Southern Weddings

One of my favorite events that I hosted was our first birthday party at our new home. I cooked, decorated and entertained our guests as we celebrated my husband’s birthday. All of our friends came and really enjoyed the food I cooked, company and good wine. We all had a blast! I love to cook and entertain our guests so I would really love the aprons! They are gorgeous and I would be in style!

The most recent event that I loved hosting, was my fiance’s birthday brunch at our apartment, with friends and family. He loves southern food, so I spent all night and the following morning preparing the spread. I was exhausted afterwards, but it was all worth it.

My favorite event so far has been when my fiance and I moved back to New England. Hosting our first Thanksgiving let us show our parents that we were "all grown up". We were happy to finally entertain the people closest to us.

The best party I have ever hosted would be a fish fry with my family. My grandpa is a serious fisherman, and his freezer is always full of fish. So one day we decided to have a big fish fry. My grandmother and I made hushpuppies, macaroni and cheese and a bunch of other comfort food. It was a great way to get the family together, and to get rid of all that fish!

The most special events hands down were the “coffee table parties” that my grandmother and I held when I was little. On a Friday or Saturday night, my parents would drop my sister and I off at my grandparents and we would get to host parties at the coffee table for my grandpa. We would slice cheeses and hot dogs and arrange them in shapes on trays. We would drape blankets over the coffee table and bring in flowers from her garden for décor. My grandmother even let us turn out all the lights and light candles. ( I’m sure my poor Grandpa LOVED all the candle light while trying to watch his football! Ha!) Though the parties I throw these days are quite a bit different, I truly believe that my love for hosting and planning parties grew from those small coffee table parties. Such good memories!

I loved hosting our lasted housewarming! It was such a great feeling to know that this "house/apt" was my home, the place that I am going to start my life with my future husband. It’s the first time I’ll get to live with a boy (ooo), the first time for so many things! It was def such an awesome precursor to the best event I will have planned – my wedding! yay

This is such a cute giveaway . . . I love aprons!!! I actually wear my current one all the time. My favorite event has always been Christmas Eve Dinner at my parents house. Amazing food, good friends, and so much fun. We like to call it the misfit chrismas because anyone who doesn’t have a place to go is always invited over. It is just such a wonderful time!!!

My most favorite event to host was a Christmas Cocktail Shower for one of my best friends. We decorated the home where we held the shower with all of her gifts, including monogrammed stockings on the fireplace and a holiday wreath on the front door. This way she was able to see what her new home would look like at Christmas time. It was so much fun planning the menu and being able to serve hot chocolate and apple cider, and all things festive to eat!

My favorite parties to host are fondue parties with friends… it’s a great way to spend the evening with friends while having good food and conversation–the food is entertainment alone!But as for events that I enjoy attending… I love having family dinner at my grandmother’s house. For all of my life we have had Sunday afternoon dinner at her house, no matter how big the family is or how old we are, Grandma always makes a wonderful meal for us to enjoy together.(obviously I love events centered around food… how perfect for an apron giveaway!)

My favorite event was the latest bachelorette party that I attended. It was good times with good friends! Nothing can beat that :)

Family dinner night with my hilarious grandmother.

My favorite event happened this past weekend — my brother just got married to a wonderful girl. At the beginning of the ceremony the minister talked about how this wedding wasn’t only about the joining of two people, but the joining of two families. This was so true. During their relaitonship, our families have become friends — real friends, and this was very evident to everyone at the wedding. It was truly one of the happiest days and everyone was happy for different reasons. I was happy to be gaining a sister, a real sister that I love. I just hope that at my wedding in 4 months, two more families can truly join. Just like my Dad says, "I’m not giving anything away at my daughters wedding, I’m gaining so much!"

My favorite event that I have hosted so far was my college graduation party. (It’s been a few years now!) It was a chance for me to celebrate a great achievement with people on all sides of my family that I hadn’t seen in ages. It was also a great moment for relatives from different branches of the family tree to reconnect after not having seen each other for many years. I have some treasured photos of family members deep in conversation or laughing outrageously with each other.These aprons are adorable! Thank you so much for the contest!

My favorite event was my Dad’s retirement party. My Mom always threw the best parties and this one was casual but special. Tons of appetizers, grilling in the backyard, even home-made chicken wings by the dozen. Everyone came, young and old and celebrated my Dad’s next big move in life. It was wonderful!

