2025 Christmas Lights Displays In Northern Virginia: Share Yours

Families are starting to get out their lights, wreaths, garlands and other Christmas decor to deck their homes out for the holiday season.

If you spend days or weeks painstakingly hanging strands of lights on your house, trees and shrubs, synchronizing lights to music, or hauling figurines out to your lawn, Patch wants to hear from you.

We will compile our annual holiday lights guide, where readers can tour the best holiday light displays in the Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg area. Whether you put up decorations immediately after Thanksgiving or wait until December, feel free to submit your display when it's ready. We'll continue to add to this list through Dec. 24.

Send your display photos, address, description of the holiday display and other information you'd like to share about your display to emily.leayman@patch.com.

IMPORTANT: Please include your first and last name in the submission. By submitting a photo, you're giving Patch permission to publish it for this feature and future stories. Photos should be original and taken by the person submitting the photo.

Please include the following information into an email, along with a photo, and follow these guidelines:

• Include the exact address of the lights display.
• Please share your first and last name so we can credit the photo to you.
• Let us know the dates when your holiday display goes live and when it shuts off for the evening.
• Does your winter wonderland have a name? If so, be sure to include it.
• Tell us what makes your twinkly lights unique. Will you be planning anything special for your display, like Santa or other holiday characters, FM frequencies for your synchronized light show, walk-throughs, popcorn machines, etc.?
• Does your display have a Facebook page or website? Be sure to include the links.
• Are you fundraising for a local charity? If so, please feel free to share.

Once we have enough submissions, we will publish our holiday lights guide. So, be sure to check back for updates and sign up for newsletters in your Virginia Patch town.