Occasion guide No. 4
The Holiday Hat Bar Party
December parties have a gift problem: branded mugs get abandoned in break rooms and white-elephant loot gets regifted. A hat someone built themselves goes home and stays worn.
Book the date before the caterer
The two December weekends before Christmas fill our calendar first every year, and Thursday company parties are close behind. If your year-end party lands between December 5 and 20, reach out by early November. January "new year kickoff" parties, by contrast, book easily and read as more considered than a crammed December date.
Company parties: your colors, worn voluntarily
The quiet win of a holiday hat bar at a company party is that people choose to wear the result. We build the wall in your brand palette, mix in seasonal and neutral patches alongside any custom logo marks, and let people compose their own. Nobody feels handed a uniform — and the caps show up in the office all spring. For companies bringing 75+ people, we add a third crew member and suggest a three-hour window so the bar never backs up against the awards toast.
House parties and friendsgivings
For home holiday parties, the bar doubles as the gift. Skip the party-favor table: guests build their own present, and the host budget that went to trinkets goes to something people photograph. Warm palettes — forest, cranberry, camel leather patches — outperform literal Santa themes, which age out by December 26.
Gift-ready packaging
Ask about kraft gift boxes at booking. Finished hats boxed at the press turn the walk-away into a wrapped present, which matters at client-appreciation events where attendees head straight to dinner afterward.
- Reach out by early November for mid-December dates
- Brand-palette walls for company parties; warm neutrals for home parties
- 75+ guests: add a third crew member and a third hour
- Kraft gift boxes available for client events