12/14/2024
When the Office Christmas Party lasts a whopping 17 hours but you still can’t squeeze in all the activities you had planned, you KNOW it’s a good time! For 14 years, my friend and colleague Kristin Sanders Detwiler and I have celebrated the holidays together because we both own our own event planning businesses and have no employees. The tradition began by having a lunch date, which lasted longer with each passing year. In 2020, we wanted to be responsible and not linger in a restaurant that had reduced seating due to the pandemic, so we had a socially-distanced gathering at my house. Now our party has evolved into more than just lunch – an eggnog toast, several meals, multiple dessert courses, a midnight snack, a holiday stroll to look at Christmas decorations, a Secret Santa gift exchange, a lengthy list of personal and industry topics to discuss that we maintain throughout the year, and more! We had a terrific day together and we loved finding out that we’re both still on Santa’s Nice List!