Rainbow Decoration Ideas for a Luncheon
Rainbow decorations add a bright and colorful look to any event. At a rainbow-themed luncheon, you can decorate both the tables and the food in an array of cheerful colors. The key to getting a rainbow theme to come across as more than just a jumble of colors is to use stripes as much as possible and keep the colors in the correct order. Rainbows begin with red at the top followed in order by orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Does this Spark an idea?
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Tables
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If you're hosting a large luncheon with multiple tables, your table coverings can turn the entire room into a gigantic rainbow. Cover each table or row of tables in a solid-colored tablecloth of a different color. Begin with purple, which appears at the bottom of a rainbow, and work up to red. If you're working with a smaller number of tables, cover each with a white or sky blue cloth and lay a rainbow runner down the center.
Walls
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The walls of your luncheon space offer up an ideal palette for sharing your theme. If your budget allows, set up an arch of balloons in rainbow colors over the entrance or along one wall. If you're working with more limited funds, hang a poster board or banner announcing the title of your event in rainbow lettering. Crepe streamers hung from one corner to the next will make an inverted rainbow if purple is hung at the top followed by subsequent colors, each hanging a bit lower than the first.
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Centerpieces
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The centerpiece of each luncheon table will add a great deal to the overall presentation of the luncheon. Bouquets of brightly colored flowers are an elegant choice that will keep the event from feeling too childish -- a common pitfall with rainbows as the theme. Select flowers in an array of bold colors, and avoid pastels that will clash with the rest of the decorations. For an event that is, in fact, catered toward children or families, a bouquet of lollipops or rainbow-shaped cookies on sticks will make centerpieces as tasty as they are fun.
Food
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Incorporating rainbows into the menu is easier than it may seem. A fruit tray or fruit kabobs can easily incorporate all the colors of the rainbow with strawberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, honeydew melon, blueberries and grapes. Rainbow gelatin desserts are simple to make by layering the colors. Or serve a layer cake with all the colors of the rainbow created using various shades of food coloring in each cake layer.
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