Need some new quick tips to make a New Year’s party memorable? Here are a few.
Drink: Try sprucing up your champagne by adding a touch of color, using cranberry juice or triple sec, suggests Julie Eastman of Extraordinary Events & Design in Fort Worth. Then serve it in a martini glass, rimmed with colored sugar, perhaps gold or red.
She adds that rimming glasses takes no time at all, and people will see it as something fun and trendy.
Decor: Tara Wilson, a Fort Worth event planner, says she likes rehabbing old decorations. Take them out of the attic or wherever and refresh them with spray paint and glitter.
Delights: Give party guests something to take home. Doniphan Moore of Dallas’ Doniphan Moore Interiors suggests giving guests a basket of fresh homemade potpourri, using fresh greenery, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon peel, cloves, allspice, bay leaves, dried cranberries and the like. (If you don’t want to make your own potpourri, try Aromatique’s Cinnamon Cider). If it’s a dinner party, says Eastman, you might want to give guests something memorable. Find some fun ornaments at the discount sales and use them for place-card holders, maybe in a motif that was on your invitation, such as a snowflake. Depending on how fancy the party, it could be a simple gold ball.
Mark Lowry, McClatchy Newspapers
