The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
    10/14

    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
  • For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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    The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

    For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
For the 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program.
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The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Its 20th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball

Ariana Rockefeller in Elizabeth Kennedy
Ariana Rockefeller in Elizabeth Kennedy
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Alex Assouline
Alex Assouline
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Georgina Bloomberg
Georgina Bloomberg
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Peter Brant, Jr.
Peter Brant, Jr.
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Kelsey Asbille Chow in Bottega Veneta
Kelsey Asbille Chow in Bottega Veneta
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Timo Weiland and Vogue’s Grace Givens
Timo Weiland and Vogue’s Grace Givens
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Natalie Bloomingdale in Esme Vie and Vogue’s Lilah Ramzi in Tish Cox
Natalie Bloomingdale in Esme Vie and Vogue’s Lilah Ramzi in Tish Cox
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Sarah Chilton
Sarah Chilton
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Savannah Engel in Markarian
Savannah Engel in Markarian
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Sam Moorkamp and Molly Moorkamp
Sam Moorkamp and Molly Moorkamp
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Elizabeth Kurpis
Elizabeth Kurpis
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Inside the Holiday Train Show
Inside the Holiday Train Show
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The scene at dinner
The scene at dinner
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There are few galas worth an hour-and-a-half trek (for those downtown Manhattanites), but the New York Botanical Garden’s Winter Wonderland Ball is most certainly among them. For its 20th year in a row, the sprawling Bronx gardens hosted more than 500 guests in support of the institution’s children’s education program, which offers youth-centric workshops on plant sciences, nutrition, gardening, and more. And thanks to the many guests, bedecked in their black-tie best, more than $350,000 was raised.

Chairing the festive event were Alex Assouline, Peter Brant, Jr., Sarah Chilton, Martin Dawson, Anne Hathaway, Gillian Hearst, Hilary Rhoda, Georgina Bloomberg, Natalie Bloomingdale, and Ariana Rockefeller. The latter three donned holly red and garland green gowns and appeared ever the merrier.

In recent years past, the event took place on snow-blanketed evenings, but any snowflakes missing in the weather report were fully represented inside as guests were dropped off into a tent filled with a canopy of snowflake ornaments.

Attendees included Timo Weiland and Kelsey Asbille Chow, who radiated in a marigold Bottega Veneta gown (the Italian brand also happened to be a cohost of the night). All took in the sights inside the NYBG greenhouse, which featured its annual Holiday Train Show where mini locomotives chugged through lush greenery. Eventually, rustling ball gowns and trim tuxedos found their way to the dinner space, dressed in winter whites with branchy clusters for table arrangements—guests might have felt as though they had just stepped into a snow globe. Seated at dinner, Asbille Chow admitted that she had just wrapped up her latest television project and “was so happy to begin winter break with the gala.” Bloomingdale, meanwhile, had flown in especially for the occasion. “It doesn’t feel like Christmas until I get here,” she said, in her emerald green Esme Vie, her gown’s train was just as festive as the actual trains on view.

After a Champagne-soaked dinner, it was time for dancing and then, of course, the after-parties—located at two venues of stark contrast to the glamorous gala—at the Upper East Side dive bar Dorrian’s Red Hand and the Lower East Side’s The Box, the night’s official after-party. There, things took a more titillating turn and revelers ended the evening with an ideal balance of naughty and nice.

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