Drink Garnishes

Summer parties call for refreshing icy beverages .  To make them even more delicious, have an assortment of fruits and garnishes on hand for your guests to easily stir in such as smashed blackberries, strawberries, raspberries and mint.  Simple garnish skewers can be made with lemon wedges and berries.

Do it Yourself

For this party, we used these great old metal Igloo drink dispensers for our drinks.  To identify the drinks, we used old 4-H ribbons we found at an estate sale and added a paper medallion to the top.  We stamped the names of the drinks (such as Blue Ribbon Lemonade) on each medallion and affixed the blue ribbon "labels" to each container.

We filled a vintage kitchen cart with canning jar "glasses" and placed it next to the lemonade table.