How To Style Your Garden Furniture - Garden Party Ideas
Hosting a garden party is a wonderful way to entertain your family and friends and create long-lasting memories together. While having the right patio chairs, patio tables and general garden furniture is a must for any outdoor event, picking a theme for your garden party will help you really bring your party to life! For some serious outdoor event inspiration, we’ve put together 4 magical ideas to transform your garden furniture with outdoor accessories, finger food, and fun activities. So, let’s get started!
1. Alice In Wonderland Garden Party
Channel a Mad Hatter’s tea party by transforming your garden with bright colorful outdoor accessories, and Alice in Wonderland themed food. This is a unique garden party idea for a sweet sixteen, baby shower or even an outdoor wedding.
What you’ll need:
- Sticking with the garden party theme, you’ll need a white patio table cover with a blue runner to reflect Alice’s beautiful dress and white apron.
- No Mad Hatter’s Tea Party is complete without a variety of mismatching teacups and saucers. You can often buy these second hand and will ooze Alice in Wonderland vibes.
- Bright and contrasting colored cushions, candles and throws.
- Paper pompoms and fairy lights to decorate trees and patio shades.
- Decorate your patio table with white roses, half dipped in red paint to replicate the iconic movie scene.
- Bonus points if you can get hold of pink flamingos and a croquet game to extend your garden party to the lawn.
What to serve:
- Finger sandwiches with cucumber, egg cress and cheese.
- Glass jars can be placed around the table with handwritten labels saying ‘Drink me’.
- Make sure you have a teapot of Earl Grey tea, and plenty of cupcakes.
- A Mad Hatter top-hat cake will certainly go down a treat with your guests.
2. Luxury Picnic
When the warmer weather arrives, there is nothing more satisfying than sipping chilled white wine and digging into a cheese board in the garden. To create a luxury picnic vibe, here’s how to decorate your patio table, patios chairs and serve the very finest finger food.
What you’ll need:
- Dress your patio table for a luxury garden party picnic with a crisp white tablecloth or runner.
- Style patio chairs with rattan and fresh flowers for a sophisticated decoration.
- Using Citronella tea lights, illuminate the patio table and keep pesky flies away from your picnic food.
- In the centre of the table, place an assortment of fresh flowers and foliage.
- Use plates and glassware to give your picnic a luxury feel instead of wooden or plastic tableware.
- Make sure to have plenty of napkins ready for guests to use.
- Pick up some matching cushions and invest in outdoor heating to keep your guest warm and comfortable.
- Consider a fire pit to allow guests to snuggle up after enjoying the picnic.
- If you’re expecting a hot day, a patio cover or garden umbrella is a must-have luxury picnic accessory.
What to serve:
- For a luxury picnic, make sure you invest in high-quality food such as a cheese board, sea-salt crackers, olives and hummus.
- To compliment sparkling wine or Champagne, serve chocolate dipped strawberries.
- Upgrade ice by preparing it in advance with edible flowers for a delicate touch to drinks.
- If you have a BBQ, consider grilling fresh sea bass or salmon for a delicious addition to your luxury picnic.
- Dainty finger sandwiches such a cucumber and watercress are a good picnic staple, as are deli meat and fresh fruit salads.
3: Campfire Get Together
Snuggle up around a fire pit and take in the crackle and dancing flames as you reminisce, roast marshmallows and share a beer with friends of family. A campfire get together is a wonderfully laid-back garden party idea that can start late in the day and last well into the early hours.
What you’ll need:
- Use plant pots already in your garden as a casual way to display cutlery and napkins.
- If you’re in need of a new fire pit, consider investing in an Upland gas fire pit for all night warmth.
- While a fire pit will help to keep the front of your body warm, a cold wind can quickly make it feel too cold to be outside, so always have blankets and cushions around.
- While you won’t necessarily need a big patio table, having enough comfortable seating is essential, especially if you want your party to last a good couple of hours. So ditch the garden bench for a modern and comfortable 7 seater patio set.
- Lanterns and solar lights will help create a magical vibe to your garden party.
What to serve:
- Make sure you have plenty of drinks ready and chilled for your guests to help themselves to. Craft beer, flavored cider and pale ales are a good choice for campfire garden parties.
- Nibbles and snacks are essential, as are large marshmallows for roasting and making s'mores.
4: Honey bee Birthday Party
There is nothing sweeter than a honey bee garden party! Perfect to celebrate an outdoor birthday or special event, it’s time to decorate your patio area with bright yellow balloons, honey bee cupcakes and sunflower vases.
What you’ll need:
- Starting with your patio area, first give it a deep clean including your garden furniture.
- Once everything is dry, invest in some colorful garden furniture cushions and a yellow patio table cover.
- To dress your table ready for a birthday party, invest in a couple of bunches of sunflowers.
- Add little decorative gems to the table and yellow tea lights.
- Make sure to have honey bee themed decorations to make your patio area pop.
- Illuminate your garden with fairy lights hanging from your patio cover or umbrella.
- Dress patio chairs with soft cushions in either white or yellow and tie a yellow balloon to each one.
What to serve:
- Lemon drizzle cupcakes with honey bee toppers are a must.
- Create a sweet table by using a variety of glass jars filled with candy, marshmallows and cookies.
- Sparklers will create a fun and engaging activity for guests to enjoy at your garden party.
- Fresh and homemade lemonade in cute glasses.
- A huge honey bee pinata provides the ultimate garden party fun!