Outdoor Summer Party Decoration Ideas

Throwing an outdoor summer party for your friends and family is the perfect way to jump start your summer. When decorating your deck, porch, patio or backyard, your goal will likely be to create a beautiful, vibrant space that sets the mood for summer. To achieve this summery atmosphere, there are several outdoor summer party decoration ideas you can use, including setting up flowers and lights, making your picnic table festive and hanging up (and eventually knocking down) a piata.

Floral Arrangements

Setting up floral arrangements in your outdoor space is an ideal way to decorate for a summer party, as the flowers will provide lavish colors and fragrant smells. In addition, flowers are inexpensiveand sometimes freeas you may have fresh flowers growing in your garden already. Countryliving.com recommends using seasonal summer flowers, such as daisies. Decorate tables, railings and other outdoor surfaces with daisies placed in vases (the above recommends cobalt blue), or you can hang themin small galvanized metal bucketsfrom outdoor fence, porch and patio posts.

Lights

Outdoor lights come in a number of styles. Hang paper lanternsalso known as Chinese lanternsaround your outdoor space to add colorful, stylish light to your party (tastefully hung holiday lights can also do the trick). Another option is to place votives around your space, which are essentially small candles in bags, most commonly used in vigilsthese can be functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. Add tiki torches and/or citronella candles to your outdoor space to create a summery atmosphere, which will help keep mosquitoes and other uninvited bugs away from partygoers.

Festive Picnic Table

Make your picnic or outdoors table (or tables) festive by adding floral arrangements and lights to your table. Add colorful tableware, as well as a bright, underlying cotton tablecloth. You can also create a summery centerpiece for the center of your table by incorporating sand and shells for a day-at-the-beach type of feel.

Piatas

Piatas are classic outdoor summer party decorations and are especially enjoyed by children. Piatas come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors and can be filled with candies and treats. Choose a piata that complements the rest of your outdoor spaces color scheme.