As such, they would arrive in the ballroom in a horse and buggy.
The mood was decidedly more righteous and embattled in the smaller, second ballroom in a south Tucson hotel, where fewer than 200 of Randy Graf's supporters gathered on primary night for what they hoped would be a victory party.
As part of one of the more spectacular weddings, the bride and bridgegroom arrived in the grand ballroom in a coach drawn by two white horses, a touch that added another $1,000 to the $40,000 affair.
Terry Hall's vocals, however, described a grimly provincial world of shopping precincts and shabby ballrooms in a deadpan Coventry whine.
Queen Victoria might well have twirled round the Balmoral ballroom in a tartan gown.
The party was in a mirrored ballroom in a Filipino lounge, D Haven, in Queens.
Twelve hundred people, nearly all of them senior citizens, filled a ballroom in a Radisson Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard.
And "Perfect Lives" returns in another guise in December, as "Vidas Perfectas," a new Spanish-language video adaptation jointly produced by the Issue Project Room and the Irondale Center in Brooklyn and Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary-art space in Marfa, Tex.
The ornate wooden carvings and antiquities in Lillie's were procured from a ballroom in an 1800s estate in Northern Ireland.
At its peak, Watson's hotel employed English waitresses in its restaurant and ballroom, inspiring a common joke at the time: "If only Watson had imported the English weather as well".
