Houston’s fashionable convened for a three-day cultural escape because the Museum of Nice Arts, Houston hosted the 2025 Bayou Bend Weekend from March 28 to March 30. With its lush gardens and historic attraction, Bayou Bend Assortment and Gardens set the stage for a memorable weekend of style, household enjoyable, and twilight revelry.
The festivities launched Friday afternoon with the eighth Bayou Bend Vogue Present and Luncheon, chaired by Gillian Sarofim. Beneath a sweeping backyard tent wearing olive greens and coral-pink blooms by The Occasions Firm, 200 company feasted on a Metropolis Kitchen-catered menu.
The true deal with? Texas-born designer Lela Rose wowed the group with 37 radiant appears to be like, her Neiman Marcus-presented runway present incomes nods from oohing fashionistas and seasoned museum patrons alike.
Saturday’s scene shifted into full whimsy for the annual Kids’s Get together, the place greater than 250 company wandered into The Secret Backyard, a wonderland imagined by chairs Carrie Compton and Jill Wright. Actions like Mary’s Magic Bubbles, Face Paint Petals, and The Enchanted Workshop turned the day into a colourful dreamscape for little ones and their grown-up companions.
Sunday night’s record-breaking Bayou Bend Backyard Get together was partly due to Lugano’s assist as principal underwriter, ushering 325 company to mingle at twilight below a tent blooming in lavender and spring inexperienced hues. Cocktail hour was additional nostalgic as company sipped Fish Home Punch, a concoction expensive to Ima Hogg herself, its 293-year-old recipe charmingly printed on customized napkins. Jazz Revisited set a mellow groove earlier than Manhattan amped up the evening for dancing below the celebs.
Due to beneficiant assist, the weekend soared previous expectations, elevating greater than $1,275,000 for Bayou Bend’s working finances.
Amongst these noticed within the stylish backyard crowd—and it’s fairly a listing—had been Irma Castor, Ashlee Schneider, Ann Bookout, Lilly and Thurmon Andress, Kathy Leigh, Kari Dagley, Tiffany McCauley, Susanne and Invoice Pritchard, Clayton Erikson, Polly and Murry Bowden, Denise Monteleone, Meredith and Mason Barker, Alanna Flores, Morgan Allen Neal, Kendall Allen Strait, Logan Dresser, Lisa Dodd, Lilly Cullen, Anne Chao, Carolyn Sabat, Rose Cullen, Anne Duncan, Shelli and Steve Lindley, Nancy and Butch Abendshein, Frances Lummis, Eleanor Lummis, Tye Leon, Betsy Goodman, Lauren Grey, Lauren Reckling, Randa McConn, Christiana Reckling, Barbara Gamson, Sima Ladjevardian, Cherie Lindley, Whitney and Jim Crane, Phoebe Tudor, Liz McIngvale-Mackey, Moti Ferder, Josh Gaynor, Stuart Winston, Leslie Duncan, Nancy and Wealthy Kinder, Will Mathis, Cherie and Jim Flores, Lynne and Joe Hudson, Franci Neely, Karl and Ann Stern, Lisa and Downing Mears, Kate and Steve Gibson, Diane and David Modesett, Kelly and Invoice Montgomery, Laura and Keefer Lehner, Janie and Daniel Zilkha, Cynthia and Tony Petrello, Sara Dodd-Denton and Will Denton, Isabel and Ransom Lummis, and Aliyya and Herman Stude.
