Party Planning Essentials

Music, Music, Music

It is absolutely worth it to plan your Party music ahead of time. Start things out mellow, but make sure the songs get a little bit faster and more fun through the night. Burn the songs onto a CD and don't be surprised if your guests want a copy at the end of the night!

DIY Photo Booth

Everyone loves a photo booth, so set up your own! You'll need some kind of stand, an iPad, and an app like Snap Booth. Roll out a red carpet, grab some party supplies and continue reading for some fun game ideas. Set up a fun background (a colored sheet or cool wallpaper works just fine) and provide plenty of props, and guests can entertain themselves all night.

Don’t Forget The Balloons

Nothing says Instagram like letter balloons, so pick a word that describes the occasion and grab some for your get-together. They're perfect for pictures especially when you up the ante with the paperwear. White paper plates are boring. Browse our huge selection of adult themes for parties.

How To Please Your Social Media Friends

Create a Party Hashtag

The best party about a party - except for being there, duh - is reliving the fun the next day. Make it easy for your guests by providing a hashtag for them to use when they post photos. Everyone there (and those who missed out) can scroll through the next day to see what they missed. #MyPleasureBoxParty is a good one to try out.

Serve Your Drinks *IN* Fruit

What's more Instagrammable than turning tropical fruits into cocktail glasses? Whether it's pineapple skin or watermelon rind, no one will be able to resist snapping a few shots.

Having A Sit Down Party?

If your guests are spending a good deal of time at the table, you better make it photo-worthy. Setup some fake snow and a little village on top of the table and string up lights under the table to give a floating effect. Mood lighting is a key ingredient in every affair, so string up your Christmas lights to everything that's not moving!

How To Please Your Party Animals

Perfect Your Punch

No not your left hook or uppercut but your jungle juice, whatever you want to call it here is the perfect recipe. Fill a punch bowl with a jug of inexpensive red wine, toss in a small jar of maraschino cherries including the juice, and add a half dozen each of lime, lemon, and orange wedges. Steep the mixture in the fridge for eight hours for an easy, festive punch to serve.

Forget The Food

A fun theme idea for an adult birthday party or you just want to have fun throwing a party. Serve only desserts, like a banana-split bar including ice cream, hot fudge, and lots of homemade whipped cream. Toss this together with a toga party and you will have large groups of sugared up adults ready to have some fun. Don’t forget this is an adult party so don’t forget the perfect punch.

Roll In The Keg

Why not throw an updated kegger? Check with your local liquor stores to find out what sorts of imported brands are available in keg size, or order from a little-known local brewery, which can be just as exotic.

How To Please Your Friends That Need Party Games

Name That Song

This is my all-time favorite game ever! It may not be at the top of everyone’s adult party games list, but it’s on mine! You play a song, you try to guess songs, and you earn points! I love music, so it makes total sense that this is one of those fun adult games I play often! It’s great for team building also if you are interested in that.

Supplies Needed:

A CD or music playlist with songs, and a list of each song’s name and artist. If you’re having a themed party, pick out songs that go along with your theme. You can check out my black and white party for an example of song list. Or here’s a great Christmas song list you can use as well!

Start The Game:

Split your group into two teams. Teams will be playing head to head in this game the entire time.

Play your first song from your playlist. When you play a song, teams will try to be the first one to shout out the name and artist of the song. The first team to guess the song and artist will earn points for their team.

Points can be split across the two teams for each song if one team guesses the song first and one song guesses the artist.  You can also give additional points if the song is from a movie, Broadway musical, etc. but it’s completely up to you. I also recommend you have a helper to watch and see who guesses things first so you have a second opinion if fights break out. HA!

Play each song on your playlist and let teams battle to name the tune first until the playlist is over.

How To Win:

Keep track of the points throughout the game. We typically play one point for the name of the song, two points for the artist, and one point for the original movie or Broadway musical the song is associated with. The team with the most points at the end of the playlist wins!

Reverse Charades

You can actually buy this game and use the cards, but we also make up our own based on the party theme. This game is one we played first at what I recall as the funniest adult game night ever! I’d never even heard of this idea before and now it’s always on our list of fun party games when we’re planning an event! The rules are simple – roles are reversed in charades – but it’s hilarious to see what people come up with!

Supplies Needed:

Cards with random words on them that people can act out. You could use the cards from a game like Adult Charades Game, Guestures, Taboo, Pictionary, etc. Timer

How To Play:

Split your group into  teams of 4-6 people. This game works best with a smaller group of people (like 8-12) but if you have more, just make more teams.

Choose one team to go first. Have that team select one person from their team to be the guesser for the round. Everyone else on the team will be acting out the clues TOGETHER.

Set the timer for two minutes (or however long you choose) and tell the acting team members to go. The team will pick up their first card and as a team try to act out the word on the card to get the one guesser to guess the word on the card. No talking allowed, even amongst the group of people acting out the word.

If you want, you can tell teams that they can have one “pass” during each round. If they can’t get the guesser to guess the word on the card, they can pass that card and move on to the next.

Once the guesser has guessed the word on the card, the team will pick up another card and repeat. Continue going through cards until the timer has run out.

Switch teams. Have the other team pick one guesser and do the same thing.

How To Win:

Continue the game until everyone on each team has had a chance to be the guesser or for a predetermined number of rounds. The team with the most correctly guessed cards is the winner.

The Party Is Never Over

Give your guests something to remember your awesome party, a small trinket to continue with the winter theme like a snowflake, a mardi gras mask with the date of the party inside to remind them of the day your party took place. As always if you have ideas or something to add please feel free to share and comment using the links provided below.