60s garden party

With summer coming, there are lots of outdoor picnics and barbeques to plan for. I started looking through my magazines for inspiration and found this fun party from a vintage House and Garden. It's loaded with bright orange dots on everything- paper plates, napkins and even those fabulous cardboard chairs! I'd like to take the…

Truman Capote's Black and White Ball I absolutely adore the photos from Truman Capote's infamous Black and White Ball of 1966. Capote decided to host a party to mark the launch of "In Cold Blood" and the party would be his "great, big, all-time spectacular present" to himself! It was THE party of the century and was held in New York's Plaza Hotel with only 540 elite guests invited. Capote chose only the most powerful Hollywood stars, musicians, artists, politicians and socialites to grace…

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When this bachelorette approached us with her idea for her Space Age Sendoff—a chic 60s mod themed party—we couldn't say no!

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60s pool

I’ve been to a lot of music festivals, but Wilderness Festival is undoubtedly the fanciest. Wilderness is a four-day boutique festival held in early August each year set in the rolling hills of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire, England. It also has a reputation for being extremely middle-class. Say goodbye to dodgy food and watered-down beer – at Wilderness, there are lavish Long Table Banquets rustled up by big-name foodies like Yotam Ottolenghi and Deliciously Ella; a champagne garden…