November 12, 2025 • 26 mins
If you want to be the host with the most this holiday season, you don’t need a pricey party planner, you need to hear this episode.
The Dubrow’s share their soiree secrets including the ONE THING every host should be thinking about.
Plus, Heather has thoughts on the RHOC friendship no one saw coming!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
I'm Heather, do you Brow?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And I'm Terry Brow?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
And we're going to keep this between us, but not really.
All right, we're talking about parties today, but before we
get there, I have to just tell you my hair
is so gross. I feel like it's going to get
up and walk off my head because I'm allergic to
all hair dye except this one. And I actually got
a new patch test for a new one, and it's
like it's horrible. Accept this one, well, the one that's
in my head, but it's like not a great color.
(00:29):
And when you when you color it, you can't wash
it for a few days because it has to develop.
So it's really gross. Anyway, that's my story of the day,
is that I'm not washing my hair and it's really disgusting.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And that's very healing.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Thank you. And so you don't know do you know
what Shutterfly is?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Do you remember what Shutterfly is?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's the network sends pick photos.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now that's green fly, oh green Oh no, yes, I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, so Shutterfly, I mean it still exists, I'm assuming
because they just sent me an email. Shutterfly was like
the first original photo thing apps website something where you
would upload all your pictures from your camera. This is
before smartphones, and you'd put them on Shutterfly and that's
how you could share them and create albums and all
(01:16):
the things. So to this day, they'll randomly message me
and say, here's some memories from thirteen years ago, twelve
years ago, ten years ago, whatever it is, and you
can start going on a rabbit hole and go look
at you know what's going on. So I don't know
(01:36):
if Shutterfly was listening to me. Literally, it was like
the bubble of the conversation was still hanging in the
air and my phone, Shutterfly sends me, here is a
memory from twelve years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
That looks like it is Hawhy guess I remember that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So it's a picture if you're listening of Vicky and
myself and Tamra in Hawaii. And what was particularly interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
They were mean to you by that way back not.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yet, but yes, that season for sure. It was season nine.
And what was kind of interesting about that season was
the season before they had let a few people go,
They let Gretchen go, Alexis and Lydia, and so we
started just you with season nine. It was just me
(02:32):
and Vicki and Tamra and we filmed by ourselves for
multiple weeks until they hired Channon, Lizzie and a girl
named Danielle that didn't end up making it.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
By the way, season in retrospect, big shock that the
two of them paired off against you.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, listen, three, I've known that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Three doesn't work. A trio doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
They know they have to create controversy, and you're the
one they're going to go after whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm sure I just also pissed them off.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So anyway, Yeah, I remember you pissed off because you
talked about the temperature of wine.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh it was triggering.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It was the temperature of wine. It was that it
was a plumeria tree and Vicky thought it sounded like chlamydia.
But those were the good old days when we argued
about stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I know we're going to talk about a topic, but
I want to ask you, are there certain things that
someone could say to you that sort of step over
the bright red line that you would never be friends
with them again, no matter what happened my children, your children?
How about just stuff about you as a human being?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Probably not. I think the kids is a hard line.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
For oh really.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
But anyway, So I so I sent that photo to
Vicky and Tamra and what what's fine. I haven't spoken
to Vicky in quite some time, and she has said
some controversial at me. Oh yeah, she says we inherited
all our money, and she says I'm too liberal to
be on the show and I have too much money
to be on the show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
But she doesn't step over the line with us.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, I appreciate some reason with Vicky.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It doesn't bother me. Like, Vicky and I have always
had a lot of fun together, and I know she
says these things about me, and I'm sure we'll have
a conversation about it at some point, but in general,
Vicky's funny and we've always had a fun time together,
and I care about her family and her kids and whatnot. Sure, anyway,
So I sent Vicky and Tamra that photo and I
(04:21):
was like, oh my gosh, Shutterfly sent me this picture today.
And it was funny between me and Tamor because we
were literally just talking about it and then Vicky would
oh my god. And then in our little group chat
the three of us were having Tamra sends this picture
and right there, oh, walking into season twenty, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
By the way, that was incredible, incredible.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, so this is a picture the helicopter of me
and Tamar and Vicky coming off a helicopter. This was
my first season, this was season seven. That was so cool,
and so I wrote back to them, I go, oh,
my gosh, it was so hot on the helicopter. I
was bring a silk blouse and I was anyway, so
the three of us were We're reminiscing and joking about that.
So to your point, I think that and we keep
(05:09):
joking that. I call that. I called Tama my historical friend.
But we are historical friends because when you have so
much history with someone, it's like some things you can
forgive and forget, right anyway, So Nicky me Tamara, very funny. Okay.
What I wanted to talk about today on the show
was parties, because have you seen any of the photos
(05:33):
from Chris Jenner's seventieth birthday party?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Wow, yeah, amazing, and I love the theme. Listen, I
give credit credits due. It was double O seven, like
Double O seventy. Oh, so it was a whole James
Bond double O seven and I loved it. I loved
that she got the seventy in there, that it was
sexy and chic, and that everyone had to get dressed
(05:58):
a certain way. But I don't know where it was,
because some people were I saw some people post, maybe
Martha Stewart, that they got dressed at the Beverly Hills
Hotel and took a plane to get there. It was
at Jeff Bezo's house.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Obviously, everybody flew a private jet, right. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Does he have a private island somewhere close by or
is it Santa Barbara something. Anyway, I loved it, and
so I guess ostensibly all of her kids through the
party for her, or maybe Lauren Sanchez Bezos did. I'm
not really sure, but anyway, from what little I saw
of it, it was so spectacular. It was a casino night.
