Every holiday, instead of gathering with friends to exchange a mass amount of cookies, we opt for a more modern exchange! Each year we get together with our closest friends and exchange our favorite bottles of wine to enjoy all season long! This year, we put a fun and "ugly" spin on our get together by having guests dress up in their ugliest sweaters and cheers to a season full of holiday happiness and fun traditions with friends!
Every holiday, instead of gathering with friends to exchange a mass amount of cookies, we opt for a more modern exchange! Each year we get together with our closest friends and exchange our favorite bottles of wine to enjoy all season long! This year, we put a fun and "ugly" spin on our get together by having guests dress up in their ugliest sweaters and cheers to a season full of holiday happiness and fun traditions with friends!
We really wanted to create a fun atmosphere for our guests to gather to enjoy wearing their ugliest holiday sweaters and to enjoy a delicious glass of wine, but also wanted to keep it sleek and simple! We kept our set up simple with an easy-hang ugly sweater themed backdrop that was really more cute than ugly! We loved the fair isle inspired print and how it coordinated with our other ugly sweater themed party supplies!
We added some coordinating paper fans to the front of our stark white table for more pops of holiday cheer. We love using paper fans to bring color into a space. They are easy to assemble and hang and can easily fold back up afterwards for later use!
In the center of our table sat a white cupcake stand full of ugly sweater themed wine glasses paired with red striped paper straws. This was a fun and unique way to display the glasses and guests loved the ugly sweater print!
Each plastic wine glass had a playful ugly sweater print to coordinate with the theme.
Displaying the wine glasses on the cupcake stand not only was a fun way for guests to grab a drink but it really added something fun to the table by mimicking the shape of a Christmas tree.
We served our glasses along-side ugly sweater themed beverage napkins which looked perfect with the wine glasses.
We also loved using this ugly sweater themed tray to walk fresh glasses around to guests who needed a refill.
At the peak of our wine glass tower sat our DIY prize bucket, the most coveted item of the night!
This diy bucket was full of custom-made "ugly wine glasses", a photo prop award, wine spritzers with drink covers, shot glasses, wine charms and more!
Guests loved battling it out with their ugly sweaters to win this fabulous prize at the end of the night! You can see how we put together this DIY Ugly Sweater Wine Exchange Prize here along with all of the fun DIY projects inside!
We tied in the red, white and green tones by adding custom easy-stick labels to our white wine bottles! This added a fun theme filled detail to our table and guests loved that no detail was left behind!
On the opposite side of the table we displayed a glass jar, that also had a themed label, which was full of playful photo op props!
Guests loved taking fabulous photos using these amazing props, which made for some great memories!
Surrounding our jar of props were matching shot glasses! We loved how these plastic shot glasses tied into our theme and looked perfect on our table! It allowed guests to enjoy options other than wine.
We also served bubbly wine spritzers which we dressed up in adorable "ugly sweater" drink covers.
Guests loved bringing these fun covers home too!
We loved putting a creative and modern spin on the classic holiday exchange and we hope you will too!
