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"A TOAST TO OUR NEW HOME" 

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Party Ideas by Party Consultant Michelle Hylton         Updated: 11/14/2008

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INVITATIONS
 

Wine Bottle Cutout

A Toast Invite

 

Use scrap booking wine shapes or cut out your own. Enter all the party information on the cutout. Add a stick on magnet on the back, so your invited guest can put it on their refrigerators to remember the event.  

 

DECORATING IDEAS

Table Decor 

Room Decor

Extras

Use any of our solid color tableware.  Start saving your empty wine bottles, you can rinse them and use them for flower vases. Put plastic grapes and artificial vines around the base.  If this is an evening party, add a few lighted candles around the home to give a cozy effect.     

Balloons are the easiest thing to add to your party and make it festive.  Balloon bunches tied to full wine bottles or empty bottles filled with water.

 

 

Plastic Wine Glass

 

Light Up Wine Glass

 

Custom Wine Glass

 

Wine Bar Cd

 

GAME IDEAS

Guess what I Am

Toasting Taboo

Pass the Cork

This is a great ice-breaker to start the party. Write up names of items related to a new home and toasting to a new home.  As each guess arrives, tape a index card to their back with the name of the item. Each guest has to try to figure out what they are. They do this by asking questions to other guests that can only be answered with a "Yes" or a "No". No cheating...watch those mirrors. It's a fun to see how many actually figure out what they are. No prizes need to be given, just have fun with it.    

Play a version of the fun home game, "Taboo".  Prior to the party choose several Taboo words related to Toasting a New Home.   These words are words that cannot be used to play the game.  Go around the room and each guess gets 5 seconds to name an item associated with a new home. If they can't guess within the 5 to 10 seconds their out.  The last remaining person wins. Give out small bottle of wine or wine charms to the winner. If you  have couples at the party let the couples be a team.  Use an kitchen timer or stop watch for the game. 

 

Using one cork per 5 guest, read a story about the home owners that will constantly use the words "left" and "right". Every time someone hears "right", they pass the cork to the right, the same goes for "left", pass it to the left. At the end of the story, someone will end up with the cork. Give these guest a fun little prize, like one of these

 with a decorative wine glass or a mini bottle of wine with a mini baby gouda wrap in some netting and tied with curling ribbon.  

 

 

ACTIVITIES

Wine Tasting 

Cheese Tasting

Make Wine Charms

Set out 3 or 4 different bottles of wine and provide small plastic cups for sampling. Make sure you have enough of each bottle for the size of your crowd. For more fun, you could cover the bottles with paper Bottle Bags (Sets of 12) and create a game.  Number each covered bottle.  Give each guest a piece a paper with numbers matching the wine bottles. Let each guest guess what type of wine it is. Give out a prize for whoever guessed them all right.  To make it easier for those who are not wine connoisseurs, give them a multiple choice list or matching list.    

 

Or just purchase this kit  for 8:

 

 Set out a variety of cheeses and crackers for your guest to sample. Label the cheese with tent cards. 

 

Wine Puzzle Game

 Don't Break The Bottle Wine Puzzle

 Don't Break The Bottle Wine Puzzle

Time how long or see who can even get this wine bottle out of it's trap!

What a fun thing for a small gathering. And each guest can make two, one for the new homeowner and one for themselves.

 

 

 

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SUPPLIES

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WINE TASTING SUPPLIES & GIFTS

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