TheQueer Eyestar, 40, shares some useful tips with PEOPLE for entertaining guests and keeping the peace with family as he preps for his own holiday festivities with some help fromShutterfly.
“Keep everyone busy. What did they use to say in church down in the South? ‘Idle hands are the devil’s tool,'” Berk muses with a laugh. “So keep them busy.”
This year, he’s having customphoto playing cardsmade to keep everyone occupied. “It’s great because it’s not just a card game. It’s also every time somebody pulls out a card, they see a picture and it has a story,” Berk shares. “And so you can kind of draw out that one card game for hours and hours … and keep people off topics that you don’t want them on.”
Berk says he’s “going crazy with the personalization” for his Christmas gathering with husband Dewey Do and their chosen family, customizingplatesandwine glasseswith their guests’ names in lieu of the typical place cards at the dinner table. He’s also havingtote bagsmonogrammed for guests to take home gifts and leftovers.
“Since we haven’t got together for, it seems like 20 years, but it’s only two years at this point, I really wanted to make sure that all my guests feel very special and I wanted to do it in a unique way,” he adds.
As a gracious host, Berk recommends “lots of wine,” adding that he likes “being the person that hosts the strays.”
source: people.com
