REAL PARTIES: Chic Halloween Dinner
categories: halloween, real parties
Kara from Kara’s Party Ideas hosted a “Chic Halloween Dinner” party last weekend that looks like so much fun! I’m especially loving the black & orange drip candles, shimmery accents, black crows, and wine glasses rimmed with orange sparkle gel.
Read on for lots more images and details, as told by Kara…
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“I hosted my Chic Halloween Dinner last week, which had a ‘black damask’ theme along with the obvious color palette of orange and black. I also added accents of shimmer and chandeliers.
I found the perfect Elegant Black Damask printable party pack on Paper & Cake {place cards, napkin rings, cupcake toppers, etc}!
I topped the glasses with orange sparkle gel icing and added spider rings to the bottoms:
I love this black shimmery candelabra…
{Also pictured above: licorice wheels that were hung above the dessert table, as inspired by Amy Atlas}
More shimmery party decor…
Drinks: I put orange Jones Soda in a black cauldron filled with ice and set Monster energy drinks out {in the “Khaos” flavor that matched the black and orange theme perfectly}. The crow on top was inspired by Hostess with the Mostess…
The Dessert Table:
The cute cupcake toppers were part of the Paper & Cake printables. I also made this chocolate pistachio ganache cake {recipe found in Celebrate magazine..it’s the cake that’s on the front cover}. It turned out really good & tasty!
I added masks to the little figures on the cookies…
The Oreos were rolled in orange and black sprinkles..
And last but not least, the party favors were my homemade caramel apples and/or cute little boxes {paper & cake} filled with candy corn.”
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Fabulous Halloween party, Kara! Thanks for sharing it!
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Fabulous!
Oct 31, 2009 at 8:39 am -
thanks so much!
Oct 31, 2009 at 9:20 am -
Wow Kara…. you did a FABULOUS job decorating for this party! I am so impressed
Oct 31, 2009 at 11:37 am
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Awesome ideas! Most of them are doable for the average person too. Thanks for showing us!
Oct 31, 2009 at 12:05 pm -
I am so sad I missed it.
Oct 31, 2009 at 12:24 pm
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LOVE IT!
Oct 31, 2009 at 2:04 pm -
So Cool ! You have a great imagination,and I bet you are a very “FUN ” friend to have. Hope your peeps appreciate your hard work. Thanks for sharing,
Nov 1, 2009 at 9:46 am -
Wowza!
Nov 1, 2009 at 5:33 pm -
bookmarked for future party ideas..
Nov 2, 2009 at 1:58 am -
How chic is that shiny black pumpkin?!
Nov 2, 2009 at 4:20 am -
Fabulous details! Great job, Kara!
Nov 2, 2009 at 10:12 am -
Love it! Target had some skull-damask pattern items that would have worked also perfect with this theme!
Nov 2, 2009 at 10:19 am -
Loved the use of the orange and black monster drinks!
And off topic, I wanted to tell you Jen that your blog has changed so much about how I do the little details in my life! Thank you so much…truly! I get fresh excitement everytime I visit. I would love for you to see this boy’s SPY party I recently did here:
http://www.mooreminutes.com/2009/11/secret-agent-spy-party.html
Thanks to you for the original inspiration to make each event special! I appreciate YOU and what you do!
Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 am -
Awesome ideas! I love theme parties and I made my table settings similar to yours, it was for kids so I just brightened it up a bit. Everyone said it was great!
Nov 2, 2009 at 11:57 am -
Wow….her party made mine look pathetic.
Nov 3, 2009 at 10:57 pm
http://confessionsofa40-somethingmamaqueen.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-tablescape.html -
Hi Lisa –
Thanks so much for your sweet message! I really appreciate it – things like that are so nice to hear… makes it all feel worth it when I get overwhelmed on this end
Your spy party turned out great! I love how creative you were with the food especially… the “Kaboom!” cake is awesome and the magnifiying glasses made out of cheese & pretzel rods are genius! I’m thinking we might have to feature it as a “real party” if you’re up for it!
Nov 4, 2009 at 7:19 am
