To be on point, committing to 1980's grand theatricality for your holiday party space interior is where you're headed - especially if your desire is to nail the latest holiday party fashion creative style for 2009 style trend.
Add your own special holiday touches to everything for holiday flavor and you'll have a holiday party that will knock their socks off!
"I see your true colors shining through" - think Cindy Lauper
Color-wise, saturated jades and vermilions - reminding you of the ocean is the biggest voice of color. Doing it modern holidays 80's style doesn't mean everything has to be holiday Christmas party matchy-matchy. But are you saying it's cool to be mostly inspired by nature? Ooo no! Don't be silly. Remember the 80's were a pretty artificial and fabulously affected time.
The beach was for a minimal amount of swimming, lots and lots of tanning, and relaxing and reading. It was still chic to pack your beach bag with your bathing suit and your cigarettes. I almost forgot this. If you want to be on trend, you can't forget that... Party planning decor is a plaid reality. Add plaids and other fabric patterns of red and green and you'll rock your holiday party to the max! Fabric is cheap, and stretching your dollars - you can find creative ways to re-use it next year.
Mangia, mangia, mangia!
Keep it fresh and semi-simple. When you've got it right, doing so - your small dinner party menus would consist of dishes like fresh grilled sea bass served with shiitake mushrooms. Add artichokes. They're delightful when cooked in a warm, loving Italian style.
Serve beautiful fresh fruit platters (large or small, depending on your guest count), along with sweet corn muffins and cups of coffee or spots of tea, to capture the latest holiday party buffet breakfast trend. Throw a holiday breakfast gathering for your corporate holiday party and you'll save a bundle. Pepper your menu with some good holiday party appetizers (yes, with breakfast appetizers!) and all will be right in your yuletide world.
Dance, dance , dance!
The 80's was the time of Jane Fonda Studio workouts and aerobics videos, remember? Incorporate "the workout" into your party theme. Get everyone up and moving. Hire a deejay and feature a professional workout-type dance instructor. Don't forget to work in great Christmas tracks.
"Green" the 80's
Unless the party is for a crowd-of-many, save your money - host your event at home or transform a room at company headquarters. Staying true to your theme of green, order plenty of hors d'oeuvres only. Keep those bite size morsels of wonderfulness coming all night long and allow enough bar space and bartenders to serve cocktails made popular in the 1980's to keep your guests satiated. Make yule logs and spike a holiday punch, and serve eggnog. Merry Christmas, y'all!
If you have a way with glamour, you'll be just fine. Even if your holiday party fashion creative style for 2009 verges on terrifyingly over-the-top glitz. If you style your party to fashion"80's modernist" and throw in lots of holiday wreaths and other holiday decorations and effects, plus give away inexpensive unique holiday gifts (like a holiday calendar as holiday gifts for coworkers), and you'll be fine.
You know what they say... "It is what it is". There's no use worrying about what will be the economic base of the economy in 2009. Put on your Erykah Badu afro wig and get out there and boogie! Take your holiday party fashion creative style for 2009 back to the 1980's. Because like Cindy said, "Girls just want to have fun." And boys do too!
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