Actividades: Decoration When on a tight budget, focus on making highly imaginative centrepieces for the dining and cocktails tables. They add a touch of class, creativity and colours to the decoration. Or go extreme... Centrepieces with elements of the Mafia connection: playing cards, plastic pistols, cigars, dark sunglasses... Make the overall decoration simply classy and elegant... Activities For a buffet style dinner, set up food stations: "Pizzeria", "Italian garden" (for salads and cheese), "Mama's kitchen" (pasta and sauces), "La Dolce Vita" for desserts... Give names with Italian flavours to highlight the wide selection of Italian cuisine. For a seated dinner, you can set up the hors d'oeuvres for the cocktails in little food stations and get the bar to shake up a special concoction for this event. For the dinner, work with your caterer for an Italian and Mediterranean-inspired menu. What's the first Mafia outfit that comes to mind? Yes! Dark sunglasses and long trench coat... dark suits and gel-back hairdos... Why not get your guests to dress up for this occasion? For the ladies, they can also get inspirations from the large selections of Mob movies: "The Godfather"series, The Goodfellas, etc... Generate excitement and ambience right at the arrival of the event. Greet your guests with actors dressed as "Wise Guys" (like Mafia security guards), who can joke and interact with your guests as they proceed to registration or for cocktails. Entertainment activities can include cigar rollers, a handwriting analyst with a sign reading "Last writes", and a car license-plate maker in prison garb... During dinner entertainment can feature a lively 10-piece band, a DJ, dancers in hats and guns and handcuffs and celebrities like-alikes. Why not stage a Mob raid during the event to add a high point of unexpected surprise? Actors in police outfits rush into the "scene" with sirens and lighting, can handcuffed the band and take them off stage to get the dance floor started, or some of your staff to get some laughs from the audience.... Departing guests received gift bags filled with Italian bread, pasta and olive oil, and a note reading, "From our family to yours."