How to Plan a 40th Birthday Party on a Budget
- 1). Send invitations to your guests two to three weeks before the 40th birthday party. Make photocopies of a picture of the guest of honor. Use wavy cutting scissors to cut around the photocopies. Use white glue or a glue stick to affix the cut photo on the front of the blank invitation cards. Embellish around the photocopy with rubber stamp images. Add catchy wording to the front, something like "Lordy, Lordy, look whose turning 40!" Put the party specifics inside the invitation.
- 2). Decorate the 40th birthday party area using colorful balloons and inexpensive crepe-paper streamers taped to the walls and gathered at the center of the room ceiling. Hand cut out the number "40" from cardboard or paper. Add glitter to the cutouts and glue more photos to stiff paper or cardboard. Hang these from the ceiling, place them on tables, and put some on the walls, if possible. The photos should be of various sizes and different times in the guest of honor's life to add interest to the decorations.
- 3). Ask your guests to bring a potluck item or a favorite dish of the guest of honor. You can request finger food, munchies, appetizers or desserts instead of dinner.
- 4). Purchase a variety of glass-bottled drinks, beer, soda, teas and wine coolers. Design a 'new' label for the bottles using color photocopies of the guest of honor and wording like "commemorating so and so's 40th birthday" and the birthday date or party date. Glue the new labels on top of the original ones, but expose the type of drink it is for your guests. These 'special label' drinks will also be your personalized favors for your guests.
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