Italy has such a rich food culture that including a nod to this in the table decor makes sense for practical purposes and lends a note of authenticity to your event. Items that can be consumed as a part of the event or taken home with the guests as party favors make them seem special and generous without being frivolous or wasteful.
Use Classic Italian Foods Decoratively
Evoke the Amalfi coast of Italy with lemons mounded up in colorful pottery bowls. For variety, intersperse roses on short stems between the lemons. For a place marker, put a colorful package of gourmet Italian at each place setting with a place card attached with a ribbon.
Classic Italian Libations
Bottles of Italian red and white wines or limoncello make useful and attractive additions to the tablescape. Choose the classic chianti or Italian red varietals such as sangiovese, barolo, brunello or amarone. White options include orvieto, soave, arneis and pinot grigio. You can even choose wines or apertifs from a specific region of Italy you are highlighting with your menu. They can be served with dinner or left for the guests to take home.
Italian Candies and Sweets En Masse
Multiple decorative bowls of wrapped and unwrapped candies such as Baci chocolates and licorice hard candies, Amaretti cookies and Torrone can create a lush and colorful display that exudes an Italian sensibility. The sweets can serve as either a buffet for people to create little bags of goodies to take home or can be eaten after the meal.
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