(06:38):
It was like sexy double seven martinis and all of that. Amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Isn't that funny? What do you think I think about
when I hear this?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And don't ever throw me a party? Ever?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And so glad I was not, and I wouldn't be
invited invited to that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I would have loved to have been invited oh, I
owed me listen. You know, I love to throw parties.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Party thrower.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I am very appreciative of someone that understands details. I
just love it. And I know, like the Kardashians have
teams of people that you know, do these kinds of things.
But I also think that it's them also. They're creative
and interesting and fun and I just nan, I thought
it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
As much as you enjoy a good party and you
throw an amazing party, I can't stand them.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You don't like my parties?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, I love your part I just don't like going
to parties. You know what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's the uncomfortableness of the conversations of people you don't
know very well, and the whole I'm on stage and
I what do I talk about? And I don't want
to be here and by nine o'clock I want to
be in bed already.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But A the worst party goer.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, But you know what, You're who I plan parties
for because I think there's probably lots of people that
feel the same way you do. So my goal with
a party is to make it in such a way
that everyone has a great time, feels comfortable, and doesn't
feel like that. So my whole thing, I mean, I
think was a Gina on Housewives that was like Heather,
(08:07):
it makes you work at a party or something like that,
because I always have a lot of activations. But the
reason why I always have a lot of activations is
I I base my parties. I think about kids parties.
So when our kids were growing up, you know, you
have to entertain them at a party. They're not grown
up enough to sit around and have conversations like that,
so you have to think about what can I do
to keep them entertained. So when it comes to adult parties,
(08:29):
I always try to think, what is the adult version
of bouncy houses and balloon twisters that's going to be
interesting and engaging and give you something to do and
something to talk about, but that you don't have to
be a part of. Meaning I'm not the kind of
person that would throw a murder mystery party because some
people don't want to be a part of that. And
(08:52):
now you're forcing someone to wear a costume and to
be a part of this thing. You know that I
wouldn't do. But I do like OpEd bar.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I like the weed bar.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
The weed bar was good, right that was enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That set the mood for me at one of your
big parties.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But also the thing about the weed bar, it wasn't
just and I've done it a couple of times, the
weed bar. And you know, Drew Martin, who I met
a number of years ago, has this botanical weed company.
So it's not just like, Hey, come up here and
we're going to roll you a joint so you get stoned.
It's interesting and he's such a cool guy. And with
(09:30):
all the different botanicals you can put in your joints,
and they explain what they're for and what they do
and how they make you feel. I love stuff like that. Yeah,
Like I'm not a cigar person, but I enjoy the
idea of having a cigar bar. But I know, but
I mean for someone that's interested because it's an art form,
(09:51):
how their hand rolled and where they come from, and
you know, I like stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah. By the way, what's the between activation? Activity?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Activation is just the new way we call them.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yes, activation is a new term that I've heard in
the last month.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Activation. Activation, that's an activity.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So like at bar Mitzvah's and stuff, now they say like,
how many activations.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Are really activation.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, but I like very interactive things, you know, even
when it comes to taking photos and stuff like that.
I just think that when there's more involved and just
walking up and click, it's more fun. And when you
have these activations, it lends people to talk to each other.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, I know you hate party. I hate party. I
just and the older I get, the more I hate them.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Maybe I'm just becoming a complete total hermit.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, you were very stone and had a lot of
fun at my birthday party last year.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, I can't believe I did that. And by the way,
that was my theme on the Housewise. The one scene
I did see was me maybe someone sent me just
going walking around like a stone full saying hello to people.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That was That was all I was.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It was fun, you know what They didn't show so
at that. That's at my birthday party last year that
we showed on the show. There was a weed bar.
I had two guys doing haikups. I had photo op.
I had these ice shot glasses that you would do
a shot and make a wish and then throw the
(11:33):
ice shot glass and do with the gong.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I had a gal and a huge coop champagne coop
glass pouring champagne. Yes, I had all kinds of food
I had. There were some like deserty activations. Also there
was something else I'm not remembering, but what they One
of the things they didn't show was I had a
silent disco.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Oh yeah, that ended up not being a thing a.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Thing, which is a bummer because I thought it was cool.
So the problem with having parties on television is that
they can't play the music. Number one, they can't clear
a lot of the songs. And number two, you know,
if it's a four hour party and they're showing twenty
minutes of it, the music won't edit together properly, so
they only use like what they call cleared music, so
(12:21):
it's cleared and it's sort of like what you and
I call noodling, like jazz noodling, so it can seamlessly
blow together. So what I thought would be fun would
would be to do the silent disco. So everyone gets
these headsets and they dance, and not everyone is listening
to the same song, so it's funny. So some people
(12:42):
are dancing slow, some people are dancing fast. But we
never got to it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, I was a bummer.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I know, I'd like to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I think now that there's AI music which can't be copyrighted,
you probably don't have to worry about that anymore. You
can have like you can say to the AI program
the app hey go song that sounds like Donna summer
female voice, very upbeat, sexy go again.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But it still wouldn't edit together properly.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I know, but at least you can play it. You
can play in the background in the scene.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
True. So I get a lot of people asking me
about party questions. So I'm just gonna go through a
couple of these. Please chime in.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I will at will.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you prefer a sit down dinner, heavy appetizers passed
around or food station? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Do you like?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I don't want to do the sit down dinner. First
of all, someone's going to pick who I'm sitting next to.
