List of débutante balls in the United States

Notable débutante balls in the United States include:

Alabama

• Birmingham
  • The Ball of Roses

A souvenir recording released by Verve Records in the summer of 1959 featuring longtime San Francisco bandleader Ernie Heckscher playing for The Cotillion at The Fairmont. The cover photo models are some of the previous winter's debutantes and their escorts

California

• Los Angeles:
  • Las Madrinas Ball

District of Columbia

• Washington, D.C.:
  • The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball

Massachusetts

• Boston:
  • The Boston Cotillion, which benefits the Vincent Memorial Hospital.

Missouri

• Kansas City:
  • The Jewel Ball, founded in 1954, which benefits the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kansas City Symphony.
• St. Louis:
  • The Veiled Prophet Ball, founded in 1878, which caters to the members of the Veiled Prophet Organization, a secret society of prominent St. Louisans
  • Fleur de Lis Ball, a Roman Catholic ball founded in 1959, named after the symbol associated with French kings and the city's French heritage, which raises money for the Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.

New York

The 1990 movie Metropolitan (film) is about New York Debutante Balls in the 1970s.

• New York City
  • The International Debutante Ball, held each even-numbered year
  • The Viennese Opera Ball in New York
  • The Quadrille Ball

North Carolina

• Wilmington
  • North Carolina Azalea Festival^[1]

South Carolina

• Charleston:
  • The St. Cecilia Ball

Texas

• Laredo:
  • The Society of Martha Washington Debutante Ball
• Tyler:
  • The Texas Rose Festival

References

1. http://www.ncazaleafestival.org/events/queens-coronation/