A “ Ball” experience held in Michigan turned out to be a royal mess. Pictures on social media (below) are going viral for an event on Sunday which organizers as a chance for fans to “step into the enchanting world of the Regency-era ..

. for an evening of sophistication, grace and historical charm.” The reality, say some attendees, was a disorganized and bare-bones event that left costumed attendees sitting on the floor amid vendors selling Kit Kats and watching a stripper who was hired as the evening’s entertainment.

The event is drawing comparisons to the infamous (and unofficial) that earned global headlines back in March. Thread about the Bridgerton Ball SCAM in Detroit that I (and hundreds of others) spent $300 on According to , the ball was not an official Netflix event. The streamer does have a touring event called The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience.

According to the event’s sparse, two-page website, this was the “Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball.” Tickets were priced from $150 to $1,000. “The way it was described was this would be [a] event and we were going to have classical music, a good dinner, and there was going to be a play, and they were going to pick diamonds the season,” said one attendee in a by local ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV.

“They were going to give away all of these prizes. And we went in, and it’s completely empty in there.” “It was complete chaos,” said another in the report.

“They never even scanned our tickets. We pa.