As the new year approaches so does a new year of goals, dreams and aspirations. As you reflect on this year, and look, hopeful, towards the next creating a vision board is an excellent way to visualize every dream or goal that you have. What makes the art of creating a vision board even more special is doing it in the company of your favorite people. Getting your goals outside of your heart and onto paper helps to make them real and concrete. Sharing your aspirations with people close to you provides a space for support and strategic planning.
If you’re marking your calendar for your next get together where you and the girls can share laughs as well as your dreams, this post will guide you through hosting a lavish vision board party that makes setting goals sexy.
Lavish Vision Board Party
Setting a Theme
Setting a theme is the best way to turn your casual get together into an intentional gathering with meaning and purpose. It doesn’t have to be extravagant or complicated – it just needs to speak to you. With a theme set, you can then plan the type of food, ambience, and aesthetic that you want for your party. If you’re stumped, here are a few themes that are unique and enchanting:
Parisian Planning
Bring out your copies of Vogue France, your favorite French wines, and curate a minimalistic evening with soft Parisian jazz playing in the background as you put your plans to paper.
Merlot and Memories
All about cherishing the memories we’ve created and looking forward to the ones we will make this theme captures what we’ve learned that brings us the most joy, and using this next year to fill it with all of those things. With glasses of merlot flowing, and rich burgundy accents this theme is moody in all the best ways.
Rosé and Rituals
Perfect for the girls who cling to every day of summer. For the women who have found comfort in rituals. This theme should be as light as a crisp glass of rose on a summer evening as the sun sets. Focusing on rituals that will make every second an event, and every day a scene from your favorite movie. Finding comfort in rituals no matter if it’s in your commute to the office each morning or your Sunday reset.
The Elegance Era
Absolutely enchanting. This theme is all about clinging to the richness of life and celebrating womanhood. This gathering should feel like a tea party with all of your closest friends. Intimate and graceful, filling every board with the promise of slowing down and creating art out of everything.
Vision Board Party Invite
Creating a vision board party invite is another important step in setting the tone for the evening. Once you have your theme, it’s nice to take it a step further by creating invitations that go beyond a text message, or word in passing. An invitation is intentional, making it a gathering with purpose instead of a casual get together. Another nice thing about creating a vision board party invitation is having another memento to cherish and look back on for years to come. Who knows, this may just be the first vision board party of many, becoming the first of your new tradition.
Vision Board Party Setup
Creating the perfect setting for your vision board party is not only visually appealing, but you’d be surprised how much our environment influences our mood. From colors, to lighting to temperature, our environment plays a huge role in our productivity. So it shouldn’t be taken lightly, or forgotten. When planning a gathering the most important thing to understand is why you’re gathering. The second aspect to understand is what to you want to gain from this gathering. And these two things could be different. Your why could be a vision board party, but you may prioritize sharing laughs after a rough year or leaving the event inspired. The answers to these two questions will help you decide how to set the tone for your vision board party mood and decorations.
Vision Board Supplies
The unique thing about friendships or any relationship is that each one is uniquely different because each person is uniquely different. When it comes to our goals and dreams, it’s no different. Whether you’re whimsical with dreams of a garden that rivals Martha Stewart, or you love historic libraries with the glow of a burning candle, your tastes might be different and that’s okay. Encouraging your guests to bring magazines, journals, and other material that speaks to them is an excellent idea. You do want to make sure you provide the basics. As a hostess one of the most exciting parts is thinking of everything. Here is a list of versatile supplies that work for the group no matter each individuals personal aesthetic:
- poster board
- styrofoam board
- Scissors
- Drawing paper
- glue sticks
- hot glue gun
- tape
- ribbon
- buttons
- markers
- pens
- colored pencils
- water colors
- old newspapers
- old magazines
Elevating Your Experience
You’ve already laid the foundation for a truly memorable vision board party, now it’s time to add the finishing touches. You’ve finalized the menu, and placed your final decoration, now it’s time to light the candles, queue the playlist, make a schedule for your evening. These small steps may go unnoticed, but really are the things that add that flare that will help make your lavish vision board party memorable.
There is a reason that vision boards have become so closely associated with a new year. As a new year arrives so does fresh opportunities, and even a reset. Walking to this new year with a plan helps us to be intentional about what we want, and more importantly who we want to be. Vision boards are ways to attach a material image to our dreams, and what better way to do that than in the presence of people who will encourage you, root for you, and even push you to dream bigger?
