Parties are a treat for everyone.
The host, the guest of honor and the guests themselves all go home with fond memories of the gathering and wishing they could get together more often.
We throw parties for lots of reasons: birthdays, anniversaries, baptisms, christenings, showers for babies and weddings, graduation, house warming, new jobs, promotions, or perhaps just because we feel like it.
Some people can turn even a backyard barbecue into a real party.
Sometimes you just need to have a party.
Parties can extravagant or casual.
Sometimes people toss them together on a moment's notice and have their guests contribute to the food through potluck.
But a lot of parties are catered or at least planned for some time ahead.
Nothing impresses guests more than a party put together by the host or hostess.
When it's obvious that the host has taken some time to make the food and conceive and construct decorations to evoke a mood or ambiance, guests are moved by the sentiment.
After all, what could possibly convey more sentiment for a group of one's friends and loved ones than having taken the time to design an enjoyable event? When your host has seen to all the little details to truly pull off a theme, you can't help but be astonished by their creativity and caring.
Food is an important consideration for a party.
But if the company is good, the guests will let mediocre food slide.
They're so happy to be together and to be entertained with one another's company that people will often think the food tastes much better than it really does.
People will ask the hostess for the recipe, make it at home and wonder why it isn't as good as they recall it being.
The same goes for the beverages.
As long as you make some effort as a host, your guests will cut you quite a bit of slack.
After all, everyone knows how much trouble one must go through to host anyone in their home.
The cleaning and the preparation alone are tiring.
So if your space is clean, warm, and welcoming, and you've decorated the space nicely, your guests will likely indulge in the treats you've prepared and graciously think that it all tastes marvelous.
Party favors are a nice way to send your guests home with something to keep the party in mind for some time to come.
Take aways that reflect your theme are always the best bet, but you can chose something that you know the entire group likes.
You don't want something that they could've picked up anywhere.
The object needs to be a bit different so as to trip their memories of the event.
Twilight party favors, for example, are a bit remarkable.
New Moon party favors would remind them of your event as well.
Parties are something we look forward to and afterward we share the memories.
We like to reflect on the event and laugh about the good time we had.
Our lives are often stressful and dreary.
A pleasant gathering with friends, food, and merriment smoothes out the rough edges of our lives and somehow makes the harsher days seem worth it.
Many people use the anticipation of an event to fuel them through the preceding weeks and then float along on the remembrance for weeks thereafter.