Thanksgiving Dinner 2008

We want to make Thanksgiving easy for you to this year.  Here is an easy, step-by-step Just Add Guests™ theme that is not only a “recipe” for success, but it gives you time to stop and smell the stuffing! Do it all or just do pieces and parts…but do it without stress.  What a relief…

What is a Just Add Guests™ Party?

Assemble Your Ingredients

Getting the Party Started

• Personalized Thanksgiving Invitations

• Fall Leaf Confetti

Decorations

• Personalized Thanksgiving Banner

• Banner Hanging Magnets

• Giant Cornstocks

• Paper Leaves

• Foil Fall Window Clings

• Pumpkins, gourds

Table Top

• Tablecover(s)

• Tissue Autumn Leaves, 1 pkg/table

• Fall Leaf Confetti, 1 pkg/table

• Autumn Leaves, 1 per guest

• Chair Ties, 1 per chair

• Table Runner

• Fall Leaf Bowl

Personalize Your Party!

• Thanksgiving candy bar, 1/guest

• Thanksgiving Bottle Labels 1/guest

• Pilgrim Life-sized Cutouts

• Turkey Photo Op

1. Send Your Thanksgiving Invitation

• Especially since this is a “holiday weekend…,” consider sending out a save the date postcard or an email.

• Personalize Your Party! Use Personalized Thanksgiving Invitations to set the perfect mood.

• Add Fall Leaf Confetti to your own invite/flier or the store-bought variety. Easy to do and still unique.

2. Decorate Your Home

• Hang a Personalized Thanksgiving Banner from your gutter with our special Banner Hanging Magnets.

• Add Fall Leaves around doors, on railings, over the fireplace.

• Foil Fall Window Clings are perfect for windows and mirrors.

• Assemble Giant Cornstocks for a photo opportunity…nothing like props for good pix!

• Personalize Your Party!!  Place Pilgrim Cutouts with your face(s) welcoming all or a Turkey with your face, (you can even add a speech bubble) or a Turkey Photo Op for your guests to stand behind for pictures.

4. Set Your Table

• Cover your table with a Thanksgiving Tablecover(s).

• Scatter Tissue Autumn Leaves with one of the Autumn Leaves at each place.  

• Place your patterned plate or even your own china atop. 

• Add Fall Leaf Confetti liberally around the table.

• Put a Beaded Chair Tie in burgundy or gold on the back of each chair and add matching Beaded Table Runner.

• Down the middle of the table arrange some pumpkins, gourds, and fall colored flowers in vases.

5. Decorate Your Buffet and Bar

• Use our themed Fall Leaf Bowl for snacks.

• Put out more pumpkins, gourds, fall plants mixed in with your serving pieces.

• Personalize Your Party!  Attach Personalized Thanksgiving Bottle Labels to your drinks.

6. Hand Out Favors to Say "Thanks for coming!"

• Personalize your party! A personalized Thanksgiving candy bar is a sweet end to the evening.