5th Annual Moms Night Out Recap

Disclosure :: Our 5th Annual Moms Night Out was sponsored by: Children’s Hospital, Touro Infirmary, Engel and Voelkers, Sazerac and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The title sponsors answered all of our emails and calls quickly and with grace. It’s always a pleasure to plan events alongside professional and gracious hosts. 

Title Sponsors

For FIVE years running, we have worked with both Touro and Children’s Hospital to produce this anticipated New Orleans event, and it has been our absolute pleasure. Our team has had extensive personal experiences at both hospitals (everything from delivering our bundles of joy to broken legs and surgery), and we are delighted that our readers often share similar positive experiences with our title sponsors. This year, we were thrilled add another title sponsor: the amazing team at Engel and Volkers who will meet your every real estate need. Most families will change homes at some point and we cannot recommend the team at Engel and Volkers enough. Even our executive team has used their services. Let them take care of you, and you will not be disappointed!

Our events simply would not be possible without the sponsorship of the aforementioned local businesses. Hitting the CBD in your jammies would not have happened without them. I speak for our entire team and the 500 beautiful moms in attendance when I say “THANK YOU!”

Mom’s Night Out Recap

Our event on Saturday, August 19 was a BLAST to say the least! Imagine 500+ women, mostly moms, decked out in their finest athleisure wear, which ranged from yoga pants, bath robes, pajamas and everything in between dancing the night away.

We want to thank all of you for spending your Saturday night with us and totally getting into the theme of the evening; we were blown away by the creativity in your wardrobes. It is humbling to see how many of you came ready to party with us, and we were all truly excited to meet those of you who read our content. To be able to party with our virtual New Orleans friends is part of why we do what we do, and it is what makes us a true local parenting website for New Orleans. We strive to provide you with the highest quality events possible and continue to be humbled by your response to our efforts. We know it was hot, but we so appreciate your grace and understanding. We had a great time socializing and dancing with you and we hope you enjoyed your night off from mom-duty!  Thank you for coming and for getting into the spirit!

Table Sponsors

Building community goes beyond getting to know your neighbors. It’s also about shopping local and getting to know your locally owned and operated businesses. Our events provide a convenient setting for consumers and businesses to interact and learn about each other. We cannot say enough about the local business owners who gracefully went with the flow of the layout change due to lightening and warmly greeted all of our guests to share their products and services with you all. We thank each and every one of them for not only showing up but for being engaging and noticeably thrilled to meet our guests. It was a wonderful evening.

VIP Ticket Sponsors

We want to give a huge shout out to our VIP Sponsors for pampering our moms!

Food and Beverage Sponsors

We hope you all came hungry! Our food and beverage section provided something for everyone. Whether you were looking for something sweet or salty, spicy or fresh, you were guaranteed to satisfy your craving. We hope you enjoyed tasting some of the very best culinary options from NOLA’s finest restaurants.

Graphic Design

We have been honored to partner with KISSYFISH for the past several years and love everything she has created for us. Kissyfish provided the artwork for the event, including the programs and always has a beautiful finished product.

Big thanks to the Cookie Cake Factory as our program sponsor, to Let’s Party Nola for the custom name tags, themed party cups and signage, and to The Whitney Bank for the lanyards.

Swag Sponsors

We’d like to thank ALL these generous sponsors for providing incredible swag!

Photographers

We’d love to send a special Thank You to the amazing photographers who captured this event in such detail. If you were at the event, have fun spotting yourself and your friends in the albums. If you missed the event and are wondering what all the buzz is about, LOOK!

Photographs via the lens of Britt Smith Photography

Photographs via the lens of Twirl Photography

Photographs via the lens of Tiffany McEntee Photography

Photographs via the lens of Julep Studio

Photographs from Second Line Selfie

Photographs of the pre-party via the lens of Sweet Honeybee

Photographs via HD Photobooth

Giveaways

We were thrilled to send New Orleans Women and Children’s Shelter, the largest organization serving homeless women and children in New Orleans, away with a U-Haul truck full of goods. They are dedicated to creating a safe, secure and stable environment where classes, tools and resources build the pathway to success. Their programs keep families together and empower self-sufficiency – every step of the journey. For each item our guests donated to NOWCS, they received a raffle ticket to enter an amazing giveaway from the following sponsors.

Pre-Party Sponsors

We have to start with a standing ovation and a HUGE thank you to Head Games Hair Salon (conveniently located on Veterans Boulevard, near Lafreniere Park) for the amazing hairstyles for our team. They were timely, professional, friendly, quick, and super talented, which is all you want and need in a New Orleans hair salon. Some of us have already been back for regular hair cuts and color and can’t say enough nice things!

We nibbled on a variety of delicious food from Martin Wine Cellar, Chicken Salad Chick and Mel’s Baked Goods all of whom we cannot recommend enough. Thanks to all of you for providing the delicious food for our team as we prepped for our biggest mom’s night out to date! Effervescence Bubble and Bites was there serving up bubbles with freshly squeezed fruit juices and snacks. Ladies, plan your next girl’s night here, you can thank  us later. Major thanks to the ladies of Buff Beauty Bar for attending to the details and making sure our manicures were on point. Last but not least, thank you to Sweet Honeybee for capturing all the fun!

Party Rentals Sponsor

With dozens of party rental companies out there, and our team has extensive experience with several, we can say with complete confidence that Party Rentals Delivered is a unique New Orleans rental company with amazing customer service, perfect attention to detail and the ability to manage 50+ vendors in a location with limited power access and proximity to artwork restrictions.

Party Rentals Delivered did all of that with grace and impeccable timing. We have worked with them for all of our Moms Night Out events, and in the past 5 years, we have continually been blown away by their professionalism, follow-through and attention to detail. For five years running, they have created an event for us that served all of our sponsors’ needs AND went above and beyond ensuring compliance with an art gallery’s obvious obstacles in placing sponsors near artwork. Are you planning a party or event in New Orleans? Our friends at Party Rentals Delivered have earned our VERY highest recommendation, which is a gold star coming from our team of Type A party planners. We try not to miss a detail, and Party Rentals is the same way.