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The Victorians are who you should thank as you celebrate the joyful customs and festivities of Christmas with your friends and family. They were the first to come up with the idea of giving to charity and gift giving in general.

If you are looking for great ideas for Christmas parties, then you may want to consider stepping back in time and having a Victorian Christmas party, focusing first and foremost on the church and children, complete with a big family dinner and a visit with friends.

If you have a fireplace, then cover the mantel with boughs of greenery, and include pineapples, oranges, pomegranates, berries and apples together in clusters. Get several of the larger pillar candles of varying heights and group them with like colors, wrap some greenery around them and small white lights concentrating around the candles to give them a light glow.

The Victorian Christmas parties usually included decorating the staircase as well with lavish displays of garland and wide burgundy colored ribbon and bows as a way to complete the Christmas party decorations.

Your Christmas party theme idea would not be complete without serving an authentic menu, which would include raw oysters, fried smelts and sweetbread pate to start. The main course would either be pheasant, roasted goose, turkey or venison, or sometimes a combination of all of them.

Side dishes at Victorian Christmas parties would include potatoes, peas and rice croquettes, with mulled wine to wash it all down. For desert there would be rice pudding, fruit or possibly plum pudding.

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