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Hi, I’m Debi Lilly. Tonight, we are throwing a beautiful engagement party at Hotel 71, up on the 39th floor. This room is so beautiful. It’s for Val Warner and her lucky fiancé Jeff.

We have the whole room set up like a cocktail party, which is a great trend for any kind of party, a wedding, an engagement party, you name it. Dance floor in the middle, DJ is going to be rocking all night, all sorts of cocktail tables, highboy tables like you see here, and then shorter tables with chairs.

My favorite detail tonight is that we personalized the whole color palette all around the bride’s favorite colors. We’ve got turquoise. We’ve got a deep pretty purple, bright beautiful green, hot pink.

The flowers are so fun. They are just drinking glasses, believe it or not just a regular glass. You can pull this out of your pantry for your next party. Fill them with water. We submerged a tea leaf which is a very hot floral trend. Then we have a hydrangea on one side, and orchids on the other, or tulips. There is some variation around the room. This is such an easy design to do sections if you will of your floral, and yet you can make it really beautiful and sheek by using one color, they call it mono-color, in your arrangements.

This one is green. Others are purple. Others are hot pink. It’s a really beautiful look for your party.

As seen on Debi Lilly TV:

Hi, I’m Debi Lilly. Tonight, we are throwing an engagement party at Top Hotel 71, up in the sky overlooking Chicago. This is such a beautiful room. A great way to make your tables as beautiful as your room is to do our barrel wrap on the highboy table.

What you do is you take a solid linen. This is from BBJ Linen. It’s a Teal Lamour. Hangs to the floor very elegantly, but to make it look like a custom linen, you can take a coordinating color. Here we used an Eggplant Lamour Chair Tie, and you just wrap it around the table using little pins. You just pin all the way around the table every few inches. Usually, we do it about six inches, and it gives you this really beautiful custom look. You can do it in any color palette you love. Instantly dresses things up, and makes it look even more special than a regular linen.

Also, another great trick for your tables is to take a beautiful plate or a charger, and you can drop it right on top of your table. These also are from BBJ Linen. You can use colors that coordinate to your linen, to your flowers, to your overall party. By setting your centerpiece on top, it just makes it look a little bigger, adds a splash of color, adds a little texture. It’s a really great trick that we love to use.

Thank you Biz Bash for the fab Vine feature…

Take a peek: How This Event Pro Is Using Vine and Why You Should Too!

Happy summer entertaining to you!

Summer boho chic entertaining trends from our colorful, oh so cool weekend in sunny San Francisco with Sunset Magazine…

Everything on the table – Debi Lilly Design right in the aisles of Safeway.

Glass Rio Plates, Glasses, Carafes…

Gorgeous Sunflower bouquets…

Summer Succulents already potted in mossy pots…

Just a quick sneak peek…much much more to come from sweet, charming San Mateo and Sunset, my mecca lifestyle magazine’s HQ!

Woah!

Fabio?

Ludo?

Yigit?

Celebrating with us for the next two days in sunny California?

Just take a LOOK at this lineup.

Who’s joining us for this weekend’s kickoff to summer?

We’re sharing summer party trends, DIY Sangria Bar, signing books, setting the seasonal table and so much more.

We’ll be sneak peeking, posting and sharing all weekend long from Menlo Park – so be sure to follow along on Facebook, Instagram and of course Twitter, so you don’t miss a single trick – or trend.

Not sure how…

Not sure when…

But somehow – it’s already summer!

Our Facebook cover contest ends tonight – so make sure to tell us your favorite cover shot for the new issue launching this weekend.

Thank you to our dear tastemaker friends Suzy Brown and Corey Amaro for the seriously gorgeous summer cover pics…

And cheers to a simply stunning summer.

Happy Windy City Live Dream Wedding Day!

Did you tune in today?

Just a little sneak peek from the amazing, unbelievable, beautiful, gorgeous wedding fun.

I mean…have you EVER seen such a fun groom shot?

Todd Rosenberg – you nailed it.

You nailed every single photo – which you so hipster cool texted to producers from the scenic lakefront, direct from your camera.

April and Sakou – we miss you already!

Many thanks to everyone who partnered with us and Windy City Live for this divine dreamy wedding come true: BBJLinen, Tablescapes Party Rental, Art of Illumination, Peninsula Hotel, Todd Rosenberg, DJ Megan Taylor Fig Media,  Swirlz Cupcakes, Toni Patisserie, Frost Gelato, Glazed and Infused, Moet et Chandon, Belvedere Vodka, MaisonPR, Erica Strama and Two Birds/Nordstrom, Mario Triccoci, Nicholas Joseph/Custom Suits You…just to name a few…and of course – our team at A Perfect Event – who literally hasn’t stopped working for one single minute, for weeks on end.

Merci beaucoup, it was simply perfect.