Spring Entertaining Made Easy: Essential Tips for Hosting in Your New Home
After hauling boxes, rearranging furniture, and finding your favorite places to shop and hang out in your new Greater Birmingham community, it’s time to celebrate your big move with a fun spring-themed party! Fairin Realty has you covered with spring entertaining essentials so your party is successful. Enjoy the warm season and the promise of new beginnings with your family and friends in your new for-lease home at The Heights or Patton Crest!
Plan Your Calendar Invites Early!
Before you start grocery shopping and choosing a theme for your party, you need to figure out who is on your guest list! Doing this in advance will help you avoid buying too much food and drinks, place settings, or extra games and party favors for kids and younger guests. Send invites early so everyone can get the plans on their calendar. At least a month in advance is a great time to start sending RSVPs. You can use free websites like Eventbrite or Jotform, create a group chat, send a Google calendar invite, or just call your guests with the news.
Find a Unique Theme Your Guests Will Love
After enduring a cold and dark winter, spring is the perfect time to host a party with your friends and family. Many people plan baby showers, housewarming parties, weddings, birthday celebrations, graduations, and more during this season. To make your gathering stand out, decide what theme or color scheme you will include in your party plans. You could host a ladies' tea party, a sports-watching party, a backyard BBQ, or a fun game night – whatever you decide, make it fun for everyone.
Choose a Serving Style
(Hint: Buffets Work Best!)
The menu is one of the most important parts of hosting your spring party. The easiest way to host a gathering with food is to have a buffet serving style. With a buffet, your friends and family can choose what they want from various options, and the setup can accommodate those who want a second or third helping of food.
You can cook or supplement the meal with pre-made charcuterie boards, cheese plates, fruit salads, and vegetable trays. At The Heights, one of the perks our residents love is living across the street from a brand-new Publix grocery store. It makes planning for events easy, plus if you forget to purchase something, the store is only one minute away!
Are Kids Invited?
If you have friends or family members with kids, don’t forget to let them know if their kids are invited. Doing so will help them plan and bring them along for the fun or secure a babysitter for a few hours. If kids can come, add kid-friendly menu options to the table. Party food favorites like flatbread pizza, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, fruit bowls, and charcuterie trays are easy to prepare or purchase and are always a big hit with children.
It’s Game Time!
With a beautiful new for-lease home with a fenced backyard to show your guests, why not host your party outside? The artificial turf grass we include in our communities makes it easy to keep everything clean and avoid unwanted warm-weather insects feasting on your plates. It also makes inviting pets easy. The dogs can spend time playing outdoors in the safety of your home while their parents mix and mingle!
Classic lawn games like croquet, table tennis, and cornhole are great activities to get everyone out of their seats and involved, no matter what their athletic skills are. Don't forget to check out the community amenities like putt golf or the resort-style swimming pool at The Heights for small gatherings. Our amenities are a hit with our residents and their guests alike!
Say Goodbye to Apartment Living: Host in a Rental Home
This spring, welcome guests at the front door of a new single-family home, not another tiny apartment! The curb appeal at our communities is a cut above the rest with beautiful farmhouse-style exteriors, community-maintained landscaping, and incredible craftsmanship.
Our open-concept floor plans with connected kitchens, dining rooms, and living areas make entertaining and preparing food easy. Gone are the days of being hidden behind a wall while you plate more appetizers or worrying about the lack of space in your apartment. The choice to rent a home is easy when you live at The Heights or Patton Crest. Level up this spring with a rental single-family home from Fairin Realty that you love!
With this list of top entertaining essentials for spring, we know your next gathering will be just what you need to welcome the new season in your home. Contact our leasing professionals today to learn more about our available homes!
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