Actividades: Make a wish Send an e-mail to your guests a week before your Christmas dinner and ask them to send you their wishes for the new year. Print them on coloured silk paper and hang them on lamps in a cascade-style, transforming them into paper chandeliers. Not only you will get an original decorative effect, but you will have your guests smiling and a topic for conversation! Dine in a fantasy tent A well-lit white tent is a cosy option for a Christmas dinner. Take advantage of the tent’s structure and put long bushy, green-leafed branches to create a natural effect. Put candles in glass lanterns and hang them in different heights (as if they were hanging from the branches) for a fairy-tale effect. Professional carols Go professional: instead of preparing some carollers among yourselves (and trying to find time for rehearsals), get a choir of professional christmas carollers to provide entertainment for the evening. It will be a nice gift for your guests and a cosy detail. Another option is to hire a gospel choir to get your guests dancing away to Christmas beat! As in Spain, a leg of cured ham is a traditional gift. Why not deliver them with carollers doing a Christmas hit? Combine tradition and design If you prefer traditional flower arrangements, fill up big glass bowls with holly and mistletoe or poinsetias (you can also find them in white, yellow and salmon colour). Scatter on the tables with different colours LED-lit candles instead of the usual wick candles to give a contemporary touch to your decoration. Hawaiian Christmas For an original, fun Christmas dinner, change the register: organise a Hawaiian Christmas party! Start by sending out invitations with Santa Claus in swimming suit or surfing. It will surely have your guests wondering. Decorate the Christmas tree and the buffet spread with typical Hawaiian orchid leis. Serve pineapple and coconut punch as a welcoming apperitif, and guava and chili meatballs brochettes for dinner, among other Hawaiian delights. "Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!" -Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.