Choosing the Flowers for White House State Dinners
Never underestimate how one tiny diplomatic detail can spoil even the grandest events. Take flowers at state dinners. White House florist Nancy Clarke reveals that picking the wrong color or type can send the wrong signal. Don't pick white for a Muslim dinner. That's the color of death. Ditto yellow for Latin American guests, she writes in White House History, the journal of the White House Historical Association.
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Take flowers at state dinners
The only sentence that makes sense.
Who needs flowers to eat a state dinner?
Spend more on food and less on "atmosphere" and intended results will be better.
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