Elegant Backyard Italian Dinner

Turn an ordinary Italian Dinner into an Elegant Night

Here are some fun ideas to turn an ordinary Italian Dinner into an elegant evening in your backyard.

1. Get out the glue gun and add pasta bowties to raw lasagna noodles for name tags. I used a thin marker to write the names. Everyone loved them!

2. Place spaghetti in small wicker baskets. I picked up mine at Target for $3.

3. Pick up some basil in the grocery store and place them in cleaned out tomato cans or boxes. I added a polka dot ribbon because I didn’t like seeing the plastic pots.

4. Use a tablecloth. White is classic Italian or red checks adds a bit more dimension to the table.

5. It was a little windy so I combined battery operated pillar candles and real tea lights.

6. Hang battery operated string lights. If your backyard doesn’t have string lights, consider purchasing an over the table rod stand to clamp on the table. I have a pergola and I just drape the lights over the beams.

7. A friend picked up Chianti at Trader Joe’s and we’ll be keeping the bottle to use as a candle holder for out next dinner -

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