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This is not your ordinary hat luncheon...quite the contrary! You just won't believe what these ladies will put on their heads from elegant hats to the most outrageous you'll ever see and all to raise thousands of dollars in funds and donation items for an amazing local charity!
Each year, female members of The Social Register of Las Vegas and their
invited female guests go all out for the Annual Ladies Luncheon &
Fancy Hat Extravaganza event! With no holds barred, they can get as
outrageous as they want with their hat creations and believe me, they
do! You laugh from the time you arrive until the time you leave and
this certainly breaks the ice for introductions!!!
This event includes a hat contest with categories such as: Most Original;
Most Ornate; Best Theme; Most Creative; Most Elegant; Most Humorous;
Most Authentic; Most Outrageous; Most Silly; and Most Imaginative
and now some ladies are even wearing clothes to match their theme
hats! Last year one of the contest winners had an enormous taco on her
hat and it played the Mexican Hat Dance. Another hat featured an entire
picnic, including the black and red ants of course! And can you
imagine some ladies saying they don't look good in hats? You wont find
any of them at this event! This is definitely an event where you can let
your creative juices just run wild!
Each year, this event features a charitable benefit for The Center for Independent Living, a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization, that opened in July of 1994 as a charitable residential and day treatment facility. The majority of
the children living at The Center are teenagers who come from homes where they have been beaten and denigrated,
physically and mentally abused, raped and tortured. These young people usually have nowhere to go, no
one to turn to. The Center works tirelessly to try to make a difference in the lives of these young people, person
by person, day by day. It is not an easy task, making a difference in the life of a young person who has been
hardened by experiences no one should ever know. Not easy to do, but impossible to ignore.
Needless to say, The Social Registers annual luncheon has garnered quite a lot of attention over the past five
years. Comedian Rita Rudner, Entertainer Connie Stevens, and Nevada's First Lady, Dema Guinn, have all participated
in prior luncheons, and this outrageous event has even been filmed by the Discovery channel and
aired as part of the National cable channels Casino Diaries segments. These pictures can give you a hint of
the creativity and fun, but to really understand why this annual event has become such a hit, you must experience
it for yourself!
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