Can you give me some ideas on a surprise 50th bday party?

Question

i am throwing my dad a surprise birthday party. he will be 50 this year. i was just looking for some fun decorating ideas or themes. Maybe some links to some websites that will help make his party fun and memorable. Thanks.

Answer 1

rent a private room,

buffet food, music,

friends and family that he loves and respects,

cake, sing happy 50th, a few corny jokes

and a open bar for the first hour

Answer 2

Play some 50's music, check this website for more party ideas http://www.pinatas.com/50_s_Party_Theme_...

Answer 3

Golden Age Hollywood.

1) FRED ASTAIRE-THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT

2) JUDY GARLAND-SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW

3) GENE KELLY-SINGING IN THE RAIN

4) HOWARD KEEL-ANYTHING YOU CAN DO

5) MARILYN MONROE-DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND

6) NAT KING COLE-UNFORGETTABLE

and others like this: http://www.rhino.com/store/productdetail...

Our appetizer experience:

We ordered a fruit tray, cheese tray, veggie tray, taco dip and chips and silver dollar sandwich rolls.

No one touchede the veggie tray. The cheese tray was 1/3 eaten. The taco tip went over great and had to be restocked twice, the fruit tray went over great, and the silver dollar rolls went over great. They were ham, turkey and beef. These are hand size and perfect and I saw the rolls for this at the grocery store.

Anyway, so if I were you I would make a small cheese tray, make a double batch or taco dip, and have a good fruit tray and make the silver dollar rolls.

These are all simple to put together.

Taco Dip:

2 softened cream cheese.

1 16oz sour cream

1 packet taco seasoning.

Mix with mixer. Put in bottom of a cookie sheet. Top with shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes and green onions. Use the cheese but you can altered the rest to your taste, maybe add black olives. Make 2 of these. Serve with tostitos scoops.

Fruit bowl,.

Whole pineppple into chunks. Slice strawberries. Add whole table grapes no seeds, add chunks of watermelon, and cut oranges in slices cut into triangles. This is best made the night before so that the juices can all run together and stir before serving.

Silver dollar rolls:

http://www.heb.com/yourhebstore/sd-deli-...

It is just shaved deli meat and cheese triangles. You dont have to put lettuce on them, ours did not have it. t. The ones that we had catered just had real butter on them and they had mayo and mustard packets on ice on the side. You can make all this yourself the day before easily and our caterer delivered them to the hall the nigtht before our party and it was fine.



For decorations to start off you have to have a sign in board.  This is good for everyone to look back at.  A board your friends sign as they arrive. We bought trifold presentation board from Walgreens or you can get one at any office supply place.: We left the center white. The outer 2 folds we covered with red gift wrap from the dollar store. We put a red scalloped border around the outer 2 folds we got at the dollar store( the ones the teachers use on bulletin boards. Around the center we put film strip border from party cheap. We bought silver glitter letters from the craft and spelled out SIGN IN centered at thet top of the center of the board in the white section. We attached them with double sided tape dots from the craft store. We bought 2 Hollywood Jolee scrapbook pages and put the pictures at the bottom of the outer folds and randomly around the board: These included the Hollywood sign, movie cameras, film reels, etc. So the middle is left blank for pple to sign and the outer folds that are red get covered with a collage of pictures of the birthday person. We also bought a scrap book page with palm trees \

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Our colors were gold, black and silver.

We had large round tables, 8 of them. We bought black tablecloths from the dollar store but bought beautiful gold overlays from efavormart cheap. For centerpieces we used the movie cascade ones from partycheap. We also had on the table a balloon weightfrom party cheap. We attached black, gold and silver latex balloons helium filled and one mylar hollywood balloon from party cheap. I also bought black and gold cut out foil stars palm and hand size and placed these randomly on the table for a punch of color . You can also hang these from the ceiling for an extra effect. Also on the table we made tent cards for flash cameras: You can use any word processor. I inserted a movie camera clip art. I put Nicoles sweet 16 and then worded the card like the ones they show on handykane.com. You can change this for your 50th.  We got the cameras at Aldi food store for 2.99 a piece. We bought a total of 60 balloons, gold, black and silver. We had 8 tables and made the arrangements as I said above. We made the same arrangements ands put 2 around the opening of the hall, 2 on the cake table, 2 around the DJ table and a few others randomly. We bought these 30 inch large clapboard balloons to put around the dance from party cheap or bulk balloons. floor:http://www.partycheap.com/hollywood_cla.... Not sure if you are having a big party or at home party.

