Mardi Gras

When Celebrated

Mardi Gras is an annual festival marking the final day before the fast of Lent, a 40-day period of self-denial and abstinence from merrymaking.

Mardi Gras is the day before Ash Wednesday.

Dates can vary, usually falling some time in February or March.

Gifty-ness

About the Holiday

The biggest bash in New Orleans... Mardi Gras on Fat Tuesday. The Feast before the Fast. Celebrated the day before the start of Lent (Ash Wednesday) This lavish festival includes parades, partying, feasting, long nights, and much more. There are many traditions involved with this elaborate celebration, like the green, gold, purple, and the carnival king. Known very well here in the states, this celebration is actually quite well known world wide. A perfect time for a huge party, and don't forget... with parties come gifts.

Read more about the history of the Mardi Gras Festival.

Gift Guidelines

• useful tools for the night
  • shot glass necklaces, beads, accessories, etc.
• Mardi Gras Foods: Creole or Cajun food, Hurricane Barware

King Cake, chocolate covered strawberries

• decorations for the thrown party
• anything themed
  • Mardi Gras, the colors (gold, purple, green), jester or masks, king, etc.