Friendsgiving Decorations: Ideas For Laid-Back & Luxe Parties in 2025
Friendsgiving decorations and ideas for 2025 are on the rise. That's because many celebrations are reimagining what holiday hosting can look like beyond traditional Thanksgiving styles.
Entertaining and tableware expert Kim Seybert calls it the year of effortless elegance for tablescape trends. Whether you're drawn to natural wood and earthy tones or a modern metallic decor, these Friendsgiving ideas help you host a gathering that feels thoughtful, beautiful, and full of heart.
This guide serves up luxury Friendsgiving decorations, creative party themes, and designer styling ideas that mix polish with play. It’s your recipe for hosting with ease, setting a table that looks chic, and celebrates friendship in the best ways.
What Is Friendsgiving? Why This Holiday's Even More Popular in 2025
Friendsgiving is a Thanksgiving-style meal shared with friends that feels more relaxed than the traditional holiday. Usually hosted the weekend before, it’s often a potluck where everyone brings a dish and a bit of personality to the table.
The party can include a theme, a short toast, or a festive activity. But at its core, it’s about slowing down, sharing good food, and appreciating the friends who feel like home.
In 2025, it’s growing even more popular in part due to the rise of potluck dinner parties, entertaining friends at home, and the wide variety of Thanksgiving traditions.
How to Throw a Fun and Fabulous Friendsgiving
Most Friendsgiving gatherings happen the weekend before Thanksgiving, but ultimately decide on a date that feels right for your group.
Choosing a theme can be a fun way to make the evening feel more personal and meaningful. Whether it’s cozy cabin energy or a pumpkin spice pie potluck, it sets the mood before anyone even starts cooking.
As the place where everyone gathers, start by styling the table to guide the tone. Layer in luxury table linens, candlelight, and festive elements. Planning a short activity can also create memories, such as a gratitude toast, shared stories, or a group walk to enjoy the fall air.
Little gifts or party favors are lovely, but not required. The real gift is gathering around the table and sharing time with friends who feel like home.
Chic Friendsgiving Parties 2025: Decorating Ideas for Every Style
Once you know who will be at the table, the rest falls into place. These Friendsgiving ideas make it easy to match the decorations, menu, and mood to your guest list.
Glamorous Decor For Friends With Hearts-Of-Gold
This Friendsgiving idea is all about gratitude and a glow-up. Old friends, new faces, and a table that makes them feel treasured. As seen in this Friendsgiving table setting, the Lune Collection gives a dash of glimmer that's a perfect fit for glittering dinner party. For the full look, try on these ideas:
- Invite each guest to bring an object that holds significance to them. Maybe it’s a teacup from a grandmother, a vintage spoon, or a framed photo. Nestle these heirlooms between the florals and candlesticks. Suddenly, the tablescape feels richer, more reflective, and completely personal.
- Let the dinner menu arrive in elegant bites: tiny cups of butternut squash soup, spoonfuls of truffle mac and cheese, turkey meatball skewers, and dark chocolate served with espresso. This rich menu makes it easy to pack up and send guests home with a little something extra to take with them.
- Place cards? Wrap matchboxes in ribbon with a tiny note inside: One small thing I’m grateful for that money can’t buy.
Want to spread the spirit of Thanksgiving far and wide? Organize a charity turkey trot, drop off extra food at a community fridge, or create a gift registry that gives back. Because gratitude looks good on a gold-trimmed plate, and even more beautiful beyond it.
Pumpkin Spice Friendsgiving Ideas For Your Stylish Set
Pumpkin spice doesn’t have to mean novelty lattes or tired-looking decor anymore. In 2025, pumpkin spice looks softer, more refined, but peppered with seasonal zesty energy. Treat the pumpkin spice palette as both the color palette and vibe of the celebration:
- Decorate the table setting with a blend of rusts and warm neutrals, such as the beaded August Rush Collection, pictured above. The Emberfall Collection also complements that aesthetic, paired with high-end glassware sets in gold or amber.
- A Thanksgiving napkin ring is all you need for a fun, focal point like the Gilded Gourd and Gobble Napkin Ring, which prove to be the life of the party.
- Make hosting feel easier with a popular potluck-style concept. Or, create a little heat with a hot sauce tasting and wings for a conversation starter sans that stressful full turkey moment.
- Don’t miss out on the moment for traditional pumpkin pie. Set up a buffet with slices of apple crumble, salted maple, and more classic Thanksgiving desserts.
As for Friendsgiving-themed activities, consider having each guest bring their favorite kind of pie. Call it a contest, but honestly everyone's a winner.
Friendsgiving Outdoors: How to Make Rustic Look Chic 
One of the standout Friendsgiving trends for 2025 is the rise of rustic elegance. Think hygge comfort with a designer eye, boho ease with a little polish, and just enough lodge-inspired charm to make it feel like a weekend in the woods (minus the bugs). Here's the best way to arrive in style:
- Decorating with the Verve Collection nails that earthy balance with woodland hues, while Kim Seybert’s Whistler Collection brings in cork textures that glow with flecks of gold.
- For the nature-loving host, the outdoors serves as both inspiration and part of the plan. Kick off the party with a fall foliage hike or transform your backyard into a movie night setting with a projector, piled up pillows, and charming mugs.