It's me, well that this is the other side of
the right the table. Yeah, and so it's always a
sign seating, and who's on my left because you're usually
on my right weirdly, and then who's across the table.
It's like I don't know anybody, and then I have
to do That's exactly why I hate parties.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Talking to people I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, So the cornerstone for a great party is your
guest list. And if you're doing a sit down, you
really have to curate and figure out table seating really
really well because that could make or break. As a
matter of fact, I'm not going to say who it was,
but we were out to dinner with some people the
other night and we had this very conversation because I
(14:14):
used to have these huge holiday parties and they've gotten
smaller over the years for and I'll explain why. But
one year we had five tables of ten, so we
had fifty people and it was this big, fun party.
But I decided at our table we would put it
was sort of the Island of the Misfit Toys, right.
It was people that didn't have a big group there,
(14:36):
didn't know that many people, and it was mostly LA people,
sports stars and musical people. Anyway, to make long story short,
there were two people that I sat next to each
other that I thought would be so great and absolutely
love each other.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
By the way, both people who have the most amazing
personality everyone likes.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Everyone likes both of them, and I put them next
to each other and they hate each other. And I
didn't not know that, and they were both so quiet
the whole night, and it was so weird. And then
I found out later what the story was and everything,
and I felt terrible. So that's the only time in
all my years of throwing parties that that ever happened.
But here's what I would tell you. I think when
you want to throw a party, it is the most
(15:17):
important thing to throw the kind of party you want
and not the kind of party you think you should
be having. If you're like Terry and you don't want
a million people in your house and it makes you
uncomfortable by all means, don't throw that party. Over the years,
our parties shrunk because I realized personally that every once
(15:37):
in a while I'll still throw a big blowout, but
in general, I like ten to twelve person dinner parties
because I found that at all these parties I'm working
and running around the party and trying to spend a
little bit of time with everyone, that I really don't
get to enjoy myself or spend enough time with anyone.
(15:59):
So I I love a small dinner party. And in
our last house, we had this table that when I
changed out the chairs, I could fit twelve around. I
did three on each side. It was a square table,
so fun and small enough intimate that everyone could talk
to each other across the table. I'm not I don't
(16:20):
love long tables because then you're really only talking to
people on either side of you or just across from you.
And if they're a dud or you know, the conversation,
if you only have so much you can say to them,
that's a problem. So I prefer a big, round table
or a square table.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, but you asked originally sign seating with tables or
buffet and you sit wherever you want, or past or
durers buffet because pastor durs is just never dinner, no
matter what, it's.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Just never dinner.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I like to start with pastor No.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But I'm saying, but if it's just just there's lots
of parties where it's just past orders, I don't like that. Yeah,
so buffet minimum. Noah signed seating. Let me see who
I want to sit with, and I'm so uncomfortable anyway,
Hopefully I can find someone that I can sit down
and eat with so that I can leave.
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Speaker 2 (17:37):
The moment I get to a party, I already want
to leave.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
However, we were going to a holiday party a year ago,
and we had been out every single night, and both
of our social batteries were completely out, and you did
not want to go, and I was like, we have
to go. I said, but and it's a party we
go do every year. And I said to you, let's
just take pictures, take a lap, say hi, and then
(18:00):
let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I even met reservations at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We made reservations at a restaurant. We got to the party,
we said hello to the host, we took photos, we
got a beverage, and we walked into the next room
and lo and behold there were two incredibly long dinner
table with a.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Sign seating with a sign seating cards.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I looked at Terry and I went, I am so sorry.
So having said that, we met someone who is so
fabulous and has become such an important part of our lives.
That I felt, like, you know what, sometimes you never know.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And in keeping with my theory that if you so
don't look forward to something enough, it ends up being
actually better than you think it's going to be, you
know what I mean, Like, well, I don't know. Every
time I think I can't, I can't believe I have
to go do this thing, it ends up being sometimes those.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Are the best things that sometimes sometimes and then when
you think this is going to be great and the opposite,
it's true. I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's like complications in plastic surgery. If you think to yourself,
oh my gosh, I'm going to have a disaster with
this patient, I just.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Know it, you don't.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
But the other one you think, oh, this is so easy, straightforward,
those are the ones you can have a disaster with.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Why get hung up on numbers. There has to be
a lot of people there. We have this, we have that,
And I think the truth is is that it is
so much better to have people that really want to
be there and hang rather than extraneous people who just
want to pop in and out.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So therefore, no one should ever invite me to a part.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Don't invite Terry, but you can.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Invite Heather great party guests.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, well these are all questions from you guys, so
thank you. I hope I'm answering them. What's your biggest
party pet peeve? When someone else posts, I just do
not like when when a host does not think of
the comfort of the guests. If you're going to put
people outside and it's cold, they're better be heaters.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And if you're invited people at dinner time, there better
be dinner.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Limited food and assigned seating. I don't want either of those. Yeah,
I don't like literally lots of food and a lot
of different kinds of food.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And it's not that you have to spend a ton
of money, but you need volume. You cannot run out
of food. I'm sorry. No. No, And no cash bar?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
No, no, well what party has a cash bar?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, some weddings do that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh yeah, No, you got to pay for the if
you're having a party, you got to pay for the
out And by the way, no, sometimes there's beer and wine.
