Ha! Well, I wanted to buy the 3 night greek cruise but I was already out when the starting bid was £5,000 !! I'm pretty sure they looked at everyone's income when deciding where to sit people because Tony and I were in the back where everyone was sitting on their paddles!
ReplyDeleteHey Julie You look amazing in the RL gown, AND Tony cleaned up pretty nicely in his tux, too!!! I miss u haope to see u real soon!!!
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