Description: From holiday gatherings to an outdoor luncheon to a grand ball or gala, Entertaining is filled with detailed and personal advice on how to bring together a successful party. Whether formal soiree or an outdoor oyster roast, advance planning can help lift a party from pleasant evening to fabulous, long-remembered event. Entertaining is chock full of inspiration for throwing out-of-the-ordinary parties. Lavish photographs from fabulous events illustrate suggestions for how to set the scene: location, table settings, decorations, flower arrangements, and unusual touches. Gerbera daisies in sap buckets or orchids in silver vases; heirloom stemware from great-grandmother or colorful tumblers bought yesterday -- whatever your entertaining style, here's the book to make your entertainments happily memorable.

Included at the back is a resource guide for readers, with dealers and manufacturers for silver, linen, china and glassware, as well as a listing of flower designers.

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