From champagne coupes and flutes to scalloped tinsel garlands and sparklers, here’s everything you need to kick off the New Year celebrations.
The ingredients needed to throw a great party are relatively simple. You need good music, a great bunch of guests, and a genuine sense of hospitality.
Nail those and add these decorative items below, and you're ready to go.
Happy New Year.
Party Time
The Drigrip champagne flutes, shown in the lead image, will elevate the party atmosphere no matter what kind of bubbles you serve. They cost €2.50 each from Ikea.
It also stocks a tall coupe, Frojda, seen here above, a set of four costs €12. Be sure to keep the merchandise chilled in an ice bucket.
Organised chaos
Set up by Warren Keeper and Ali Jones, Irish stationery design house Bold Bunny’s Forget Me Not calendar comes with stickers for all the activities your household engages with, be it dog walking, gym time, or family birthdays and get-togethers, all is here in one place for every member of the family to consult.
It costs €29.95 and is a great gift to bring to a New Year’s Eve party.
Gilded Age decor
Dress mantles and mirrors to impress with this double scallop-edged tinsel garland, 180 cm long, €39, ex delivery from UK-based Rockett St George.
Your host will love these
These heart-shaped champagne coupes, €17 each, take the meaning of raising a glass to a whole new level. Sip, swoon, repeat. Buy at April and the Bear.
Premier cru
The Dune flute by Kelly Wearstler has become a modern classic.
Great for a small get-together where guests behave like grown-ups, for these vessels cost €80 for a set of four, excluding delivery.
The whiskey tumblers cost €58 and the white wine glasses, €94, all ex delivery for similar sets from Serax.
Add pops of colour
Meri is an appropriately named range of stemware.
The blue-based champagne flutes and the pink-based cocktail glasses cost €29.50 for a set of two, excluding delivery, from Oliver Bonas.
Catch someone’s attention
Want to make a splash at midnight? Strap these champagne sparklers, €8.95 each, from The Party Shop, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, to the bubbly, kill the lights, and make an entrance before popping the corks.
