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Easter Party Tips

It’s that time of year again! Every store is full of traditional Easter candy and plastic eggs. If you are considering hosting an Easter party this spring consider a unique twist on the familiar egg hunt. Try some of these ideas to keep your guests hopping!

Food
Before determining what food you will serve at your Easter party, consider how many guests, their ages, and the time of the event. A candy bar would be a simple yet stunning centerpiece, using clear jars or vases filled with Easter candy. Use Easter shaped cookie cutters to create mini sandwiches. A tray with carrots as the prominent vegetable is certainly appropriate. Make or order a cake or cupcakes created to look like a rabbits or chicks. Readily available Easter candy items, such as Marshmallow Peeps, lend themselves to a variety of edible dessert creations.

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Inspirational Friday – Party Details

It’s the little things that make an event great so we picked out some of our favorite party details.

Get inspired by trends and use your favorite colors and/or things when you decorate for a party. Have colorful desserts, unique photo booths, crazy balloons and more! It’s all up to you.

Check back for more inspiration and ideas from Wedding and Party Network.

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Trending Tuesday – Balloons

Yes, balloons are seen at every party. However, they're a staple. You can easily do a complete makeover on balloons so it provides something unique to your party. Here are 3 ideas on how to give your balloons a complete makeover.

  1. Personalize Balloons – You can easily personalize with balloons with a permanent marker or paint. It can say, "Happy Birthday Recipient’s Name" or just spell out their name.
  2. Give Them a Little Sparkle – Add some sparkle to your balloons my adding glitter. You can dip the bottoms or tops of the balloons in glue and then dip in glitter. Also, give spray adhesive a try and add glitter.
  3. Add Sequins & Garland – The sequins are the same concept as the glitter. Just add a dab of glue and add sequins. For the garland, use whatever you have on hand or purchase some at your local craft or party store. Once you have your garland, just tie it to the ends of the balloons.

These are just 3 ways to redesign your balloons. However, there are many great ideas out there like adding fringe or even macramé to your balloons. Whatever you decide to do with your balloons, don't forget to share them with us at social@weddingandpartynetwork.com.

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DIY of the Month – Tissue Flowers

Tissue paper flowers are an easy, inexpensive way to add some decoration to any event. This simple tutorial with pictures, will walk you through how to make them step by step.

What You'll Need:

  • Tissue paper (whatever colors you like)
  • Pipe Cleaners

Directions

1. Lay out materials2. Begin by measuring and cutting your tissue paper into 10-12” squares. You can do smaller or bigger, but this is for a medium sized flower. You will need 5 pieces of tissue paper. Extra tip: Use different colors for multi colored flowers!
3. Stack the tissue paper

4. Start to fold like a fan
5. Wrap pipe cleaner around folded tissue paper
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Inspirational Friday – Party Decor Ideas

Here at Wedding and Party Network we want to give you inspiration for your wedding and party details. The details are what sets your wedding and party apart from anyone else. The colors, theme, detailing and style all creates your wedding day style and conveys your party theme. So, today's Inspirational Friday will focus on party decor ideas.

Need inspiration for party decorations? Wedding and Party Network has some this week. Whether you're hosting a birthday party, anniversary party, reunion or some sort of theme party, there are decorations for your party.

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Are YOU Ready For Some Football?!

The Super Bowl is coming up on February 5, 2012. Have you already made plans to host a Super Bowl party at your house? What are you doing, just the traditional food, drinks and watching the big game on television? Why not switch it up a bit and do something a bit different? It's also fun and exciting to change things up a bit, even if it's minor. Change up your Super Bowl party with the help of Wedding and Party Network. We've got some fabulous tips that will make your party a huge hit!

Football Themed Floral Arrangement
Plan Accordingly – Of course, with every party, you also need to plan accordingly. How many guests are you inviting, what type of food are you serving, are you having party decorations and do you plan on having activities for everyone? The best thing to do is to sit down and write everything out. Make a list of everything. This truly makes planning easy.