Never invite me to a party that's just beer and wine.
Don't even think about it. Beer and wine.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, we go to some restaurants that are just beer.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Well that's because they can't get a liquor license. Believe it,
they want to sell liquor. Really, yes, beer and wine means.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Don't I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
What does that mean when you throw a party that
says beer and wine, you don't have any money, which
is okay.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I'm okay with that, But I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's fine, you don't have to go. I will go.
I think that's lovely you but like, do what you
could afford. Okay, you do not have to spend a
ton of money to make a great party and have
enough food and have some beverages tu buck chuk whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
There tract that if you invite me to a party
that has beer and wine, tell me and I will
bring alcohol.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You can't do that, that's rude.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
No, but or I will pay for your No, you
can't do that.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's not a thing. You can't make people feel bad.
Don't invite terry. Yeah, okay. How do you balance being
a great host and actually enjoying your own party. I've
just learned through the years what I like to do,
and I think as I get older, I get more relaxed.
Like even if you watch on housewives, like listen sometimes
when the party was very important to me, like my
(21:42):
name changing party, and she broke the boat off my
cake and ate it. That was not okay, and I
did not take kindly to that. But and when Emily
was so rude at my HD party when I was
starting the HD work me, she was very rude, but
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I was very calm through the whole thing. And then
honestly at my birthday party last year on the show
my Espresso Martini Vibe Party, I really didn't care what
I mean, there was some drama there was it was like.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And if I throw a party and you realize that
one of the guests that I've invited has sued me
for malpractice in the past, don't announce it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Announce it after the party.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Pull your wife aside. No, Gina, please just.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Don't announce it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That one is. Yeah, that's just not that one is,
especially when we're spending you know, thirty thousand dollars five thousand.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That didn't end well. There was a lot of wogg
you wasted.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes, and supposedly we beat up people and threw them
against the wall.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What's what's the oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Really missing from that is we also called the paparazzi.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
All that we should have called the poph.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What's the craziest or most unexpected thing that's ever happened
at one of your part Well, So I had foot
surgery like five years ago, six years ago, I can't remember,
and I wasn't gonna do party, wasn't gonna do birthday party.
And finally everyone's like, oh, i'll take you out, I'll
take it. I'm like, no, I forget it. I'll just
throw a party. So I decided to do a pajama
party so I could wear my boot on my foot
(23:17):
after the surgery. So I did a pajama party in
our basement and changed the whole thing out, and I
was doing bingo. I had robes made for everyone. We
were going to do a movie night. We're gonna play bingo.
I got great bingo gifts. I got bottle of dom,
I got AirPods, I got all this fun stuff. We
had this beautiful spread of food or whatever, and I
(23:38):
hired these two adorable guys to come run the bingo game.
What I didn't know is that they were from Magic Mike.
And it turned into a much different party. So I
thought the party would be over early. It started at six.
I thought I'd be in bed by ten. We had
a photo shoot for People magazine the next day, and
(24:01):
I will tell you it was so it was all girls.
It was so crazy, and my last guest, who was Dina,
left at two thirty in the morning and it was
so fun. It was like one of the best parts.
But that was a little unexpected. Did enjoy that? Last question?
We're going into the holiday season. Do you think holiday
parties should be cozy and traditional or glitzy and bold.
(24:24):
I think it depends. I mean, I like a little
bit of everything. I love getting dressed up and getting
an invitation to go to someone's home and you know,
have a glass of something and whatever. I also love
an intimate party. We celebrate everything, truly everything. And one
of my favorite holiday events of the year is our
(24:46):
Honaka party.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It's great. We have our family and our one of
our best friends, the Cohen's that we've been doing it
with for twenty years, I think, and they come over
and you know, my mom's there, Terry's mom's there. We
invite random friends to come over. Sometimes the cast of
characters kinds of kind of changes. I always make latkas.
(25:09):
One of the only times I ever cooked during the year.
I make latkas and then the rest is catered you'll
be happy to know. And then we have dinner, and
then we played Draidal Wars. So we have a full
table of unwrapped gifts and we sit around and we
play dradl and then when someone gets to twenty one,
everyone goes back bg bg beg and you go up
(25:30):
there and you get you grab present.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The gifts are usually pretty insane too, gifts her great,
I want to win wars.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, and there's like really fabulous gifts to gag gifts
and everything in between. And it's so fun. Yeah, and
you know, I think the kids and us we just
look forward to that every year.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I like your parties because there always a surprise because
I have nothing to do with them, so I just
show up.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So it's always like, oh, what if you do this year?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So I want to know from you guys, what do
you like to do? So you've seen in my parties
that all the crazy activations that I've done before, and
then oh did they didn't show this at one of
my birthday parties? I did this thing, and I repeated
it at the Family of Quality event, but they didn't
show it. So I had a life size cut out
(26:18):
made of myself and glass and paper glasses of champagne,
and instead of pinned the tail on the donkey, we
did pin the shamps on the heather. And there was
a fabulous pair of Martin Kat's earrings right that were
up for grabs and it was it was so fun.
I love doing things like that, But I want to
(26:39):
hear from you. What do you do at parties? What
activations do you do? Inspire me? Always looking for new things.
