May the Fourth be with You 2016

This year, The Hubby and I hosted our first annual May the Fourth party! For those of you who don't know yet, I am a Star Wars nerd. The Hubby, he is a good sport. He has seen Star Wars and even let me drag him to opening day of The Force Awakens, but he is not anywhere close to the nerd that I, very proudly, am. I wanted to host our first Star Wars day party last year, but we were busy wedding planning and decided to host the first one this year instead, once things had calmed down a bit. So, I set out to make our first year party a success!

My very talented brother designed special invitations for me and I got them printed on Shutterfly. I used my new calligraphy skills and addressed all of the envelopes.

With the invites mailed off, I started planning the food and games. I tend to be a fan of more passive games versus something where we stop the flow of the party so everyone can watch while someone does something embarrassing. Blame my somewhat introverted nature, but none the less. I grabbed a couple of poster boards and set to work.

The first game was a Star Wars version of "Who said it?". I wrote quotes from characters throughout the series on yellow paper and mounted each onto the board.

With the second poster board a made a Star Wars version of "Guess who?" inspired by my sister. She plays a version of this at her annual Oscar party with outfits famous people wore. I printed out full length versions of various characters in their Star Wars costumes and redacted out the faces. Each character had a number and folks guessed who each costume belonged to.

Each guest grabbed a piece of paper, held down by my Han Solo in carbonite bottle opener, and a pen and set off to guessing.

For decorations, I tried to keep it simple. I found an awesome Etsy shop that sells Star Wars letter print outs, in an instant download, for $5! I printed out the letters I wanted, mounted them to purple card stock and hung them up between our patio cover supports.

I made a quick trip to my local party supply store and grabbed some silver lanterns, white and yellow curly ribbon hangers, white 3D crepe stars and silver cardboard stars and hung them all up.

For the food, I  printed out some freebie food labels and went for it! I decided to keep it pretty simple as well. I took pretzel sticks dipped in colored chocolate to make edible lightsabers.

The hubby cooked up some amazing "Han-burgers" and "Hutt Dogs"!

We had some "Force Fruit" and, my personal favorite, "7 Leia dip" (LOL!!!) along with "Trooper scoopers" for dipping. I was cracking up when I read the "7 Leia dip" one that I just HAD to serve that! Too funny!

The Hubby also helped me set up a bean bag toss game. I whipped up some bean bags with some Star Wars fabric scraps I had and he drilled my plastic bins onto a wood plank. Our guests had so much fun with this one!

We invited over all of the neighbors and their kiddos as well as a bunch of my fellow Star Wars loving friends. Everyone had a total blast! My Grandparents were the stars of the party in their home made Star Wars costumes, complete with lightsabers!

To finish off the day, I made Star Wars sugar cookies. I put them in vellum bags and sealed them with my official Rebel Alliance wax seal, and served them, of course, with Blue milk!

The party was such a blast that I didn't take many pictures during. I did of course wear my Han Solo dress from Halloween and didn't even take any pictures! Instead, I will share the picture of The Hubby and I from Halloween, since I was in the same outfit, and The Hubby will probably never be seen in this outfit again. So, for documentation purposes, here you have it! May the Fourth be with you!!