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Party Planning
- Theme Party Ideas
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Chinese New Year's Party Ideas
Chinese New Year Party Supplies
The key to pulling off a coordinated
event: Evoke your theme throughout the affair. Whether that
theme is as general as a season or a feeling, or as specific as
a special flower, it should be the subtle thread that ties
everything together. Your location, invitations, flowers, menu,
cake, and favors should all cleverly reflect one common concept.
Then, get as creative as you can!
Locations:
Oriental Garden, Asian
restaurant, Oriental Tea Room, reception or banquet halls, hotel
ballroom.
Color
& Attire:
Red, Black & Gold. Pink
& Mocha. Claret and White.
Invitations
As a fun
alternative, you can hand-deliver Chinese take out containers to each guest. Include a hand-written invitation
inside along with some wrapped fortune cookies. Tie a ribbon around
the boxes or to the wire handle.
You'll think of so many cute ways to use Chinese Take Out Containers.
They are available at craft stores in white, and a
variety of other colors like: yellow, blue, green, pink and purple, try them
for favor
packaging.
Send invitations tied to a pair of
chopsticks. Use red
card stock and a gold paint pen for the invitation. Tie the
invitation to the chopsticks with black curling ribbon.
Decorating:
Don't forget
Chinese celebrations always include firecrackers to
scare away evil spirits.
Bring the exotic look of the Far East to your tables.
The tops of your tables provide you with a
very large surface area and covering them with a beautiful
tablecloth is the easiest way to change the feel of a room.. It is
also the most cost effective way to decorate.
Many
venues offer a variety of linens. If they don't have the color you
need or length desired, you can rent them from your local party
linen store.
Gossamer is a unique material that
is used to create overlay on your tables. In addition to using
as an overlay for tables use it to cover a wall, make
a curtain, chair
bows, and etc. Asian print gossamer is available. Gossamer makes
super backdrops too.
Place-cards facilitate guest seating, and are a must at semi-formal
and formal events for sit-down dinners as well as buffets. (They
get guests seated expediently.) Each couple gets a place-card, and
each single guest.
Accent
your Oriental theme with our beautiful
Chinatown Guest Towels .
Our
painted
Chinese Fans come with assorted color plastic handles.
For good
luck, toast only with sparking wine or champagne.
Floral Centerpieces:
For a formal event have your florist
do floral arrangements in the traditional Oriental tri-lineal design
concept of heaven, man and earth. Simplicity and naturalness are the
watchwords for Oriental flower arrangements.
Use interestingly
shaped twiggy branches ( Manzanita) for line, they should be
weathered for contract.
Some other ideas for foliage are Pittosporum
foliage, Polysaia branch, Solomon's Seal, Huckleberry, Bamboo,
Japonica, Cocoa Spray & Grape Ivy.
Excellent focal flowers for
Oriental arrangements might include: Iris, Azalea, Tiger Lilly,
Canna Lily, Fugi Mums, Camellia, Calla Lily, Anemone, Sun Dahlia,
Magnolia, Passion Flower, Gardenia, Calliandra & Blooming
Cereus.
Fill out arrangements with Dwarf Pittosporum, Oleander,
Mountain Laurel, Podocarpus, Mountain Ash, & Philodenendron.
Bamboo containers are excellent for holding floral arrangements.
Bring the raw beauty of nature to
Asian centerpieces and flower arrangements by adding grey
stones.
Add a painted
Chinese
Fan to your arrangement for accent.
Pair magnificent Asian
Candles
or Bamboo
and Coconut Candles for mood lighting with handsome red scalloped placemats.
If you are in the Cypress, TX area,
contact our floral designer at 281-373-1572.
Non Floral Centerpieces
Links:
In keeping with your theme we
would suggest using one of the following centerpieces.
Hang
paper lanterns from the
ceiling above your tables, lots
& lots of them. Use all one color, two or three colors or use
assorted colors.
Napkins:
Use
red, gold or black imprinted
napkins with any design you
choose. The
napkins will serve several purposes … great decorating in disguise
and a delightful memento of the party that can be saved in
scrapbooks for years to come!
Napkins
can be laid out on a buffet table, or can be displayed at each place
setting.
Place napkins in the center of each place setting at an
angle, or unfold them and place them in glasses for a tall dramatic
look.
The napkins can also be tied (and bundled with plastic
cutlery) with a multitude of items to match your theme. Tie
with curling ribbon, gossamer streamers, ric-rac, beads or ribbon.
Place paper dollies in the center of each dessert plate.
Placecard Holders:
Perfect
for an Asian theme are place cards shaped like Asian fortune cookies.
Dress
up tables with
Chinese Fans! Place one at each place setting.
Room
Decorations:
Hang
paper lanterns from the
ceiling, lots
& lots of them. Use all one color, two or three colors.
Long revered in Asian cultures, bamboo is believed to spread good fortune in everything from business and health to wealth and relationships. Wherever bamboo is placed, good fortune is sure to follow. Create a festive and colorful setting
with bamboo chargers, bamboo placemats or floral decor
with bamboo.
If your budget is low, but
your dreams are grand, consider the depth of a giant
photo mural. They can fill an entire wall, and better
yet, they provide guests with the most realistic setting imaginable.
Great photo backdrop too.
Place some Oriental
Garden Lampposts in strategic
locations around your party area.
Consider the
following items for decorating accents:
- Pagodas
-
Chinese
Floral Fans
-
Asian
Characters
-
Asian Screens
-
Fortune
Cookies
-
Bamboo
Chop Sticks
-
Chinese
Symbols
-
Dragons
lighted with twinkle lights.
Gift & Favor
Ideas:
Painted
10" Floral Fans come with
assorted color plastic handles and make nice favor.
Red Satin Mandarin Hat
Oriental Cap! Our gold and
red satin Mandarin style cap is topped off with a tassel.
Yellow Oriental Hat
Chinese Take Out Containers
are a must have.
Set
at each place setting and fill with
fortune cookies.
Bamboo
Chop Sticks - Add to
the festivities when your food and theme have an Oriental flair with
chopsticks on the table.
Activities:
If you will have children at the party, you can keep them busy with
a small craft project. Purchase some plain
small
oriental take-out boxes
and have the kid's decorate with red and
black Asian symbols (to make this easy for them, provide some books
with Asian designs that they can copy).
Food:
Asian cuisine is one of the world's most
tasty and unique. Guests will love to try new and delicious dishes
at your Asian theme party. Here are some suggestions:
- You can either choose one type of
food from a specific country, or offer an array of different
Asian tastes.
- If you opt for just one country's
cuisine, select from Japanese, Chinese or Thai food. These are
the most popular and easy to find.
- If you are not up for making the
food yourself, simply order take-out from your local Asian
restaurant. When you get the food home, display it on your own
platters to make it look more homemade.
- Instead of cooking or getting
take-out, hire an Asian chef to come to your party! You can
either hire a sushi chef to give a demonstration (and then let
the guests roll their own for a fun activity), or a stir-fry
chef to cook up each guest's specific dish. Let them select
their own ingredients for a totally custom experience!
Don't forget the chop sticks. Fortune Cookies
- It would be fun to create some personalized fortune cookies for
your anniversary party. These are easy to make and are sure to be a
big hit! Simply take some regular, store-bought fortune cookies and
microwave them for about five seconds. The cookies will be soft and
you will be able to bend them to take out the fortune message.
Replace the message with your own special message!
You could make a Fortune
Cookie Cake. This is easy to make and very impressive.
The fortune in the cake can say "Confucius say, Happy New Years". Serve
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