Easy holiday potluck party decor!

Easy holiday potluck party decor!

• 12.10.2014

This will be our third Christmas in our new house. Since we moved in and began to feel really settled in our space and proud to share it with family and friends (and since we finally had room for more than a couple people to be over at once!), we've really enjoyed having friends for dinner and - scary - having parties!

Last Christmas we had our first holiday potluck. I hope it will become an annual tradition! It's so hard because there are so many family, work, and friend parties and commitments leading up to Christmas, but we really wanted to put something on the calendar so we chose a Friday evening (this week!).

I picked out some party invites from Zazzle and they gave them to me, along with a bunch of cool printed goodies. It was hard to choose between the designs, but I wanted something very low-key and simple. It's not going to be a fancy party, just a relaxed, cozy evening in!

I went with some holiday botanical print invitations (these here). I loved the simple two-color look and natural elements!

I contacted the invite designer on Zazzle (Dulce Events) and she put together not only the cards but all kinds of other fun coordinating items, more than I could have imagined.

She made these thank you stickers I can use on favors (I made these chocolate peppermint coconut macaroons last year for friends and packaged them like this...), even matching brown/white print tissue paper!

I wanted coordinating everything--stamps as well as potluck dish cards, maybe some pre-printed table place cards, maybe even cloth napkins (which you can order in ANY color!!).

Imagine our buffet table looking a little like this!

I love having cute cards for people to write the names of their dishes on.

I don't really need them for the potluck, but I couldn't resist these pretty name cards. I'll find some use for them sometime. 

What a fun, fresh (and complete) party suite I ended up with!

Other favorite invites on Zazzle (some of which would totally work for a New Year's party after the holiday!):

• Multi-colored holiday botanical
• Eat, drink, and be merry berries
• Cute vintage red and soft greenery
• Mix & mingle glam gold glitter dots
• Black/white stripe and gold
• Very shiny gold stripes
• String lights
• Craft brown postcard with colorful botanicals

Another Zazzle shop I love is Hooray Creative, and also check out Blush Printables for some gorgeous gold and glam pretty things.

Zazzle is having a big sale today (Wednesday 12/10) where you can save 80% off invitations & 20% off site-wide with code: FUNCHEER4ALL

Here's to simple potlucks to celebrate family and friends this season!!