I'd love to hear from you, guys, And I hope
everyone has fabulous parties this holiday season.
I'm Heather, do you Brow?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And I'm Terry Brow?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
And we're going to keep this between us, but not really.
All right, we're talking about parties today, but before we
get there, I have to just tell you my hair
is so gross. I feel like it's going to get
up and walk off my head because I'm allergic to
all hair dye except this one. And I actually got
a new patch test for a new one, and it's
like it's horrible. Accept this one, well, the one that's
in my head, but it's like not a great color.
(00:29):
And when you when you color it, you can't wash
it for a few days because it has to develop.
So it's really gross. Anyway, that's my story of the day,
is that I'm not washing my hair and it's really disgusting.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And that's very healing.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Thank you. And so you don't know do you know
what Shutterfly is?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Do you remember what Shutterfly is?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's the network sends pick photos.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now that's green fly, oh green Oh no, yes, I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, so Shutterfly, I mean it still exists, I'm assuming
because they just sent me an email. Shutterfly was like
the first original photo thing apps website something where you
would upload all your pictures from your camera. This is
before smartphones, and you'd put them on Shutterfly and that's
how you could share them and create albums and all
(01:16):
the things. So to this day, they'll randomly message me
and say, here's some memories from thirteen years ago, twelve
years ago, ten years ago, whatever it is, and you
can start going on a rabbit hole and go look
at you know what's going on. So I don't know
(01:36):
if Shutterfly was listening to me. Literally, it was like
the bubble of the conversation was still hanging in the
air and my phone, Shutterfly sends me, here is a
memory from twelve years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
That looks like it is Hawhy guess I remember that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So it's a picture if you're listening of Vicky and
myself and Tamra in Hawaii. And what was particularly interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
They were mean to you by that way back not.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yet, but yes, that season for sure. It was season nine.
And what was kind of interesting about that season was
the season before they had let a few people go,
They let Gretchen go, Alexis and Lydia, and so we
started just you with season nine. It was just me
(02:32):
and Vicki and Tamra and we filmed by ourselves for
multiple weeks until they hired Channon, Lizzie and a girl
named Danielle that didn't end up making it.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
By the way, season in retrospect, big shock that the
two of them paired off against you.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, listen, three, I've known that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Three doesn't work. A trio doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
They know they have to create controversy, and you're the
one they're going to go after whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm sure I just also pissed them off.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So anyway, Yeah, I remember you pissed off because you
talked about the temperature of wine.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh it was triggering.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It was the temperature of wine. It was that it
was a plumeria tree and Vicky thought it sounded like chlamydia.
But those were the good old days when we argued
about stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I know we're going to talk about a topic, but
I want to ask you, are there certain things that
someone could say to you that sort of step over
the bright red line that you would never be friends
with them again, no matter what happened my children, your children?
How about just stuff about you as a human being?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Probably not. I think the kids is a hard line.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
For oh really.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
But anyway, So I so I sent that photo to
Vicky and Tamra and what what's fine. I haven't spoken
to Vicky in quite some time, and she has said
some controversial at me. Oh yeah, she says we inherited
all our money, and she says I'm too liberal to
be on the show and I have too much money
to be on the show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
But she doesn't step over the line with us.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, I appreciate some reason with Vicky.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It doesn't bother me. Like, Vicky and I have always
had a lot of fun together, and I know she
says these things about me, and I'm sure we'll have
a conversation about it at some point, but in general,
Vicky's funny and we've always had a fun time together,
and I care about her family and her kids and whatnot. Sure, anyway,
So I sent Vicky and Tamra that photo and I
(04:21):
was like, oh my gosh, Shutterfly sent me this picture today.
And it was funny between me and Tamor because we
were literally just talking about it and then Vicky would
oh my god. And then in our little group chat
the three of us were having Tamra sends this picture
and right there, oh, walking into season twenty, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
By the way, that was incredible, incredible.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, so this is a picture the helicopter of me
and Tamar and Vicky coming off a helicopter. This was
my first season, this was season seven. That was so cool,
and so I wrote back to them, I go, oh,
my gosh, it was so hot on the helicopter. I
was bring a silk blouse and I was anyway, so
the three of us were We're reminiscing and joking about that.
So to your point, I think that and we keep
(05:09):
joking that. I call that. I called Tama my historical friend.
But we are historical friends because when you have so
much history with someone, it's like some things you can
forgive and forget, right anyway, So Nicky me Tamara, very funny. Okay.
What I wanted to talk about today on the show
was parties, because have you seen any of the photos
(05:33):
from Chris Jenner's seventieth birthday party?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Wow, yeah, amazing, and I love the theme. Listen, I
give credit credits due. It was double O seven, like
Double O seventy. Oh, so it was a whole James
Bond double O seven and I loved it. I loved
that she got the seventy in there, that it was
sexy and chic, and that everyone had to get dressed
(05:58):
a certain way. But I don't know where it was,
because some people were I saw some people post, maybe
Martha Stewart, that they got dressed at the Beverly Hills
Hotel and took a plane to get there. It was
at Jeff Bezo's house.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Obviously, everybody flew a private jet, right. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Does he have a private island somewhere close by or
is it Santa Barbara something. Anyway, I loved it, and
so I guess ostensibly all of her kids through the
party for her, or maybe Lauren Sanchez Bezos did. I'm
not really sure, but anyway, from what little I saw
of it, it was so spectacular. It was a casino night.
