Diner en Blanc

Just a fantastique evening. Obviously extremely well organised and managed to be part of an exciting unique world event where friends have stylish fun together. Other friends, family and work colleagues were reticent about being involved in the first event… but now that the first event has taken place… they’re green with ‘white’ envy!
Our group had planning meetings to coordinate table, food and decorations with outstanding success… despite being with so many people on the night, it still felt like an intimate dinner party at home.
The event was just gorgeous and chic!

Being the first of this event to happen in Adelaide, there was a LOT of hype surrounding le Diner en Blanc — Adelaide 2013. There were a lot of people (me included), who had never heard of this event prior to its announcement for Adelaide. But it soon created a LOT of hype :)
People were buying up/​hiring all of the white clothing, shoes, hats, table cloths, chairs, napkins and table center decorations that there were to be had in Adelaide.
My guest and I, put weeks of planning into this event. We planned out the menu, the table decorations, what we were going to wear :) a lot of the fun in this event for us was in the planning :)
The idea of the event is that it is an elegant picnic in white, in a secret, public location. You meet at a particular spot around the city, register with your table leader, get on a bus, and then are driven to the secret location. It is only after you get on the bus, that you are told where the location is.
It is a requirement that you dress in elegant white :) All white, clothes, shoes, hats, everything white :) It is also a requirement that you take with you a card table (or table of similar size), with white table cloth and napkins (linen) and two white chairs (or chairs with white chair covers) and an elegant picnic dinner :)
When we purchased our tickets, we selected the Adelaide city location — as we had discovered the event through Unilocal!:) However, two days before we got an email to say our pick up location had moved, to the corner of Frome Rd and Victoria Drive. Now, we had been talking about possible locations for this event to be held in Adelaide, and this change in location confirmed my suspicions about the secret location, and as it turns out, I was right :) it was the Zoo! :)
The only thing that I think could have been organised a little better was the actual arrival of people into the event. Things got a little confused with who was going where — and there was a bit of a bottle neck with people setting up. But this really was a minimal issue, and I am sure it will be ironed out if the event is to return :)
The band, who were the entertainment for the evening were FANTASTIC! And the FunSnapMe team who were present, printing peoples instagram photos tagged with #debadl was brilliant :)
All in all I think the evening was a great success :) and I REALLY hope that the event will be back next year :)
From my experience with various events in Adelaide, I know how much work must have gone into the event. As a result I wish to say a HUGE congratulations to all those involved in organising this event :) It was wonderful :)

Totally lived up to my expectations. Awesome night!
The Zoo was a brilliant location and the lighting in the trees was beautiful. The birds were joining in in a magnificently loud fashion at the beginning, which was fun and added to the atmosphere.
Congratulations to the organisers. It was potentially an orgsniser’s nightmare and not an event for the faint-​hearted. It seemed to go without a hitch and the table leaders were well briefed and well prepared (thanks Ingrid!).
Our group of 4 put in a lot of effort with food preparation, centerpiece, outfits etc and it was worth every bit of effort. It was wonderful to see that every person there had also put in that kind if effort, which made it even more special.
Great atmosphere, fabulous location, terrific crowd, well organised, fun, different. Loved it! I hope there’s another one next year!