July 2015 - As You Wish Events

Introducing today’s guest blogger, the talented Laura Sherson. Laura is currently studying event management at Uni and is also our intern here at As You Wish Events Ltd. With all the experience she has been gaining this year we felt that it was time to add blogging to the list.

A celebration is a great time to bring people together and to have good food, good décor and good company. The week before a university starts back is often filled with parties and celebrations. These are often thrown by the universities, the student bars and the students. This time is called O (Orientation) week and Re-O (Re-orientation) week, the parties surrounding this celebration period are often themed parties, here are some inspiration photos for a few of our favourite theme idea’s for next week’s Re-O week parties.

Hawaiian/Island theme party

As seen on: Parties for Pennies

Pirate theme party

As seen on: My Kaotic Kitchen

Superhero theme party

As seen on: 9gag.com

Mexican theme party

As seen on: Lee Owens Design

Have fun with your Re-O week parties, send us in any photos from your themed parties.

There’s some great ideas here, I hope you are inspired for your next theme party.

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We have so much fun here when a client comes to us and says “Here’s our theme and here’s our budget – please weave your magic and surprise us.” Having such freedom often means we can go above and beyond to create an occasion that will exceed the expectations of the client. One such party is what we have featured here, in today’s blog.

The theme had been set as a ‘P’ Party. To be honest, when I first heard this was the theme I had a hard time getting my thoughts to move past the tacky ‘P’ parties I attended as a teenager (for some reason they were all the rage back then), but since the client had given me plenty of notice I was able to brainstorm and plan something quite elegant. I’ve always liked the idea of a Parisian themed party so I was quite excited to make this the basis for the décor. From there items starting with the letter ‘P’ just seemed to fit in without any effort.

Party Highlights:

The hanging parasols looked fabulous and made the atmosphere more cozy.
The striped backdrops made from rolls of wrapping paper brightened up the space and provided the perfect background for the Photo-booth and Perfume Bar.
I was pretty excited to find that the venue had a collection of Eiffel towers that we could use at no extra charge.
For each table of guests we had an ‘eye-spy’ style challenge. The prize for the person to found the most décor items starting with the letter ‘P’ won a packet of Pebbles.
My most favourite thing had to be the Perfume Bar. Not only did it start with the letter ‘P’, it was also the party favour for the guests.

We hope you enjoy looking at the photos as much as we enjoyed creating it.