Articles:
Party Planning:
Party Dress Code Deciphered
Building Your Party Timeline
Preparing Your Shopping List
Corporate Event Planning Tips
How to Host a Cocktail Party
Preparing your Home for a Party
Party Occasions:
Memorial Day Quiz
4th of July and Patriotic Facts
Have an Outdoor Summer Party
Halloween Spooktacular Party Ideas
How to Rock your Christmas Party
Have a Cinco de Mayo Fiesta...Ole!
Kentucky Derby Party Ideas
Recipes:
What are you serving?
Baby:
What type of Baby Shower?
Baby Shower Planning
Children:
First Birthday Party Planning
Second Birthday Party Ideas
How to Plan a Birthday Party
Birthday Traditions to Start
Ultimate Tween Girl Slumber Party
First Communion Planning
What is First Communion?
How To:
Tie Bows on Invitations
General Info:
Invitation Do's & Don'ts
What to include on Invitations
When to mail invitations
Apostrophes-When and Where
RSVP Etiquette
RSVP vs. Regrets Only
Cracking the Mystery of the Dress Code
Fashion Faux Pas to Avoid:
- Anything totally out of season
- Short socks - cover the calf hair
- Dirty Shoes
- Chunky, thick rubber soled shoes - women-think polished and sexy shoes; men-a party is a great reason to impress and go totally GQ
- Casual shoes with your tux - guys, rent the black patent dress shoes!
- Out of season shoes or totally out-of-style, over worn or dated shoes - hear Jimmy Choo calling you and go shopping!
- Heavy cologne or perfume
- Overdone makeup
- Overdoing the jewelry or jewelry that clinks, jingles or makes noise.
- Anything too insufficiently modest, slinky or sexy to mingle with your co-workers and/or boss - you have to see these people on Monday
- Dirty Nails - women - go bare and buffed rather than chipped or worn polish; men - learn to use a nail file and moisturize hands and cuticles (you might start a new habit!)
- Dirty or worn collars or cuffs
- Anything stained, dirty or faded
- Anything with tears, broken seams, thin spots, holes
- Missing buttons, snaps or other missing decoration (beading unraveling or missing), broken zippers
- Too casual, out of date or worn out hair accessories (think no shine left to the gold or silver clip or dulled with a coating of hair spray)
- No straps, lines or bumps show through your dress-match your undergarments to your outfit
- Too somber for a festive occasion
- Something you can't sit down in comfortably
- Any possibility of a wardrobe malfunction - think Janet Jackson
How to:
...Dress Code for White Tie
...Dress Code for Black Tie
...Creative Black Tie Formal / Black Tie Festive
...Black Tie Optional
...Business Formal
...Informal / Semi-formal / After Five
...Cocktail Attire / Cocktail Attire Festive
...Festive Attire
...Business Casual
...Casual Attire
...Theme Party
...Resort Attire & Evening Resort Attire
...Wedding Casual
...Fashion Faux Pas to Avoid
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