Party Decor – This party doesn't need a ton of party decorations at all. Just keep it within the team's colors. Divide it half and half to be fair to all your guests, unless all of you are rooting for the same team to win. Use the colors within the table cloths, centerpieces and scatter some footballs around. Use beer mugs or football koozies for the floral arrangements, except place simple flowers. Just keep it simple.

For The Food – Since it's the beginning of the new year, a lot of people made new year's resolutions to eat healthier. So, keep this in mind when planning your party menu. Instead of doing a variety of food that really doesn't go well together, think about planning out a food theme. Go with a chili bar and serve different types of chili, even a healthier version, like turkey chili. You can include all the toppings and even some hot dogs, burgers or nacho chips.

However, you can take a different approach and host a taco night, soup night or a burger bar. This way, you don't have way too much food to satisfy everyone's appetite and your menu isn't all over the place. Focus on one or two appetizers to satisfy everyone while everything else is cooking. Don't forget, you can always find a local caterer to create your meal so you're not in the kitchen all day. They always have great ideas and it frees you up from the kitchen.

Sweets – Of course, go with the theme and have a football shaped cake or football cupcakes and cookies. Just keep in mind football and the teams that are playing. You can even set up a cute dessert table that replicates a football field and have cupcakes in the team's colors and place them on the field. Don't forget to always keep in mind how you display your food. It makes everything that much better.

Football Helmet Cake
Don't Forget The Drinks – Drinks are just as important as the food. Have a signature drink for the evening or even have one for each team. You can do punch, have beer tasting for the guys or margaritas if you go with the taco theme. Make sure you have drinks that pairs well with the food and display them in a fun way.

Game Day Activities – Of course, you can have games like washers, horse shoes, bean bag toss or ping-pong set up to play before the big game starts. Don't forget to have everyone pick who they think will win too, which makes a great game day activity.

The Super Bowl is a great time to get friends together and hang out all day to enjoy each other's company. It's a great time to host a party and to get creative.

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Inspirational Friday – Party Decor!

Here at Wedding and Party Network we want to give you inspiration for your wedding details. The details are what sets your wedding apart from anyone else. The colors, theme, detailing and style all creates your wedding day style. So, today's Inspirational Friday will focus on party decorations! They are truly great and definitely show off your party theme. There are so many different ideas out there and ways to display your party theme through decorations. You just have to find a little inspiration and creativity.

Party decorations truly tell your party's story. They represent the color, theme, setting and everything else that you want your guests to know about your party. How you display them and what's included are both important. Displaying flowers in an elegant way lets your guests know that this party is elegant or having bright colors displayed throughout your party shows them that it's a fun and vibrant party. When planning a party, always think about your decorations and how they can tell your story.

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1st Birthday Party Ideas

What major events do you have coming up this year? Anything special? Well, a first birthday does sound like a big milestone for anyone! However, what will you do to make your child's first birthday special? There are many, many ideas out there that can make it special. However, you have to find one that fits their personality and stands out from the rest. Well, Wedding and Party Network has our top picks for 1st birthday party themes.

For The Boys…

Monkey Party Cake
Monkey Around – Boys are all over the place, especially at the age of one. Therefore, a monkey themed birthday party is perfect! Think all things monkeys. Create trees, place monkeys around and use bananas. Refer to all things monkey. Also, for the food, fix banana pudding, monkey bread and banana cupcakes. However, not everyone enjoys bananas. Therefore, create whatever you enjoy and just use printables that feature monkeys and cute names like monkeying around or monkey crunch.

Hole In One –An adorable theme is a hole in one party, which focuses on golf. Create a blue and green theme and use this color scheme throughout everything. Plant grass in a square vase or just use paper grass and place donut holes on a stick and place them in the vase for a unique food display. Place golf balls out as party decorations, have golf cart rides, golf inspired cupcakes, "club" sandwiches and the party favors can be those plastic golf clubs.

Rock Star –A rocking birthday bash is a great theme for the little ones. You can definitely get creative with this one, using guitars and the color schemed red and black. You can have the little one rock a biker jacket for attire. How cute does that sound? Just place little guitars, drumsticks or music notes on everything. A great party favor is a plastic microphone filled with candy. This is definitely a great 1st birthday party for the little guy.

