Trendy, Fun Party Ideas

Sometimes it is fun to go with the trends and share a few current events with friends. Expose your circle to something different like a Tapas Party, by far our recommendation, or a Wine and Cheese Tasting. Cleaverly planned your event will be chic and exciting and everyone will have a great time. Remember, you can have a great party with something as simple as shrimp cocktails and a cocktai, just do whatever you do well for best results. It would always be better to serve a well thought out light meal than to serve a full dinner that you are not prepared to undertake.

1. Start with a Theme or Style!
• Wine and Cheese Tasting
• Tapas
• Seafood and Cocktail Party
2. Choose your colors.
• Bright reds and golds will go great with the varied and colorful tapas.
• Oranges and browns entice the appetite and set the stage for shell fish.
• Depending on your cheese tray choose colors such as organic greens, yellows, and oranges.
• Blues are only for kids, it makes most adults lose their appetites.
3. Make sure the Lighting is right.
• Lots of indirect light. Can lighting agains the walls will enhance the lowered lighting in the room and add a great touch to the decor.
• Strings of white twinkle lights in the plants or draped around the tables will add to the festivity.
4. Select a Menu.
• Tapas are great make ahead items. Bowls of olives, traditional Spanish Tortilla, Small Arugala Salads, Cheese trays and toasted nuts. Let your imagination run wild and select 4 to 8 different dishes to share.
• Wine and Cheese pairings will be simple to accomplish if you serve a flight of a single type of cheese but by all means a full tasting is always welcome. Allow 3 ounces per person per type. Remember to start with the mildest and serve the strongest last.
5. Music is important.
• Music should compliment the food. ie Italian Cheeses with "light Italian music" or French Bistro music with a Cheese and Wine Tasting. Keep the volumn up a bit, this will keep people hugging closer to talk and drown out private conversations.
6. Flowers will complete the event.
• Huge groupings of single types of flowers placed throughout the entertainment area will give the room a cosmepolitan feeling.