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DISH Contributer: Lori Geshay

The Omni Riverway Hotel hosted the elegant affair for the Children’s Assessment Center (CAC) and FENDI Galleria Boutique and helped create the extravagant ladies luncheon and fashion show. As you entered the Omni, the staff eagerly anticipated your every move including free flowing champagne and wine. The CAC guests gazed in utter bliss at the divine FENDI mini-boutique outside the ballroom. The crisp white table cloths were accessorized with lovely white hydrangeas and the menu-- fit and fabulous, of course. During the fashion show, the audience was intoxicated by the blush, caramel, and white sheer fabrics and left most, well- breathless with desire along with the FENDI lucite sky-high stilettos! Talk about mouth watering!! These are a MUST-HAVE for Spring ladies. Simply delish! 

Party goer Lucinda Loya is certainly one of Houston’s best dressed and she proved it in her uber chic nude boots. Simply spectacular!  As always, the gracious and kind hearted Sharin Gaille looked stunning. Attendees included: one of DISH'S best girls Nancy Marcus Golden, Beatriz Maney, Lucinda Loya, Debra Duncan, Jen Frank, Johnny Vassalo, Sharin Gaille, Pilar Sapina, Natalie Reitman, Farnoush Forotan, Rasha Nasreddin and DISH'S newest writer, Lori Geshay.  10% of all FENDI items purchased were donated to the CAC and the luncheon raised money for the most note worthy cause.

The CAC’s mission is to provide a professional, compassionate and coordinated approach to the treatment of sexually abused children and to serve as an advocate for all children in our community.

A huge thank you goes out to all who graciously attended and donated. 

Special cheers to the Chairs:  Lisa Holthouse and Amy M. Lee, event underwriter-HEB, and fashion show underwriter-Holthouse Foundation For Kids as well as all of the sponsors. For more information about the Children’s Assessment Center and how to contribute, please visit their website at www.cachouston.org. 

CLICK HERE to see some photos from the event!

DISH is so excited to welcome Lori Geshay, the original Dating Diva as our newest contributing writer! She is loving, hilarious, crazy intelligent, hard working and always has a smile on her face and in her heart to share! To kick things off, we asked her to write a little blurb introducing herself to you! After reading it, we were even more impressed by her! She is a genius writer!!! She's not only full of great stories but she is also an amazing advice giver!! CLICK HEREto email her your dating dilemmas!! Make sure to check back under the Dating Diva DISH section often because her stories are hitting hard and often!!!

DISH Contributer: Lori Geshay

About 2 ½ years ago, I dreamt of Dating Diva Adventures, literally!  I awoke and quickly grabbed my Hermes journal next to my bed and sketched out the character image for the bathtub graphic that most associate the Dating Diva with today.  After 7 years of marriage and a recent end to 3 ½ year relationship/engagement, I realized that I needed to re-discover who I was, what I wanted and what I lacked in my life and so began writing a book---33 First Dates on Match.com, a Dating Diva Adventure.

I’m a girl that has “everything that she wants, and nothing that she needs”, i.e. LOVE.  I’ve had a successful IT sales career for over 15 years and travelled around the world.  However, I’ve paid too much attention to my job and not enough to my personal life.  Why you ask?  I believed that money would bring me happiness.  I believed that material things would make me whole as I grew up less than middle class in Georgia.  I’m here to set the record straight that after all the extravagant purchases, you feel good …for a moment… but then…not so much! Now don’t get me wrong, I love my Birkins, diamonds and anything with an inter-locking “CC” but….they don’t keep me warm at night!
 
So for those of you that are new to the adventures, I began with 3 BFF’s in-tow, and we created a Match.com account.  After over 3,286 hits in 30 days, I set out on a journey of self-discovery in hopes to learn about human behavior, my needs, my desires and basic human interaction.  During this process of 33 first dates, I met some incredible individuals and learned about common dating faux-pas and areas of opportunity that we all have!

My book and dating advice column, Dating Diva Adventures is meant to be light-hearted, fun and introspective.  It is not about the “hunt for a man”, nor is it about marriage…. or finding a rich, sugar daddy.  We’ll leave that to the experts!  I am a woman of substance, have my own financial means and don’t need a man for that, nor do you!

For I am a simple girl that has lived a thousand lifetimes in friendship, love, laughter and can only hope that you’ll enjoy the quest for true love as much as I do.  So guys and dolls, email me your dating dilemmas.   

As I always say, I’m not a dating expert; I’ve just dated more than most!

XOXO

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