If you are planning a New Years Eve party, you
might also be considering having a specific theme for your
party. While a theme is not a necessary part of a New Years Eve
party or any party but it can make any party significantly more
fun and interesting. Planning a themed New Years Eve party is a
great deal of fun but it is also significantly more complicated
than planning a party without a theme just because there is more
coordination involved in the planning process and in trying to
ensure all of the elements of the party fit within the theme.
This article will discuss the process of planning a New Years
Eve party with a theme and will offer samples of appropriate
themes and how they can be applied.
When planning a themed New Years Eve party the host has the
option to incorporate the theme as much or as little as they
wish. Examples of items which can be incorporated into the theme
are invitations, decorations, food, beverages, music,
entertainment and even the guests’ attire. Guests who attend the
party have the option of fully taking advantage of the theme and
dressing or acting in a particular character during the event or
simply attending the party and enjoy the atmosphere, food,
beverages and entertainment provided by the host.
Themes for New Years Eve parties can be any theme the host
selects and does not have to relate to the holiday at all. One
example of an unrelated theme is a Western theme. The host can
set the team by sending out cowboy hate shaped invitations
encouraging guests to dress appropriately for a country hoe
down. Once the guests receive the invitation, they will have an
understanding of the theme of the party. If themed parties are
not popular with your circle of friends you might want to follow
up the invitations with a personal call encouraging your guests
to dress according to the theme and assuring them you will be
dressing similarly. I planning the entertainment for your party
you can consider hiring a country western band to host the
party. You might even hire a line dance instructor for an hour
or two to offer group line dancing classes to the guests. In
incorporating the theme of the party in the decorations, you can
purchase hay bales to place around the room and use colored
handkerchiefs for napkins. The food at your party should also
incorporate your theme. If you are offering a sit down dinner,
chili is a good choice. Stew would also be a good option. If you
plan to have appetizers, you can create theme related appetizers
by giving traditional appetizers unique names. You might refer
to mini bagel pizzas as wagon wheels or mini egg rolls as hay
bales. For beverages you can serve ice cold beer in glass mugs.
An example of a more elegant theme for a New Years Eve party
might include a red carpet extravaganza where guests are
encouraged to dress like their favorite movie star from any era.
Alternately the theme could be limited to a specific era with
guests expected to dress like stars from the appropriate era.
This is a good idea for a New Years Eve party theme because many
guests like to dress in their most elegant clothing and this
would give them the opportunity to dress to impress. The theme
for a New Years Eve party with this theme might be an invitation
in the shape of an elegant silver star inviting guests to join
you on the red carpet for the premier of the New Year. In
decorating for this event, the host should include a red carpet
in their entryway and may want to use a series of motion
detected strobe lights to mimic the flashbulbs of paparazzi
lining the red carpet of movie premiers. This will serve to
immediately get the guests in the spirit of the party.
Entertainment for the party might include giving out New Years
Eve awards to the guests in a series of different categories and
allowing guests to give a short speech as they receive their
award.
