Erin Napier Hosts Easter Lunch Every Year: Her Trick for Managing the Details

Every year since HGTV stars Erin Napier married her husband Ben, they’ve hosted Easter lunch for their families at their house. In 2025, it’s no different — but Erin says she’s grown much more organized in recent years to manage all the little details.

On April 19, she posted photos and insights in her Instagram Stories about how she learned to juggle it all — a trick she calls “The Easter Plan.”

Erin Napier Says Easter Lunch Became Harder to Manage After Becoming a Mom

In one of her Instagram Stories on April 19, Erin showed their table already set for Easter with a green and white table runner, coordinating paper napkins on their green-and-white dishware with “Laurel Mississippi Est. 1882” at the top of each plate.

Married to Ben since November 2008, she wrote, “Every year since we got married, Ben and I host Easter lunch at our house. Somewhere around year 10 I realized it was hard to remember the special ingredients of hosting one holiday every year.”

That was the year that the Napiers became parents to their daughter Helen, in January 2018, so it makes sense that planning Easter lunch with a newborn was suddenly a tall order.

On the next Story, with a photo of cherished, handwritten recipes and three cartons of eggs, Erin wrote, “I don’t make sweat tea regularly, so I would forget the ratio of tea bags to sugar, I would forget if mama brings the dressing or is it my sister in law? Do we always get a whole ham or half? etc. etc.”

Over a photo of what looked to be homemade cornbread, Erin wrote in her third Instagram Story, “So one year I screenshot the family group text who brings what, of the ham that was the perfect size for our family, a note about the perfect tea to sugar ratio, photos of my grandmother’s CORRECT coconut cake and frosting recipe (not the one Mildred gave her that she reviewed as ‘just okay’ on her notepad) we use every year, and the annual photos of the girls with the Easter bunny…”

Erin said she “made a phone photo album called ‘The Easter Plan.’ I set a calendar notification for 3 weeks before Easter to open that note. I start my grocery list, I do my shopping, I assign the family their regular dishes they like to make.”

“I’m learning after 7 years of being a mama that it’s easier to keep traditions going the way we’ve always loved if we get organized,” she added. “Maybe yall have all BEEN doing this, and if so — why didn’t yall tell me?! 😃”

Erin Napier Also Put All of Her Grandma’s Favorite Recipes Into a Special Cookbook That She Uses Each Easter

Permanently documenting special occasions and people in her family’s life has become a tradition in itself for Erin. After losing her grandma in 2020, she created a book full of her favorite recipes.

“My grandmother, Ouida Walters Rasberry, was the maker and keeper of our family’s recipes,” she told Southern Living.

While cleaning out her grandma’s house, per Southern Living, Erin “found a vault of Ouida’s handwritten recipes stuffed in fruit-shaped canisters.” Erin then organized them and turned them into “The Book of Ouida.”

As she prepped for Easter in 2021, Erin shared a video of the book and wrote on Instagram, “Last Easter she was still with us. This Easter, I’m picking up the coconut cake torch. So glad we found all her recipes so I could make the Book of Ouida. But man, I miss her.”