For as long as I can remember I have had a dream of  hosting a beautiful outdoor dinner party in a garden setting and I finally did it! My hubby was totally on board and did all the muscle work for me. Moving tables, setting up chairs and lights to hang all around our dining area. A couple of my friends said it was a magical night. Perfect weather, delicious food and most of all good company.

I always like to use my Ikea 365 White dinner plates because it makes the food pop off the plate. The placemats are woven from water hyacinth also from Ikea and look like Pottery Barn placemats but much cheaper. 

For the water glasses I used a mix of  bubble glasses and plain glass goblets. 

I bought two really awesome glass vases called Begarlig from Ikea and put two 

tall white candles in it.

I absolutely love how the lights turned out! My hubby really had to be Macgyver to make it work. He used 4 poles with stakes attached that he pounded into the ground. They were still a little wobbly especially after he used 25lb fishing line from corner to corner to create a square around the tables for the lights to hang on. So then he had to string more fishing line from each pole to trees and edges of house to keep the square taught. He totally figured everything out and it looked gorgeous! 

I served bruschetta, roasted vegetables, a yummy quinoa brown rice yam cherry salad,  fruit, cheese and crackers and I asked my friends to bring something to grill. 

For dessert I made individual peach blueberry crisps that were soooo yummy!

We feel so blessed to call these folks our friends :)

I will post recipes for my Bruschetta, quinoa salad and peach blueberry crisp tomorrow.