The Rookery's threw a fun "Jingle Bell Rock" party this weekend -- an holiday event that also served as the venue's last hurrah.

Come New Year's Eve, co-owner Bo Blair and team will re-open the venue as a New Orleans-themed restaurant called Bayou.

But that shocking news didn't stop guests from mingling in their ugliest Christmas sweaters and drunken bad Santa suits as they rocked out to Buster Brown and the Get Down band. [Read more on Metromix!]

Notable guests included Living Social's Carissa Maguire; Venga's Winston Bao Lord; Young Eagles' Roby Penn; Pop Chips' Lauren Pomponio; Vitamin Water's Keri Ann Meslar; MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor; The Ronald Reagan Building's Josie Taylor; and Heather Freeman Media & PR's Lindley Thornburg.


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Photos: Alfredo Flores, Special for Metromix