Gainful covered a very good approach, Can't say much for outdoors but indoors you might think about useing those small halogen light bulds in a small lamp placed up high, shineing on the ceiling. Up out of the way, they give off a lot of soft light reflected down on everybody in the room. Last week with lots of kids over, we turned on the small lights hidden up on china cabnets or whatever and lite up the room. Works for me.
