Dinner Parties
MAY/JUNE 2008
Writer and mom Leslie F. Miller takes her daughter to the Hannah Montana concert and learns a little something about earplugs, bathroom breaks and surviving a ’tween concert.
MAY/JUNE 2008
A dinner party for 40 celebrates the ‘Poet of Scotland.’
DECEMBER 2007
Chuck and Mary Kay Nabit's holiday party does double-duty as a surprise birthday celebration.
DECEMBER 2007
From over-the-top theme parties for hundreds to small office lunches, Style gets the skinny on corporate holiday celebrations around Baltimore.
NOVEMBER 2007
At an annual celebration, the living— and the departed— are invited to drink, eat and celebrate.
MAY/JUNE 2007
During Mardi Gras week, Jake Boone's friends throw him a surprise birthday bash.
MAY/JUNE 2007
A Mother's Day celebration for breast cancer awareness.
MARCH/APRIL 2007
Baltimore’s infamous Playboy Club may have closed its doors in 1977, but for an evening last December, Dan Proctor, principal of Kirk Designs, re-created the “Playboy Mansion” of the swingin’ ’60s in an elegant Mount Vernon townhouse.
MARCH/APRIL 2007
The new Ritz-Carlton throws a water-themed bash to celebrate the topping-out of its construction downtown.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2007
Mid-century moderns
DECEMBER 2006
A Monkton couple re-creates a Scottish tradition.
NOVEMBER 2006
This festive fete is a Tuesday-before-Thanksgiving tradition.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006
A surprise casino-themed birthday bash pays off big.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006
A 1920s-themed party celebrates a Monkton steeplechase tradition.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006
The actual football game is only part of the fun. These hardcore tailgaters know that what happens on the parking lot is as important as what happens on the field.
JULY/AUGUST 2006
For one evening only, a group of Baltimore chefs prove that five cooks in the kitchen isn't too many.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006
When two sisters decide to get married three months apart, their parents embark on a planning process that is 'wonderful and scary and funny all at once.'
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006
DECEMBER 2005
Each year on Dec. 23, Zelig and Linda Robinson celebrate their anniversary by inviting friends and colleagues into their art-filled Guilford home.
DECEMBER 2005
Curt Decker’s magnificent Mount Vernon home is a dazzling backdrop for his annual holiday fete.
DECEMBER 2005
Every year the Guilford Women’s Civic League hosts a neighborhood holiday party to benefit beloved Sherwood Gardens.
NOVEMBER 2005
Bob Jones drums up a birthday surprise for his siblings Marlene and Melvin.
NOVEMBER 2005
A Canton loft becomes a 1930s New York nightclub— complete with crooners.
NOVEMBER 2005
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005
At the annual Legacy Chase at Shawan Downs, some tailgaters are as competitive as the horses on the course.
JULY/AUGUST 2005
Hostess Barbara Peters doesn’t flip-flop on the issue: throwing a beach ‘blowout’ is one of her favorite things to do.
JULY/AUGUST 2005
A lushly planted courtyard provides a charming backdrop for a birthday bash.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005
An intimate sit-down supper at a fancy restaurant is no longer de rigueur— not when you can invite 100 of your family and friends to a barbecue, clambake, wine-tasting... or teach them to dance.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005
An early autumn wedding on the Eastern Shore hosts an uninvited guest named Ivan. Hurricane Ivan.
NOVEMBER 2004
It was dinner by committee when the guests at Barry and Maria Fleischmann’s seasonal supper helped with the shopping and took turns in the kitchen.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2004
An annual all-male dinner party features fine wine, rich food and a few secrets they’ll never tell.
JULY/AUGUST 2004
Chef Riche Griffin throws a casual dinner party, Rehoboth Beach-style.
JULY/AUGUST 2004
Who needs a drive-in when you have a driveway?
JULY/AUGUST 2004
At Baltimore restaurateurs Tom Looney and Ed Scherer's beach house, it's always party time.
MAY/JUNE 2004
Jake Boone's flower-filled Bolton Hill home and garden was the perfect place for partygoers to welcome the season.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2004
Mary Kay Groeninger & Chuck Nabit, May 10, 2003, in Baltimore
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2004
Stefanie Paterakis & David Foote, October 4, 2003, in Baltimore
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2003
A heavy snowfall doesn’t prevent Catherine Hoffberger and mother-in-law Hilde Eliasberg from co-hosting ‘A Toast with Friends from Town and from Country.’
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2003
Throwing a party is the best way to package entertaining with a holiday chore— as well as making a dent in 60 rolls of wrapping paper.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2003
Dan Proctor and Jeffrey Hess took advantage of the holidays to toast friends and to bid farewell to their old house.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2003
Steven Charles throws his ‘bride of Frankenstein’ Nancy Longo a killer 40th-birthday bash.
JULY/AUGUST 2003
Events designer Andrea Stieff throws a carnival-themed birthday bash under the big top.
JULY/AUGUST 2003
Amy and Chuck Newhall (and their dog Stanley) throw a party that celebrates all things pug.
JULY/AUGUST 2003
Chef Jerry Edwards entertains guests at home with a Mediterranean dinner party.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002
It was a family affair when Lyly Hoang and Michael Kuo merged their lives with ceremonies that incorporated Vietnamese and American traditions.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002
Quiet elegance and thoughtful tributes ruled the day when Eleanor Shriver married Jack Magee in Greenspring Valley.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002
Tropical storm be damned, chef Nancy Logo stayed the course with a casual garden wedding overflowing with champagne and gourmet Chesapeake fare.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002
Creativity reigns when a bridal shower has the right theme.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2001
When it comes to special events, P.W. Feats and Fandango are more than happy to make a spectacle of themselves.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2001
When New York writer Heather Chaplin returned home to marry, she listened to her heart, and her mother.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999
Anything can happen - and does - when Christopher Hartlove and Abigail Lattes tie the knot, unrehearsed, in a sculptor's barn.
JULY/AUGUST 1995
JULY/AUGUST 1995
This men-only supper club cooked up an epicurean evening of camaraderie.
JULY/AUGUST 1995
It was a scene from a bygone era when Colwill and company hosted cocktails at Ladew.
JULY/AUGUST 1995
A trio of veteran Hunt Cup hosts showcased fine al fresco form at the spring steeplechase.
JULY/AUGUST 1995
A little ingenuity goes a long way in creating parties that exceed a child’s wildest imagination. But don’t take our word for it; take it from the local families who offered these 10 irresistible ideas.
