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Looking For Some Ideas
Hey nesties! My sweetie and I bought a house nearly 2 years ago and had a great housewarming party! Well, back in February we had a house fire that resulted in us re-doing our entire house and losing our home for 4+ months! We're due to move back in before the end of June and we want to have a party to show off the new layout of the house. It's not a housewarming and we DON'T want people to bring gifts...
How should we word the invite to reflect that?
And what are some great ideas for the party??
Re: Looking For Some Ideas
My parents went through something similar. They had a water leak destroy all but one bedroom of their home. After 4+ months in a regular size hotel room they threw a party.
For invites they did some play on words about the great flood. You could do something similar, but I'm drawing a blank on that. DO NOT saying anything about not bringing gifts.
For the party mom put together little scrap books of the before during and after pics and put them around the house. They also put together a book of all of the papework they had to go through- insurance, contractors, and invoices. It was just copies and mom blacked out prices, but it was just such a mass of stuff she thought it would be funny.
They did foods that were sort of water themed. You could do blackened things, fire grilled, etc. They also had a friend do a flood cake.
There were a few people that brought things to the party. They got liquor to replenish the bar- what wasn't destroyed was consumed in the hotel. Someone gave them a bunch of pens and paper from hotels.
Oh wow, so sorry to hear about your house. Glad it worked out (or so it sounds). I don't know that you need to address gifts in any way -- unless your invites say something like "now that our house is a home again..." to hint you're set.
Normally I wouldn't bring anything other than flowers to a housewarming, but for this I might be tempted, not knowing if you needed anything.
As far as ideas, I'm a fan of finger foods and things that keep at room temperature. Everything in different rooms to encourage mingling. I often forget this and become frustrated when people block my only food table.
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Congrats on getting things back in order again! I love the idea of "blackened" foods. Maybe not the entire menu but a couple items would be cute!