Celebrate in style with a themed birthday event for adults.
You don't have to limit theme parties to children's events--organize themed festivities to celebrate the birthday of an adult friend or family member. Choose a topic that not only suits the guest of honor's personality and interests, but that also coordinates with her age, the season and/or your party budget. Does this Spark an idea?
Wine Tasting
Invite guests to relax and indulge in gourmet food and beverages at a birthday party with a wine-tasting theme. Send out invitations shaped like wine bottles, or print the pertinent party details such as time, date, location and RSVP information on a tag that you've tied to a bottle of wine, if you plan to pass out the invitations in person. Invite a sommelier to attend the celebration to give the guests a short course on different vintages. Have the guests toast the celebrant with their vintage of choice.
Decade Event
Salute the guest of honor's birth decade with a costume party. Create invitations featuring the decade number on the front and encourage guests to dress in the appropriate attire. Prepare refreshments that were popular during the era, decorate the room with toys and movie posters that represent the decade's pop culture trends and play the musical hits of the day in the background.
Then and Now
Organize a nostalgic birthday party featuring decorations and games that look back at the guest of honor's life. Create posters with baby photos of the birthday honoree and encourage guests to write birthday wishes around the images. Display framed photos around the room of the honoree's childhood, school years, vacations and professional events. Serve the celebrant's favorite foods and encourage guests to tell humorous anecdotes around the dinner table. Create a trivia contest about various milestones and memories in the birthday person's life.
Black and White
Host an elegant affair by organizing a dinner event with a black-and-white theme. Send out plain white cards with party details written in a simple black font. Require guests to wear black or white attire to a location that you've decorated with black and white balloons, tableware, birthday signs and streamers. Choose foods, beverages and a birthday cake that coordinate with the black-and-white theme, and entertain guests with games of charades featuring the titles of classic black-and-white movies.
Seasonal Salute
Focus the adult birthday party on the current season or the guest of honor's favorite time of year. If the birthday honoree loves spring, for example, organize a spring-themed tea party as her birthday event. Decorate your indoor or outdoor party space with floral embellishments and vibrant flower centerpieces, and serve tea cakes, scones and finger sandwiches. Let the guests steep their own tea in individual glass tea pots that they can take home as party favors. Invite a guest who reads tea leaves to tell the "fortune" of each party guest.
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