Archive for Party Quirks
Trivia Games for Birthdays and Bridal Showers
One particularly fun way to celebrate a birthday and a bridal shower is to be completely sentimental about the celebrant and the experiences she went through until she reached that age or that event in her life.
Besides speeches and last dances, birthday getting-to-know-you games bring out the mushiness in people, so that a party planner won’t even have to ask anyone for a speech or a short song for the celebrant, everyone will be jumping in to contribute their trips to memory lane.
Nostalgia works!
A simple sentence starting with “Do you remember the time…” will make the guests and the celebrants feel the occasion. A must-do during speech time is to choose the person in the group who knows the celebrant best. One way to do this is to survey the people using these questionnaires called It’s All About the Birthday Star. It asks the guests what they know about the birthday girl or bride-to-be and you and the celebrant can decide which guest should do the toast.
One can even do a trivia game based on the answers to the questionnaires.
Party Rentals: Party Games, Inflatables
How do you deal with theme parties that require you to provide a mechanical bull, like a Rodeo-style bachelor party; a water slide for a kid’s birthday party, water fun-themed?
Answer: you rent the equipment.
For the water-fun party, for example, you can avail of Water Slide Party Rentals and Inflatable Party Rentals. This will save a lot of time and energy, because you do not have to buy these bulky things yourself. You can come up with an arrangement and propose your deal to the rentals owner. They are some people in your neighborhood you should know of and be in touch with at all times.
Another benefit of Party Rentals is that you can add a whole section of ‘party games available’ in your company sales page.
That way, your clients will see that you have more to offer than the usual party themes.
Food and Dining Suggestion for a Date-for-Two
Getting asked to plan for a couple’s date isn’t unusual. There are some guys who have accepted their incapability for setting up a cheesy date, which is something that women love. A guy looking to get the girl to say yes to him has to make the date perfect. Let’s start by defining the formula to a perfect date. My thoughts revolve around these elements: good food, good wine, good company.
My model for this 2-person date-party is from ristorante.ca, a pizza site that recently launched its Ristorante Contest. They have a 12-min dating guide which involves a garden date, wine, guacamole chips and dessert.
Since it’s a picnic date, a homemade mozzarella pizza is the best choice, because the couple can eat these with their fingers. The guacamole dip is for the couple to feed each other some nacho chips. These chips come in packs so are relatively low maintenance. Now for the wine. Hmm…
The thing is, wine makes any occasion meaningful. Like a glass of wine almost always mandates a toast. The thing to consider is how smoothly it goes down. My choice is red wine, which you don’t have to chill; unless, of course, the party planner can provide an ice bucket hidden behind a nearby tree in the garden, where the proposal will be dished.
A glass of wine calls for romance, sophistication and pleasure…the unravelling of complex flavours in the mouth. Yes, a simple glass of wine might elevate us from our daily stresses into higher states of mind allowing for a cheerful and relaxed mood to arise instead.
-anonymous
Your Specialized Employees: Table Skirter and Ice Carver
Party planning is not as tedious when there are helpers to do the multitude of tasks required for a party to be perfect. Cooks, decorators, linen washers, messengers, delivery people and etc. Most of the tasks can be done by the party planner without hiring anyone else, but investing on some key individuals for tasks that are labor and time intensive can be helpful.
Some specialized tasks in weddings are Ice Carving and Table Skirting. While these two aren’t necessary parts of a wedding party agenda, they could help your image as a wedding coordinator. A wedding reception with a professionally decorated table and/or an elegant ice carving will turn ordinary wedding guests into future clients!
The table skirter must be in the reception place earlier than the rest of the crew, even way ahead of you. A long table takes hours of skirting, as skirting involves creating pleats white linen and pinning these on the main table cover. I realize how it’s much easier to buy a ready-made pleated long table cover, but a custom pleated table adds a personalized touch. For this task, you need someone who has an eye for detail and the patience to pleat each portion of the linen perfectly.
An ice carver’s task is also tedious, but he’s allowed to come in later than everyone else. You should hire someone who works fast and has enough creative instinct to sculpt delicately designed ice statues.
Good coordination with these hired ‘talents’ is one of the best ways to make your wedding events memorable. They can complete tasks that seem daunting to an ordinary person.
