Love, The Messamores: New Year's Eve Party

This is the story of our first New Year's party...on our 5th anniversary! We had great friends and family over to celebrate with us and we also had a beer tasting contest which was such a fun way to spend the evening. We had 3 rounds of tasting and people brought a 6 pack to enter in each category they wanted to--the more beer you brought, the better your chances of winning! I think the winners were from the "Domestic" category-Goose Island 312 (from Katie and Zach Ressler), the "Foreign" winner was La Fin Du Monde (Messamore's!) and the "Seasonal" category winner was Winter Hook from Red Hook Brewery (Dave and Lyndsey Guggenmos). The winner of each category got to take home one of each of the beers that were in the contest which ended up being 10 different kinds! It was great! We would definitely do something like this again--maybe for a summer BBQ or something. Oh, and I can't forget Will's music video playlist which was perfectly timed and really fun entertainment! Great conversation and fun times were had and the only casualty of the night was front porch chair cushion that was burned with sparklers because that's where we decided to light them since it was sleeting outside (brilliant idea by me!)!

Photos are by the lovely Charlie and maybe a few from our camera too that was miraculously revived after a year of not working just days before our party! Also...Will says I can't have anymore parties when I have a week to decorate, plan, clean and bake for because it cost too much money (it really didn't...I just spent a week doing different projects for this one!)! Enjoy!

The decorations---so much glitter! I had so much fun getting the decorations all ready and the after Christmas sales with lots of Gold and Silver things for cheap prices made it easy to go maybe slightly overboard!

Entry table--found the awesome printable here in the frame which Will modified some to say "Old Friends" right above "New Beginnings". You can also see the beautiful dish that Rob and Char gave us for our anniversary! Such sweet friends!

Tissue Paper Tassel Garland--my favorite last minute Pinterest find! It was so easy to make! I'll be doing this project again for showers/parties in the future!

Tissue "Poof Balls" and 3D Snowflakes! A staple for most showers/parties I help with!

Glitter letters! Easy and fun!

The whole table...I don't think I have a pic of my embossed napkins, but they were awesome too!

Cake Balls! Debbie got me a cake ball pan for Christmas so we gave them a go...the pan worked great...the cake pops tasted just ok, but they looked cool! I'll have to try again with a different flavor!

Champagne Raspberry Jello Shots...delicious! Now for some pics of friends who came to celebrate...we didn't take nearly enough pictures with people...oh well!