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Skip to main contentThis Step by Step How To Guide will provide you with everything you need to know to throw an incredible Favorite Things Party! Your attendees will love it!Party planning runs deep in my blood and any excuse I have to host an event I’m all for it! The girls in my neighborhood have been planning monthly get togethers and this month I decided to host my very first Favorite Things party! Because I’m a girl who thrives on all the little details that add up to a big impact, I’ve decided to make things easier for you to host your very own party without hardly lifting a finger!A favorite things party is a gathering of your favorite people: girlfriends, neighbors, co-workers, church group, etc. Each guest brings their favorite things (wrapped or unwrapped – you decide) to be exchanged &amp; in return will go home with new favorites from fellow guests! You can determine how many presents your guests will bring depending on the number you’re expecting. For example, if you’re hosting a small party you can have your guests bring enough gifts for everyone. For larger parties you can limit gifts to 3 (a great number) or even less.Because December fills up fast for everyone, I suggest that you choose a night towards the beginning of the month &amp; send your invite out at least three weeks in advance. The invitation will include how many gifts each guest should bring, what the price limit should be, and if you want guests to provide anything else. These type of parties work great as potluck to share the load of providing all of the food!Once you set a price limit for your guests it’s time to get shopping! Black Friday sales, clearance items, and spotting a good deal are great ways to give extra special gifts for reasonable prices (within the limit!). I chose to limit the gifts to $10 and have each guest bring three each.You could increase the limit to $15, $20 and even $25 if you’d like. The higher the limit, the nicer the gifts can be – but also keep in mind it’s an expensive time of year &amp; it may be difficult for guests to shell out loads of extra money.The gifts should all be the same (i.e. if your favorite thing is candles, you’ll bring three different candles). However, it’s fun to add variety by changing scents or colors when possible. Love candles but have a handful of favorite scents? Bring three different ones! Blankets happen to be your favorite? How about three different colors, patterns or prints! Add a little variety while keeping the gifts the same!When each guest arrives, they will write their name on three slips of paper (the number of slips of paper is determined by the number of gifts everyone brings. Everyone bringing five gifts? Write your name on five slips of paper).At the start of the gift exchange you’ll draw numbers for the amount of guests you have. Have ten attendees? Write 10 separate slips numbered 1-10. This will determine the order in which guests will present their gifts.Starting with #1, the guest will gather their gifts &amp; proceed to draw three names* from the name bowl. If they choose their own name, they replace it with another. If they choose two of the same names, they replace one with another until there are three separate names other than their own. These three will be the recipients of their favorite gifts. As they pass out their gifts they explain why they’ve chosen them as their favorite!Helpful Tip! *For our party, we somehow got down to the last two people before one of the guests had their name drawn at all! While this is unlikely, a good way to prevent this would be to have three separate bowls &amp; have each guest put one slip of paper into each. That way for the first round you’ll get through everyone’s name at least once, then for the second round you’ll get through everyone’s name a second time &amp; so on and so forth.This is entirely up to you! The beauty of this party is that it can be as minimal or as elaborate as you want – or as your budget allows!Because this was the first year of being a host I basically started from the ground up. For future parties I’ll have most everything I need. Therefore, this will be the most expensive year &amp; it will become cheaper in future years. And trust me, this will definitely be an annual tradition from here on out!Party favors are an easy way to thank your guests for coming to the party. This Christmas potpourri will be the perfect way for the attendees to ring in the holidays in their own home. In addition to guests being able to grab a bag on their way out I also had a pot of this summering on the stove all evening!This was one of my favorite parts of the evening! I’m personally not a soda drinker but I’ve ALWAYS wanted to include a soda bar at a party – it was perfect!Basically you’ve got your soda, your syrups &amp; your mix-ins. Lay it all out &amp; let your guests go wild! Again, I reached out to my soda-shop-drinking