Parties and Fall Flowers

Last night was the Jackson Restaurant Week VIP Party at the Mississippi Museum of Art! It was a beautiful event and the Art Museum is one of the most gorgeous event venues I’ve ever been to! The party kicks off a week of eating out for charity! See, every time you eat a a participating Jackson Restaurant Week restaurant from 9/30 until 10/6, you get to cast a vote for your favorite of the six charities in the running for a $10,000 check! It’s a really fun week to get familiar with Jackson’s culinary scene, all while supporting six very worthy charities!

As the head party planner for this particular event, my hands were in almost every aspect of it, from restaurant coordination to table decoration! The part of the party prep that I had the most fun with was the flower part!

I got several bunches of stems at Kroger’s flower shoppe and created 14 different small groupings for centerpieces on the smaller tables. I am so in love with how beautiful these flowers are that I must’ve taken 100 pictures of them! Sadly, the party was so chaotic that I forgot to take pictures of the flowers actually on the tables! I did get a few pictures of some of the individual arrangements, as well as most of the arrangements all boxed up and ready to go to the museum!

After the party, the girls from Ole Tavern on George Street took home a few of the flowers to brighten up the bar at their restaurant, and a few also went home with another party-planning friend. The rest came home with me! 🙂 I stuck a few of the tulips in one of my favorite little mercury glass holders and stuck them on a side table in the den.

Although I won’t be planning the next Jackson Restaurant Week VIP Party, I fully plan to attend it and I think you should too! Those parties are always a blast, and a GREAT way to sample some of the fantastic food that will be served up during Jackson Restaurant Week. Here’s to lovely local food!