It's Christmas time again, and you decide to invite your friends over for a Christmas celebration. With these company Christmas party ideas, your party will be a memorable one.
Heat up the fireplace; turn on your favorite Christmas music; hang mistletoe in each entryway, and your party's ready to start. You can select between a sit-down dinner or a buffet depending on how many people you've invited. Most of the time, a buffet is preferred. Before giving it out, write on the invitations: "Bring a Dish to Share".
What's Nice To Serve On The Buffet?
A 12 foot sub or hero is always a good choice. It can be served hot or cold and it will be enough to satisfy the people you've invited. Alternatively, you can create your own dish and tell everyone else to also bring something they've made, as well. Popular side dishes are sausage in biscuits; stuffed mushrooms; chicken rolls, or different flavored cheese puffs and knishes. Also serve wine, punch, water, and especially during Christmas, eggnog.
How Will You Serve It?
Place a large table in your dining area or any large area in your house. Try arranging the food nicely on the table. Add plates, napkins, and silverware that has Christmas themes on it at one side of the table. If done this way, your guests can take a plate, napkin and tableware and then proceed to the food. An advantage of this: Cleanup is easier, too.
Now to make your dining table appealing to the eyes, here are some tips. Use a tablecloth made of solid colors; either green, red or white. Put a Christmas placemat under each dish. Your centerpiece can be a crystal bowl filled with Christmas balls. Beside the centerpiece, put a pair Christmas candles. One way to make your tablecloth stand out is to pin garland at the edges of the tablecloth.
How About Party Games?
After everyone's had their fill, it's time for fun games. Adults may enjoy charades or a Christmas sing-a-long. How about playing musical chairs with a twist. The guys get down on one knee, while the girls circle around them to the tunes of Christmas medleys. When the music stops, each girl has to immediately sit on a guy's knee. It's so fun, that your guests laugh till tears fall out.
Lastly, Christmas isn't Christmas without Santa. Get someone to wear a Santa villain costume. Have him wear the typical Santa Clause white hair and mustache. He could give away gag gifts, or anything that's funny and nice. No gifts for the naughty ones. This will be one party everyone in the company will remember.
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© Kerry Beck, 2007
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