We bought move star standups, marilyn monroe and you could get humphrey bogart.  Get them on Ebay new for 23 a piece instead of the usual 45 at most sites.  



We bought these huge hollywood signs: http://www.andersonsprom.com/p-18782-mov... . They are 56x35. You cant really see how it is. It is actually like an A frame. It comes with another black cardboard backing and these rods that you are supposeed to hot glue together so it is like an A-frame or like a tent to stand up. You have to assemble this. All 3 pictures come on 1 long roll or poster. You have to cut it in 3 and then they give you an exact knife to cut around the edges. It was not that hard and this tape that sticks it on. Well we found that you dont need to make the a-frame because you can bend them ever so slightly in the center and they stand up fine. They give you the sparkly foil stars to glue on (not hot glue) .4 for each picture, 4 lg and 4 small. So we decided not to make the A frame so we had 3 extra large pieces of black cardboard, the same sizes these pictures are on. So we went to Target and bought 3 more posters, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and James Dean. We used the rest of the tape we had and put them on there and we put 2 lg and 2 small stars on all six of these. They all stand up just fine so by doing these we got 6 huge decoration pieces for only 90 bucks. We go so many compliments on them.

In the middle of the dance floorwe put one of those hollywood walk of fame sgtars from party cheap with my daughters name on it. We also bought hollywood decocrations to put randomly around the room from party cheap. We got move cutouts, hollywood street signs, walk of fame door fringe, etc.

For favors We bought organza favor bags in black and gold from efavormar, the same place we got the table overalys in black and gold: We got clipboard keychains, movie buttermints, black and gold mardi gras beads (which we handed to guests as they arrived) and personalized star trophies that we put a friend quote on at oriental trading really cheap. We bought sweet 16 lollipop mold and used pink chocolate from craft store You could make some with a 50 instead.  . The bags are 1.99 for 100 with ties (you can use these as favor bags as well). It was 1.50 for 3 bags of chocolate and we made 27 lollipops. Dont forget to buy sticks.

This red carpet from party cheap was fine but check the length and it has a stick tape and bring mild adhesive remover with your as it leaves a sticky line where the tape is.

We made our own personalized favor tags with the business card maker section on MIcrosoft. We inserted a hollywood sign picture from google images, a walk of fame star with my daughters name on that we got off a myspace page and then we put Nicole's Sweet 16 on it in cool font in Red. We used a paper punch to cut a hole and the organza bags have ties already.

You could ask people to dress like a movie stars or if formal to dress from that era, but you dont have to do that.,  

You could also decorate with Lucy Ball, Bob  Hope, etc.  Most parents love that time period.

Answer 4

for great themes, decorations, tableware for landmark 50... simply visit:

http://www.partystuffonline.co.uk

Answer 5

Turning 50 must be the age this year.

Well what kind of things interest your Dad? How much is your budget? What time of year will the party be held?

Invite those family and friends, coworkers and neighbors that he has a close connection with and who mingle well together. You don't want anything or anyone to ruin his very special b-day.

I am trying to plan my own b-day party and having some bumps in the road. This is due to some of the people/family don't quite play well together so to speak. I don't want anything to ruin this for me so now I ams stumped.

Have fun with your planning and may he have a very happy b-day with more to come.

Answer 6

There are some great party ideas on this site:

http://www.celebrationideasonline.com/fa...

check out the fiesta party, the family birthday party.. also the 40th bday party idea.. you may find a few ideas in each category.. try to tie the theme into something he likes..sports, fishing etc.. you could add a photo collage of him doing the things he likes best..  Good luck

Answer 7

a luau is always good.

http://birthdaypartyideas.makesparties.c...

The Beatles Party Theme

Opera Party Theme

Disco Party Theme

Tarzan Party Theme

Couch Potato Party Theme

Rock Around The Clock Party Theme

Western Party Theme

All these themes are here:

http://www.partypop.com/Themes/party_the...

hope the party turns out great! have fun and good luck! =)