what are some of your best ideas for entertaining guests?

Question

I love having people over and entertaining. I am always up for some new ideas.

Answer 1

I always think it is fun to have a theme for my parties. I did a Chinese dinner party and an Italian dinner party that ( if I may brag a bit ) people still talk about. Pick your theme and start searching for decorations and recipes on the web.

Answer 2

I know it sounds tacky, but I like to go for a theme when I have parties. Not necessarily over the top, but some type of theme. For example a few weeks ago I had a shooter party. I served everything out of plastic shot glasses I found at a party store. I made a few different types of cocktails and put different garnishes out. I served shrimp coctail out of them. These went over really well. Shrimp in the bottm of the class with a little coctail sauce on top and a slice of lemon. I nestled the shot glasses in a pyrate dish full of crushed ice. I also served a gazpacho the same way. I thought that serving warm foods would be a little difficult, but it went over pretty well. I have an electic pancake pan, I put the pyrate baking dish on this and warm water. I ended up making chicken marsala bites, and sweedish meatballs. Finally I served small pieces of carrot and celery with a dollop of dip. It was great and clean-up was a breeze. For dessert I filled them 1/2 way with sorbet. Right before I was ready to serve them I filled them 1/4 of the way with champagne. Everyone loved it.

This is just one idea. You could choose a color, flavor, family tradition, nationality or even a holiday. I'm not Jewish, but I love passover food. I have done a passover dinner for a dinner party.

Answer 3

one thing i do is decide on a motif. this is MUCH more subtle than a theme, its a unifying idea behind the party that is subtly implied but never fully displayed for the guests.

for example: one dinner i decided on a 'fine art' theme. i served cocktails with van gogh vodka, had a slide show of my favorite paintings/sculptures on my TV screen and played an 'art' ice breaker:
on the bottom of each guests cup, i put a piece of masking tape and wrote either the name of a painting or the name of a painter. during the cocktail portion of the dinner party, guests had to find their painter/master piece (ex: someone with 'the kiss' on the bottom of their cup had to find the person who had 'Klimt' on the bottom of their cup). this is a GREAT way get good flow going through the party, especially if you're mixing friends from different social circles.

remember: the idea is to give you a unifying theme for YOU as you put your party together. it can be anything (in the past I've done: Paris, red, 1940's, sense of touch) that will let you subtly string together the different elements of your gathering. the key here is subtlety, no one should be able to say "that was a great [insert theme here] party!"

Answer 4

After dinner is done, permit anybody help placed away meals and get issues into the dishwasher. as quickly as the kitchen is wiped sparkling up anybody can loosen up. Have some espresso going and placed across out the dessert issues -- and additionally you will certainly ask if every physique desires to make contributions a dessert to convey and share. grant to coach on the soccer game and haul out some great wine or beer to serve. If anybody is of the comparable gender they could choose for a great DVD action picture - journey if adult adult males, chick flick for gals. shop it gentle and occasional-key. in case you're into video games that could desire to be relaxing too, or have a puzzle occurring in a nook that could desire to charm to some pastime.

Answer 5

I like to get tipsy and take my shirt off ( but no further). I guess i'm a bit of an exabitionist.

Answer 6

Well toni make stuff creative and have lots of different food and drinks