Kogarah Mayoral Ball - Venetian style!

It was an elegant affair with Venetian masks and glamorous dresses. And I was privileged and thrilled to be invited by Vicky, from VMware, who was the co-chair of the city of Kogarah's Mayoral Ball to join her table at the Venetian themed black tie event.

The city of Kogarah (pronounced kuh-ger-ah, not cougar-ah as I had unintentionally been mis-pronouncing it most of the night until corrected) is located southwest of the Sydney Airport but the ball was held in the city at the Four Seasons Hotel on Saturday, June 19.

Not having been to a Mayoral Ball before, I sought Vicky's advice on my attire and learned to my surprise that she also runs her a company that rents out designer dresses called Frock Therapy. After trying on a few dresses we decided that the Alex Perry one-shoulder short black dress looked and fit the best. Alex Perry is known as Australia's most glamorous designer and Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Eva Longoria and Natalie Portman have all been "Perry Girls". If you check out his Website and click on the Summer 2009 Ready-to-wear season you'll see I wore the Romy - Black One Shouldered Puff-sleeve Mini.

The evening kicked off with champagne at Matt's place where Emma and I posed for a few photos and took a few Flip Videos.



Then off we were to the ball! At the end of this Flip Video you'll see that after Emma and I went up onto the dance floor everyone else joined us in a "New York, New York" can-can. We proved ourselves to be quite the party girls :)



Thank you Emma for these photos! I hope you told Pat (out with his "man cold") how much fun we had kicking up a storm on the dance floor!














After the ball concluded the evening continued at The Ivy where we enjoyed the rest of the evening at the Pool Bar.