It’s Graduation Season–Our Very Best Ideas

I love all the excitement at this time of year, it is so fun to see all the posts about the rights of passage such as graduation and prom, etc. It’s especially nice to see these things get celebrated again– as they should be!

Today I thought I’d share some of the ways we celebrated our own children when they graduated in case you a planning a celebration, as well as the best gift ideas to help if you are shopping for a graduate.

You may remember some of these parties if you read our blog regularly, and some of you may have even been reading long enough to see our kids grow up! Last year Christy’s daughter graduated and even though they were overseas, they were able to come back to the states to have her celebration. Christy used the college colors and set up a casual but festive event, you can read the post here. Since we seem to be of one mind with our entertaining style, we both used tiered trays to display themed sugar cookies, you can find one of these here.

The year before, when we were still in the thick of the pandemic, we hosted an outdoor celebration for our son. All of his end of year events, like prom and his graduation ceremony, were cancelled so it was important to find a way to celebrate him. I used his high school colors (the lovely combination of green and orange!) to theme his party, which we held on our deck and in our backyard. You can read more here.

It was definitely a HOT day (we didn’t have the party until late July), so we made sure to have plenty of cold drinks including a water with lemon, lime and mint which was very popular! We also used an affordable tent and rented tables and chairs so people could eat in the shade.

We kept serving simple, and we special ordered foam cups with his graduation year (I usually order party goods from this online store). I displayed flavored chips on a chip rack, a great way to upgrade individual bags of chips and save tablespace at the same time.

A few years back, when Christy’s oldest graduated she designed the cutest favors, you can see how she did it here.

Here are some of our favorite graduation gift ideas we’ve shared over the years, while money is always appreciated, sometimes a tangible gift is preferred.

Here are links for the gift ideas shown above~

Here are some practical ideas for dorm essentials for college bound kids or those starting out in their first apartment, you can read the post here.

Congrats to all the graduates!

XO,

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