What do I do about this party?

Question

I really want to have a candy themed sweet sixteen...

I really want to have a big party but the only problem is that I have to do the party on a budget... I could really really use some help!

With...

1) Decor

2) Food (besides candy!)

3) Ways of handing out invites

4) Favors

Your opinion is greatley appreciated!!!

Answer 1

For handing out invites, you could go to a local custom candy store and get candies or giant cookies that have the invitation information printed onto them with your pic or something.

Answer 2

For the invitations you could bake cookies, dip pretzels in chocolate, or put  a little candy into a clear cellophane bag and tie with a ribbon.  write the party info out and cut into little tags and tie onto bags. You could also just tie tags and ribbon onto suckers. Cute for the candy theme. For the food little sandwiches are easy and cute. Just use a nice dinner roll and fill with either hot or cold fillings,creamed chicken,ham and cheese,chicken salad or little hamburgers. Pez dispensers and candy would be really cute to give as favors. I hope you have a great birthday! (Don't forget lots of brightly colored balloons)

Answer 3

Random Ideas:

* Cover the table you are eating at with Skittles, M&Ms, etc.

*Make the colour scheme light pink and a few other light/baby colours.

*Try to get hold of a candyfloss machine and/or a gumball machine to have at the party.

*For the invites you could unwrap a Cadbury chocolate bar and make your own label to go on it. On the back have all the party info, and just decorate the front however you want.

*You could make some candy apples.

*You could have chocolate fondue or a chocolate fountain with different fruits/marshmallows to dip in.

*You could do a Candy & Spoon Race. Play it just like an egg & spoon race but with maybe a gobstopper or something.

Hope I have helped! =D

Answer 4

Hmmm! Sounds YUMMY!

Okay, a couple of ideas for the decor:  if you have time, you might contact a local grocery store to see if they have any displays coming down that you can have.  If not, do you have a Card & Party outlet store or something similar?  They sometimes have product-related decorations.

Food ... You'll want to keep it simple so that nobody is over-worked and you get to enjoy the party.  If you want to do something more than just snacks, how about a couple of 5' sub sandwiches?  or make a batch of sloppy joes, have some chips and raw veggies, and your favorite dessert

Handing out invites... I'm clueless here

Favors ... will your budget withstand personalized candy bar  wrappers?  My cousin's graduation favor was a hershey bar, and over the regular wrapper they slipped a personalized wrapper with her picture and a little blurb like "Suzie's Graduation  June 15, 2008"..  I'm including one link but there are actually a lot of them out there.  Just search on Candy Bar Wrapper.

I wish you a very happy birthday!

Answer 5

This is going to sound lame but I find amazing decorations, gift bags, ribbons and bows @ the Dollar store!  I hosted a dinner party and had gift bags from the dollar store that I filled with scented candles and oils that I bought at the dollar store.  I bought chocolate nuggets to put in the bags as well and I received lots of compliments.  For the invites, you should look into Evite.  I've never sent them out myself but I did received one & it seems pretty useful.  For food I would do finger foods, like stuffed mushrooms, pizza rolls, mini chimichangas, strawberries stuffed with a cheese cake mix.