Barnyard Bash –Who doesn't enjoy animals? There are tons of ideas for this cute birthday party theme. Think of all the barnyard animals and what you can find in or around the barn. Create a fun barnyard cake complete with all the animals.

For The Girls…

Butterfly Ball – A party full of butterflies, fairies and a vintage feel, what little girl wouldn't love looking back on this party? Your main focus should be butterflies. You can find them in various colors, patterns and designs almost in any store, even home accent stores. Just plan this party ahead so you have plenty of time to look for unique butterflies. Hang butterflies from fishing line throughout the party, attach wings to the chairs, decorate the tables with tulle and place butterflies throughout the food table.

Eiffel Tower Cake
Little Miss Sunshine – You know, the ever popular girly shirts that feature, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Rain or Little Miss Naughty. Well, base the party around Little Miss Sunshine (you can replace the word sunshine with the birthday girl's name). Think all things yellow for this party. Mix and match fun pastels with the yellow, but keep that the main color of your party. You can create whatever appetizers you may like, feature a fun yellow cake and a candy bar. This 1st birthday party is ideal for the bright and cheery little girl.

Pink Lemonade – A fun little pink lemonade birthday party is great! Think all things pink. Keep this party pretty simple and serve adorable lemonade in bottles or mason jars and keep the food light, like tea sandwiches, miniature cupcakes, vegetable platters and fruit trays. For the decorations, think pink streamers, balloons and even a pink lemonade stand. This party is simple yet perfect for a first birthday party.

1 Upon A Time – Make once upon a time and turn it into a 1 upon a time party. How cute is that? Of course, dress her up in a little tutu with a crown and make the party all things princess themed. You can choose whatever color you like or center it around a certain Disney princess. Take ideas for your favorite princess movies and incorporate that into the decorations, food and party games.

Pinwheels & Pearls –Pinwheels and pearls is a cute little theme that looks great on the invitation and so adorable within the party decorations. Serve up cute little pinwheel food, like sausage pinwheels, turkey pinwheels or jelly rolls. Anything that is related to pinwheels. Even pinwheel cookies and place them on a stick. Think pastels, pinwheels and pearls to place out for party decorations. This party is too cute!

Whenever planning a 1st birthday party, keep the child in mind and try to match the party theme to their adorable personality. What do they love most or what do they remind you of most? This is a very special occasion that needs to be remembered and truly celebrated in fashion.

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Show Appreciation For Earth Day

Earth Day is April 22 this month and what better way to spread the word than with a party. This day is to celebrate and bring appreciation to the Earth. Everyone has busy lives, but it is nice to stop and remind yourself about the Earth and all it's glory. Environmental awareness is growing, therefore, so is the importance of this day. So, if you are into becoming more eco-friendly and would like to help get your friends and family involved, host an Earth Day party! Wedding And Party Network is here to give you a few tips that will make this party theme a success.

Celebrate Earth Day

Party Invitations – Send out e-vites! This is the most environmentally friendly way to send out party invitations. Most everyone has access to the web and check it quite often. Therefore, sending out party invitations through email would be a great idea for Earth Day. Save paper!

Party Decorations- For party decorations, make sure everything is recyclable. Everything has to be eco-friendly for Earth Day. First off, make sure you have recycle bins placed out for all your guests to see how important it is to recycle. Plus, it serves as part of your party decorations.

Go with a blue and green color scheme to represent the earth and water. Create informational posters (on recycled paper, of course) with recycling information and important facts about the earth. Let them know how and where they can drop it off or when pick up day is for recycled items. Just be informative throughout your party decorations.

"Green Food" – Are you asking yourself, how can I incorporate Earth Day into the party food? Well, it's easy. Think fresh and local. The spring weather has lots of fruits and vegetables in full force, so use what's in season. Keep it light and refreshing. However, the most important thing is where you buy your food from. If you have a local farmers market, choose them to buy your produce and meat from. If you buy it locally, you're supporting your community. Visit your local caterer to come up with delicious appetizers and suggestions on where to buy around your town.

