Houston’s Best Party Pictures of the Year (so far)

A Wild Look Back at a Super Season

By Shelby Hodge // Jun 26, 2017

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Opera Ball Encore After Party

Champagne delivery at the Loya Super Bowl party

Robert and Janice McNair host the Super Bowl LI Owner Party at the River Oaks Country Club with special performances by the Gaitlin Brothers and Clay Walker

Janice and Bob McNair singing Deep in the Heart of Texas with The Gatlin Brothers

Waiter takes an unplanned dip at a charity benefit in the home of Becca Cason Thrash. (Photo by Michelle Watson)

Aaiter takes an unplanned dip at a charity benefit in the home of Becca Cason Thrash, joining a number of guests who through the years have inadvertently taken the plunge. (Photo by Michelle Watson)

BFFs Elton John, Lynn Wyatt and David Furnish at brunch chez Wyatt during Houston Super Bowl festivities in 2017 (Photo by Jenny Antill Clifton)

A previous Hats, Hearts & Horseshoes benefit for Bo's Place: Bria Wall, Joanna Marks, Amy Haymond, Hannah McNair. The 2021 Kentucky Derby event takes place at Houston Polo Club. (Photo by Michelle Watson/CatchlightGroup.com)

Kevin Spacey with Sue & Lester Smith at Best Buddies

Memorial Hermann Circle of Life Gala balloon drop

The Events Company's Jones Hall decor for the Houston Symphony Wine Dinner

Hermann Park Conservancy Hats in the Park luncheon

Lucinda Loya, Nadine Boutros, Laura Davenport at Hats in the Park luncheon

20,000 roses dress the walls and the models at Harry Winston luncheon.

Fady Armanious in Dolce and Gabbana, cape by Monique Lhuillier at HGO Ball

The 2017 Houston Symphony Ball after party certainly brought the noise.

Houston Ballet 'ghosts' flank Victor Costa & Jerry Ann Woodin-Costa at the 2017 Ballet Ball

At the Bayou Bend Luncheon, Ceron in Armani, butterflies by artist in San Miguel

Vivian Wise shows off her Christian Dior gown at the Houston Grand Opera ball.

Guess who at the HGO ball?

Neal Hamil, Annie Amante at a private birthday party in 2017.

Milton Townsend at Heart of Fashion

Shawn & Racheal Gottschalk, Brian & Amalia Stanton rocking at Memorial Hermann Circle of Life Gala

Lucinda & Javier Loya Super Bowl LI Party at LIFE HTX

Javier & Lucinda Loya rock at their 2017 Super Bowl party.

The Events Company transforms Wortham Center Grand Foyer into a Venetian Palace.

Chefs Teddy Lopez, Danny Trace, Alex Padilla, Jean-Philippe Gaston, David Cordua at Children at Risk dinner

Recipe for Success Delicious Alchemy Banquet

Kiran's Kiran Verma & Canopy's Claire Smith at Delicious Alchemy

It’s been a wild and crazy party season in Houston, filled with lots of giving (some of it record breaking) and loads of fun. The winter/spring social season started with a bang thanks to the round of very merry Super Bowl parties and continued month after month with creative fundraising events. We’ve been to most of them and photographed most of you in one style of dress or another.

As the season rolls to a screeching halt, we have time to look back over the party landscape and, ah, the memories of those wild and wicked nights, of those splendorous galas and the midday mashups. Join us as we wander through the just-passed party scene via a few of our favorite photos.

These are the party pictures you’ll remember long after the night or day is gone.