✦Seasonal · 12 recordsHost a New Year's Eve party

New Year's Eve is the one party guaranteed to clash with other invitations, and it runs later than any other. This sends invitations early, plans food in waves so there is still something at eleven, sets up a countdown and a toast worth waiting for, and sorts out how people get home before the evening starts.

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Goal

A New Year's Eve party that lasts until midnight Week 6

Invited early, fed in waves, everyone home safely.

Plan and invite Day 10

Before everyone has made other plans.

  • Decide the size, the style and the budgetDo firstDay 2
  • Send invitationsDo firstDay 5
  • Ask guests how they are getting homeDay 10

Food, drink and the countdown Week 5

Waves of food, and a midnight worth waiting for.

  • Plan food in three waves: early, late, after midnightDo firstWeek 3
  • Buy drinks, including good alcohol-free optionsWeek 4
  • Plan one or two games and the midnight countdownWeek 5
  • Book taxis or confirm lifts for anyone who needs themDo firstWeek 5
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Dates you will not have to remember

New Year's Eve

31 December20:00
✦ It comes with a note

Game and midnight ideas

Games A quiz about the year Guess whose resolution Charades or Pictionary A predictions jar, opened next New Year's Eve

Midnight A countdown on the television or a playlist timed to finish at midnight Something to toast with, including an alcohol-free option Something warm or sweet to eat straight after

Sort out how everybody gets home before the evening starts.

✦ Questions

Host a New Year's Eve party, answered.

Three to four weeks before, and earlier if the guests are people with busy December calendars. Most people commit to a New Year's plan early, and later invitations tend to arrive after they have.
Food served in waves: something substantial early in the evening, snacks and small plates through the night, and something warm or sweet after midnight. A party that runs out of food at ten tends to empty by half past eleven.
A quiz about the year, a resolution guessing game, charades, or a countdown to midnight with a toast and a playlist. The note in this plan has more, and one or two games are plenty.
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