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Celebrate the season with a garden party

Summertime is the time of choice for garden parties - not the kind of decoration, and all you have to do is throw the garden door and fire up the grill. </ P <p>> But the parties have a way to move beyond a simple formula, especially when the place is your own backyard. The sky is literally the limit when it comes to the possibility of complications, the fun times and lasting memories, you can create when you entertain outdoors. </ P> "You want everything to look great," said Melanie Cavender, a garden designer and owner of Down to Earth Gardening."It's as if it were a part of your home - the garden should be spiffed up. Everything must be neat, and the garden should look like a virgin. "</ P> Cavender often helps clients get their gardens ready for festive events. She also threw parties in his garden in Leawood, hanging lanterns in trees, hiring a caterer to take care of the grid and planting and size for your garden in top shape for the guests. </ P> & ldquo; Everyone who came to town for the party was in court for helping me get ready, "she said .</ P> Cavender is a perfectionist when it comes to decorating. Customers may not notice the details, but it's the whole point, "she said. They are simply supposed to see that everything is welcoming, colorful and well maintained. " </ Strong Often, a garden party offers an excuse to do things around the yard that you needed to do anyway, but just do not have time for, Cavender said.She recommends painting the patio furniture, power washing the deck, the size of shrubs, mulch and refreshing alternative to your collection of hodgepodge of pots too small with large pots that have a dramatic presence and will look great the summer. </ P> <p> Getting ready for a garden party is not so different from preparing for corporate events, "said Scott Cook, a professional event planner with Bishop McCann and co-Chair of the Diffa this year (Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS) garden tour, which includes a garden party on Friday for hundreds of guests at the Museum of Kansas City.</ P> "One of the first things I do when I'm planning an event or having friends over is to get ideas in my head and on paper." </ P> Cook lists the main elements: invitations, decorations, food, drinks and music. The list allows to establish some momentum, "he said. </ P> "It helps you free your mind and start doing things takes over," he said. </ P <p>> When it comes to garden parties, the first thing on your list should the backup plan.</ P> "You should always have a contingency plan," said Patti Gehring, a wedding designer and owner of Patti Gehring Signature Weddings in Overland Park. </ P> Garden weddings are the most beautiful, but they are the most difficult, "she said. "Even if this is your garden, you have to see it as a place, and it's a place off site." </ P> All the amenities of a country club, hotel or banquet hall must be available.</ P Employment> Gehring is to organize everything: tents and furniture, linens, lighting, dance floor, caterers, florists and a parking lot. Stress management is one of the services provided Gehring, weddings and backyard are breeding grounds for stress. </ P> Gene Kay and his daughter Verna, Wesley, and her fiance, Mark Bush, married in Vernas & rsquo; backyard in Leawood a year ago and Gehring was their wedding coordinator. They had about a year to plan and prepare.</ P> "The neighbors thought we were part of a reality TV show," Kay said Verna. "The trucks of flowers started coming in the first week of May and we had all these trucks outside our house for a month." </ P Business> Verna, take the cake, specializing in cakes wedding cake and she made his daughter. There were three tents and 200 people. </ P <p>> Ultimately, "it was magnificent," said Verna. "Have pips occur? Oh Yes, but what? You see your friends and family, and it was so beautiful."Parties </ p> garden children do not need professional event coordination, of course, but the lessons of the big time can be reduced to fit the size of your backyard and ambitions . Helen Thompson, a designer and owner of the garden is my nature, the work for his flower beds instead of party in May. </ P> "We plant, mulch the flower beds, trim the edges," she said. "We focus on having a relaxed fun."</ P> Gene Hundley, an avid gardener in downtown that keeps the outside at least once a week during the summer, the gardens is by DIFFA Design Committee this year. Last year, the kickoff party was in his garden on Rockhill Road. It is designed for entertainment, with wandering paths and spots for intimate conversation or dancing under the stars. </ P> The party was a thrill DIFFA, Hundley said, but the dinners for six to eight people are among his favorites. It has two tents 10-by-10-foot.</ P> "You can go back in five minutes with a little help, he said," then you just set up portable tables and tablecloths, and you're done. "</ P <p> Having supplies garden party at your fingertips takes the pressure off, if you want to impromptu gatherings, which are often the busiest and most fun," said Monelle Totah, a professional development products Williams-Sonoma. Her garden parties are simple, with fresh food served on dishes melamine style, and without foot plastic wine glasses that resemble crystal heavy.