Purse Party - Schedule (w/o photos)

Here is the sample schedule minus the pictures.

7:00 pm
Guest begin to arrive
Guests drop bags and donations at the door
Guest write a quick note with their name and how many purses they brought,
(part of game later, no amounts used in correlation with names)
mingle (with food and drinks)

7:20 pm
Let everyone introduce themselves.
Play a game.
We did Supurselatives. A little play on words with Superlatives. Again, I'll post the game in another blog.

7:30pm
Make sure to give the ladies some time to look over the bags.
One way to do that is to write notes* to send with the bags.
*I provided blank note cards, envelopes and pens for the ladies to write notes to a mom-to-be, a PSS staff member or a PSS volunteer. Every other person around the circle took time to look at the bags while the others wrote notes. Then after a little while they switched.

Do the bag swap.
We let our guests pick numbers from a box. For the first round, start with #1 and move in order through the group. If your ladies decide that they want to get another bag, start with the last number and move back to #1. We had ladies in our group that wanted 2 bags, but not everyone. We even had some ladies who didn't want any bags. Don't make a big deal out of it, just let them enjoy the fun of being with the group.

8:15pm
Wrap up the party with more mingling and eating.

Make sure to get a group photo...
even if they aren't all there at the end. :)

8:45pm
Enlist a few ladies to help load all the purses and donated items into the car that will deliver them to the donation site (PSS in this case).


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If you decide to do a Purse Party of your own, please let me know about it!
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The rest of the Purse Party posts can be found here:
Purse Party Supurselatives
Purse Party Schedule w/o Photos
Purse Party Schedule
Purse Party Planning
Purse Party Origins
Purse Party Sneak Peek