My favorite event was Sunday night dinners in college. We had a group of 8 friends and each of us would take turns cooking each week. We all had our favorite reciepes in a box and who ever’s turn it was to cook had to pull a reciepe at random. It was alot of fun to see our favorite meals get a new twist by our best friends and it was a great opprutunity to spend time together outside of class!

the most favorite event that ive hosted was my "palm beach pink" birthday party last year! it was great, everyone wore pink and green, there were tons of flamingos, lots of sparkles in pink and green, pink and green "passion for fashion" cocktails, and the gift bags were my favorite: blow up flamingo coasters that floated, pink and green martini glasses with matching jelly beans, and flamingo pens! so cute!

My favorite event that I’ve hosted was my cousins baby shower. She was the first of all of the cousins to start a family and everyone was excited. It was also the first event that I had held at my first home and I remember thinking "wow, we’re really grown ups now!"

My grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary. It was so laid-back and yet so incredibly special all at the same time.

Mine was my fiance’s surprise 30th birthday party, which I totally pulled off! He was completely surprised, surrounded by his 15 favorite people, and I made lots of yummy snacks, drinks, and birthday cake. I could have really used one of these aprons though!

My father and I are born within 5 days of each other (30 years apart) so the month of August has always been a very celebratory time in my family. My parents decided that for my 14th birthday and my father’s 44th that we would visit my godparents and their children who had moved to Rome. We rented a little villa in Lecce, in the region of Apulia for two weeks during a rash of Mad Cow Disease in Europe. At the time, I ate no seafood, which posed quite a problem. When my birthday came around, my parents found the only restaurant in the region still serving beef, but we had to promise we wouldn’t linger. As guests at any birthday should, we drank and ate more slowly than the restaurant hoped we would, and suddenly we found ourselves as uninvited guests at a very large Southern Italian wedding!My father asked the DJ to lead everyone in a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday" even though no one in the room knew who I was, and the generators which were powering the restaurant kept shutting off periodically. I caught the bride weeping in the bathroom, and to top of the night, our youngest guest had too much rum cake and stripped naked in the center of the dance floor! At the night I was mortified to have such an outrageous family, but it was the most memorable event I’ve ever attended.

When I read this post and saw the adorable aprons, I instantly thought of the adorable yellow apron my grandmother always wore when she’d cook for our family growing up, and one particular annual event comes to mind. Every Christmas, my grandmother would host a special "Just us Girls" Christmas exchange. She, my mom, my aunt and I would have our very own Christmas exchange a few days before Christmas. We’d each buy small gifts for one another and my grandmother would make the most wonderful Christmas cookies and other dainty desserts for us to enjoy during our cozy afternoon affair. I can still see her standing in the kitchen arranging the most amazing dessert platters in her yellow apron filled with flowers in a rainbow of colors. If I happen to win this contest, I’ll be sure to tell my grandmother!

I love planning parties. Being creative with the invites, decor and food and seeing everyone’s smiling faces! My fav party I’ve thrown was a Luau Shower for my bestfriend’s wedding. We used a kids baby-pool that had a small slide and palm tree as our serving dishes. We had the event by the pool with tiki-torches lit. One of them caught the plants on fire and someone ran over to the ice bucket and dumped it on it to put it out! We had such a great time and laughed at ourselves in 911 mode!

My favorite event that I have hosted was a graduation party for a young lady that I mentored through out her high school years. She was a girl that had every odd stacked against her…no father, no mother who cared and family members who were anxious to get her out of the house because she was a burden to them financially. I was able to host a graduation party for her with friends, family and community members that wished her well as she went off to college. It was a joyous celebration and the saying really is true it takes a village to raise a child!

Any dinner party is a fav for me. I just entertaining, showing off my wedding china, and smiling and laughing with friends!

My favorite event that I hosted was my little sister’s baby shower. She had been trying for so long and was finally blessed with a baby. The atmosphere at the shower was complete elation exuding from every singe guest and that made it so special!

My 6th grade birthday party! We played spin the bottle and I had my first kiss!

The most recent event I hosted was my sister’s Baby Shower. The event was so memorable because she was pregnant with her first child and my first niece. It was so fun buying decor in girly pink colors, and making it a special time for her!

Those aprons are amazing! Great giveaway!My favorite event I have ever hosted was a pool party at my house last summer. I had just recently bought my new house and was finally ready to have people over. It was so fun to have everyone together and having a good time.