(06:38):
It was like sexy double seven martinis and all of that. Amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Isn't that funny? What do you think I think about
when I hear this?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And don't ever throw me a party? Ever?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And so glad I was not, and I wouldn't be
invited invited to that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I would have loved to have been invited oh, I
owed me listen. You know, I love to throw parties.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Party thrower.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I am very appreciative of someone that understands details. I
just love it. And I know, like the Kardashians have
teams of people that you know, do these kinds of things.
But I also think that it's them also. They're creative
and interesting and fun and I just nan, I thought
it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
As much as you enjoy a good party and you
throw an amazing party, I can't stand them.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You don't like my parties?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, I love your part I just don't like going
to parties. You know what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's the uncomfortableness of the conversations of people you don't
know very well, and the whole I'm on stage and
I what do I talk about? And I don't want
to be here and by nine o'clock I want to
be in bed already.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But A the worst party goer.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, But you know what, You're who I plan parties
for because I think there's probably lots of people that
feel the same way you do. So my goal with
a party is to make it in such a way
that everyone has a great time, feels comfortable, and doesn't
feel like that. So my whole thing, I mean, I
think was a Gina on Housewives that was like Heather,
(08:07):
it makes you work at a party or something like that,
because I always have a lot of activations. But the
reason why I always have a lot of activations is
I I base my parties. I think about kids parties.
So when our kids were growing up, you know, you
have to entertain them at a party. They're not grown
up enough to sit around and have conversations like that,
so you have to think about what can I do
to keep them entertained. So when it comes to adult parties,
(08:29):
I always try to think, what is the adult version
of bouncy houses and balloon twisters that's going to be
interesting and engaging and give you something to do and
something to talk about, but that you don't have to
be a part of. Meaning I'm not the kind of
person that would throw a murder mystery party because some
people don't want to be a part of that. And
(08:52):
now you're forcing someone to wear a costume and to
be a part of this thing. You know that I
wouldn't do. But I do like OpEd bar.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I like the weed bar.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
The weed bar was good, right that was enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That set the mood for me at one of your
big parties.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But also the thing about the weed bar, it wasn't
just and I've done it a couple of times, the
weed bar. And you know, Drew Martin, who I met
a number of years ago, has this botanical weed company.
So it's not just like, Hey, come up here and
we're going to roll you a joint so you get stoned.
It's interesting and he's such a cool guy. And with
(09:30):
all the different botanicals you can put in your joints,
and they explain what they're for and what they do
and how they make you feel. I love stuff like that. Yeah,
Like I'm not a cigar person, but I enjoy the
idea of having a cigar bar. But I know, but
I mean for someone that's interested because it's an art form,
(09:51):
how their hand rolled and where they come from, and
you know, I like stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah. By the way, what's the between activation? Activity?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Activation is just the new way we call them.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yes, activation is a new term that I've heard in
the last month.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Activation. Activation, that's an activity.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So like at bar Mitzvah's and stuff, now they say like,
how many activations.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Are really activation.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, but I like very interactive things, you know, even
when it comes to taking photos and stuff like that.
I just think that when there's more involved and just
walking up and click, it's more fun. And when you
have these activations, it lends people to talk to each other.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, I know you hate party. I hate party. I
just and the older I get, the more I hate them.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Maybe I'm just becoming a complete total hermit.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, you were very stone and had a lot of
fun at my birthday party last year.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, I can't believe I did that. And by the way,
that was my theme on the Housewise. The one scene
I did see was me maybe someone sent me just
going walking around like a stone full saying hello to people.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That was That was all I was.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It was fun, you know what They didn't show so
at that. That's at my birthday party last year that
we showed on the show. There was a weed bar.
I had two guys doing haikups. I had photo op.
I had these ice shot glasses that you would do
a shot and make a wish and then throw the
(11:33):
ice shot glass and do with the gong.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I had a gal and a huge coop champagne coop
glass pouring champagne. Yes, I had all kinds of food
I had. There were some like deserty activations. Also there
was something else I'm not remembering, but what they One
of the things they didn't show was I had a
silent disco.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Oh yeah, that ended up not being a thing a.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Thing, which is a bummer because I thought it was cool.
So the problem with having parties on television is that
they can't play the music. Number one, they can't clear
a lot of the songs. And number two, you know,
if it's a four hour party and they're showing twenty
minutes of it, the music won't edit together properly, so
they only use like what they call cleared music, so
(12:21):
it's cleared and it's sort of like what you and
I call noodling, like jazz noodling, so it can seamlessly
blow together. So what I thought would be fun would
would be to do the silent disco. So everyone gets
these headsets and they dance, and not everyone is listening
to the same song, so it's funny. So some people
(12:42):
are dancing slow, some people are dancing fast. But we
never got to it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, I was a bummer.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I know, I'd like to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I think now that there's AI music which can't be copyrighted,
you probably don't have to worry about that anymore. You
can have like you can say to the AI program
the app hey go song that sounds like Donna summer
female voice, very upbeat, sexy go again.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But it still wouldn't edit together properly.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I know, but at least you can play it. You
can play in the background in the scene.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
True. So I get a lot of people asking me
about party questions. So I'm just gonna go through a
couple of these. Please chime in.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I will at will.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you prefer a sit down dinner, heavy appetizers passed
around or food station? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Do you like?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I don't want to do the sit down dinner. First
of all, someone's going to pick who I'm sitting next to.