buddies for their help in drink combos &amp; decided to switch up the names to go along withour holiday theme. I LOVE how they turned out!This is a great place in your party to let your attendees creativity shine. The drink combo recipes are for those who need a little direction, otherwise feel free to mix up and mash any flavors that your heart desires!As I’ve mentioned before there are a number of options here. You can go as easy as finger foods/appetizers to as elegant as a three course meal – pick your pleasure! We did a potluck style for ours (although this was the only photo of food that I took… whoops!). Since our party was around dinnertime I wanted to have a substantial option in the event that everyone decided to bring a sweet treat.I absolutely LOVE making this Creamy Tomato &amp; Tortellini Soup recipe from my friend Alli! It’s ALWAYS a hit at parties. A couple of things I switched up from her recipe was instead of using the cans of condensed soup I opted for the Pacific Roasted Red Pepper &amp; Tomato Soup carton (which we already had on hand because we buy it on the regular from Costco).I also decided rather than chopping the sun dried tomatoes I prefer them a finer consistency (I don’t particularly care for fishing tomato skins out of my mouth while I’m eating) so I drained the jar &amp; blended until a paste formed so all of the skins were microscopic essentially. Voila! Already I’ve had a couple of friends from the party reach out &amp; ask for the recipe!SODA BAR:GROCERY LIST:PARTY FAVORS:CREAMY TOMATO &amp; TORTELINI SOUP:Because our limit was $10 I had to get pretty creative with how I wanted to put things together &amp; in the end it worked out perfectly!I’ve talked on my Instagram about some candles that I’m absolutely head over heels for: Wells + Co. If you know or follow Sara from Our Best Bites she’s created a candle line that’s quickly become my favorite over the past year. She typically launches new scents each quarter and I kid you not I’ve bought almost every single one of them. She recently started selling a mini trio set for $22, which makes the candles $7.33 each.She also launched this winter line with the most adorable set of holiday matches which of course I HAD to have (these were an impulse buy at $5 each… and I’m not even sad about it!).Lastly I have been obsessed with Newport + Home hand soaps &amp; Costco sold a 4-pack for $9.99 – a STEAL of a deal! Making these $2.49 each! Minus the impulse matches I was right on target for our price limit!Need more ideas? These fun goodies were brought to our party!I think that covers it all! If I missed anything I’d love to hear from you! Chime in and let me know if you end up throwing your own party &amp; if you’ve got more tips &amp; tricks to share.If you throw a party I’d love to hear your thoughts! Be sure to leave a comment below, and if you take a photo &amp; share to social, tag @triedandtasty so that I can check it out! Also, be sure to follow Tried and Tasty along on&nbsp;Facebook,&nbsp;Instagram,&nbsp;Pinterest&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;to keep up with all the latest recipes!*This post may contain affiliate links. I include these links to help you find either specific {or my favorite} products that are used in my recipes. If you purchase an item from the link on Tried an Tasty, I will receive a small commission helping keep my recipes free for you. Thank you for your support!Tried and Tasty, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.comWhat a great article! I’m hosting my first FT party this year, and this was so helpful! Thank you!ReplyThis is awesome! Thanks for sharing the great print outs. They are so cute. Am I able to edit the Invitation to place my info? I would love to stay consistent with the rest of the print outs. I can’t wait to host this event!!!!ReplyThis is great! Curious, Do you just put the nutmeg powder in the bag? Does it get on everything?ReplyGreat question! I am also curious :)ReplyI’m sure you put a whole nutmeg or perhaps a half/quarter. Once your grate your own you’ll never go back to pre-grated which wouldn’t work in this anyway.ReplyThis is awesome! Thanks for sharingReplyWelcomeAboutCategoriesWelcome! I'm so happy you are here. 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Skip to main contentThis Step by Step How To Guide will provide you with everything you need to know to throw an incredible Favorite Things Party! Your attendees will love it!Party planning runs deep in my blood and any excuse I have to host an event I’m all for it! The girls in my neighborhood have been planning monthly get togethers and this month I decided to host my very first Favorite Things party! Because I’m a girl who thrives on all the little details that add up to a big impact, I’ve decided to make things easier for you to host your very own party without hardly lifting a finger!A...

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