{"id":62444,"date":"2018-01-05T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/?p=62444"},"modified":"2018-01-05T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:09:51","slug":"christmas-party-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/05\/christmas-party-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas party recap!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello friends from snowy, frigid NY. We got blasted yesterday and it was a perfect day to stay in, warm and relaxed. Hope your new year is off to a wonderful start. So finally put this post together, better late than never, right?<\/p>\n

It’s been such a busy month between planning my Christmas party, having a house full of guests for Christmas and then leaving for Palmetto Bluff that I just didn’t have a lot of time to get all my pictures together. My Christmas party was so wonderful and honestly turned out exactly as I had hoped and envisioned. You know when things just turn out exactly like you had dreamed up? Yep that’s the case here.<\/p>\n

It was a beautiful winter night with some snow still on the ground and the evening started off in the afternoon, getting things ready once the caterer arrived (kudos to Elegant Affairs for always a job super well done) and my carolers…that’s right my carolers. The theme was “Cocktails and Carolers”,\u00a0 I had always wanted to do this type of holiday party, so we invited 80 of our nearest and dearest, and went to town with the planning.<\/p>\n

I did not do a sit down dinner, that’s so 90’s lol. Seriously though I wanted tons of passed elegant\u00a0 Hors d’ Oeuvres and a huge buffet table loaded to the gills with lots of things to nibble on and that is exactly what we did. The presentation by caterer extraordinaire certainly delivered with no detail left out. People really prefer to eat this way, that way you get to sample lots of different things and mingle.<\/p>\n

We had a big bar set up, a small bar in the library and even a cigar table on the covered porch for the men. We had carolers\u00a0 (amazing Yuletide Carolers) for the first hour and a half and then a friend gave me as a Christmas gift, a wonderful piano player and her talented voice for music for the second half of the evening. We did a lot of group singing, including The twelve days of Christmas which was such fun and really livened things up:)<\/p>\n

It was a really lively, beautiful Sunday evening that started at 6 and my last guest left around 11:30. It will always remain a wonderful Christmas memory and I just might make this an annual gig:) The carolers would absolutely be on my list to do again as they created such a magical feeling to the party.<\/p>\n

My only regret was not getting any of the food pics, it was that good….so much and all so delicious. Next time. might have a photographer come to capture it from start to finish<\/p>\n

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Set up..the most fun part!<\/p>\n

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That is Stephanie from Elegant Affairs doing what she does so well…<\/p>\n

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And here are my carolers just waiting to greet our guests!<\/p>\n

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Here is a little sneak peek of them warming up right before 6pm (start of the party, once they arrived the music went more uptempo:)<\/p>\n\n\t

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