10 Housewarming Party Invitations to Make a House Feel like Home
You’ve been looking forward to moving into your new home for ages, and now you’re all settled in. The next step? Send out those housewarming invitations and get your family, friends, and new neighbors over to scope out the new digs.
To make your house (or apartment, condo, or townhouse — you get our drift) feel like home, fill it with the people you love most. Here’s how to create fun housewarming party invitations, along with some of our favorite designs to inspire you.
How to Create and Send Your Ideal Housewarming Invitations
Finding and sending your dream housewarming party invitations is easy with Greenvelope. These steps make it simple and fun to choose, customize, and send out your invites to loved ones.
1. Find the Perfect Housewarming Invitation Design
A theme is a fun housewarming party idea, so if you have one, look for an online invitation that matches. Even without a theme, your design can feature something that’s relevant to your new space or your celebration — like a bottle of wine, an image of a delicious home-cooked meal, or a photo of your new place. You could also match the invite to your personal style, whether that’s boho, whimsical watercolors, or retro vibes.
We have lots of amazing housewarming invites, but you don’t have to stop there since every Greenvelope invite is easy to customize. Choose a moving announcement, birthday invitation, engagement party invite, or even a wedding invitation, and change the details to transform it into your unique housewarming invitation.
2. Customize Your Party Invites
Step into the customization wizard and turn your housewarming invitation template into a design that feels like it was custom-made for your get-together. Move elements around on the layout, change the font and colors, and make it your own. You can even start from a completely blank canvas and upload your own design.
3. Include All the Important Details
Make sure you include all the necessary details for your housewarming party invitation. Add the date and time, the dress code (if there is one), and of course, the new address! It’s also a good idea to mention if you’re serving a meal, providing light refreshments, or planning an activity like a cozy game night or a karaoke party.
4. Add Some Fun Wording
Include some wording on your housewarming invitation card that shares just how excited you are about your new home alongside the important event details. A little “Hooray, we’ve moved!” or “Welcome to my first home!” helps you personalize the invite and adds even more joy to the celebration.
5. Schedule or Send Your Invitations
Once you’re done perfecting your invitation wording and design, it’s time to get those invites out to your loved ones. With Greenvelope, you can send invites straight away via SMS or email or schedule them to go out at a later date. You can also track RSVPs and send reminders through the platform to make managing your guest list even easier.
10 Housewarming Party Invitations to Break in the New Digs
Now that you’ve moved in, you can’t wait to have your friends and family check out your new place. To gather your loved ones together under your new roof, send out one of these housewarming party invitations to say, “Join us in making our new house feel like home!”
1. You’re Invited Invitation
Design: Elizabeth Silver
Break out the matching dishware because the first room you’re going to break in just happens to be the kitchen. As this housewarming party invite implies, try whipping up a home-cooked meal for you and all your friends. No furniture? No problem. You can get cozy sitting cross-legged on the living room rug. After all, there’s no need to set down any coasters if you’re not seated at the table, right?
2. Colorful Keys Invitation
Design: Bonjour Berry
You’ve got the keys to the new place, so take some inspiration from this with a fun key-themed housewarming party invite. Ask everyone over to join you for drinks and a house tour with a design that matches your usual colorful, joyful vibe.
3. Bottled Happy Hour Invitation
Design: Shari Margolin Design
Hey, there’s no reason why house parties had to go out with your undergrad days. Now that you’re in your new place, you can throw a seriously upgraded house party.
Provide craft beer instead of kegs and homemade cocktails instead of spiked punch for a more sophisticated feel. To say “cheers!” to your new place, send out this house party invitation to your best friends — both old and new.
4. Cheese Board Dream Invitation
Design: frau brandt
From the first time you touched the keys to your new front door, you dreamt about your first open house. Now, with your new living room set officially delivered and arranged just so, it’s time to open that front door to family, friends, and neighbors.
To give a little nod to the sophisticated, totally elegant style of your new home, invite people over with this cheese board invitation. Waltz right over to the expensive cheese wheels and pop open a bottle of that $20 wine (what a splurge!) because tonight you’re toasting to home sweet home.
5. Cute Gingham Invitation
Design: Ashley Ottinger
Signing your mortgage or lease was the most #adulting thing you’ve ever done (you can take that one to the bank, literally). But even still, you’re never going to be one to wear a cute little apron, know which fork goes with which dish, or differentiate between various wash cycles.
To poke a little fun at your new domicile while still being true to your unapologetically undomesticated self, send out this gingham housewarming invitation. It’s perfect for an outdoor BBQ on your patio that will, without question, be catered from the neighborhood spot up the street.
6. Cheers & Beers Invitation
Design: Carmia Jordaan
You know, some groups of friends throw cocktail parties, but you’re a more sit-in-yoga-pants-and-crack-open-a-cold-one kinda person. And you can think of no better way to break your new condo in than by inviting your BFFs over for a chill evening.
To ensure your new neighbors don’t feel left out of the fun, maybe knock on a few doors down the street. Introduce yourself to your new neighbors, invite them over, and assure them that your pals are bringing enough beer to go around.
7. We’ve Moved Invitation
Design: Claudia Owen
Your loved ones are so excited to see your happy faces after moving into your new home, and this charming photo card invite gives you an easy way to do it. Include a snap of you or your family or of the outside of your new place, and turn your invite into a digital keepsake, too.
8. Welcome Palms Invitation
Design: Molly My
Now that you have officially moved into your new place, you’re ready to tackle your next challenge: Keeping a houseplant alive. Use this botanical invitation card to get the word out about a plant party in your new home. Serve a continental breakfast or brunch, then stretch your green thumb skills with your friends and family.
Gather around the table, with potting soil, gloves, and water in the center, calling out instructions on how to pot your own plant (or succulent). For your invitation wording, make it clear that you’ll provide the soil and water, but it’s BYO as far as pots and plants go.
9. Farmhouse Chic Invitation
Design: Jen Montgomery
You may use the oven in your new apartment for storage, but that’s not going to stop you from hosting a dinner party in your new home. Call all your favorite restaurants that offer free delivery, then send out these housewarming dinner invitations to all your friends and family. Beautifully designed with chalkboard illustrations, it’s the ideal complement to your first not-home-cooked meal.
10. Retro Pizza Night Invitation
Design: Sarah Deters Illustration
There’s definitely an oven in your new place, but it’s not getting used for your party. Instead, throw a pizza party with this matching retro invitation, and use this as the perfect excuse to order from the amazing pizza place down the street.
Create and Send Stunning Housewarming Invitations
Your loved ones can’t wait to join you to celebrate your new place. Plan your ideal housewarming party, then use this guide to help you plan, customize, and send party invites that are as special and unique as your new home.
With Greenvelope, the hardest part of the housewarming process is simply deciding which design to customize. Choose from dozens of photo cards, illustrated cards, and other housewarming invitations to welcome your loved ones into your new home.
