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80's Party Ideas

Next month I'm throwing an 80's theme bday party for DH. I've never been to one but I am very excited about it.  I've seen suggestions for this theme on this board before so I thought you all might be able to help me out.   I have a few ideas such as getting old toys from SIL and using old music/movie posters as decorations.  I think I'm going to add something to the invitations that say costumes are welcome but not expected since some people might not like to dress up.  

Do you guys have any other ideas for things that might make it a little more memorable?  (Such as foods to serve, decor, cute invitation wording, etc)  Thanks!

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Re: 80's Party Ideas

  • You could make a cake to look like a rubik's cube.

    Set out pop rocks on the cake table, along with real rubiks cubes.

    I am throwing a 90s party tomorrow and I've renamed all my food to reflect something from the 90s (like Savage Garden Salad).  I even made tags to label everything.  So you could do something like that.  Or even cook things from that time.  Here is a good place to start.

    Go for color in your decor.  Neon colors, pink, purple... tie dye!  I like the poster idea.  Do NOT worry about matching

    Make a Cds with all 80s music to be played throughout

    If it's inside, you may even want to play an popular 80s movie in the background.

    Or you could play an 80s trivia game even

    You could pass out slap bracelets as favors.

    If you have a Polaroid camera, you could pull that out too!

    Have fun!!

     

     

  • Plenty of good 80's music is a must.
  • I had an 80's party for my 30th birthday back in September. It was a joined 30th with 2 other friends, so we had a much bigger budget. We rented a party room, had and DJ and brought in all our own alcohol. Here is my blog about it. http://totallytolers.blogspot.com/search/label/30th%20Birthday%20Party
  • Awesome, thanks for sharing!
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  • I threw an 80's party last year for my husband's birthday and we used tinyprints.com for the invites and favor tags. You can find them under the grown-ups section. They turned out great and I love using tinyprints because of their great quality! Good luck!
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