Enjoyable Entertaining That's Easy on the Budget
- By Danielle Brooks
- Published 02/21/2010
- Recreation
- Unrated
If you are planning on hosting a get together with friends or family, it doesn't have to cost a fortune. With just a little creativity, everyone can have a wonderful time enjoying delicious food and great company. One of the best ways to do this is by giving your dinner party a creative theme. By choosing a certain theme, you can allow your guests to get in on the fun of designing a very unique and unforgettable gathering. By letting your guests bring a dish of food or some other item that goes along with the theme, they will feel like they helped plan the party and it will have a more personal feel. As the host of the party, you will need to provide the main dish, the drinks, the desserts, and some of the decorations, but you can incorporate the items and foods your guests bring with them to go along with the theme of the party.
For example, let's say you want to plan a dinner function that has a theme based on a certain era of time, like the 1950s. You could easily plan the main dish as a type of food that many people enjoyed during that time. This could be anything from fried chicken, to meatloaf, to even hamburgers. You might want to get a little creative with the way you prepare that dish or even prepare it in a few different ways. During this time, Cola and milkshakes were very popular. You could easily serve different flavors of cola as
the drinks and make homemade milkshakes for dessert. The side dishes would be where things would be very creative and fun. Ask each of your guests to bring their favorite side dish that they remember enjoying during the 1950s. Just be sure to find out what your guests will be bringing so that there isn't too much of one particular food.
When it comes to the decorations for a 1950s themed party, you can also do this easily. Think of the type of decorations that were found in a few of your favorite restaurants or diners during that time. Things like old fashioned salt and pepper shakers, ketchup and mustard bottles, and even checkered tablecloths would be very fitting for this theme. These items can usually be found at a reasonable price at thrift store or you can even ask your guests to bring any of these that they might have on hand. If you happen to have any personal items of your own from this time be sure to have those out too. Ask your guests to bring or wear their favorite item from the 1950s. This could be clothing such as poodle skirts, saddleback shoes, or leather jackets. They could even bring things like old high school yearbooks, hula hoops, or even roller skates. With every item from the past that is brought, the guest who brought it can tell the story of what it represents in their life during the time they used it. So, as you can see, a dinner party can be planned without breaking the bank while also allowing the guests to get in on the fun.
For example, let's say you want to plan a dinner function that has a theme based on a certain era of time, like the 1950s. You could easily plan the main dish as a type of food that many people enjoyed during that time. This could be anything from fried chicken, to meatloaf, to even hamburgers. You might want to get a little creative with the way you prepare that dish or even prepare it in a few different ways. During this time, Cola and milkshakes were very popular. You could easily serve different flavors of cola as
When it comes to the decorations for a 1950s themed party, you can also do this easily. Think of the type of decorations that were found in a few of your favorite restaurants or diners during that time. Things like old fashioned salt and pepper shakers, ketchup and mustard bottles, and even checkered tablecloths would be very fitting for this theme. These items can usually be found at a reasonable price at thrift store or you can even ask your guests to bring any of these that they might have on hand. If you happen to have any personal items of your own from this time be sure to have those out too. Ask your guests to bring or wear their favorite item from the 1950s. This could be clothing such as poodle skirts, saddleback shoes, or leather jackets. They could even bring things like old high school yearbooks, hula hoops, or even roller skates. With every item from the past that is brought, the guest who brought it can tell the story of what it represents in their life during the time they used it. So, as you can see, a dinner party can be planned without breaking the bank while also allowing the guests to get in on the fun.
Danielle Brooks
Danielle Brooks is a freelance writer who loves to entertain. When entertaining she likes to use Noritake Colorwave dinnerware from Noritake
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