you the pleasure of setting food out on lovely dishes says mehrishi it helps even more if one or two of your platters have builtin dishes in the centre for dip or cocktail sauce so keep an eye out for great appetiser crockery at wellstocked storeswork on the ambiance the right atmosphere can simply uplift the whole experience apart from making full use of the dim lighting you have at home go for some fairy lights in yellow single colour fairy light look anytime more elegant than the multicoloured ones also to create some diwali festive mood you can have some mini rangolis and diyas at the entrance of the house the welcome the guests also mini lanterns in various corners of the balcony look beautiful