I have two favorite events that I have hosted. This past Thanksgiving I was unable to make it home for the first time – so my parents and younger brother came to me! After researching the menu for a few days I cooked my very first Thanksgiving Dinner – and loved every second of it! My mom even asked me for the recipes. More recently I hosted my family and my boyfriend’s family the weekend he graduated from graduate school. Our families were meeting for the first time. I sent DIY invitations, made plans for two dinners and brunch (it was also mother’s day weekend) at our favorite area restaurants, and hosted lunch at my apartment. Our families got along perfectly and everything went off without a hitch!

I helped throw a surprise party recently for a friend turning 30. Inspired by Amy Atlas’s incredible dessert displays, we orchestrated a very classy "black and white" dessert bar full of yummy homemade things. We were also faced with the task of transforming our church’s youth room (the guest of honor was the youth pastor’s wife) into a chic lounge space for the party. My two friends and I moved ugly old couches, vending machines, and music equipment out, and moved in bistro tables and hanging paper lanterns, decking the space out in white and black linens with touches of bright blue and green. We got so many compliments on our quick transformation of the space and had so much fun doing it we considered going into event planning full time!

Thanksgiving!! Of course, it is traditionally a family event. And we always invite others who are away from their own families on that day. It is a day of parades, football, happiness and eating… most famously my "world-renowned" Snack Table. If one requires breakfast, it is every-man-for-himself. But the snack table opens at 10:00 a.m. and closes at 2:00 p.m. I enjoy making the tablescape a bit different each year. There is a wide variety of goodies, both sweet and savory, with something new each year. Grazing is encouraged and children are allowed free access. Traditional Southern Thanksgiving dinner is served at 4:30. It seems that the left-overs are barely put away before the conversation turns to plans for next year’s Snack Table!

My favorite events is Christmas gathering with old friends. Nothing is better… we can spend 12 months without speaking because of life, but when gathering again it is like we have not missed a minute. Thanks to the love of friends, there is nothing like it! I would love to wear this apron at the next gathering!

My favorite has to be my best friend’s housewarming party. Having our special group of friends there at a time in our lives where we were all just beginning to be grownups with house-buying, marriage, kids…we took a moment to recognize how far we had come as friends and where we all were about to go. We toasted to our friendship and our future and laughed well into the night.

My favorite event would have to be an "unemployment party" i threw in the two days when i was off between jobs. We served Franzia an PBR, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly and bagel bites and had the movie Friday on in the background. It’s my favorite because i met my fiancee that night!

I have a weekly dinner with a friend I enjoy our time together and the time we spend talking and getting to know one another better plus I get that time with a girlfriend since I spend some much of my other time with my BF. I love doing dinner parties but haven’t had the chance since moving to my new town. I will soon have the space in my new house to do this more often. A cool apron would be wonderful while giving the dinner parties.

I must have one of these! They’re gorgeous! The best event I got to host was my stepdaughter’s 10th birthday party last year. Having 10, 10 year old girls in your house was quite a project and an apron would have come in handy! Maybe I’ll have one for her 11th? :)

Actually my fav. party/event I hosted was this past February for my husband’s birthday. It was a surprise and i had his favorite mexican food place cater, with margaritas and it was outside on our patio with all of our closest friends! It was wonderful sitting outside with the laterns and enjoying the company!

I love to plan events that bring people together! I think the most fun that I’ve ever had was when I planned my Dad’s Retirement Party from the Army…as a Colonel and an Aviator, he’s met people from all over the world…a few of whom I was able to contact and have them either send special messages or even come! It was such an overwhelming and emotional time for our whole family, but definitely a time that I will never forget!

The hubby and I, after 3 years of marriage, are buying our first home! It’s a central location for all our friends, and I know it’s going to be a hot spot for them to come hang out, and I would loooooove to have one of those gorgeous aprons so I can be a Haute Hostess in my new home!

My favorite events were the holiday dinners hosted by my parents when we were growing up. Extended family arrived willing and eager to share stories and recount youthful adventures. It was a time filled with love, laughter and good food. We would play board games & watch TV. It was a truly a "family gathering".

One of my favorite events was a surprise birthday party for myself one month after recovering from a car accident. I was completely surprised and the outpouring of love from our family and friends was really wonderful. It was also the day I realized I could walk without crutches again!

My fav. event that I host is my Annual Sherri’s Christmas Slumber Party Extravaganza! I invite all my nieces and nephews over to my parents house (not mine..hehehe) for a night of fun! We help set up the Christmas tree, make cookies, play Christmas bingo. Everyone has a blast and it gets us in the Christmas Spirit. It also gives their parents time to do Christmas shopping!

