Box lunches will be available at the Barns at noon, and a catered evening gala is set from 6 to 9 o'clock.

Prices range from $25 for the lecture and flower show to $40 for lecture, lunch and flower show or the evening gala.

As sheer fabrics float into evening galas, they are also whipped into shape by those who spend their evenings at the gym.

The first was an early evening $1,000-per-plate gala at the Beverly Hilton.

He famously quipped to the Washington Post that he "stole a spoon" during the evening gala.

She would cut the ribbon in the afternoon and attend the evening gala in Glasgow.

Pieret later high-tailed it to Cairo, where he organized evening galas for British and American colonials so he could pick their pockets.

In another section on the same day was a spread on conspicuous consumption: $40,000 flower arrangements and $250 per person for an evening gala.

On the evening of April 20, a national evening gala was hosted on China Central Television.

Some women at evening galas go barefoot after dinner, carrying their gold evening slippers.