Showing posts with label entertaining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entertaining. Show all posts

Monday, March 2, 2009

Bachelorette Party!

My Sister In Laws Bachelorette Party was a blast. Mission Accomplished! I want to give a special thanks to all you who helped give me such quick ideas to pull it together so quickly, I dont know what I would have done without you. Thanks to Crystal @ Olive Rue for the Bubble Gum game idea...It was SO FUNNY! Megan @ Live.Love.Laugh for great, quick decorating ideas and the buttons being handed out by the bride was a great idea too, it made for some great laughs, the soon to be MIL wore the Party Girl pin, which she is hardly the party girl, but it was funny! Jen @ Tatertots & Jello for your second on the game, I didnt have a bachelorette party either ;(. Shay @ Everyday Moments for her game idea! They loved it. And I too used your strangest place to get it on question! Also Ashley @ DomesticFashionista for the spa idea, didnt have time to use it this time, the scrapbook idea was great too...I made sure to get enough pictures to put into her scrapbook I am making her for the wedding. I would have never thought to have put pictures of the Bachelorette party in it. But we did put up some lights, you can see them on top of the cabinets. And we did a spin off of Truth or Dare, We did Never Have I ever...the girl with the most stickers and the girl with the least amount of stickers got a prize. Taryn @ The Colorado Desert had great ideas although Skinny Dipping was out of the question because was like -20 degrees here! And last but not least Julie @ Tattered Threads & Willing hands had me go to these {posts} and see her baby shower decor for inspiration. Loved it! Thank all of you so much. So now here are the photos to those of you that have been waiting. Sorry it took me so long to get them up, but it is 19 Days and counting until the big day. We have been busy little bees!

This is all of us girls at Agaves Mexican Restaurant in Fort Wayne.

This is the Bride to be in the middle, Mother of the bride on the left and Soon to be MIL on the right (the party girl).
We didnt have much time to decorate but here is a banner I found at JoAnn Fabrics. They have a section in the Wedding aisle that has bachelorette stuff, and balloons in the wedding colors spread around the house.
This photo is me asking the bride the bubble gum game questions. She was laughing so hard because she had a HUGE wad of gum in her mouth.
The Wad of Gum! HA!

Here is the Bride and (sister) Maid of Honor

Here is the Brides reaction after opening a card from some girls at work that displayed a naked, WELL endowed man on it. LOL!

It was a great party...cant wait to see all the girls again this Sunday for the Bridal Shower!




Saturday, January 3, 2009

Entertaining

Setting the Table for a Dinner Party



When it comes to setting a table to look fancy for your dinner party there are a few things you can do to make sure you cover all of your basis.

For place settings you can start with a placemat.
Heres a twig placemat from Crate and Barrel


Then you can use charger plates, they are an easy way to instantly dress up the table for a dinner party or even a casual dinner! They are typically meant to act as a base plate holder for the dinner plate. The picture below is a Silver rimmed charger set of 4 at World Market for $11.96.

Place settings should be set & layered in the same fashion that the meal is going to be served. Soup bowls or salad plates on top of dinner plates, and dinner plates on top of charger plates. Always include a separate dish if there is going to be any sauces served with the meal. For dinner serveware I like the simplicity of all white dinnerware. This also from world market is the Coupe Dinnerware sold in seperate peices from $11.96-$15.96


The silverware part is always the tricky part people dont quite get. I like to make is simple. The salad and dinner forks should be placed to the left of the plate and knives and spoons to the right. The general rule is to "work from the outside in", so the salad fork should go to the left of the dinner fork, and the spoon to the right of the knife. Dont forget to make sure you always keep the blade of the knife pointing inward to the plate. If you're using more than one spoon, like a soup spoon and a teaspoon, the teaspoon should be placed horizontally at the top of the dinner plate.

For your drinkware...at a formal dinner table, water glasses should be placed above the tip of the knife, with red and white wine glasses clustered a little further back. For a more formal occasion that is somewhat dressy but not super-duper formal, you can use basic tumblers in place of water glasses.

For a little more added decoration for your table dress it up with some snazzy linens. Like these from World Market. Also dont forget to add a centerpeice to the table.