How to Plan a New Year's Eve Party

Series Summary

New Year's Eve is the perfect time to have a party. Everyone will be excited to stay out until the wee hours. Great traditions such as fireworks, champagne toasts and the midnight kiss ensure fun for all New Year's revelers. The countdown to midnight creates a real sense of anticipation that you never could with your band or dj skills. All you have to do is provide a place to drink and chat and all your guests will have a great time. Right? Not so fast. There are a lot of folks in this world who think they can throw a great New Year's party, some of them may even invite the same guests as you. In order to ensure that you have a successful party, you need to watch these clips from Expert Village.

Matt Cail has thrown many a party in his time, on his own and helping others. Learn how to plan your New Year's party from a real pro. He tells you how to select music and decorations as wells as food and drinks. He includes tips on alcohol safety to help you make sure your guests get home safe and sound. Learn how to be a good host and at the same time keep your rowdy guests from wrecking your place.

Video Transcript

"3, 2, 1, Happy New Year! On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Matt Cail and I'm going to show you how to throw a New Years Eve party. Throwing a New Years party presents some interesting opportunities and challenges when it comes to the calendar. A lot of other parties like Halloween in the like, people will actually rewind a bit to the previous weekend to make sure that people can actually stay up past their normal bedtimes and come up to the party. New Years parties you don't have this as much because almost everyone, not everyone, but almost everyone has New Years Day off. For your December 31st gathering, it doesn't matter what day of the week it's on because most people expect to stay up to midnight to welcome in the new year and they don't have to get up at 6 AM the next morning, at least not the lucky ones. It's still important to start looking exactly what day of the week New Years falls on, New Years Eve specifically. This is kind of a weird day because it's the last day of the year. Your calendar, one of the last things you're going to use it for is to map out exactly what day of the week you're going to have your New Years party. The other thing to keep in mind is that people will kind of zone out on New Years until about December 26th because that's when Christmas is finally over with."