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Galentine's Day Ideas: Your Guide for Hosting the Ultimate Galentine's Day Celebration For Your Friends
Every relationship is worthy of celebrating and friendship is no different. Valentine's Day, while commonly known as a holiday to celebrate your relationship with your significant other, is also an opportunity to celebrate the bond between you and your friends. There's nothing quite like a girl's night, so turn your Valentine's Day into Galentine's Day and commemorate the holiday of love with your besties!
Celebrate your friends by throwing the perfect party that will have your closest friends feeling the love. You can dance your troubles away with a Galentine's disco or celebrate with a wholesome craft session where you can showcase your creative skills. We've curated everything you need to know to host a Galentine's Day party, including stylish decorations and tableware you need, entertaining Galentine's Day ideas, as well as some helpful inspiration from baker Helena, also known on Instagram as @bakesbyher.
With so many ways to celebrate, we'll help you discover how to throw the ultimate Galentine's Day Party.
Quick Links
- What Is Galentine's Day?
- Galentine's Day Party Decorations to Show Love to Your Guests
- Set Your Table For Your Galentine's Day Festivities
- Party Food And Sweet Treats For A Delicious Galentine's Celebration
- Galentine's Day Ideas: Party Activities Any Guest Will Enjoy
- Show Your Love With The Perfect Galentine's Day Gifts
- Galentine's Celebrations With @bakesbyher
What Is Galentine's Day?
Just like Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day is for celebrating your relationships, however, this holiday is focused more on platonic friendships between the women in your life. It's typically celebrated the day before Valentine's Day on the 13th of February, however, can be commemorated both on and after Valentine's Day.
Much like the original love-centred celebration, there is also a focus on heart shaped decorations and vibrant pink and red colour tones. So, get your gals together and celebrate in style!
Galentine's Day Party Decorations to Show Love to Your Guests
With eye-catching decorations, you can transform your home into a warm and inviting venue, perfect for wholesome Galentine's Day celebrations.
Colourful Streamers and Buntings
The perfect way to welcome guests into your home, a display of buntings and streamers doubles as an adorable backdrop to your Galentine's Day party. Whether you're posing for selfies in front of your DIY photo wall or simply decorating your living room walls for the occasion, colourful streamers and buntings are the perfect way to prepare your space for a day of heartwarming festivities.
Classic Galentine's Balloons
Balloons are a classic decoration for many events and celebrations, and a Galentine's Day party is no exception. Decorate your space with colourful pink and red balloons or add a few wholesome heart-shaped balloons to transform your space into the ideal setting for a Galentine's Day party.
Set Your Table For Your Galentine's Day Festivities
For any holiday celebration, the dining table is often the centrepiece of your gatherings. Whether you're hosting a sit-down Valentine's dinner or want to make sure your guests have a place to rest their dancing feet throughout a Galentine's disco, decorating your dining table in line with your Galentine's theme will help elevate your meal experience.
Everything You Need For a Galentine's Day Table Setting:
How to Set Your Table For Galentine's Day
Before decorating your dining table, first you should decide on your colour scheme. Stick to the Valentine's Day classic colour scheme of reds and pinks. Think of gorgeous pink placemats atop a vibrant red tablecloth for the perfect pairing of table linen that will bring style and a layer of protection for your dining table.
It's also a good idea to create a centrepiece for your table. With a table runner as your base, you can position sparkling disco balls and shimmering cowboy hats as a whimsical centrepiece to your celebrations while also contributing to your disco theme.
As well as the decorative pieces, you should also shop for stylish Galentine's Day servingware. Serve up your Galentine's Day cocktails and mocktails in style with the Alpen Cocktail Glasses or celebrate with a champagne in the Alpen Champagne Flutes. You can take your servingware to the extra mile by decorating your glasses with a pink ribbon for the perfect Galentine's Day touch.
When it comes to table decorations and centrepieces, faux flowers in a jar, candles and personalised name tags are perfect!
Party Food And Sweet Treats For A Delicious Galentine's Celebration
Everyone knows the best way to the heart is through the stomach, so whether you're hosting a fancy Galentine's Day dinner party or having your friends over for a casual celebration, it's very important to make sure your guests are well fed!
No meal is complete without a sweet treat! A perfectly decorated cake is both delicious to eat and beautiful to look at. It can act as a centrepiece to your celebrations for you and your guests to indulge in after your meal, or can be displayed tall and proud on a table - but make sure this is far away from the dancefloor, we wouldn't want any of those dance moves from knocking over the masterpiece!
