11 Holiday Party Ideas and a DIY Holiday Ice Bucket
Love the two tone red on these heels and they are on sale!
Love the detailing of these dainty cut outs in this dress (on sale 50% off)! Also I’m kind of obsessed with these hoop earrings – they are my favorite right now.
It was my first time making the sugar rimmed glasses. The lady at the store gave me a little tip – honey works better than water to get the sugar to stick 🙂
DETAILS: RED CUT-OUT DRESS (ON SALE!) | COLORBLOCK MULE HEELS (ON SALE!) | GOLD HEXAGON HOOP EARRINGS (OBSESSED WITH THESE!) | SILVER WATCH
CODY: BLACK VELVET BLAZER (ON SALE) | WHITE BUTTON DOWN | PLAID TIE (ALSO GOT THIS ONE)| BLACK DENIM (SIMILAR HERE) | ARGYLE SOCKS
I always love any excuse to get dressed up, so Cody and I are all about throwing holiday parties for friends and family. As hosts, your attire is one of the most important ways for really sealing the deal for your holiday party so it’s important to dress accordingly. A glam dinner party is one celebration guests will always get excited to get a chance to dress up for. I love this red dress (50% off) with the shoulder cut-outs. This is another great red dress for a Christmas party and they also have a lot of really cute green dresses. All their dresses are 50% off right now so you can get your Holiday favorite on sale!
I always like to coordinate with Cody (even more so when we are hosting a get together) so we coordinated our looks together with this plaid tie. I’m also obsessed with this velvet jacket. I’ve been looking for one forever and love this one.
Another must for setting the right mood is a touch of DIY to make the party feel more personal. I’d been wanting to make a DIY ice bucket for an extra festive element to the party. To make your own, get 2 round containers of different sizes. (I used a plastic Red Vines container; you can also use a plastic popcorn tin or anything else you can find really – just make sure it’s not glass so it doesn’t crack during the freezing process.) Set the smaller container within the larger and fill the space between the two with distilled water for a clearer end look. Add cranberries and rosemary (in hindsight, I wish I would have thrown in more cranberries for color). I filled it up about halfway and froze it in phases to keep all the red and green from floating to the top. Repeat again once the first half has frozen through. Once both phases were frozen, I filled the sink with hot water and set the containers in the hot water to melt the sides so I could get the ice bucket our of the container a little easier. Once you are ready to display your ice bucket, set it on a chilled platter to minimize the melting.
Another easy but festive element we incorporated was the gold sugar-rimmed glasses and it was definitely a fun touch. 🙂
There are so many different ways you can celebrate the holidays, whether it’s getting dressed up or going low-key. Instead of sticking to the same holiday themes over and over, here are a few more ideas below.
- Holiday glam
- Color themed (pick a color for everyone to wear)
- Give-back (collecting or making items to donate to charity)
- White Elephant
- Secret Santa
- Family/office dinner party
- Ugly sweater party
- Hot chocolate bar
- Christmas carol karaoke
- Christmas tree decorating party
- Christmas movie marathon
XX, Christine
I too love dressing up and quite often prefer it to the actual going out part. 50% off sounds amazing 🙂 X
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Looking fabulous! Love your dress<3
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Great holiday inspo! I love dressing up too. It just makes it moer festive! I love that red dress!
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Great decoration ideas!
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You look beautiful! I love these pictures and all the decorations for your holiday party.
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I love absolutely everything in this post. So well styled. But that ice bucket is amazing!!!! wow. SO impressed.
Sara Kate Styling
I love this post! That ice bucket is SO cute. I’ll definitely have to try it this year. Also, you two take the cake for most gorgeous couple EVER.
Thank you for the tips! Beautiful holiday set up!
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You always have something exciting here on your blog. I love all your ideas.
Xo, Christianne
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Beautiful photos! There’s for sure a real holiday’s magic going on! 🙂
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Love this, great tips!
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What a great post…but can you please please share the source for the buffet/console table and the white chair? Love your decor – thank you!!
I LOVE this post, Christine!
The ice bucket is brilliant — what a fantastic idea! Love the cranberries & rosemary you added too. SO SMART!
And of course, you look gorgeous (both of you) per usual <3
loved your dress
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I’m obsessed with your cute shoes! Love them!
Rachel
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Looks like a fun set up for a holiday party!
I’d also love to know about the console table and that mirror!
Love, love, love this post! This dress fits you like a GLOVE and those heels are to die for!
Definitely going to have to try this ice bucket. How fun for your champagne!!
xx Kathryn
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So obsessed with those heels!!
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This DIY ice bucket is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen! You look gorgeous btw.
Laura Lily
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Such a lovely post! I love color coordination! both of you look great! xoxo
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Love, love, love the shoes!
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Love those mules! The two-tone is so cute, and perfect for the holidays.
xx, Hannah
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Good article. I will be facing some of these issues as well.
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