About the Ball

The 2008 Royal Caledonian Ball will take place on Friday 2^nd May at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.

Location map for Grosvenor House (multimap.com or streetmap.co.uk)

The format and timing of the Ball is as follows:

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FULL PRICE

Ball tickets - £95 each
To include breakfast served at 12.30am, whisky and water throughout the ball.

Champagne reception, dinner and ball tickets - £165 each
To include a champagne reception and three course dinner with half a bottle of wine per person in addation to the ball. Dinner will be held at Grosvenor House.

CONCESSION RATES
To qualify for concession rate tickets attendies must either be under 25 years of age on the 2^nd of May 2008, serving in the military and attending in uniform or a Patroness of the Ball.

Ball tickets - £70 each
To include breakfast served at 12.30am, whisky and water throughout the ball.

Champagne reception, dinner and ball tickets - £140 each
To include a champagne reception and three course dinner with half a bottle of wine per person in addation to the ball. Dinner will be held at Grosvenor House.

Buy Tickets Online

If you hava a credit card or paypal account you can purchase tickets online using this form.

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For those choosing to join us for dinner, you will be allocated a dining room in 86 Park Lane, part of Grosvenor House. We can accommodate any number of guests on tables of varying sizes, but please book quickly as space is limited. Please note that smaller parties may be sharing a dining room with another party.

Finally, please ensure that all dietary requirements or allergies are provided in plenty of time.

Tables within the Great Room, where the Ball takes place and breakfast is served, can seat parties of about 8-16 guests (depending on availability of bigger tables). Larger parties will be divided over more than one table, but will be adjacent.

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The particular atmosphere of the Royal Caledonian Ball rests to a considerable extent on the fact that guests take the trouble to wear formal evening dress. This is detailed in full below, but in fact there are just two golden rules, amounting to an entrance policy:

• Ladies must wear full-length skirts
• Gentlemen must not wear dinner jackets

The committee reserves the right to refuse entry to anyone incorrectly dressed.

* Sashes are generally worn across the breast and over the right shoulder, where they are secured by a pin or small brooch. There are some exceptions to this convention, described and illustrated on the website of the Lord Lyon King of Arms.

A note on uniformity:
Sets may contain a mixture of ladies in evening dresses, ladies in mess dress, gentlemen in Highland evening dress, and gentlemen in mess dress. Should particular sets, such as those drawn from a single regiment, wish to adopt a greater degree of uniformity than this, they are naturally at liberty to do so.

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The following dances are danced at the Ball:

• Dashing White Sergeant
• Reel of 51st Division
• Eightsome Reel
• Foursome Reel
• Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh
• Hamilton House
• Duke of Perth
• Speed the Plough
• Mairi's Wedding
• 'Flats': Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep and John Peel

Note:From September to May/June , London Reels (St.Columba's, Pont Street, London) and PGT Reels (St Margarets School, Parsons Green, London) run social reeling end teaching evenings. They are both ideal places to learn the above dances before attending the ball - all you need to do is turn up! Before you go do please check their web sites for the dates on which they are reeling.

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The 2008 Ticket Application Form may be downloaded by clicking here.

Please send your completed form to the address at the bottom of the second page.

Alternativly, if you hava a credit card or paypal account you can purchase tickets online using this form.

The application form is in PDF format (30kB). If you have problems opening the file, you may need to download Adobe Reader software (this is free).

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