How to throw a milestone birthday party

Posted by Jo Jeffery on

Throwing a milestone birthday party will involve personalisation and thoughtful touches that reflect the guest of honour’s life and interests.

Here are some top tips:

First off decide on your theme. This will help you choose decorations, food and music. For example a decade party – this can be when the birthday boy or girl was born or the time they remember most fondly - perhaps if you are a couple when you met. For our forty-year-old we opted for our Happy Face collection as it's evocative with Smiley face Eighties dance culture.

Keep it personal with old family photos, momentos and other items with an emotional connection that celebrates their life.

Talking Tables has loads of games and there’s one for every sort of person. You can also throw in a personalised trivia game with questions about the guest of honour’s life. Adding in some embarrassing moments adds to the laughs.

Organise a memory book. Gather friends and family together to share photos, funny stories and sentimental memories into a scrapbook that will be cherished forever.

Create a Spotify custom playlist of songs that will bring back memories.

A customised newspaper home page also makes for a keepsake gift.

 

 

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