Planning corporate parties is one of the most sacred jobs one can have in an office. If you’re the party planner, you’re one of the most popular people in the office—-or you may become everyone’s least favorite person. So, what sort of supplies, cellophane bags, or favors do you need for your next corporate party, and how do they add to the ambience and experience for your staff? (Or, how do you maintain your position of popularity?)
What Are You Celebrating?
The first step in planning any party is determining what you’re celebrating. Obviously, you need Halloween candy bags for a trick-or-treat event on or around Halloween, but you may still want generic, fun candy bags for Easter, parties where kids are invited, baby showers, birthday parties, etc. Holiday parties require bags with festive designs, and generic branded bags with your company’s logo will fill the gaps and passively markets the business with relative ease.
Giving Gifts to the Team
All corporate parties should include favors or swag that go home with your team members. Of course, you need holiday packaging for a Christmas or holiday party. However, you should tailor your bags and favors to the season and the event.
Therefore, favors at a baby shower include more of the candy you used for the diaper changing game and perhaps self-care products that mirror what the expecting mom received. Birthday party guests might go home with toys, and Halloween party favors might include glow sticks or flashing necklaces for trick-or-treaters.
Feel free to be creative.
Send Food Home With the Staff
Any corporate party should feature food, but you need more than a cafeteria to pull it off. Yes, you will start by gathering:
- Chairs and tables
- Tablecloths or coverings
- Utensils → GPB7K and GPB7W (item numbers)
- Plates, bowls, napkins, and cups
- Centerpieces
- Extra tables and chaffing dishes along with sternos
- Water and drink dispensers
Aside from the items listed above, you should gather to-go boxes for food so that the team can take cake, food, and snacks with them. Where is the food going to go if, after two or three courses, it’s not all gone? It should go home with the team. Who doesn’t want a free lunch for tomorrow?
What if You Made Something at the Party?
Many of the best parties you will ever host include an activity for the whole group, but if you’ve made something, how does it get home?
Perhaps everyone decorates cookies over the holidays. Cookie packaging is quite helpful because those cookies can be delivered elsewhere or simply set out for Santa at home, offering a more professional look if you plan to gift them.
Small bags that will hold a ceramic trinket are perfect when you’re painting porcelain figures, and larger bags work well for art classes or parties where you work with much larger canvases or papers. Basically, you don’t want to send the staff home juggling their bags, personal items, and/or anything they’re taking home from the party.
Are You Investing Fully in Your Corporate Events?
Corporate parties should be fun for everyone, and they require quite a lot of planning and preparation. The supplies and bags listed above can help make any party that much more enjoyable and simplify cleanup. Your staff deserves to have a good time, but they can’t balance a thousand items on their way to the car.
This is where you come in.
A branded bag with your company logo that can carry food, ceramics, party favors, and other items is simple to buy or design, and each bag passively markets the business while making everyone’s life easier.