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Q: My husband's birthday is January 5th. As you can imagine, we usually do very little to celebrate because we are tired of celebrating! This year, I'd like to throw him a party. Any ideas on how to make this an event people will want to attend? Should I send the invitations now or wait until closer to the date? I'm worried that an invitation could get lost in the holiday cards avalanche.
A. I can relate to this because my daughter was born Dec. 27 and her birthday always gets short shrift! I think people will be relieved to attend a party for a reason other than "the holidays," especially if it's after Jan. 1, when everything seems to slow down for weeks. I would send invitations out NOW NOW NOW so that people pay attention to it before their mailboxes overflow.
By Liz Seymour |
November 15, 2006; 10:33 AM ET
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Posted by: | November 15, 2006 12:32 PM
My first thought on the husband's birthday is this is a perfect reason to throw a combo birthday party/new year's eve party (or if they aren't nightowls, do a football watching party on New Year's Day).
Posted by: Fairfax | November 17, 2006 12:34 PM
The perfect theme for your party is "Twelfth Night". January 6th is the historic end of the Christmas Season and the beginning of Epiphany, and it was the big party time in Shakespeare's day (sort of the beginning of Carnival season, which ends on Mardi Gras). There are lots of websites with party ideas; you can have a King cake, ask people to dress up (masquerade), use of "Lord of Misrule" theme, etc. I like to have a Twelfth Night open house as a farewell to the holiday season; we keep our Christmas decorations up, and have some of the traditional Christmas goodies. People are more relaxed since there is no more shopping or other events going on.
Another thought is that there may be football or basketball games to watch, as the BCS showdown may be that weekend, so you could have a football party (maybe not exactly on the 5th).
I agree that you need to get people to "save the date." The risk is that people are out of town with ski trips or visits to relatives.
Posted by: Lindy | November 17, 2006 06:40 PM
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Here's an unrelated question. My sister-in-law and I have been trying to deal with the clutter in our lives. We've vowed that for Christmas and birthdays, we'll only give each other presents that do NOT bring another belonging into the house. So, no clothes, books, toylike things...
OK, so I'm going to get her two gift certificates -- one for her hairdresser and one for a dinner out.
What other kinds of things fall into this 'clutterfree gift' idea? I'm getting stumped!