It's not clear if that would include the cost of bringing 400 fashionistas, high-rolling customers and fashion journalists from around the world to attend the show and dinner.
And perhaps the Northern Virginia couple felt that, given all the invitations they'd wrangled in the past, they had a right to attend the White House dinner with or without one.
Legend has it that back in the Roaring Twenties when 1, 200 people would attend nightly dinner dances into the wee hours of the night, then descend on the coffee shop for late breakfast, one asked executive chef Fred Schmidt to create something different.
The Brits are famously obsessed with their mortgages--before the credit crunch, it was impossible to attend a British dinner party without someone gloating about the staggering rise in the value of his or her home--but 2008 put a damper on such pretensions.
Before the day had ended, a Cypriot Government spokesman confirmed that President Clerides had accepted an invitation from Mr Denktash to attend a dinner at this residence the following evening in honour of Mr de Soto.
Relax in the splendid garden, savour dinner in the much-lauded restaurant, attend jazz sessions (in summer).
All along they saw the state dinner as something that was rightfully theirs to attend because, let's face it, the Salahis' acts don't suggest any less class or integrity than the sort of antics regularly engaged in by those who actually were on the guest list.
The lawmakers scheduled to attend Wednesday's dinner are Sens.
Philip had been expected to attend a dinner for Macmillan Cancer Support at the Harte and Garter Hotel in Windsor on Friday, but did not have any engagements scheduled for the weekend.
Washington (CNN) -- The media spotlight has focused on the brash couple who recently managed to attend a White House state dinner, but a U.S. Secret Service training document details 91 breaches of security between 1980 and 2003.
Charity patron Church is also due to attend, and perform at, a gala fundraising dinner at Sophia Gardens on the Saturday night after the walk finishes.
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