If you are looking to host a Christmas party that is beyond fun, then I highly suggest throwing a Cocktails and Christmas Carols Party!

Invitation

I used this invitation from Paperless Post and texted the link to our friends since we didn’t have some of their emails.

Drinks

I made all sorts of themed cocktails to match Christmas songs and used a pretty bookcase to display all of them so people could grab them whenever they felt like it. I used my own customizable Christmas place cards to display the drink names. You can see some of these below.

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I even made some batch drinks and poured them into a clear ornament! You can find how I made these here.

Food

For food we kept it really simple since this party was on a Friday and we had to work during the day. We set up a charcuterie board in the shape of a Christmas tree by wrapping a styrofoam tree shape with foil and then using tooth picks to pin cheese, meats, rosemary, and cherry tomatoes into the “tree.” I also made gingerbread cookies and snowball cookies and peppermint ice cream. I didn’t have time to make an entree so we picked up a platter of nuggets from Chick-fil-A.

Decorations

We set up a buffet table with a white tablecloth and a forest green table runner with lots of candles and fake flocked greenery as well as some other Christmas decorations.

I used dark green cloth napkins and Christmas dishes like these vintage ones and these Nutcracker ones.

The rest of the decorating was our regular Christmas decorations! If you are already decorating your house, you might as well have a party.

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Carols (Karaoke Style)

We set up a designated area in the living room to be the “stage” and borrowed a couple of microphones and speakers from friends of ours. We downloaded a karaoke app on my iPad called Karafun. They have a 7 day subscription plan, which was perfect for our purposes. They had any song you would ever want to play for Christmas as well as regular songs. We hooked up the iPad to a monitor and plugged in a speaker to the monitor for sound. We took some extra Christmas lights and wrapped them around the microphones to make it more festive.

At first, nobody wanted to sing, there were some groans and people shaking their heads saying that they would never go up and do it, but by the end of the night everyone that was there got up and sang their hearts out! Most people wanted to sing in large groups so having multiple microphones to share worked out perfectly. After we sang most every Christmas song we could find, we switched over to singing non-Christmas songs.

I loved throwing this party and encourage you to do the same.

Cheers!