Fandango Catering Offers 6 More Ideas to Make Your Cocktail Party More Interesting

As cocktail parties are all the rage now, today we offer 6 more ideas to make yours distinctive and successful.

 

• Have someone (a hired chef or server or friend or relative) pass trays of food--We guarantee that your guests will eat the food more readily if someone circulates among them with a tray of mixed offerings.  Have a food buffet too by all means, but also have someone (or more than one person if your group is large) pass trays of finger foods.
• If any of your food is served with a dipping sauce, also circulate that among the guests--Have at least one server passing a tray of food with the dipping sauce in a small container with a spoon and small plates so guests who want the sauce can serve themselves the food and the sauce on a little plate.
• Have several non-alcoholic options, not just water--Choose from options such as still and sparkling water, sodas, lemonade, fruit juice...It's too boring just to serve alcohol (even various kinds of alcohol) and water.
• Shop for nice cocktail napkins--Please don't put out a hodgepodge of napkins from previous events--this says you can't be bothered and rarely looks good. 
• Have something interesting for your guests to do--Things like a brief reading or display of art or photography or a tour of your home or garden or a garden game or a table where guests can donate to charity--the latter is done all the time at Hollywood gatherings.  But keep any reading, talk, or tour brief, no more than 10 minutes or so.  We recently catered a wonderful party at a lovely private home at which an invited author read from her work for about 5 minutes halfway through and it was very energizing and pleasing to the crowd!
• Set up a separate table or podium as a bar--We cannot emphasize this enough.  Kitchen islands and counters don't make good areas to put a bar at all as there is WAY too much going on with the food and people alway tend to congregate around the kitchen.  Trust us: put a table, even an inexpensive banquet table covered with a nice cloth (to the ground please as true bartenders put all the extra bottles, ice, coolers, and everything else under the bar table so that they're handy but not seen by guests) in an area where guests can flow around the bar table without being crushed.  You'll see how your guests appreciate this! If you really want to dress up your bar table, puddle another tablecloth on top of the table and then put your beverage tub, glasses, etc. on top of the puddled cloth--luxe!

 

Warmly,

 

Kristina

 

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