British-Croatian Society Annual Dinner

[BritishCroatian Society]

British-Croatian Society Annual Dinner, Friday 26 November 2004

In November 2003 the Society held its first annual dinner; it was a great success with around 110 guests attending!

This year’s dinner will be held in the spectacular Grand Hall of the Battersea Arts Centre on Friday 26 November at 18:30 in the presence of the Croatian Ambassador, HE Mr Joško Paro and Mrs Paro and Patrons of the Society. The speaker will be The Rt. Hon The Lord Taylor of Blackburn.

This promises to be a bigger, grander and altogether more spectacular event attracting between 200-250 guests.



The evening will include:

• A feast of Croatian gastronomy and wine. The menu will include truffles from Istria and other Croatian delicacies and will be prepared by award-winning chefs from the Dubrovnik region.
  
• Wine provided by leading Croatian producers.
• A fashion show of the latest Croatian collections, which will be presented by Miss Tourism and Miss Croatia.
• An auction of a work by Zvonimir Mihanovic (in the presence of the artist).
• A raffle including a free holiday in Croatia among the prizes.
• The ‘legendary’ Crveni Koralji, from Zagreb, will provide post-dinner music.

The cost is £45 per person, which includes the price of food, wine tasting and entertainment. Dress is lounge suit.

To reserve your ticket(s), please contact any of the following BCS

Committee Members:

You can obtain a booking registration form from [e-mail].

The cut-off date for the sale of tickets is 18 November.

British Croatian Society: www.britishcroatian.net/

[Toncica]

WhAT DOES THAT MEAN EXACTLY: "Dress is lounge suit."

[Suzika]

Toncica

Dress code is usually stated on invitations in this country to help those attending decide what to wear giving them an indication on how formal the occasion is going to be. So that people are not ‘over’ or ‘under’ dressed.

'Lounge suit' is a man's ordinary suit for day wear in offices as opposed to the 'morning suit' which is a man's coat with long skirt divided at back into tails and cut away in front, and striped trousers (often worn for weddings in this country). For ladies 'lounge suit' usually means a knee long dress or skirt and blouse/top as opposed to the floor length full dress.

Sometimes it can also say ‘no decorations’ which means no military or other medals. Sometimes at the end it can say ‘carriages at 11.30 pm’ which indicates the time they intend to finish; etc, etc….

In other words 'lounge suit' dress code is less formal than the 'morning dress' code but still very smart.

Hope this helps.

[Toncica]

Suzana, you are absolutely the GREATEST! Thanks!