Recycled Basket Craft
What To Do –So, what do you do at an Earth Day part? If you are doing this for the kids, there are lots of fun party games out there for them that incorporates with this theme well. Do a recycled relay. Separate the children into groups and give them a pile of recycled items. They must then take turns running down to the recycle bins that you place out and sort the items into the right bins. Whoever finishes first, wins.

Another game that you can incorporate into your party is recycled crafts. After the relay is over, give them everything they recycled and let them get creative and come up with a fun craft. Anything to make them aware of recycling and what it does to help our earth is a plus!

When hosting your Earth Day party, it doesn't have to big extravagant. You just need to focus on the importance of the Earth. So, keep it minimalistic. The main focus for this party is the Earth. Stop and remember how truly important it is to you and everyone around you. Plus, Earth Day parties are so much fun for everyone!

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Throw A SnowGlam Party!

Does your little girl have an upcoming birthday? Well, stick with the season and throw an adorable little SnowGlam Party for all her best friends. When people think of the winter months, they always think it's hard to plan a birthday party. Well, it's  not. There are so many things out there for your little ones, you just have to know where to start. This party theme is perfect for any little glam girl or even a girl's night in! Here are a few party tips to get you started to make sure everyone has a great time. They'll call you party planner of the year!

Invites Set The Theme: A great invitation to send out that would be ideal for the little girls and even the adults, is a snowflake invitation. These themed invitations will immediately set the tone of your party. Visit your local stationery store for themed invitations, like snowflakes that will set your winter wonderland mood right from the beginning.

Winter Party Decorations

Glam Party Decorations: Where to begin? Of course, your main focus should be white. You can either pair white and silver or incorporate a pastel blue or pink into the theme. Incorporate white table linens with silver snowflake confetti. Decorate your tables with Christmas lights, hang snowflakes, scatter fake snow out and set out adorable snowmen in the snow.

If you want to mix in the pastel colors, mix and match the colors of snowflakes that you hang. Mix and match table linen colors and top it off with a beautiful white floral centerpiece or an elegant ice sculpture. How chic! However, the special added details such as the Christmas lights will truly make this party stand out.

Deck the girls out with feather boas and tutus. How adorable and glamorous would the little girls feel. Maybe even the adults too! By adding all these special details together, you'll get one glamorous snow party.

Let It Snow Desserts: For this party, stick with just desserts. It'll be simple for you or if you plan to have it catered, your party caterer will know exactly what to fix. A fake snow-like accent is shredded coconut. Adding it to most everything is a must, even if it's just for decoration.

Keep in mind snowballs, it is a snow theme party after all. Little white powdered doughnut holes are great replicas of snowballs. Scatter them in a bowl or attach them to a floral cone with icing to make a great centerpiece. Accent them with blue and white candy too for the finishing touch. It'll be a snowball tree. Make white cupcakes with edible iridescent pearls or scatter shredded coconut on top. Make a gigantic snowball cake with coconut on top or do white cake pops. To make it even more ideal, have your bakery create adorable gum paste snowmen. Or make them yourself out of marshmallows.

Winter Wonderland Desserts

If it's a winter wonderland where you live, serve up snow cones or even snow cream. Everyone will love it! Literally, there are so many dessert ideas that you are sure to come up with from snowflake cookies or to miniature cheesecakes. All while using white and keeping within the snow theme.

A SnowGlam Thanks: Party favors are a great way to end your party. Nothing says glamour better. A little miniature snowball cupcake in an elegant clear box would be great. Cookies would be ideal too. You've already got lots of food, so why not send them home with something delicious that will remind them of your amazing party. Create a gift bag with all the ingredients for a warm cup of hot chocolate.

Even better, create a little gift bag featuring adorable feather boas and pearls. So cute and the little girls will absolutely love these items. They will play dress up all the time at home with them. Party favors are just a great way to say, "Thanks for coming" and for them to carry the memories back home.

A SnowGlam party is such an elegant and chic birthday party, holiday party or great for a girl's night in. Everyone will share lots of laughs, tasty treats and admire the winter season upon them.

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