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Halloween
Tradition #10 - Annual Themed Dinner Party
The Friday or Saturday before Halloween we host our annual Halloween
dinner party. We usually have a sit down dinner followed by
movies, music, contests and dancing. This is always a theme based party where costumes
are definitely required. You need to do some prep work on
this one well in advance like deciding on your theme, making
and sending RSVP invites, making a dinner plan, a music and
movie plan, where, if you have dancing, will that space be.
It takes some work but it's something that not only us but
our friends have come to look forward to every year. For lots of great Halloween party
tips, suggestions and ideas visit the
Halloween Costume Party web site.
In the past we've held a number of different
type of Halloween parties including:
The
Vampires Ball
When Vampires are the theme we go with coffins and lots of hanging
bats as decorations. The selected music tends to be dark
and gothic. The food usually finger food and dripping
with red sauce or something of that nature. Drinks are
red. The lighting is subdued, we make window treatments
and decor for the whole party area look old, dusty,
Gothic and dark.
The
Halloween Ball
A free-for-all party where any Halloween costume is
acceptable. Have a contest for best male, female and
couple costumes and give prizes. Have a buffet meal so
people can mingle while Halloween themed music plays and
maybe a horror movie on TV with the sound off.
The
Zombie Rave
Everyone dresses as a zombie at this disco style
party. There's nothing funnier than a bunch of zombies
dancing the night away under a mirror ball to Donna
Summers! You want chunky foods that they can "devour",
use body parts molds to make some of the treats in. Use
low, green lighting.
Haunted Halloween
Ghosts are the way to go. We make a tombstone for every
guest that we invite with their name on it. Everyone has
to come dressed in a ghost costume of some type. There
are some really amazing costumes out there now! Try
Costume Kingdom for some great ghost costumes. We
play dark, Gothy music while eating and then livelier
stuff during the night. The food is stuff like hot dogs
wrapped with biscuit dough to look like a ghost.
Everything is light, airy and ghostly for this one.
Dead Like Me Party
Remember that old show, Dead Like Me? Some people are
chosen when they die to become Grim Reapers and help the
departed on to their reward. The intro to the show has
all of them dressed in a Grim Reaper robe. We love the
show and made a theme party to with it.
Everyone dressed as a Grim Reaper. The theme is death
with tombstones, ravens, a whole graveyard look to the
whole thing.
These are just a few of the themes that
we've used. There's also Davey Jones Locker (Dead Pirates),
Evil Clown Circus, Werewolf Ball, Mad Doctors and Nurses,
Witches Coven and Supernatural (Sam, Dean and creatures from
their dad's book of monsters). The ideas are endless and
you'll have a great time! By having this before Halloween,
it gives the adults a chance to have a party before having
to worry about taking the kids out for a night of
Trick-or-Treating on Halloween. |