I’m loving the Kiki apron! So chic. It’d be perfect for our housewarming party. Til then, the loveliest gathering I’ve hosted is our welcome dinner for our wedding. All of our out-of-town guests and family were there, and it was such a wonderful, warm gathering.

Christmas at my in-law’s home. It’s so much fun. More organized chaos than anything!

My favorite event to host, without a doubt, is Thurday Night Girl’s Night/Grey’s Night. All of my friends come over to watch Grey’s. We have wine, margaritas, and snacks. We spend the first hour gossiping and talking about weddings (Four out of six of us are getting married!!!). It feels good to be able to bring all these amazing women together and we have such a great time sharing our lives with each other. I wouldn’t know what to do without my Thursday Nights.

My favorite event I’ve attended recently was the amazing "Game Night" co-ed shower thrown for me by my fantastic Maid of Honor. She made great party food and drinks, adorable invitations using scrabble pieces and dominos, and planned lots of fun icebreakers and games! It was so much fun watching all my friends get to know each other and have a great time!

Every month we get together with some of my fiances friends from college for Supper Club. One couple hosts and we rotate every month. At the end of the rotation, we pick a nice restaurant to try and then start over again. Supper Club is always my favorite event to host, and a fabulous apron is a much needed improvement over my severely soiled college one!

My fella and I have a little window in an interior wall of our apartment, between the bedroom and the living room. NO idea why the builders put it there. For my birthday a few years ago we decided to make use of it for puppet shows. We hauled out all my fabric scraps, old socks, ribbons, buttons and beads and had our friends over for a (beautifully messy) puppet-making party, which culminated in my best friend coordinating an all-puppet version of the Buffy musical staged in the puppet window. It was a great day which could only have been improved by one of these gorgeous aprons to keep the hot glue off my birthday shirt (hint hint).

These are adorable! While I love hosting tv show finale parties (Beverly Hills, 90210 finale party was my all time fave), I’d have to say that I love hosting a Superbowl Sunday party every year! Such yummy food and a great family affair.

I loved hosting parties for away Gator Football Games at our apartment in Gainesville. If we couldn’t physically be there for the game – the next best thing was to all get together for a good time! I always had yummy snacks and drinks for everyone there :)

My favorite event I have attended so far was this past weekend. My fiance and I attended a couple’s shower in our honor and it was a blast! We got to spend some great quality time with our closest friends and it meant so much because we’re about to be moving over 7 hours away from them after our wedding. It kind of hit me that our shower was the last time we would all be together hanging out which made me soak in the night even more!

The most important event that I have hosted would have to be last year’s Thanksgiving dinner. I am not a fantastic cook by nature, but I purchased a copy of Martha’s "Season’s Eatings" guide and planned on following it to a T. My mom and future mother-in-law are both great cooks. My fiance, my dad, and my future father-in-law are huge foodies. Because of all this, it was very important to me that this meal turn out to be yummy. The best part was that my mom took off work the day before to come over and hang out with me and be my "sous chef". It is probably my most favorite day that I’ve ever spent with my mom, and I hope to do the same next year and and the year after and so on. If I won the two aprons, one would be for me, and one would be for my mom because if we are going to be covered in flour and sugar, we might as well look delicious! :)

My favorite ‘event’ that I hosted wasn’t so much an event, but rather a private Birthday Party picnic for my now-fiance. I spent all morning at home cooking the food and packing it so that I could drive to his place, 2 hours away, and surprise him with the gift. It was so nice being just the two of us!These aprons are adorable! I’ve been looking for stylish/glam aprons for a while now and am so happy y’all posted this!

My fiancee and I love to entertain, so we often host dinner parties. However, the one event that really comes to mind is "Game Night." Wow – what a fun night. We invited two couples over and asked that they each bring their favorite board game or card game. Prior to our guest arriving, I prepared a feast of elegant yet appropriate appetizers for our friends to enjoy: My "White Trash" 7 Layer Dip, gourmet Pigs ‘N A Blanket, and Spinach and Artichoke Dip in a bread bowl. Following some yummy appetizers, we played Scattergories and Taboo, two of my favorite games to play with other couples. As our guests left for the evening, they were each handed a scratch off lotto ticket that was placed in a tin bucket with a sign that read, "We hope you get lucky tonight." You have to have a little fun!!! Obviously, my personality is perfectly suited for your adorable and unique aprons. I love them!!!

My favorite event was a Christmas party for my dad and his co-workers. I was responsible for all of the food! I loved it becuase it was so fun to plan everythin out. I had a decorate your own Christmas Cookie station. It was a big hit!

