Asian party decorations feature vivid colors.
Asia is the earth's largest continent and is home to 60 percent of the world's population. Transform the venue for your Asian theme party with decorations reminiscent of the Far East. Take your guests away for an evening by creating an environment featuring vivid colors, elegant arrangements and place settings infused with Asian flair. Extend wishes of happiness, prosperity and longevity to your guests by choosing decorations featuring the Asian symbols for these ideals. Burn some Asian-inspired incense to entice the olfactory senses with a rich and soothing aroma. Does this Spark an idea?
Asian Color Palette
You add dramatic effect to the venue for an Asian-themed party by using decorations in black, white and red, with splashes of gold and jade green. Dress your couch pillows with aquamarine or gold pillowcases made of silky fabrics with intricate embroidered designs. Decorate your walls with a famous Asian print such as "Tsunami" by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, or a painting of Koi fish and lily ponds. Hang string lights with Maneki Neko luminaries around your front door. The Japanese refer to Maneki Neko as the "welcomer cat" and place replicas of the figurine in their homes to promote prosperity and happiness.
Asian Table Settings
Match your table settings to your Asian-themed dinner party. Wrap bottles of wine with bottle covers modeled after a Cheongsam blouse or kimono robe. Set Japanese sushi plates with a white and pink cherry blossom designs on top of bamboo placements. Use chopsticks for utensils instead of traditional silverware, and decorate each place setting with a porcelain, crane-shaped chopstick rest. Chopstick rests add elegance and authenticity to your Asian-themed place setting, and are useful in preventing chopsticks from rolling off the table and maintaining sanitary eating conditions. Choose a floral centerpiece featuring Asian flowers, such as gardenias, orchids and cherry blossoms.
Chinese New Year Decorations
Not everyone can hop a plane to visit Tienanmen Square, but you can bring the excitement of China to your home by throwing a Chinese New Year themed celebration. Follow Chinese traditions when decorating for your event, and create floral arrangements featuring blooming plum blossoms, bamboo sprigs and pine springs. In China, this unique combination symbolizes unity between friends and families. Arrange oranges and tangerines in glass bowls for your tabletops. The Chinese consider these fruits symbols of long and happy relationships. Center your remaining party decorations around Chinese zodiac animals. Dragons, lions, tigers and monkeys are among many animals with which you can decorate. Hang ornaments representing these animals around the party space. Welcome people to your party by hanging a paper scroll painted with the Chinese symbols for good fortune, happiness, prosperity, health, wealth and long life on your front door.
Asian Themed Wine Tasting Party
You can put an Asian twist on your next wine-tasting party. Fill the room with the soothing aroma of Nag Champa incense, which combines the smell of resin from the orient's Ailanthus Malabarica tree and sandalwood. Serve cheese, grapes and other hors d'œuvres on rectangular Japanese sushi plates. Transfer wine to a sake flask and present wine tastings to guests in sake cups. Decorate your wine bar with a red, silky table runner embroidered with the Shou symbol, a Chinese character for longevity. Use a statue of a laughing Buddha as an accent piece. Many Asian cultures believe the Laughing Buddha embodies the ideals of health, happiness, prosperity and longevity.
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