The times when the main decoration of the table was the TV and Olivier salad were gone. Red caviar and champagne can be bought in any roadside store, in import down jackets all are adorned, including homeless people, and Marlboro cigarettes are not only not uncommon, but the fashion for smoking generally passes. Well, here's how to celebrate birthdays in such conditions, tell me graciously? How to please, entertain and surprise guests?
As the heroine of the Soviet comedy Verochka said: "There is nothing impossible for a person with intelligence." The traditional festivities with mayonnaise salads have been replaced by the fashion of organizing themed birthday parties and parties.
The idea, in general, is simple and lies on the surface: a theme is selected, and the whole holiday takes place in its mainstream. The room is decorated, dishes are prepared, dresses, music, games and competitions are selected - all in accordance with the chosen orientation.
For example, if the theme is “Pioneer”, then everyone wears red ties, blows the horn and beat the drums, eats baked potatoes and sings “Fly with bonfires”. But it is more suitable for children. An adult themed birthday can be planned in a gangster style - and then everyone dresses in black and white clothes and hats, drinks whiskey and plays poker. Directions can be very different: Greek, sea, pirate, space, flower. A theme birthday in nature can be held in the Hawaiian style, especially if you have the sea and the beach as nature. However, if the sea did not work out and you were ordered to be born in winter and in the middle lane, it does not matter - we will arrange a Hawaiian party at home or somewhere else!
Of course, themed birthday parties in the style of this carefree tropical island are best spent for lack of sea by the pool. By the way, many people do so: rent a holiday home or a cottage with an artificial reservoir "on board". If you are one of these lucky ones, then warn guests to take swimwear, make colored cocktails and multi-colored Hawaiian beads (lei), hang a banner with the inscription "Aloha!", And voila - you are the host of a Hawaiian party!
If you do not have such opportunities, but want to give guests a piece of tropical paradise, then you will need to more carefully prepare for the holiday. And what can I say, not so often we arrange themed birthday parties, and you can puff once or twice.
So that everything goes as it should and does not resemble a children's matinee in the older group, try to pay attention to the little things.
Firstly, the room should be decorated accordingly: bamboo curtains on the doors, large palm trees in pots (if you don’t have your own, take it from your neighbors), posters with seascapes and beauties in the style of “Malibu Rescuers”, bright napkins on the table, shells and pebbles on all kinds of surfaces.
Secondly - the clothes of the guests. Warn everyone to wear colorful shorts and Hawaiian shirts or just summer t-shirts. As a replacement shoe, shales will be just right. Your task is to prepare for each guest a leu (a national decoration on the neck). It can be made of paper or artificial flowers strung on a thick thread or rope. These decorations will need to be handed out at the entrance, while uttering the traditional greeting: “Aloha!”
On the table you need to put dishes with fruits, seafood salads, meat dishes from fried pork, fruit desserts and jelly. Juices are perfect as drinks, and alcohol in this case is best served as a part of cocktails, decorated with colored tubes, umbrellas and pieces of fruit, mounted on the edge of the glass.
Themed birthdays cannot do without traditional contests and games. The most famous Hawaiian game is passing under a taut rope, the level of which gradually decreases.
Merry music in any style, excellent mood and laughter of the guests - that’s all you need to add in order for the Hawaiian-style celebration to be a success.