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Registration staff wear red silk tassel earrings.
Fans are offered to guests as they ascend the stairs at the longtime Daffodil Ball venue, Montreal's Windsor Station.
The 600 guests begin to ascend the stairs, which feature vivid red accents.
The entrance is decorated with red moon gates and foo dogs; Chinese musicians serenade guests.
The Oriental Pearl--an entertainer on stilts who sways above guests--entertains at the cocktail hour. The name harkens to the famed tower in Shanghai.
Hors d'oeuvre trays are decorated with orchids.
A guest greets the Oriental Pearl.
The bar features the name "Daffodil Ball" in Chinese characters.
Sponsor Giorgio Armani provides makeup touch-ups for guests.
A dramatic feature of the event: The “Great Wall of China”--a double-sided 40- by-12-foot wall dividing the cocktail from the dining-room, composed entirely of randomly-arranged Chinese parasols.
The parasols are red, black and white on the cocktail side, turquoise, purple and lime green on the dining-room side. Here, the view from the cocktail side.
A view showing both sides.
And here, the dining room side of the parasol Great Wall of China.
The change of color schemes makes a dramatic statement.
And the second ...
And the third ...
And the fourth.
Black dining chairs and dishes imported from China arrived only two weeks before the Ball.
Tasselled napkin rings from China in turquoise and gold are striking with the turquoise and purple napkins.
Gold-trimmed chopsticks, gilded votives, gold charger plates and custom-made turquoise table number cards are the final touches
Chinese wall panels in the dining room.
Teal fabric covering the lighting truss is not only decorative but helps muffle noise in the event space.
Long view of the dining area.
Another angle.
A Chinese drummer entertains guests.
Musician play the yangqin (dulcimer) and flute. This segment was deliberatly low-key to allow dinner conversation.
Note the backdrop of Chinese coin motifs.
The Phoenix Huayun troupe performs one of three different dances.
A second dance from the troupe.
The third dance from the Huayun troupe.
Veniamin's Human Slinky has its premiere in Canada.
This out-of-the-box, quirky and comical act from Romania has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman and at the Carnival of Rio.Montreal's top dance band takes the stage, wearing color-coordinated gowns.
The high-end five-course menu from Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth includes this dish of Yangtze lobster in a bok choy basket with lotus and water chestnuts.
The entree: Imperial lacquered breast of duck with Peking pancakes and a soy-sesame twist.
A team of 70 servers, 16 bussers, eight maître d’s, 24 sommeliers and six bar captains assures top-quality service.Staffer sell raffle tickets.
Al told, the Daffodil Ball net revenue was $1,260,000 U.S., bringing the total raised since the inaugural Ball in 1994 to $22.8 million.
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