- Menu ideas follow cozy cues such as roasted root vegetables, brown butter stuffing, herb-brined turkey, and apple pie.
And no one needs an overly formal dress code, especially if there’s a turkey dinner involved. The mood is more fashionably casual layers, like cable-knit sweaters, cozy socks, and boots.
Easy Friendsgiving Dishes with Party Twists
When your friends are scattered across time zones, gathering around the same table might feel out of reach. But distance doesn’t dull good food or better stories. A virtual Friendsgiving can still feel connected with a shared menu, a solid playlist, and a little creativity.
For a fun twist, try an Around-the-World Friendsgiving. Each guest brings a dish that reflects their hometown, their travels, or what they crave most. Think tacos, tandoori, tea scones, or really anything goes. Whether you’re a confident cook or a takeout loyalist, make your meal the talk of the town.
Best Friendsgiving Decorations, By Design
While deciding on Friendsgiving ideas and decorations for 2025, let your instincts guide you. Maybe you’re all about cozy pumpkin spice and the ease of a buffet. Or perhaps your inner circle appreciates the glow of gratitude with a festive metallic table setting that feels like a thank-you in itself.
Whatever feels most true to you and your guests, there are Friendsgiving ideas to match, and plenty of more ways to make it meaningful. Start with the table to set the tone for everything else.
From shoppable, curated Friendsgiving tablescapes to a luxury Thanksgiving decor collection, Kim Seybert's thought of everything you need to plan, prep, and style your Friendsgiving celebration from start to finish.
The Friendsgiving Party-Ready Playbook
Remember the first rule for any Friendsgiving party: don’t forget that the main point is to keep it fun! Make a plan that feels doable, and ask for a few helping hands along the way. Plus, this catch-all checklist serves as another reliable best friend:
1. Choose a Theme
While planning, choosing a Friendsgiving theme makes it easier to feel inspired, organize ideas, and create a signature hosting style. Use elements of the theme in the decorations, menu, and festive activities to set the tone at the celebration.
2. Send Invitations
Online invitations or custom cardstock help elevate the event and guide guests on the theme, dress code, what to bring, and any relevant allergies. Since the holidays are busy, invite guests 4–6 weeks before Friendsgiving. If possible, confirm the RSVPs at least one week in advance of the party.
3. Make a Warm Welcome
Seasonal wreaths are inviting Thanksgiving decorations for guests as they arrive. The entryway also offers an opportunity for photographs, mingling, and making memories. A chic table linen backdrop does the trick pinned with a few pressed fall leaves.
3. Decorate the Friendsgiving Tablescape
Style the Friendsgiving table by layering luxury placemats, tablecloths, festive napkins, high-end glassware, and table runners to create a cohesive look. Utilize fall elements such as cozy, woven textures in vivid autumnal color palettes mixed. Remember to set aside extra napkins, serveware, and tableware to prepare for any unexpected events at the party.
4. Create a Centerpiece
A classic, chic centerpiece features fall-colored florals, pumpkins, and a luxurious vase. Easy eye-catching options using the turkey itself, a fruit bowl, or even a decorative napkin ring. The most important aspect is keeping everything below eye level for easy conversation.
4. Experiment With Lighting
Visualize the height, intensity, and decorative details of each lighting choice. Mix up the types of lighting with artisanal candleholders, taper candles, lanterns, votives, rechargeable table lamps, string lights, and more elegant fixtures.
5. Add Place Cards & Personalization
Write your friends’ names on place cards to make them feel special and guide them to their seats at the table.
6. Choose Signature Cocktails & Glassware
Offer one specialty cocktail or a bottle of wine, and a zero-proof option. Rather than play mixologist throughout the party, use chic glass beverage dispensers, artisanal glassware, and decorative trays on a bar cart.
7. Display the Friendsgiving Feast
Friendsgiving is the prime time to experiment with food styling. Planning a potluck or some sweet desserts? Set up a buffet display with tiers, risers, linen, and a few festive garnishes.
8. Plan Festive Activities
Choose one short activity to kickstart the fun or add that final festive note, such as a gratitude circle, recipe swap, or a Polaroid guestbook.
Friendsgiving FAQ: Planning Tips, Decorating Advice & Ideas
Why is Friendsgiving popular?
In 2025, Friendsgiving is a more flexible, low-pressure way to celebrate Thanksgiving with a chosen group of friends, offering more options for types of food, party vibes, and holiday rituals.
When do you celebrate Friendsgiving?
Most people host Friendsgiving on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Since the holidays are a busy time, they can be celebrated at any time when friends can gather in November.
What are the rules of Friendsgiving?
There aren’t many rules apart from keeping it festive and fun! Since entertaining can be stressful, always offer to help the host. Hosts should be comfortable asking for guest participation, whether planning a potluck or a formal dinner party.
How do I make Friendsgiving more fun?
A party theme or signature moment at the table to delight guests of all ages, such as a turkey napkin ring. Activities can also be made memorable with a gratitude toast, party crackers, a recipe swap, or a photo wall.
What do you bring to a Friendsgiving party?
A thoughtful host gift is a kind gesture for Friendsgiving or any party. Since many Friendsgivings are a potluck, ask if it’s helpful to bring dessert or cook a holiday dish.
