Last year around Christmas I had a stressful time making decisions. It seemed like each day when I went outside to collect my mail I received more party invitations requesting the presence of my family at holiday events. At first I found it flattering that my family and I were being thought about by our friends and family and that they all desired our company during the holiday season. It wasn't long, however, before the flattery turned into frustration as the party invitations kept arriving and as our calendar began to fill up with event after event.
It got to the point where our family had to sit down with the party invitations and do something very important: choose. There was no way that we could accept all of the party invitations and remain sane through the month of December. We had to begin declining party invitations and narrowing our schedule down to include only the events we really wished to attend. It might sound simple, but when you sit down to choose between attending your grandmother's yearly holiday brunch or your best friend's annual reunion party for all of your college friends, choosing is not so easy.
Our family quickly came up with a way to sift through the small mountain of party invitations and choose the ones we wished to attend. The first and most important way that we narrowed our list was by thinking about the relationships we had with the people throwing each party. We made the decision to separate the party invitations we had received into piles based on our closeness to the hosts of the parties. This made it easy to see where we could decline a few party invitations simply by choosing close family and friends over people we didn't know so well. A party hosted by a parent or sibling took precedence over party invitations we received from a co-worker or former neighbor.
We also decided to narrow down party invitations by only allowing ourselves to schedule a certain number of events each week. We limited our family to accepting party invitations to one party during each week and one party each weekend during the entire month. This way we were not so busy with parties that we were unable to continue doing other important things.
If you find yourself receiving too many party invitaions this holiday season, or at any point throughout the year, look for ways to narrow it down and only accept party invitations to events being held by people you love the most.
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In need of casual party invitations? We can assist you with those. How about suggestions for the theme and hosting of your casual party? We can help you there too. We're Events Listed and we bring together any and every type of party and social event there is on the planet and offer the best (literally the best) way to create and send invitations there is.
Casual Party Invitations ? Theme Ideas
* Lemon Luncheon ? A casual time for the girls with ?lemon? as the theme. Serve lemon peppered chicken or fish, Greek lemon chicken soup, offer iced tea with lemon, lemonade, and lemon meringue pie and lemon squares for dessert. Challenge your guest to come up with the side dishes. They all have to be made with lemon.
* Movie Madness ? An afternoon out seeing movie after movie. It's an opportunity to be together in a relaxing atmosphere, not having to use your brain, and being able to eat a ton of popcorn just for the heck of it.
Invitations for Your Party
Now that you've got your casual plans together, let us casually explain how to make a great invitation to match your theme and be casually sent to your friends.
You'll actually create the invitations yourself for free with over 60, easy to use multi media tools available from Events Listed. Make a web page personalized to your casual party by using these free, simple multi media tools in a Web 2.0 environment.
Personalize your page to your theme by adding pictures, videos, audios, surveys, music, and more. If, for example, your party is the Lemon Luncheon you could add video of a chef cooking with lemon. Or if for Movie Madness, you could add video clips of your favorite movies or trailers of new releases.
You will guide your guests directly to this page electronically by sending emails with direct links to the page. They will come onto the page and see the guest list that includes them and maybe even pictures of themselves beside their names. When they see that they can communicate and interact with each other, they'll love it. Watch the movie suggestions start flying.
They'll also be able to respond to your invitation and see who else has responded with either a yes or a no and who hasn't responded yet. You can engage more elbow rubbing by cross referencing other casual party themes online groups. Talk about endless recipe swapping.
Web 2.0 technologies and Events Listed: Great Help To Get Incredible Invitations
If you've enlisted some helpers for your party, post their assign task through use of the task manager. You can also send out preset, automated email reminders about the tasks and the casual party itself as the date draws nearer. That way no one can use the ?I forgot? excuse.
You can even post a budget online and manage it from there. That's pretty awesome. Take advantage of what Web 2.0 technologies and Events Listed can do for you. You not only get incredible invitations, you get a limitless networking group for as long as you want it. All for free. Nothing casual about that.
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