What a night it was! Donae turned 50 on Monday, and this past weekend we celebrated.
And celebrate we did!
It started with shopping and champagne at Dolce & Gabbana, followed by dinner and drinks at Toulouse across the way, at River Oaks District.
It didn’t just stop at dinner and drinks, though.
Authentic Italian dancers came out and danced halfway through the night, Hanh Tran did a live painting, and there was a cake to rival all cakes by Elizabeth Harvey Designs (see below). It was quite the soiree, and it was such a fun celebration.
The most important part was that Donae wanted to raise money for Know Autism, and she’s almost at her goal of $25,000 (link to donate below). Everyone was so generous and it was a truly special evening.
See below for tons of photos from this incredible night!
Rob, Donae, and Bella Chramosta
Fady Armanious & Bill Baldwin
Lenny Matusezewski and Sheree Freede
Sneha and Nick Merchant
Shannon Hall
Norman Freede, Tamara Klosz Bonar, Michael Bickham, Lenny Matusezewski
Kathryn and Colby Swain
Vic & Nancy Cangelosi, Donae and Bella
Brittany Zucker, Paul David Van Atta, Sherri Zucker, Gregg Harrison
Karen Henry, Donae, Diane Caplan
Kim Padgett and Cheryl Byington
Jen Crum and Jim Tompkins
Jenny Moore, Donae, and Roseann Rogers
Huw and Jennifer Pierce
Ben and Bethany Buchanan
Tammy Nguyen, Tracy Faulkner, Alice Mao Brams, Tammie Anne Johnson
Rocky & Elyse Stevens, Pat Cummings, Tommy Osborne
Katie Pipkin, Lisa Lacorte, Ericka Bagwell, Stephanie Perkins, Andrea, Romy Mitchell, Todd Ramos
Tammy & Wayne Nguyen, Deborah Duncan
Roz and Alan Pactor
Beth Muecke, Ursaline Hamilton
Click here to see the rest of the photos (pw : Italia)
Click here to see the photo booth photos.
You can donate to Know Autism here.
All photos by Daniel Ortiz