How Can Evite Help Make Thanksgiving Easier?
Are you hosting Thanksgiving this year? Is this your first time hosting or has your place always been the place to be for Thanksgiving? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Evite is here to help you! I’ve partnered up with them this month to show off some of their gorgeous new holiday designs. Their designs are easy to use and perfect for invitations and thank you notes! This post is sponsored by Evite.
Holidays In Our Blended Family
Starting a family means you are embarking on a life full of new adventures and traditions together. My husband and I have been able to show each other our childhood family traditions. He has shown me Indian traditions and customs he grew up with. They were all new for me and I jumped on the chance to learn. Since his family moved to the US shortly before he was born, he had a unique opportunity to discover new American traditions with his family. Thanksgiving was a new holiday for them and they started to create new memories and traditions together, including his mom’s famous lemon pepper turkey!
While I didn’t have any new customs to share with my husband, I was able to share some of our holiday traditions with him. My family loves fall because it means we get to celebrate one of our favorite holidays, Thanksgiving! I don’t have one memory growing up of my family apart on Thanksgiving. We have always come together, made way too much food, and spent the day laughing.
Our First Time Hosting Thanksgiving
I couldn’t wait to spend Thanksgiving together with my husband. After we were married, we had spent most of our Thanksgiving’s with his side of the family. One year we decided to throw a special Thanksgiving dinner of our own. We stayed home and invited all of our friends. We deemed it our “Friend’s Thanksgiving.”
Hosting an event as big as Thanksgiving can be quite intimidating. We decided to make the turkey and a few other dishes. Our friends each chose a side or two and prepared them at home. My husband and I looked up turkey recipes all week. We were excited and terrified to make our first one.
We woke up early in the morning to get the house ready and have enough time to prep the turkey. We debated over who had to clean out the turkey, rubbed it down with delicious spices, and then tried to figure out what to tie the legs with. We didn't realize that was part of the turkey making process and used the only thing we had...yarn. I took pictures of every step to show off our beautiful turkey. Unless we botched it, then we’d destroy all evidence of the turkey fiasco.
Our friends started to arrive and the smell of our delicious turkey filled the house. It was a success! All of our hard work and fussing over the turkey paid off and we couldn’t wait to dig in. Our friend’s thanksgiving is one of our favorite memories. It was a chance for all of us to do something new and start a new tradition together. I love that we were able to come together and make it happen.
Hosting your first big holiday is scary, thrilling, and exciting. I love that we were able to do it with all of our friends.
How Can Evite Help You This Thanksgiving?
Evite is here to make it a little easier for you. All you need to do is sign up for an account. Then you can design your own invitation or thank you card. The best part is there are so many beautiful designs to choose from and it’s easy!
They’re even giving all of you a FREE GIFT! All of you, my lovely readers, get 15 free “Thank You Cards!” All you need to do is go here and use the code BMTHANKYOU15
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“This post is part of a sponsored campaign on behalf of the South Asian Bloggers Network for Evite and I have received compensation for this post. All opinions are my own.”