Caterer Harbour and Jones Events invited 200 venue, event agency and corporate client guests including St Paul’s Cathedral, RSA House, Prince Philip House, JM Finn and JWT, to the Greenwich’s Cutty Sark for its ‘All that Glitters Gotta Be Glam’ black tie party, 8 December.
The affair was to celebrate Harbour and Jones’ 1,000th event and coincided with co-founder Nathan Jones’ 40th Birthday.
Creative director Jules Heckman Hughes put the whole event together and was inspired by the glamour of Venetian balls using beading, ostrich feathers and glittered birds to adorn the tables, while using lighting effects to colour wash the venue in opulent hues of red and gold.
This is the first time that an event caterer has hosted both a reception and dinner for 200 guests on the ship.
Entertainment during dinner came from RADA graduates, who sang a mix of show tunes and operatic songs. Post dinner a fabulous ‘Supremes’ band opened with ‘Nathan Jones’ the song after which Jones was named. The soul sisters got the crowd shimmying and shaking to a raft of popular Motown hits. As a finale, famous DJ Slipmatt upped the tempo a few notches with house classics to round the evening off in true Jones party style.