</ P> "I'm always ready," she said. </ P> It is a basket of cutlery and napkins in the kitchen and food stores garden party and pillows for outdoor furniture in a cage. She turns her garden party with lanterns. </ p> Menus for Totah parts are made from fresh vegetables from farmers' market. All foods taste better when you eat out, "said she.</ P> <hr /> <div class="infobox-hr-separator" class="infobox"> <span class="infobox-head"> COUNCIL OF PRO </ span> </ strong> <br /> <strong> Monelle Totah </ strong> </ p> <em> Vice-president of product development for Williams-Sonoma </ em> </ p> • That the colors in your garden inspire your palette. Linens, tableware and cushions can play the colors of the flowers around you. </ P> <p> • Keep a set of dishes just for garden parties. melamine is elegant and colorful unbreakable.</ P> "I have not bought paper plates in centuries," said Totah. </ P> <strong> Scott Cook </ strong> </ p> Co-Chair <em> Gardens DIFFA by tower design and a professional event planner with Bishop McCann Kansas City </ em> </ p> <p> • Have a backup plan. </ P> "That's life-saver," said he. "If you have a backup plan, you can run it without anyone realizing something went wrong."</ P> <strong> MELANIE Cavender </ strong> </ p> <em> garden designer and owner of Down To Earth Gardening </ em> </ p> • Edit your garden: A party gives you a good excuse to get rid of shrubs fallow, plantations tired and garden furniture that has seen better days. Place the pipe on. <Pots Flowers / P> • Wide have a big impact. planting with a sturdy box, a column or a colorful evergreen, flowering vine on a trellis. Fill with colorful annuals around them. </ P> • To beat the bugs, install fans.</ P> "It circulates the air, and it really makes a difference." </ P> <strong> BENJAMIN KAY VERNA </ strong> </ p> <em> Owner take <Cake / em> </ p> • If the game is a lot of work with professionals, and let handle details. </ P> • Fake the cake flies like the icing. Verna was a fake cake in the garden and a wedding cake taste of six in the house. </ P> <strong> GENE Hundley </ strong> </ p> DIFFA <em> Gardens by Design committee members.Last year, the party guests before the visit was in his garden on Rockhill Road. </ Em> </ p> • Cook in advance. </ P> • Let guests get their own drinks at a self-service bar. </ P> • light night. votives or pillar candles will look great by tens magical garden. </ P> • What are you waiting for? </ P> "I never let the garden projects help more people," he said. "If you wait, it is simply not happen."</ P> PATTI <strong> GEHRING </ strong> </ p> Weddings <em> designer and owner of Patti Gehring Signature Weddings </ em> </ p> • Provide baskets colored scales in small, medium and large so that women can remove their high heels. </ P> • Location. If the weather, you do not have to put in place. </ P> But if it rains, it's a real party-killer without a tent, "she said.</ P> Professionals <p> know how to choose the right tent for your garden and install correctly. </ P> • Rent a dance floor. </ P> <strong> HELEN Thompson </ strong> </ p> <em> garden designer and owner of It's my nature. marriage of his daughter was in her garden. </ Em> </ p> • A backyard wedding may not be cheaper than a wedding in another place. </ P> "It is more expensive," said Thompson. "There are a million things you need."</ P> • Wait June </ P> "There's a reason there are more weddings in June than at any time. There is not much in bloom in May" </ P> • Buy fresh flowers to complement the flowers in your garden. </ P> </ div> <hr class =" infobox -hr-séparateur "/> <div class="infobox"> <span class="infobox-head"> Resources and Contacts </ span> </ strong> <br /> • <strong> Pottery Barn </ strong>, 400 W. 47th St., 816-753-3252, 5150 W.119th St. Leawood, 913-906-0988; <a href="http://www.potterybarn.com"> www.potterybarn.com / a> </ p> • <strong> Williams-Sonoma </ strong> , 4764 Broadway, 816-561-4358, 5204 W. 119th Street, Leawood, 913-345-1989, www href = "http://www.williams-sonoma.com"> <a. <Williams-sonoma.com / A> </ p> • <strong> Down to Earth Gardening </ strong>, 913-341-7502 </ p> • Take the Cake <strong> </ strong>, <a href = "http://www.takethecakekc.com"> www.takethecakekc.Com </ a> </ p> • Patti Gehring Signature Weddings <strong> </ strong> <<a www.pattigehringsignatureweddings.com href="http://www.pattigehringsignatureweddings.com"> / a> </ p > • It's My <strong> <Nature / strong design of paysage>, <a href="http://www.itsmynature.biz"> www.itsmynature.<Biz / A> </ p> </ div> <hr class="infobox-hr-separator" /> <div class="infobox"> <strong> DIFFA GARDENS </> <strong / P> <p> BY DESIGN TOUR </ strong> </ p> <strong> June 11: </ strong> Part Patterns in Kansas City Museum </ p> <strong> June 12: </ strong> Garden Tour. Fourteen gardens in the north-east of Kansas City and the Old Leawood will open to visitors.</ P> <strong> June 13: </ strong garden> Kansas City designer John Rufenacht Evening Place "in Clinton, Missouri, will open. </ P> • For tickets ($ 75 for users of party and visits, 20 million visits only) or for more information on the Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS, go to href = "http://www.diffakc.org"> <a www.diffakc.org </ a >.

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