Hearts, Diamonds and Spades… oh my!

Start Your Father’s Day preparations now by planning a card night!! With this party idea, you don’t have to go from party store to party store looking for all of your party needs. You can set up all the goodies needed for a fun night of playing cards with dad and celebrating father’s day.

You can keep the party cozy and simply have some more food than usual for sharing with your close friends. But iIf you want to have a bigger party, don’t fret. Just order a few more ingredients, set up more tables and you’re good to go.

Here’s a great idea: you can cut out casino confetti (or simply black and red paper mixed with white confetti) and sprinkly the pieces of paper on your buffet table before you arrange the serving plates. To make it more fun for the neighborhood dads you will invite, put some of the confetti in the invitations.

The Card Night Father’s Day Party Recipe

• Paper Dinner Plates
• Paper Dessert Plates
• Lunch Napkins
• Beverage Napkins
• Plastic Cups
• Plastic Table covers
• Round Plastic Trays for serving drinks
• 14″ x 10″ Rectangular Plastic Tray
• A plastic bowl of Fortune cookies or for popcorn
• Homemade Casino Confetti
• Deck of Cards

Don’t forget to make up some goodies to fill up the plastic bowl, the rectangular plastic tray, and round plastic tray. You have everything needed for a successful card night party for father’s day.

When someone retires, you might think all he is feeling is relief that the chapter of his life in which he had to work all day and be stressed all the time is over. But any retiree will tell you that this is not always the case.

Retirement is certainly a relief for those who are already done with work. They no longer have to deal with constant worry about paying the bills, getting accosted with mortgage brokers, agents talking about life insurance rates and saving money for retirement funds.
But together with this feeling of happiness is the feeling of sadness. When a chapter of your life ends, you can’t help but feel sad, which makes a retirement party the bittersweet affair that it is.

How to Make a Retirement Party More Memorable?

Here are some ideas for you if you’re planning a surprise retirement party for a beloved family member, your boss or your colleague.

1. Choose a Familiar Venue or Theme

It’s best to choose a venue that is related to the person’s everyday routine. If she’s a Starbucks fan, why not make that the central theme of your party. It may be a sentimental event for the person when she somehow feels that it’s the last time she will drink Starbucks as a regular employee, with the people she has always shared a cup with.

2. Make it a Toast Party

If you’re familiar with toasts (or speeches given during a party), you can transform a retirement party into a toast party. Each of the retiree’s friends could give a short speech, and a slideshow of previous happy times can follow.

3. “Dream Vacation” Theme

Sending a retiree off to his new life means getting excited along with him about his upcoming trip. If he’s going to take a ski vacation, maybe you can all go to the party wearing goggles. If it’s a trip to the tropics, you can have guests come in wearing leis and flower-pattern shirts.

How hard is it to throw a dieter’s party? It’s pretty easy. First you need to think of an activity that you and your diet group all enjoy, like riding elliptical machines or jogging through the park. And, of course, serving some diet food.

When we talk about diet food, we think of tasteless stuff that don’t go down well unless you meditate about why you want to get thin first. Dieting doesn’t always have to be tedious, and diet food shouldn’t always taste like cardboard either.

Smoothies Recipes to Serve in a Dieters Party

Strawberry-Banana Breakfast Smoothie
• 1 cup orange juice
• 3 tbsp nonfat dry milk powder
• 1/2 banana; cut into pieces
• 10 fresh strawberries; hulled
• 3 ice cubes

Orange Splash Smoothie
• 1 6-ounce can frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1 cup cold water
• 1 cup non-fat milk
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 10 ice cubes

Tropical Fruit Shake
• 1/2 mango
• 2 Tablespoon frozen pina coloda mix (non-alcoholic)
• 1/2 banana — frozen
• 4 strawberries — frozen
• 6 ice cubes
• 1 and 1/4 cup cold water

Blueberry Smoothie
• 1 pint fresh blueberries or 2 cups (10 oz.) frozen blueberries — slightly thawed
• 1 cup pineapple or orange juice
• 1 container (8 oz.) lowfat vanilla yogurt
• 2 teaspoon sugar

We all know about beauty pageants right? It’s the time to wear beautiful clothes and parade with our kids in tow to watch the county’s beauties battle it out on the stage filled with sparkling lights and Barbie-like contestants.

Pageants are also a party planner’s dream come true. Why?

There are pageant parties to attend and organize. There are also the beauty contestants and their assistants to provide food for. If you’ve ever organized a pageant or was a part of the production staff, you’d know that in every nook and cranny of the venue has people needing help with organizing and supplies.

Do you have to be a gofer for everyone at once? Nope. You can do the opposite. Be there and participate one way or another. It’s the best time to build connections.

The bottomline is that you can find so many ways to use a beauty pageant to make your business boom.

1. Create a Beauty Pageant Theme

If you can take all the elements of a traditional beauty pageant, sans the judging and the actual contest, you can create a theme that will delight every mom with a pretty daughter. Think of this theme as an alternative to the fairytale princess theme (which is so common, if you know what I mean).

You will need sashes, tiaras and flowing pink robes for the celebrant and her friends. You can serve juices in goblets so that the kids can feel really grown up. You can have talent “contests”, or production numbers prepared in advance by the kids (and their parents).

2. Be a Consultant for a Real Beauty Pageant

In any event, there are two groups of people that are really working hard… the promoters and the organizers. If you can make life easier for these two groups by offering to handle some of the tasks (contacting caterers, subcontracting the decorations, hiring a DJ, hiring a band, serving snacks etc.), you can enjoy yourself and end up earning a bit of cash.

Your connections as a party planner and your ability to stay organized and focused under MASSIVE stress will be regarded as valuable in an event where everyone’s pressured to put out with all they’ve got.

Of course, if you’d rather go as a parent looking to make her daughter join a beauty pageant someday, you can observe the whole proceedings and start planning. Take care of your daughter’s skin, or consider some supplements like hgh if she’s already an adult and you want her to add more inches.