Time for Guests
When choosing
to invite over guests and thereby putting on the role of the host, you need
to put behind your busy everyday life for a while and embrace the
preparations with pleasure.
Enjoy making
a list of guests and putting together the menu.
There may be
an occasion, a holiday, or maybe you just want to celebrate the wonderful
weather or life in itself.
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Are you going to start off with drinks?
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Do you want a seating arrangement?
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Seats and for how many?
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Would an informal buffet be the best choice?
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What about table decorations?
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you going to send out invitations?
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you want there to be a theme?
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There
are many ways of having company, and being the host should be just as
enjoyable as being a guest.
As an
example, you could choose a formal dinner with all that it takes – delicious
menu, great wine, seating arrangement, and beautiful decorations.
Or you could
choose to invite people on a picnic somewhere nice out in nature.
Picnics are
not just meant for summer – there is no problem in asking people to dress
for the occasion.
You can fill
thermobottles with hot drinks and make some exquisite and unusual sandwiches
and homemade cake.
You will have
a wonderful experience in nature at the same time – maybe you can plan some
fun competitions, games, or just a nice walk.
At summertime
the possibilities for picnics are countless, the only limit is your
imagination.
If
you live in a place where autumn and its cold weather sets in, (Che Bello
Design’s newsletters go all over the world), one possibility is to invite
people over for innovative soups that you can easily make in advance.
Serve e.g.
three kinds of new soups for your guests to taste with wine and great bread
to go with it.
Before
dinner, arrange a walk in the woods, by the water, or maybe a hot drink in
the garden. Decorate the table with fall twigs, pumpkins, leaves, and plenty
of golden colored candles.
Another
option is to invite for a potluck supper, your contribution being a lovely
or fun decoration of the table.
Tell your
guest to incorporate a certain theme or color into the dish they bring. Or
choose a theme country for inspiration.
It provides
your guests with some fun clues to follow, and at the same time you create a
beautiful togetherness as well as an exciting table with all the different
dishes.
Put
small flower heads into small muffin forms to make
a nice and
special decoration
An
alternative could be a huge joined coffee and cake table on a cozy Sunday
afternoon. Invite a bunch of people over and tell everyone to bring cake –
all cakes are put on the table and children and adults can dig in.
You can still
hand out clues to go with the cake theme – like ‘homemade’ or ‘pink’. This
allows you to create a beautiful and very simple decoration in the same
color, ensuring a sense of coherence to your table decoration.
Another
fun and manageable way of having company is a ‘joined dinner’ with good
friends. Invite over friends and delegate a starter to one couple, dessert
to another, and maybe cocktails to the third.
Your
contribution could be the main course. What dishes and drinks are brought
over is supposed to be a surprise, and everybody will then be able to enjoy
the special joined surprise menu.
And you can
still try out ideas for table decorations and fun contributions for the
evening.
Taking part
of a lovely, warm, and fun arrangement as a guest is great, but being the
host is a wonderful feeling as well. Being together with the ones you hold
dear, having fun, and opening up your home to others and welcoming them in.
We create the experience by ourselves and happiness is sharing it with
others.
More decorating tips for your table:
üFill
a big glass bowl with coffee beans. Then put lots of tealight candles in
it. It is beautiful as well as an aromatic experience. Perfect for a
coffee table.
üUse
hollowed out fruits, such as oranges, for holding tealights – fun and
with a lovely scent.
üEmpty
small tomato purée tins can be used as tealight holders. Don’t remove
the lid, let it be open and light will reflect into it.
üFor
Christmas: Sprinkle plenty of cinnamon sticks, anise, cones, and fir –
directly onto the table cloth or on a large dish – for a wonderful scent
and mood.
üUse
old pretty jewelry as napkin holders.
üPut
a painted clothes peg into a glass and use it as a place card holder
üTie
the silverware together with natural yarn or blades of grass and put
place cards next to it.
üPut
a flower head on each plate.
üPlace
a row of fine old cups with saucers underneath along the center of the
table. Put a tealight candle in each cup and a flower on the rim of each
saucer. Hereby a row of glowing cups.
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edible decorations on the table, such as fruit, chocolates, or candy.
üUse
shells, rocks, twigs, cones, and anything else from nature and give the
table a natural look true to the season.
üUse
small toy boards on flower sticks as place cards.
üFestive
colors: put single flowers in glass vases and use colored powder in the
water.
üUse
tin cans for flower decorations. Put a glass inside to hold water.
Welcome
to this newsletter – this time Che Bello Design would like to encourage everyone
to invite guests – invite some friends, family, or a few neighbors.