I am a huge Gilmore Girls fan. I don’t know if it was the struggles of Lorelai and Rory’s love stories, the relationship between mother and daughter or the love for all the food…but it was always a fun show with humor and lightness and all of the beautiful appreciation and small time charm.

I wasn’t a huge fan of how the series ended, but c’est la vie right? But when I heard about the Netlflix revival I was SO excited. I mean sadly excited. Maybe embarrassingly excited. I put out a little poll on “the Facebook” as my dad calls it, to see if anyone else might be interested in a viewing party. I think we can tell by now, hosting people is something I love, and that comes very honestly to me. I grew up in a hospitality home, cooking for people, entertaining, owning restaurants and always having something in the works. And I have learned that this type of creative outlet serves me really well.

SO people were in, and my mom, my beautiful Loralei (with the poise of Emily) offered to host the party at her house. I was determined to “keep things simple” so that I could really enjoy the evening. But then the ideas kind of got away with me.

A wedding planner years ago was sharing thoughts with a bride on a budget and mentioned that if you’re on a budget a good way to use your resources is to pick one or two things to invest in that will really create a “Wow”. It’s part of the reason I almost always create one vignette at a party that I host, and has always stuck with me. I decided that for this party the “wow” would be in the welcome. A hollywood style red carpet viewing arrival (where I knew that we would take pictures as well!)

The red carpet, drapes, and red ropes/stanchions and beautiful balloons all came from GLOW. The easel and mirror I borrowed from home and the prints were from Staples. (If you haven’t heard of this before you can get really big prints for a really good price by ordering engineering prints. I have used them for Finley’s birthday party background, my to do list smiley face trackers, the calendar I posted from Hand Lettering and both the Gilmore Girls Now Playing sign and Team Jess/Logan/Dean posters. They are a great option for something quick and are only available in black and white (so I wouldn’t recommend them for getting your wedding photos printed).

Oh and it can’t be a Gilmore Girls Party without all of the food! I opened it up and made some suggestions on what people could bring that Rory and Lorelei consumed on a regular basis. We had taquitos, french fries (the devil’s starchy fingers), pop tarts (I forgot how much I liked these), pizza, Chinese, donuts, “Mallomars” and “red vines” (Viva Puffs and Twizzlers…because we’re Canadian eh?) To drink we had Founder’s Day punch without the Punch, The Rory, and of course coffee coffee coffee.

Myself and a few of the girls has custom shirts made from KoolT’s in Halifax, and I have to say that they can do almost anything and whipped these up for us in just a couple of days. Having shirts we all liked a lot means we can wear them again. I am wanting to be more “In Omnia Paratus” (ready for anything) so it’s a great fit for me (both literally and figuratively) and we got photos taken with our “teams”. Poor Dean. It’s not I don’t like him, just not as Rory’s love interest. BUT I have to say, at the end of the four new episodes I am not sure I would still be team Logan or Team Rory. Actually not very happy with those two at the moment. The end of the last episode had me frantically googling if Gilmore Girls was going to have a re-revival on Netflix. I didn’t find an answer, but if they do, you can expect a re-revival viewing party from me, because it was just so fun! Even if it wasn’t the best TV I have ever seen. Or hey, maybe a Gilmore Girls party just as an excuse to get together and have all the tasty treats!

Thanks to all the ladies who came, shared food, laughed and yelled at the TV with me (*ahem love you Stephanie**) and to Glow for hooking us up with such a cool Red Carpet welcome!