It's me, well that this is the other side of
the right the table. Yeah, and so it's always a
sign seating, and who's on my left because you're usually
on my right weirdly, and then who's across the table.
It's like I don't know anybody, and then I have
to do That's exactly why I hate parties.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Talking to people I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, So the cornerstone for a great party is your
guest list. And if you're doing a sit down, you
really have to curate and figure out table seating really
really well because that could make or break. As a
matter of fact, I'm not going to say who it was,
but we were out to dinner with some people the
other night and we had this very conversation because I
(14:14):
used to have these huge holiday parties and they've gotten
smaller over the years for and I'll explain why. But
one year we had five tables of ten, so we
had fifty people and it was this big, fun party.
But I decided at our table we would put it
was sort of the Island of the Misfit Toys, right.
It was people that didn't have a big group there,
(14:36):
didn't know that many people, and it was mostly LA people,
sports stars and musical people. Anyway, to make long story short,
there were two people that I sat next to each
other that I thought would be so great and absolutely
love each other.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
By the way, both people who have the most amazing
personality everyone likes.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Everyone likes both of them, and I put them next
to each other and they hate each other. And I
didn't not know that, and they were both so quiet
the whole night, and it was so weird. And then
I found out later what the story was and everything,
and I felt terrible. So that's the only time in
all my years of throwing parties that that ever happened.
But here's what I would tell you. I think when
you want to throw a party, it is the most
(15:17):
important thing to throw the kind of party you want
and not the kind of party you think you should
be having. If you're like Terry and you don't want
a million people in your house and it makes you
uncomfortable by all means, don't throw that party. Over the years,
our parties shrunk because I realized personally that every once
(15:37):
in a while I'll still throw a big blowout, but
in general, I like ten to twelve person dinner parties
because I found that at all these parties I'm working
and running around the party and trying to spend a
little bit of time with everyone, that I really don't
get to enjoy myself or spend enough time with anyone.
(15:59):
So I I love a small dinner party. And in
our last house, we had this table that when I
changed out the chairs, I could fit twelve around. I
did three on each side. It was a square table,
so fun and small enough intimate that everyone could talk
to each other across the table. I'm not I don't
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love long tables because then you're really only talking to
people on either side of you or just across from you.
And if they're a dud or you know, the conversation,
if you only have so much you can say to them,
that's a problem. So I prefer a big, round table
or a square table.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, but you asked originally sign seating with tables or
buffet and you sit wherever you want, or past or
durers buffet because pastor durs is just never dinner, no
matter what, it's.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Just never dinner.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I like to start with pastor No.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But I'm saying, but if it's just just there's lots
of parties where it's just past orders, I don't like that. Yeah,
so buffet minimum. Noah signed seating. Let me see who
I want to sit with, and I'm so uncomfortable anyway,
Hopefully I can find someone that I can sit down
and eat with so that I can leave.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
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Speaker 2 (17:37):
The moment I get to a party, I already want
to leave.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
However, we were going to a holiday party a year ago,
and we had been out every single night, and both
of our social batteries were completely out, and you did
not want to go, and I was like, we have
to go. I said, but and it's a party we
go do every year. And I said to you, let's
just take pictures, take a lap, say hi, and then
(18:00):
let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I even met reservations at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We made reservations at a restaurant. We got to the party,
we said hello to the host, we took photos, we
got a beverage, and we walked into the next room
and lo and behold there were two incredibly long dinner
table with a.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Sign seating with a sign seating cards.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I looked at Terry and I went, I am so sorry.
So having said that, we met someone who is so
fabulous and has become such an important part of our lives.
That I felt, like, you know what, sometimes you never know.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And in keeping with my theory that if you so
don't look forward to something enough, it ends up being
actually better than you think it's going to be, you
know what I mean, Like, well, I don't know. Every
time I think I can't, I can't believe I have
to go do this thing, it ends up being sometimes those.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Are the best things that sometimes sometimes and then when
you think this is going to be great and the opposite,
it's true. I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's like complications in plastic surgery. If you think to yourself,
oh my gosh, I'm going to have a disaster with
this patient, I just.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Know it, you don't.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
But the other one you think, oh, this is so easy, straightforward,
those are the ones you can have a disaster with.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Why get hung up on numbers. There has to be
a lot of people there. We have this, we have that,
And I think the truth is is that it is
so much better to have people that really want to
be there and hang rather than extraneous people who just
want to pop in and out.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So therefore, no one should ever invite me to a part.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Don't invite Terry, but you can.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Invite Heather great party guests.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, well these are all questions from you guys, so
thank you. I hope I'm answering them. What's your biggest
party pet peeve? When someone else posts, I just do
not like when when a host does not think of
the comfort of the guests. If you're going to put
people outside and it's cold, they're better be heaters.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And if you're invited people at dinner time, there better
be dinner.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Limited food and assigned seating. I don't want either of those. Yeah,
I don't like literally lots of food and a lot
of different kinds of food.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And it's not that you have to spend a ton
of money, but you need volume. You cannot run out
of food. I'm sorry. No. No, And no cash bar?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
No, no, well what party has a cash bar?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, some weddings do that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh yeah, No, you got to pay for the if
you're having a party, you got to pay for the
out And by the way, no, sometimes there's beer and wine.
