Fancy Dress Party

When it comes to fancy dress..... I'm a massive fan. This year alone I have dressed up as .... A cowgirl, Alice in Wonderland, a Barbie doll, and a ladybird and its only May... but I know there will be lots more fancy dress events to come. Although at first you do feel slightly awkward dressed up it's actually a lot of fun to see your friends and even family dressed up. You can all laugh at each other. One of the funniest moments was going to a family fancy dress party to find my dad and my uncle dressed as Batman and Robin ... it was a very Only Fools and Horses moment. Fancy dress doesn't always mean that you have to go to a great deal of ...  Read the complete review

Fancy dress parties - great fun in the preparation and on the day. Definitely my favourite sort of party, please bear with me while I enthuse. The first point to make is that themes really do work - just announce a fancy dress party and people may struggle, but a good theme will give them focus. Think carefully about your theme - it should be something that everyone will know about and that anyone could feasibly make a costume for - thus a "Come as DR Who" party is fraught with trouble, there not being many doctors, and no women, but "Come as a time lord" or a general "Doctor Who' party works quite nicely. Suite your theme to your ...  Read the complete review

Well I used this for my birthday party, but you could use it whenever too. I was skint. So I decided to have a bad taste party. This meant that we all went to the charity shops and got the worst possible clothes we could find. I made sure that my mates knew it was optional because I knew that some would take to the idea more than others. The most expensive thing was going to the hairdressers to get my hair crimped to go with my lovely 1980's garb. I was really surprised how well the night went, in fact it was one of my favourite nights ever. All we did to decorate the place was to get some cheap paper and bingo markers from the ...  Read the complete review

If you are planning to have a fancy dress party, then my tip is to set a theme for the party. This can really set peoples imagination going, and is often a lot more fun rather than just turning up in any old fancy dress. My parents and their gang of friends have had many themed parties that have been a great sucess, mainly because of the creativity the themes allowed. They have had "Four weddings and a christening", "what were you wearing when the ship went down" (this was around the time titanic the movie came out but was thought a bit morbid to have a party based on a real life tragedy, similarly four weddings and a christening rather than ...  Read the complete review

Ok, picture James Bond, Pussy Galore, Jaws and Miss Moneypenny walking round your home! This is the reality that I was faced with last year when we decided to host a James Bond themed party for the Millenium, ok it was a special year, but we are all in agreement that we would do it again as it was one of the most fun entertaining evenings I have ever had. If you are considering organising any fancy dress party there are a couple of things to take into consideration. Firslty, there are people who don't actually like dressing up, it will put them off coming and if many of your friends are like this you could end up standing there in your costume alone. so, ...  Read the complete review