As we gathered around the mammoth cake, his wife Ching as well as his closest friends, the original party boys of Manila like Iñigo Zobel, Tonyboy Floirendo, and Louie Ysmael, next to him, Philip Cruz, more grateful than wishful, blew the candles out.
White is the perfect theme for your 75th birthday party, the third time you’re marking 25 years. Set off against white, all memories, all dreams of the future are at their colorful best, clear and vivid and celebratory.
No one knows exactly when the idea of a white party began, but there are claims it was the non-conformist Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria-Tuscany, who started it. Maybe, it was at his Miramar estate on Mallorca, one of Spain’s Balearic Islands, where he would gather a motley crew…