Get the party started by telling guests that they have to arrive with two bottles of their favorite wine—one unwrapped for sampling and another wrapped for a post-sipping gift exchange.

Loved ones are being treated to unique, thoughtful gifting stations instead of receiving standard welcome bags.

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“We have a strict rhetoric that we’d like you parents to follow when picking out gifts.” “It was like no colors, I can’t have a color,” the mother of the party guest said of the rules.

Everyone invited to the party shows up with a wrapped White Elephant gift. Guests arrange themselves in a circle, placing gifts in the center of the game zone. Participants determine an order for ...