18 Decor and Catering Ideas for a Festive Fourth of July

Tiny Pies also offers a 12-pack of mini pies in flavors including apple, cherry, brownie and pecan, and Sweet Texas Pecan. The pies can be decorated with stars and letters forming U-S-A. Tiny Pies offers catering for social and corporate events.

National furniture rental company Designer8 has several red, white, and blue options for events, including the blue Sebastian sofa and red leather square ottomans. (The pictured look also features the company’s Soleil coffee table.)

Freed’s Bakery in Las Vegas is offering the Firecracker Cake this season. Shaped like a red firecracker, the cake can be made with a variety of flavor options, including vanilla with Bavarian cream or strawberry puree, chocolate with Bavarian cream or raspberry puree, or red velvet with cream cheese filling.

Svedka Vodka hosted a "Red, White & Booze" barbecue on June 12 at a private home in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. Produced by Shadow Events, the event had decor inspired by the brand's latest bottle design. “To highlight Svedka’s Party Edition bottle, we wanted to bring the brands cheeky lifestyle and limited-edition bottle to life with decor inspired by the bottle’s graffiti and chrome design,” explained Jamie D’Attoma, vice president of Shadow Events.

In addition to Svedka cocktails and burgers, corndogs, and chicken skewers, barbecue guests drank Svedka’s Rocket Pop—a frozen slushie made with Svedka vodka plus layers of strawberry purée, coconut cream, and blue curaçao.

As the sun set, star lighting illuminated the venue’s walkways, which also featured branded, social-media-friendly air dancers.

Throughout the night, guests—including TV personality Kristin Cavallari and Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk—played ping-pong on an illuminated blue and red table. “[We wanted to] provide guests with a multi-level sensory experience with interactive and engaging touchpoints throughout,” explained D’Attoma.

Austin’s Tiny Pies offers a variety of July 4-theme pastries, including the Star Hand Pies: golden butter-crust stars filled with apple, cherry, or blueberry filling.

On June 30, South Dakota Tourism brought a 22-foot-tall model of Mount Rushmore to Millennium Park in Chicago. The space also featured a climbing wall modeled after South Dakota’s Custer State Park, and a barbecue serving buffalo burgers.

At an event for the Will Ferrell movie The Campaign, Designer8 used red and blue pieces from its Domino collection. The company's light-up side tables completed the patriotic look.

Be Inspired PR’s Tassels & Tastemakers networking event, held May 31 at Casita Hollywood in Los Angeles, had an upscale outer-space theme with some starry ideas that are also appropriate for Fourth of July-theme events. On one wall of the venue, a series of stars featured the names of guests who had donated to the event’s Make-A-Wish fund-raiser.

Gifting company the Daydream Republic handed out star-shaped pins and hair clips for guests to wear throughout the night.

Festive drink stirrers from Sketch & Etch Creative also came in a star shape.

Trevi Italian Restaurant, located at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, is selling a specialty cocktail on July 4. Dubbed the Red, White & Boom, the drink is a strawberry margarita made with triple sec, tequila, Blue Curacao, sweet and sour mix, fresh strawberry, and lime.

Flags don't have to be red, white, and blue. At a Tommy Hilfiger event in New York in 2010, designer Raúl Àvila created a 10- by 24-foot topiary in the shape of the stars and stripes.

Minted offers starry flag stickers (24 for $13) that can be attached to straws and drink stirrers for a festive detail.

At Diffa’s Dining by Design industry showcase in New York, Ralph Lauren Home created a table inspired by its Spring 2017 collection. The summery design featured a graphic nautical theme with white lacquer and natural materials like teak and braided water hyacinth. Red, white, and blue tableware added a July 4-appropriate touch.

Trejo’s Coffee and Donuts in Los Angeles is offering two kinds of Fourth of July doughnuts this year. The lemon meringue doughnut is filled with lemon curd and topped with meringue, while a chantilly cream doughnut is mixed with strawberries and blueberries and topped with toasted coconuts.