Elevating Your Dinner Party with Some Simple Tips
You’ve shopped for the freshest ingredients, selected the perfect wine pairings, and created a tantalizingly mouthwatering menu. You know the food will be a hit, the wine and drinks will flow, and your guests will leave satiated.
You are ready to indulge your dinner party guests in exquisite meals and delectable beverages that compliment each morsel that passes their lips.
But food and drink alone don’t make a dinner party. Dinner parties need a special touch. That is something that binds the food and the guests together creates flow and symphony to the evening that speaks to your hosting abilities and solidifies your status as an exceptional host that drives an experience like no other.
But what do you need for your guests to anticipate their next event before they’ve even left the one you’re currently hosting?
Set The Table
The table and chairs you use to host your guests will form the party’s centerpiece. After all, it’s where you will be sitting for the majority of the time or investing in a showstopper table, be it a circle to engage all guests and create a more intimate experience, or you opt for the traditional rectangle table that spawns smaller chats and engagements across the length of the table, and comfortable. Yet, statement chairs like Cantilever Dining Chairs can add that extra something that your guests can admire while relaxing as they dine.
In addition, invest in high-quality tableware that creates the theme and ties the event together, spending on the style and theme for the night as well as the food you are serving.
Consider Appetisers
Appetizers shared across tables or communal spaces before eating can help keep your guests from getting too hungry while waiting for the main event. They can also give them a focus point on which they can converge. This allows you to traverse the room and greet everyone personally as you offer up smaller plates or appetizers for people to enjoy.
Don’t Try Something New
For a luxury dinner party that hits all the right notes and drenches guests in flavor and contentment, you shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, perfect a main course that you are proficient at making or that is your signature dish, and wow your guests with something you know you do well, and that will turn out well. The last thing you want is to be crossing your fingers, hoping it’s edible and your guests enjoy it.
Create A Theme
A theme is something that can permeate all parts of your party and create a consistency that ties everything together. It can be a theme based on a specific type of food or pairings with a certain wine you will be serving; it can be based on a movie theme, the music you love, or anything you want. This theme can dictate your musical choices, your decor, your styling of the meal, and the overall flavor palette you work with for the event. It’s the small details that will elevate your dinner party and make it memorable for all the right reasons.
Lukeosaurus And Me
Rachael is a 31 year old mum to 10 year old Luke and 5 year old Oscar. She lives in England and writes about family life, crafts, recipes, parenting wins(and fails), as well as travel, days out, fashion and living the frugal lifestyle.
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