Two summers ago, I studied in Paris with 12 people I had never met before. We became quite close, and this past July, I hosted a Bastille Day party as a reunion. We’re all college students living on an itty-bitty budget, but the food was delicious and the company was unforgettable. We had a great time, and we’re planning another reunion this summer.

I think my favorite party that I’ve hosted was a game night at my house a few months ago. Although it was suppose to be 5 or 6 people playing Jenga, it turned into 20 people laughing and giggling about relationships in the African community.

The Oscar watch party where everyone dresses up like a movie character. Fun!

My favorite wedding I attended was held at the local zoo. After the zoo closed for the day, guests were invited to stroll around the grounds and see the animals before the ceremony. The ceremony was held next to the orangutan enclosure so they watched the vows too! Then we all walked over to where the reception was held next to the flamingo pond were we enjoyed a fabulous dinner surrounded by our animal friends. Aside from celebrating a beautiful union with family and friends it was the little touches are what made the evening – boutonnieres that incorporated animal finger puppets and animal figurines as part of the table favors/decorations. It was an evening I’ll never forget!

we love to host sunday night dinners – my favorites are when we get to bar-b-que!

My favorite event that I was lucky enough to host was my grandmother’s 80th birthday party! I enjoyed so much getting to plan this special get together and we were blessed enough to have family come from 5 different states! Her brothers and sisters, children, grandchildren, and almost all of her great-grand children were all there. I enjoyed watching everyone reunite after years apart and hearing the stories from way back when. My father’s old nannie who is now 65 was there, my grandmother’s aunt who is 98 was there, it was just one of those events that you see in movies and I felt so blessed that it all worked out so well and that I could help plan an event which could bring together so much love and create even more. That is one event I will never forget.

My favorite event has been my grandmother’s 100th birthday when all of our family from all corners of the world came into town to help her celebrate. The best moment, however, was the next morning when she was making breakfast and told me, "I have a wonderful family." She passed away 3 months later but knew that she was loved and appreciated. I wish that she could be there at my wedding.

My favorite event ever was our first party in our first apartment. It was a friend’s birthday, and we spontaneously decided to have a luau in her honor – despite it being January in Chicago! My husband came up with a Mai Tai recipe for everyone, and we asked guests to come in their best tropical wear. Dessert was leftover cake from our wedding 2 weeks before! We all stayed warm and had a blast playing Cranium, eating kebabs with out-of-season pineapple, enjoying umbrella drinks, and playing games. We’ve had lots of dinner parties, a number of wedding showers, and various other parties since then – all fun of course, but this might be my fondest memory of them all!

My favorite was and always will be Superbowl ’09. My friends and I love football and this last year made it a huge occasion since AZ made it to the Superbowl! Everyone showed their spirit by wearing homemade Cardinals T-shirts and/or something red…..even if you weren’t originally a Cardinals fan (because we live in AZ, gotta support the home state). So we made tons of food, BBQd, dessets and all the trimmings! We had the best time :)

An event that I will always remember was the first Thanksgiving in our new home – in which we were suddenly hundreds of miles away from both my or my husband’s family. My sister and her boyfriend flew down to break in the pots and pans. And after some hard work we had a lot of laughs, a little burnt stuffing and a brand new memory. I will always remember that day.

The best party I ever hosted was a pajama party birthday bash I threw for my 25th birthday. I had a pair of Paul Frank pajamas covered in monkeys, and quite frankly I was looking for an excuse to wear them in public! Being in pajamas made everyone extra relaxed and crazy, and it was a party to remember!

My fiance and I recently bought I new home together. We love entertaining so on the weekends we have our couple friends over to cook and hang out. These aprons are so cute, I would love to entertain our friends in one!!

Besides my wedding, of course, my favorite event that I’ve hosted was my sister’s 30 birthday surprise party. Complete with emotionally charged photo slideshow and the whole bit. It was very memorable.

My favorite event would have to be the camping trips my family took during my childhood summers! Every year my cousin would come and visit during the summer & my parents, sister, cousin, and myself would head out to the lake to do some boating, tubing, and fishing. I know its pretty woodsy but I looked forward to the summertime when we would take these camping trips to the lake… the sun, water, sand, tents, campfires, and smores. They were always a special time for my family to get together laugh, talk, and just enjoy being away from work, school, and all the other hectic things in life.

My fiance’ and I just hosted our housewarming party last night! It was such a wonderful evening filled with all our favorite people. We felt so special and loved, and all our friends enjoyed seeing our house for the first time. I can’t wait for many more parties in our new house!