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If anyone's out there... opinions needed!
DH and I are planning to throw a housewarming party. We know a lot of people and DH wants to do one huge party (rather than breaking it down into groups). We therefore want to do a cocktail party rather than dinner so it won't be too much work.
What time would you start? The convention in this area is that if you aren't serving dinner, you start at 8:00 or later. Most of DH's friends eat dinner after 10:00 anyway, so I don't know if it would be obvious it's not dinner to them. And if we start it that late my two close girlfriends with new babies probably won't be able to come (which I might fix by having them over another time). Is there a nice way to let people know it's just drinks and snacks?
What should we call it? Normally when we attend a housewarming we bring something, and I don't want people to. Also, Indians generally do a religious ceremony for housewarmings, which we're not.
And, the weirdest question: any suggestions to keep people from going into our bedroom (besides keeping the door shut)? That creeps me out.
Re: If anyone's out there... opinions needed!
I would just make sure you invite people to a 'cocktail party'. You could add a note that small apps will be served (assuming you'll have at least some little snacks.)
It seems weird that you'd have a housewarming party, and not want people to see parts of the house, to be honest. Are you going to give people quick tours of the house? I'd just leave the door closed, open it to peek into your room, and shut the door again. They'll get the hint.
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If you're doing invitations (evite or paper) just mention that there will be cocktails & light snacks. You can also put something like, "no gifts please, just come visit!" And if people ask what they can bring, you can either assign them a light appetizer, or tell them everything is covered and to just bring their pretty faces.
As far as the religious ceremony, I wouldn't worry about not letting everyone know ahead of time - when they get there, they'll figure it out.
On your bedroom... I'm not really sure about that. People will open doors if they want to see, but most will probably leave it shut. Although, if I were at a housewarming party I'd want to see the master bedroom...
You could alway do sort of an "open house" type of party where friends could come and go as they pleased so you done have such a huge crowd all at once - typically you'd set a start and end time and let people know you'd be serving "light refreshments". This way you could have an earlier start time for your friends with children if you prefer.
I agree that you could easily specify no gifts please, and for the religous part - just let them figure it out when they get there.
Good luck - it sounds like it will be a lot of fun!!
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I don't mind people SEEING the bedroom (although my family is like Linds' ILs, so I don't look into other people's) or even going there to take care of a baby, I just don't want them to go hang out in there. At our old place we had problems a couple of times with people going through our stuff or letting their kids run wild in the bedroom, and with so many people over it becomes hard to supervise.
I've never been on a house tour at a housewarming, so I didn't think of that, but that might take care of the situation.
Thanks for all the suggestions