Posh, French-Inspired Picnic Party, Le Dîner en Blanc Coming To JC - August 25

Le Dîner en Blanc, a popular French-inspired pop-up picnic known for its all-white dress code, is coming to Jersey City for the first time ever this summer.
 

Hosted by Art House Productions in partnership with the City of Jersey City and the Office of Cultural Affairs, the mass “chic picnic” is being billed as an “elegant, ephemeral and magical” experience.
 

While the exact location of the August 25 festivities are being kept under wraps until the day of the event, organizers say it’ll be held in one of Jersey City’s “best-known public spaces” and will be an evening filled with white-clad attendees “conducting themselves with the greatest decorum, elegance and etiquette,” organizers said.
 

In true picnic fashion, guests must supply their own food, tables, chairs, white linen and silverware. They must also “dress elegantly” in head-to-toe white — that means no ivory, no off-white and no beige.

For a full list of rules, click here.
 

Attendees must be invited by the hosts’ network or can sign up to be put onto a waitlist. Click here to register.

Similar picnics have been held in over 140 cities in 40 countries since the first one in Paris back in 1988. Within New Jersey, Le Dîner en Blanc recently made its debut in Atlantic City, where guests partied on the iconic
 

In a statement, Meredith Burns, executive artistic director of Jersey City-based Art House Production, said the event “captures the spirit of friendship, community and elegance.” "Guests are brought together from diverse backgrounds....and engage one another, knowing that they are taking part in a truly magical event. There are no disruptions: no car traffic, no pedestrian traffic—only amazed and astonished looks from passersby observing the scene before them,” she said.

By KIMBERLY REDMOND
Published July 16, 2022 at 12:55 PM