Our Valentine's Inspired Vintage Heart Cake Project will take you through everything you need to know to create a charming and trendy heart shaped cake. With gorgeous pink and red icing and sprinkles for the perfect finishing touch, this Valentine's Cake oozes a romantic ambience for you and your friends to enjoy. You can even add your own personal touches using coloured icing to draw on words or affirmations of love.
Galentine's Day Ideas: Party Activities Any Guest Will Enjoy
The key detail that takes your celebration from a good party to a great party is making sure your guests are having fun! What better way to do that than to plan activities that will get all your guests involved?
Dance the Night Away
What better way to celebrate with your closest friends than by dancing along to your favourite songs? A Galentine's Day disco party is sure to get your friends feeling the love of the holiday. Make a joint playlist where everyone can add in their favourite dance tracks and create a dance party in your living room. Clear out any future that might get in the way and blast those speakers for a night of dancing!
Host a Wholesome Craft Night
Setting up a craft station is one of many Galentine's Day ideas that will have you and your guests excited to celebrate the holiday.
Here at Spotlight, you can find a whole range of free Valentine's Day projects that are perfect for both beginner and expert crafters. Why not try crafting personalised Valentine's balloons? Using a Cricut, you and your besties can display the message of your choice on heart-shaped balloons and use them as props to pose with for a cute Galentine's Day photoshoot.
A Sweet Activity For You and Your Friends: Dessert Making
When it comes to Valentine's and Galentine's day, you can't go wrong with chocolate, both as a gift or as a dessert. Combine a DIY activity with the need for a sweet treat by making delicious chocolates from scratch.
Set up a table place for each guest to craft their own chocolate designs. Using chocolate moulds, you can create Valentine's Chocolate with the toppings of your choice. Decorate the chocolates with sprinkles, icing or fill with your favourite flavouring. You can even wrap the DIY chocolates up in coloured foil for guests to take home as a party favour or gift to their partner.
Show Your Love With The Perfect Galentine's Day Gifts
It's said that there are five love languages that represent the five most common ways in which people express their love for the people in their lives. One of these five languages is gift giving or gift receiving! Demonstrate your love and appreciation for your friends and family by gifting them a present you know they'll love.
Galentine's Day gifts can be as simple as a smaller decor piece such as a stunning decorative ornament or can be more intricate by crafting a hamper for an at-home spa day complete with a robe, candles and other home fragrances. Make a lovely gift basket or hamper for your besties and show the love!
You can even show your love by creating a heartfelt homemade gift. Crafting a homemade Valentine's Day card is the opportunity to express your creativity while gifting a sincere message from your heart.
Download the Valentine's Day Card Project
Galentine's Celebrations With @bakesbyher
Baker Helena, also known on Instagram as @bakesbyher hosted her closest friends for her very own Galentine's Day celebrations. Decorating her space with classic red and pink decorations including love-heart balloons, bright red streamers and a heartwarming 'Happy Galentine's Day sign, Helena created the perfect cosy backdrop to her Galentine's day celebrations.
For an additional decorative accent and the perfect centrepiece to her Galentine's gathering, Helena decorated an adorable heart shaped cake with rich red ribbons, colourful icing and iced flowers. There's no better feeling than enjoying a delicious dessert that tastes as good as it looks!
As a fun Galentine's Day activity, Helena hosted a cute craft session. Setting out some modelling tools and supplies for oven dry clay making, Helena and her friends created the most adorable clay figurines. Craft sessions like this are a great way for guests to express their creativity while making a memento that reminds them of their wholesome Galentine's Day.
Check out Helena's Instagram reel of her Galentine's Day celebrations and find everything you need to recreate her adorable gathering right here at Spotlight.
Throw The Perfect Celebration With Our Favourite Galentine's Day Ideas
Gather your nearest and dearest together to express the love and appreciation you have for them by hosting the perfect Galentine's Day Party! Dance away your troubles with a groovy Galentine's disco or put your creative skills to the test with our Valentine's Day DIY projects! No matter how you choose to celebrate, it's important to commemorate the friendships in your life and celebrate your loved ones this Galentine's Day.
From baking supplies to decorations, you can find everything you need to celebrate Galentine's Day, right here at Spotlight!
