Imagine a perfect New Year’s Eve party with all your friends at home. It is full of sparkling lights and candles. Your guests take hilarious pictures, dance with loud, insane noisemakers, and enjoy an appetizer selection. Finally, you toast with champagne when the clock strikes 12 and feast on a midnight supper. This scenario may cost a lot of money, right? Not necessarily. You can host a fantastic New Year’s party on a budget with a couple of money-saving tricks that people will talk about for a long time. You can cut costs everywhere, from food and refreshments to games, without compromising any of the fun with the below-mentioned unique new year’s eve ideas!
Get ready to party in no time with this simple New year decor, food, and game ideas. Each one takes only minutes to complete, and you use items you already have at home or can buy conveniently with a quick trip to the store. So if your New Year’s resolution is to save money, this is a good place to start.
Begin with a Custom Invitation
First, you need to make sure your family and friends know about your New Year’s Eve party — and for NYE, just a call or a text is not enough. Using a festive invite template and making a customized invitation, you can keep things unique and straightforward. You can also print it out on card stock at home or at your local print shop.
Don’t overthink it
Sometimes making it light is also fine. All you can do is order a case of champagne, grab a few dozen votive candles, dim the lights, and make a playlist for your sound system. Then, an instant party is ready for you.
Focus festivity in one room
New year’s party should be all about fun and not formal. So decide which room you would like to host your New Year Party and turn it on its head by serving small bites on metallic or mirrored trays, repurposing chic mini holiday trees, and switching out your pillows.
Let the guests call for shots
A party with few self-serve bars makes the conversational flow and space for fun activities. It helps people make the rounds from bar cart to countertop to tabletop. You can also try all the different cocktails they mix themselves.
Light Glitter Votives
Every New Year’s Eve party can benefit from more glitter and mood lighting. So carry out a few glitter candle votives by DIYing them and placing them all over your party space. It is one of the most elegant and straightforward New year’s decor ideas and will enhance your party look.
Make it bring your appetizer (BYOA) event
Call your invitees and let them know this is a BYOA event. Your guests can bring several easy and inexpensive appetizers, but if someone needs to know what to bring or how to cook, recommend raw veggies, fruits, or nuts. Even when someone thinks these are too complex or difficult, ask them to carry one or two containers of mixed nuts – you can provide the bowl.
Photo booth spot
Everyone will take tons of pictures all night, so set up a beautiful spot. Ask one guest to act as the “official” photographer to take photos before and after, or do it yourself. You can invite your guests to pose with one person sitting next to a chair (like an old-fashioned photo and no smile). You can arrange old hats as props and a scarf or shawl.
Ask your guests to write their New Year’s Predictions
Your guests can write their predictions and put them in a box or a bowl. Then take turns reading the predictions during supper while everybody guesses who wrote them. It can be impressive how hard it is to guess your mates’ expectations, which is a perfect way to finish the night!
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