About Party Wealth

Party Wealth exists because of a gap I kept falling into: party advice online is either aspirational nonsense priced for a magazine shoot, or "frugal hacks" that produce parties you can tell were hacked. The middle — gatherings that feel generous and cost what a normal person can spend — is where actual hosting happens, and it runs on numbers nobody was publishing. Quantities per guest. Real store prices. Which line items guests notice and which they never will.

So I started publishing mine.

What you'll find here

Every article on this site is built around at least one of three things: an itemized budget with real US prices, a quantities-per-guest table, or a timeline that survived contact with an actual party. The prices are researched from US retailers and national averages at the time of writing, given as ranges where they genuinely vary, and every article carries a published and last-updated date so you know how fresh the numbers are.

The site is organized into five sections: Dinner Parties, Holidays, Milestones, Game Day, and Budget Breakdowns — that last one is the spreadsheet-heart of the operation, where prices get compared head-to-head and budgets get published line by line.

Who's writing this

I'm Marisol Vega, a serial host from Texas. Over twelve-plus years I've thrown 8-person dinner parties, Super Bowl watch parties, three baby showers, more Friendsgivings than I can count, and one 120-guest backyard quinceañera that came in $900 under budget. I have no professional event-planning credentials and don't claim any. My authority, such as it is, lives in a folder of spreadsheets: every event budgeted before, reconciled after, with a column for what I'd do differently. Party Wealth is that folder, cleaned up and published.

How this site makes money (and doesn't)

Right now, it doesn't. There are no sponsored posts on Party Wealth, no affiliate links, and no brand ever sees an article before you do. If that changes — for example, if the site eventually runs advertising — it will be disclosed plainly on this page and in our privacy policy. Retailers named in articles (Costco, Dollar Tree, Party City, Trader Joe's, and the rest) are named because I researched or shopped them, not because they paid to be there. None of them know this site exists.

Corrections

Prices move, and I'd rather be corrected than comfortable. If a number here has drifted from what you're seeing in stores, or I've gotten something plain wrong, tell me — corrections get made and the "last updated" date changes to show it.