Christmas and holiday party invitations
Ugly sweaters, cookie swaps, open houses and the office thing you did not volunteer for. Add a Secret Santa draw to any of them without a second tool.
Templates to start from
Drawn in code from the theme palettes, so nothing here is a stock photograph and nothing loads slowly. Tap one to set that design in the builder below.
Start a Christmas invitation
Four boxes and a design. The preview beside the form is the page your guests will open.
Live preview updates as you type
Christmas party
Christmas party
Hosted by you
- When
- Saturday, December 19, 2026 at 6pm EST
- Where
Drinks, music and far too much cheese. Wear something festive.
Who brings what
- Mulled wine
- Cheese board
- Cookies
- Mixers
Secret Santa
Each guest gets a private link with one name on it.
This is the page your guests open. Nothing is saved until you press the button.
Pages for this holiday
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Bringalong vs elfster
Elfster is a full gift exchange platform with accounts, wishlists, anonymous messaging and apps.
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Christmas cookie exchange invitation
How many dozen each guest bakes, how to stop four people turning up with chocolate chip, and what the swap looks like on the table..
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Christmas party invitation
Pick the date, write six lines, send one link.
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Dirty Santa rules
Numbered turns, one gift each, and stealing until a gift has moved three times.
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Elfster alternative
Elfster's help center puts the requirement plainly: everyone needs to have their own Elfster account.
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Secret Santa gifts under $25
Twenty-five is the limit most groups land on.
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Holiday open house invitation
A window instead of a start time, wording that tells guests they can stay twenty minutes or three hours, and a food table that survives the whole afternoon..
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Office holiday party invitation
Wording for a work party that a mixed team can read without wincing: optional attendance, clear rules on partners and the bar, and the access details people are too polite to ask about..
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Office secret Santa
A limit people can afford, a quiet way to say no, and a posting date that works for the half of the team who are not in the building..
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Secret Santa generator with exclusions
An exclusion blocks two named people from being matched, in either direction.
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Secret Santa generator
Add the names, block the couples, run the draw.
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Secret Santa generator no email
Names only.
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Secret Santa rules
The rules that matter are the ones you write down before the draw.
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Secret Santa wishlist ideas
A wishlist is a brief for a stranger with a budget and forty minutes.
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Tree trimming party invitation
An invite your guests can answer with one tap, and a plan for the hour when twelve people are holding glass baubles at the same time..
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Ugly sweater party invitation
Wording you can paste, a judging format that takes ten minutes, and the five places a guest can still get a sweater the night before..
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What to write in a Christmas party invitation
Eight invitations you can paste and edit, plus the exact sentences for a dress code, a gift limit, an end time and an adults-only evening..
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White elephant gift exchange rules
Eight rules in playing order, the three-steal freeze, the opener's final swap, and one steal chain followed all the way to where it stops..
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White elephant gift exchange
Group size, timing, the budget line on the invitation, and what to do when two people forget to bring anything..
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White elephant gift ideas
Why one gift moves three times and another sits untouched, plus 20 categories that work at any limit..
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White elephant gifts under $10
Sixteen categories where ten dollars buys the good version, and the trick that stops a cheap gift looking cheap..
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White elephant gifts under $20
Twenty is the limit most groups land on.
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White elephant gifts under $50
At fifty dollars the funny gift stops working as an excuse.
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White elephant vs secret Santa
Same cost per person, different evening.
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Holiday potluck sign up sheet
Named slots instead of "bring a dish", amounts per person you can hand to a guest, and a way to end up with two desserts rather than seven..
December fills up in November
Send a December party invitation four to six weeks ahead. By the last week of November most people already have two weekends gone, and the office thing lands on a date nobody chose. If you are hosting on a Friday or Saturday between the 10th and the 23rd, you are competing, and a late invitation loses.
If it is a work party, ask the calendar question before you pick the date: a Thursday evening gets a better turnout than a Friday, because nobody wants to give up the start of their weekend to their colleagues.
- Six weeks out: pick the date, send the invitation, set a reply-by two weeks before.
- Four weeks out: run the Secret Santa draw so people have time to shop and a spending limit they can respect.
- Two weeks out: close replies, confirm the headcount, settle the food and drink order.
- One week out: post the bring list for anything missing, and tell people the gift limit again.
- The day of: the calendar alert already fired yesterday. Enjoy it.
Add the gift exchange to the invitation, not a second app
A Christmas party and a Secret Santa draw are the same event, so they belong on the same link. Turn on the draw when you create the invitation, or add it later from the organiser page, and each person gets a private link showing one name and that person’s wishlist. Exclusions keep couples and siblings from drawing each other, and you never see the full pairing yourself.
If the group is bringing wrapped gifts for anybody rather than buying for one named person, that is White Elephant, and the rules page has the turn order and a steal counter instead.
Naming a spending limit people keep to
Write a number, not a range, and write what it buys. "$25, and homemade counts" works. "Around $20 to $30, nothing fancy" produces one person spending $70 and one person spending $8, and both of them feel bad about it.
Say it on the invitation, say it in the draw, and say it once more the week before. The person who overspends usually did not read it the first time rather than ignoring it.
Running a gift exchange too?
Both of these are free, work in a browser and need no email addresses from anybody.
- Secret Santa generator — type the names, run the draw, everyone gets a private link showing one name.
- White Elephant rules and turn order — the numbered order and a steal counter that locks a gift at your limit.
- White Elephant gift ideas — gift types that work for a mixed group, by budget.