Showing posts with label Halloween party planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween party planning. Show all posts

Monday, September 23, 2013

Setting a Ghoulish Mood with Halloween Party Invitations

Halloween parties are great fun and quite popular, too, for both kids and grown-ups. If you want to have a scary or creepy Halloween party, then you definitely want to have ghoulish party invitations.

Choosing the invitations will also set the tone or mood of the party. For Halloween, you can go with a more friendly or happy type of party that includes smiling pumpkins and happy cupcakes.

But, if it's scary, you want creepy cloth spread around with large spiders tucked in. You want severed fingers and Zombie brains for the look of the food. That's when you want to have creepy invitations.

You want your guests to know what kind of party they will in for. Many of your guests will pick their costume to work with your party theme. So making sure they know in advance that this will be a spooky Halloween party is best.

Be considerate of your guests, as well. If you are allowing young children to be part of your party, tone down the creepiness. You don't want to scare them. Many adults could be freaked out by too much of the gory and scary stuff as well.

If you know your guests will be able to handle and get into the fun of your Halloween party, then by all means go all out. Those are the most fun as far as I'm concerned. That's why I usually have the grossest and scariest parties I can put together. And I send out ghoulish party invitations to make sure my guests are prepared.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Unique Halloween Party Decorations: Bottle Labels

When I went looking for something different to help decorate for my big Halloween party this year, I found so fun ideas. New ways to add little vignettes of spooky or ghoulish decor. New party accessories and new fun inflatables to add to my party decor.

One of those really fun things I found was bottle labels in Halloween themes. Imagine having your wine bottles, beer bottles, even soda or water bottles labeled with things like: Witch's Brew, Poison, and Goblin Brains. What a fun way to add more Halloween decor to your table.

The bottle labels come in sets of 8 for a small price, so I can get lots of different kinds to make up fun decorations for my beverages. That was always a sore spot with me. I usually ended up keeping the beverage table separate and could only add a bit of decor.

While my buffet food table was loaded with those ghoulish and freakish foods all decked out as eyeballs, brains, and severed fingers, my drinks were just tubs of iced down bottles. Boring! But, this year, I will be loading my drink tubs with appropriate Halloween style beverages.

I won't completely hide the real labels. I want my guests to know what they will be drinking (the real stuff that is actually safe for them) but I do want to add more fun ideas for the decorating and dress up even the beverages. Get some Halloween beverage labels for yourself and have more fun at your party, too.