A Wine at Nine get together is the perfect opportunity to showcase your style and sophistication through your choice of wines and flowers.

Floral Decorating Ideas

• Ask your florist to design flowers in a champagne bucket or in a cluster of wine bottles.
• Decorate passing trays with flowers.
• When serving champagne, pierce a flower blossom and several berries with a cocktail pick and lay it across the top of the champagne glass.
• Place groups of flowers and candles of various heights around the room.
• Ceramic, marble or fabric-covered wine coolers also make decorative flower vases. (If using terra-cotta, line the inside with a plastic bag to hold the water.)
• Floating candles and fragrant blooms in a crystal bowl make a simple yet elegant centerpiece.

Special Touches

Decorate food serving trays with mini grape wreaths (lying flat) as "holders" for serving bowls or plates.

Suggested Flowers

A few interesting conversation starters might include cosmos, roses, lilies, anthuriums, orchids, freesia, lisianthus, callas, ranunculus, tulips, iris and gerbera daisies.

Ask your florist about flowers for a Wine at Nine Party.