Serveware that Makes Your Holiday Party Stand Out

If you're looking for ways to make your holiday party really shine this year, the trend in catering and events serveware continues to be using at least one standout serving or tabletop piece and a mix of types of serving pieces, as we have moved away from more plain or uninspired serving looks such as all flat silver or white (or all any one color) trays and plain vanilla flatware.  The latter can often look too hotel-ish or restaurant-ish.

The solution? One or a few really unique, standout serveware pieces, including trays or platters, glass or porcelain pedestals, even bar accessories and napkins.

We recently catered a dinner party at which the hosts had the most wonderful serveware, all different, which we mixed with our own serving pieces to serve the food and drinks.  For example, they had a beautiful dull gold rectangular tray with high edges, which we mixed with their sleek chrome round tray and our collection of glass pedestals.  On these pieces the hors d'oeuvres really popped! And the effect was definitely not a hodge podge; instead, it was beautiful and artful.

Along the same lines, their gold-on-white patterned cocktail napkins really added a special touch to their pre-dinner cocktail hour, much more so than plain white cocktail napkins would have done.

These personalized servingware touches can then be used at future gatherings, so it's money well spent.  And if you're on a budget you can often find wonderful serveware at good prices in import or world market-type shops.

Other serveware trends this holiday season that will make your party outstanding:

• Anything served in martini or small glasses
• Square or round tumblers or oversize martini glasses for mixed drinks
• Serveware with gold touches
• Glass or porcelain pedestals to serve hors d'oeuvres or sweets
• Unusual fruit garnishes on food trays (e.g., quince, passionfruit, Seckel pears, crab apples, unusual berries)
• Colored wine or champagne glasses

More ideas? Beautiful beverage servers, fleur-de-lis drinkware, and flatware from Horchow (we like the Optic Glass Beverage Server and the French Countryside, Monkey, Napoleon Bee, and Bramasole flatware), or any interesting-shaped beverage server, drinkware, or flatware to suit your taste and decor.  Even one such touch will make your holiday party shine!

Enjoy!

Kristina

Fandango Catering and Events
(713) 522-0077
www.fandango-catering.com