Invitations
Christmas party invitations
Christmas party invitations that arrive as a text from your own phone, open like an envelope with each guest’s name on it, and keep the RSVPs for you. Dinners, open houses, cookie swaps, ugly sweater parties and the office party.
Christmas party designs
Everything the invite needs
- An open house with a windowGive a start and an end time, and every invite shows the window.
- The gift swap rulesPut the price limit and the rules in the details, and they show on every invite.
- A cookie swap or a potluck that balancesA sign-up with how many of each you need: a dozen cookies each, two salads, one ham.
- Room for everyoneSet the most people who can come, and later yeses join a waitlist you let in.
- Snow, a new address, a later startOne update reaches everyone who’s coming, by text and email.
- The photosA photo wall collects everyone’s pictures from the night, from their invite or a sign on the table.
When to send it
Send Christmas party invitations three to four weeks ahead, and earlier for a party in the second or third week of December, when calendars are fullest. A big annual party can take a save-the-date in early November. Work parties need four to six weeks.
Planning tips
- Say whether it’s a dinner, a cocktail party or an open house: guests plan around it.
- Answer the usual questions on the invite: gifts, kids, dress code, a dish.
- Give the end time, so guests can plan the rest of their night.
What to write
- “Join us by the tree for food, drinks and holiday cheer, [day], [date], at [time].”
- “Drop by any time! Holiday open house, [date], from [time] to [time].”
- “Bring a dozen of your favorite cookies, plus the recipe. You’ll go home with a mix of everyone’s.”
- “Wear your worst sweater. Prizes for the ugliest, the tackiest and the one that lights up.”
Hanukkah and Kwanzaa too
Hosting for Hanukkah, or a Karamu feast for Kwanzaa? There are designs for both, with latkes and the festival of lights, kente cloth and a harvest table.
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