Kentucky Derby Party Ideas

These Kentucky Derby Party Ideas Will Make Your Event a Success!

• Greet your guests with a traditional Mint Julep served in silver julep cups or an Official Kentucky Derby glass.

• No party is complete unless you serve the one and only traditional Derby Pie

• This is a perfect occasion for displaying sterling silver for an elegant dinner or buffet.

• A big widescreen TV

• Don't forget to wear a Kentucky Derby Hat, especially if you are a lady.

• Fill a silver wine cooler with long stemmed red roses as a centerpiece encircled by silver julep cups filled with fresh mint.

• Fill large vases or unusual containers with red roses or colorful spring flowers; azaleas, dogwood, or any flowering greenery from your yard. The aroma and color will enhance your home and add a touch of 'Derby Fever'.

• Buffet tables can be accented by wrapping red napkins around silver flatware and tying with narrow white satin ribbon. Red or jockeysilk colors make colorful runners for tables.

• Make your food table festive by using horseshoe-shaped molds for aspics and pates. Garnish trays with tomato roses, piped cream cheese roses, rinsed and dried flower petals; scatter them on the table around the centerpiece.

• Cake molds of horseshoe and hot air balloons shapes are available. There are also candy molds of roses, horses and other decorative molds. Kentucky candies, such as Bourbon Balls, are impressive to pass at the end of the dinner or to give as gifts.

• Place a large, handsome horse sculpture in the center of a table and surround with greenery and a garland of roses for the horse's neck.

• If entertaining informally, use signs to decorate your home. Tape a sign on the closet door marked 'Paddock', on the bar marked 'Watering Hole', on the kitchen door marked 'Infield', to the dining area as the 'Clubhouse' and the television room as the 'Grandstand'. Restroom doors might be marked as 'Studs' and 'Mares'. A "Derby Parking Only" sign is perfect for the driveway or out by the street foryour guests.