Titanic Ball Recap

Well, I should start out with a great big apology for taking so long to get this up! I should have had it up Monday morning after the ball since everyone was already posting their pictures on Facebook by then (or sooner). So, some or most of you may have seen a lot of these photos already, but if you're like me you don't mind seeing them twice. :-)

The ball was a great success! Park Place was a simply elegant place to dance, especially for those of us who are used to dancing in gyms. :-) Mr. Senior did an excellent job calling and kept us all in remarkable order... watching the one video Dad got of the evening, we all look like we really know what we are doing. :-)

 

I'm expecting to get some more video from one of our attendees who had the presence of mind to actually film some of the dancing, more than we did. Hopefully I can get that up for viewing in the near future.

Starting off the evening with taking pictures... here we have the expert model Tara being photographed by the expert photographer Laura. Though I'm afraid the expert model is looking less than expert at this particular moment...

Some of the lovely young ladies... unfortunately not all of the guests had arrived or we would have had a few more to add! Aren't the gowns marvelous?! I love 1912...

(Photo by Emil, edited by Laura)

We were extremely impressed with everyone's outfits! We really didn't expect everyone to get so in period as much as they could! Some of the ladies were very creative with their gowns in combining different elements to achieve a 1912 impression. And we were pleasantly surprised at the number of tuxes! (Hurray for tuxes!)

Visiting with arriving guests

(Photo credit: Laura)

Starting the first dance! See, even from the start we look incredibly knowledgeable and organized. ;-)

(Photo credit: Laura)

(Photo credit: Laura)

Here's our wonderful caller, Mr. Senior! It's obvious he enjoys his job. :-) We got so many positive comments about his calling - several people said he's one of the best callers they've ever danced under!

(photo credit: Laura)

(Photo credit: Beth)

Lots of well-dressed gents!

(Photo credit: Mr. Riggenbach)

So... this is my favorite picture of the night. :-) Our youngest ball attendee and by far the most attractive.

(Photo credit: Laura)

This is called "organized confusion"

(Photo credit: Laura)

Lily's incredible dress in action :-)

Mr. Senior with the gentlemen of the Linhart party. Thanks so much, Mrs. L for rounding up so many guys to even out the ratio! :-)

Chandeliers are a wonderful thing!

(Photo credit: Laura)

(Photo credit: Beth)

Britta enjoying herself :-)

(Photo credit: Laura)

Guys have to have fun with this dance, otherwise it's just... awkward. :-)

(Photo credit: Beth)

(Photo credit: Laura)

(Photo credit: Beth)

(Photo credit: Laura)

(Photo credit: Laura)

(Photo credit: Beth)

(Photo credit: Laura)

It was so much fun (for us anyway) to have such a long dance. With most dances we go to it never seems like there is enough time to dance... and though I think some of us could have kept going, we were sufficiently sore to be content to call it a night. :-) Thanks to everyone for staying so late!

Your hostesses thank all of you for coming :-)

Thanks Jessica for taking the picture!

We certainly don't have room for everyone's photos so if you want to see more and relive the evening yet again :-), see the links below for full albums:

Wendy's slideshow

Laura's Facebook album - A HUGE thank you to Laura for all the times that she missed out on the actual dancing so that she could get so many fantastic photos (you're amazing!! We should be paying you big $$). If you haven't seen it already her album has 200 pictures!

Beth's album

We hope you all enjoyed your time at the ball... some have asked us if it will happen again next year. At this point we really can't say... it was so much fun we'd love to, but if we do, I'm not sure it would be quite on this scale. :-) We'll see.....