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Halloween Housewarming Party
So DH and I close next week on our 1st home! We are so excited! We are eager to start planning our housewarming. Since I'm a huge fan of Halloween, I've always wanted to host a Halloween party. I was thinking we could combine the two and have a Halloween themed housewarming party. Any ideas on this? Anyone ever throw an event similar to this? Another question I had is whether we should make it kid-friendly or not. We don't have any kids ourselvess, but I'm trying to accomodate those of our friends who have kids plus I've only been to adult only housewarming parties so I'm not sure now family friendly parties work. We were planning for a saturday night party.
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Re: Halloween Housewarming Party
Congrats on the home!
Just some thoughts - if you think you're guests are all for dressing up, maybe just stick with calling it a Halloween Party and leave out the Housewarming part. People will know it's the first time you have a party at your new place. You don't want people to feel like they need to buy a costume and a bottle of wine or house plant.
But if you think it might be easier for everyone to come to a Housewarming, then maybe you're decor can be very Halloween-like and you can provide some baskets with instant-costume type items... think nerdy glasses, bow ties, crazy hats, bunny ears, cute wigs, fun beads. Maybe some quick face paint for the kids. And of course - a nice candy display.
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Wow you are very brave for planning a party before moving in! It took me a couple months to get settled enough to have our housewarming party. If you think you can get everything in order by Halloween though that is great!!
I would definitely do the Halloween decor and put on the invitation costumes optional. My browther-in-laws wedding was a Halloween Ball where costumes were required and many people didn't come for that reason. Having masks and maybe even a facepainting kit would be fun. I am sure the kids will dress up, just make sure not to plan it on the same night as trick or treat. There are a lot of great Halloween decorations out now to have fun with! Good luck!
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I've hosted a family-friendly Halloween Party for the past two years. Some friends just have infants, so they don't care about the time of the party or whether other guests are drinking alcohol. However, one family has a 5 and 10 year old. I told the mom of the 5 and 10 year old that I really wanted her to bring her kids, but suggested she bring them early, because people would be drinking. That worked great. That family showed up right at 7:30 and the kids ran amok in the backyard and we were able to show them the "haunted basement" with all the lights on, so they didn't get scared. By the time the kids and their family had to leave (their bedtime) it was 9:00 and some of my rowdier friends just started to show up.
Decoration-wise, you can make some areas of the party "kid-friendly" - for example, a craft table in the basement with "Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin" movie playing, and a bunch of good snacks. That way, the kids have somewhere to stay out of the adults' way.
That said, it's totally up to you whether you invite kids or not.
As to costumes, my invitations say "Guests who come without costumes will be chained in the coal room." If you are so lame that you can't wear a costume on Halloween, you aren't fun enough to be at my party!!
I would also say just to host a Halloween party without calling it a housewarming party.
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