The big new look is colored rims for all your table glasses. Look for deep colors to match your tablecloth and plates, or silver-, gold-, or copper-rimmed glasses. Glasses don’t have to be clear. Look at pearlized frosted glasses.

Hued glasses in pastels and brights can add just the right amount of color to your tables. Choose funky martini glasses in color or with a zigzag stem. Have a different set of glasses at the cocktail hour.

Couples in the know said they used colored red glasses and martini glasses for their fun fiesta cocktail parties, and then switched to classic crystal for the more elegant reception. Making the switch conveys the change in tone for the party’s stages.

At the bar, offer those terrific stemless vodka shot glasses that are shaped like ice cream cones and rest in a small dish

of ice chips very snazzy. Look at more tubular shot glasses and soda glasses.  These thinner, taller glasses are stylish for any drink.

If kids will attend the reception, be sure to stock child-friendly glasses in sturdy, colorful plastics (the best ones don’t look like plastic at all!) or glasses with good finger-grip designs.