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Food rules of your cocktail party from some top event planning companies

June 17, 2010 by  
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Some Food Rules of Your Cocktail Party

Hosting a cocktail party is a cool way to spend time with your family and buddies. Guests will like that fact of you serving some appetisers with the alcohol that you are going to be serving. As you are thinking about what number of people so you need to also think about what quantity of people so you can have a concept on how much food you’ll need. As a guideline, guesstimate 6 bites per person for every hour. However depending on the guests I might work out a bit more then that.

Finger foods are good for drinks parties. They can be prepared before the cocktail party and they need tiny clean up asserts Anthony from one of Europe’s prime event planning companies – ELITEVENT

Your guests want to have a tissue or maybe a small paper plate will due. Your visitors will have an opportunity to walk around and talk while they break. And still not much clean up involved.

Most event planning companies says that appetisers as a rule are small in portion usually bite size. Good ideas would be mini cheesecakes, sausage rolls, dipped strawberries in chocolate are all great cocktail party foods. Pair up smoked salmon or caviar with martinis. Or you can opt to go simply with cheese trays twinned with wine.

You need to enjoy yourself so be certain the cocktail party food that you choose is simple and will not require a large amount of running forwards and forth from the kitchen. If the host can be no wheres to be found then some of the guests may begin to feel a bit uncomfortable. Ensure that you have chosen a food that you are familiar with, and a food that can be made ahead of time. The last thing that you need to be doing is slave in the kitchen when there’s a fabulous cocktail party going on right on the other side of kitchen door.

Nicklas is a professional writer, and writes brief stories and fiction in her free time.

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