Never invite me to a party that's just beer and wine.
Don't even think about it. Beer and wine.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, we go to some restaurants that are just beer.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Well that's because they can't get a liquor license. Believe it,
they want to sell liquor. Really, yes, beer and wine means.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Don't I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
What does that mean when you throw a party that
says beer and wine, you don't have any money, which
is okay.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I'm okay with that, But I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's fine, you don't have to go. I will go.
I think that's lovely you but like, do what you
could afford. Okay, you do not have to spend a
ton of money to make a great party and have
enough food and have some beverages tu buck chuk whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
There tract that if you invite me to a party
that has beer and wine, tell me and I will
bring alcohol.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You can't do that, that's rude.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
No, but or I will pay for your No, you
can't do that.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's not a thing. You can't make people feel bad.
Don't invite terry. Yeah, okay. How do you balance being
a great host and actually enjoying your own party. I've
just learned through the years what I like to do,
and I think as I get older, I get more relaxed.
Like even if you watch on housewives, like listen sometimes
when the party was very important to me, like my
(21:42):
name changing party, and she broke the boat off my
cake and ate it. That was not okay, and I
did not take kindly to that. But and when Emily
was so rude at my HD party when I was
starting the HD work me, she was very rude, but
(22:03):
I was very calm through the whole thing. And then
honestly at my birthday party last year on the show
my Espresso Martini Vibe Party, I really didn't care what
I mean, there was some drama there was it was like.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And if I throw a party and you realize that
one of the guests that I've invited has sued me
for malpractice in the past, don't announce it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Announce it after the party.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Pull your wife aside. No, Gina, please just.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Don't announce it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That one is. Yeah, that's just not that one is,
especially when we're spending you know, thirty thousand dollars five thousand.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That didn't end well. There was a lot of wogg
you wasted.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes, and supposedly we beat up people and threw them
against the wall.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What's what's the oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Really missing from that is we also called the paparazzi.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
All that we should have called the poph.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What's the craziest or most unexpected thing that's ever happened
at one of your part Well, So I had foot
surgery like five years ago, six years ago, I can't remember,
and I wasn't gonna do party, wasn't gonna do birthday party.
And finally everyone's like, oh, i'll take you out, I'll
take it. I'm like, no, I forget it. I'll just
throw a party. So I decided to do a pajama
party so I could wear my boot on my foot
(23:17):
after the surgery. So I did a pajama party in
our basement and changed the whole thing out, and I
was doing bingo. I had robes made for everyone. We
were going to do a movie night. We're gonna play bingo.
I got great bingo gifts. I got bottle of dom,
I got AirPods, I got all this fun stuff. We
had this beautiful spread of food or whatever, and I
(23:38):
hired these two adorable guys to come run the bingo game.
What I didn't know is that they were from Magic Mike.
And it turned into a much different party. So I
thought the party would be over early. It started at six.
I thought I'd be in bed by ten. We had
a photo shoot for People magazine the next day, and
(24:01):
I will tell you it was so it was all girls.
It was so crazy, and my last guest, who was Dina,
left at two thirty in the morning and it was
so fun. It was like one of the best parts.
But that was a little unexpected. Did enjoy that? Last question?
We're going into the holiday season. Do you think holiday
parties should be cozy and traditional or glitzy and bold.
(24:24):
I think it depends. I mean, I like a little
bit of everything. I love getting dressed up and getting
an invitation to go to someone's home and you know,
have a glass of something and whatever. I also love
an intimate party. We celebrate everything, truly everything. And one
of my favorite holiday events of the year is our
(24:46):
Honaka party.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It's great. We have our family and our one of
our best friends, the Cohen's that we've been doing it
with for twenty years, I think, and they come over
and you know, my mom's there, Terry's mom's there. We
invite random friends to come over. Sometimes the cast of
characters kinds of kind of changes. I always make latkas.
(25:09):
One of the only times I ever cooked during the year.
I make latkas and then the rest is catered you'll
be happy to know. And then we have dinner, and
then we played Draidal Wars. So we have a full
table of unwrapped gifts and we sit around and we
play dradl and then when someone gets to twenty one,
everyone goes back bg bg beg and you go up
(25:30):
there and you get you grab present.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The gifts are usually pretty insane too, gifts her great,
I want to win wars.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, and there's like really fabulous gifts to gag gifts
and everything in between. And it's so fun. Yeah, and
you know, I think the kids and us we just
look forward to that every year.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I like your parties because there always a surprise because
I have nothing to do with them, so I just
show up.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So it's always like, oh, what if you do this year?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So I want to know from you guys, what do
you like to do? So you've seen in my parties
that all the crazy activations that I've done before, and
then oh did they didn't show this at one of
my birthday parties? I did this thing, and I repeated
it at the Family of Quality event, but they didn't
show it. So I had a life size cut out
(26:18):
made of myself and glass and paper glasses of champagne,
and instead of pinned the tail on the donkey, we
did pin the shamps on the heather. And there was
a fabulous pair of Martin Kat's earrings right that were
up for grabs and it was it was so fun.
I love doing things like that, But I want to
(26:39):
hear from you. What do you do at parties? What
activations do you do? Inspire me? Always looking for new things.
I'd love to hear from you, guys, And I hope
everyone has fabulous parties this holiday season.
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