Welcome to Party Tips

Celebration Hostess Gifts

You can bring a hostess gift anytime you are invited to someone's house, no matter what the celebration. However, if you are involved in food preparation--bringing food as a side dish for the party--it is not necessary to bring a hostess gift.

Celebration Herbal Fires

Looking for a way to make your celebration memorable and warm? Winter anniversary celebrations will be extra festive when you build a fragrant fire. Tie dried stalks of sage, rosemary or poppy to lengths of fatwood and use the bundle to start your fire. Your guest of honor will feel that much more special in such a thoughtful, cozy atmosphere!

Milestone Birthday Invitations Photo Puzzle

Milestone birthday invitations need a fun twist. Enlarge a funny photo of the guest of honor. Cut it into pieces and include a piece with each birthday party invitation. Have guests reassemble the photo at the birthday party. You can even include the photo puzzle in a birthday memory book.

Theme Party Decorations: Place Cards

Use place cards that fit into your theme party decorations for a sit down dinner. If you separate couples, your guests socialize more and get to know each other better.

Online Memory Books

High school graduation gift ideas become easy when you consider online memory books. The best graduation gifts are those given by loving family and friends. Graduates are thrilled by online memory books filled with pictures and comments from their family and friends. It can be easy and fun. Guests use the Internet to contribute photos and good wishes to the graduate´s memory book. After everyone contributes, a beautiful book that will be treasured for a lifetime is printed.

Theme Party Decorations & Lights

Teenage birthday party ideas should involve colorful lighting. Planning parties is easy when you use lots of colored light bulbs that add atmosphere. Besides strings of colorful lights for theme party decorations, replace some bulbs in table lamps with colored ones.

Hiring Party Help

Planning parties often involves hiring party help in the kitchen. Your workers should arrive at least an hour before the party. Show them where supplies are. Whether it´s a golden anniversary celebration or a simple birthday party, let them know what their prime responsibilities are. Hiring help will make your celebration go smoothly and reduce your stress.

Planning Women´s Parties

Planning women´s parties often involves searching for a theme. Once you choose a theme, theme party decorations, party theme foods and party gifts fall into place. Your best friend is retiring? Retirement gift ideas can be found at celebrateahero.com.

Theme Party Decorations & Candles

Need some anniversary party ideas? Candles fit right in with theme party decorations. Place several together to make a striking arrangement that will complement anniversary pictures. Place heavily scented candles in a bathroom or sitting area, not around food. Trim wicks to ¼ to prevent uneven burning. Light candles 15 minutes before the celebration.

Personalized Wedding Gifts

Wedding party ideas must include thank you cards. Wedding gifts should be acknowledged within two weeks after returning from the honeymoon. Personalized wedding gifts require special attention. Gifts arriving in advance of the wedding, should be responded to immediately, so that an extended period of time does not pass between receiving the gift and its thank you.

Theme Party Decorations & Holidays

Holiday party ideas go hand in hand with theme party decorations. Add charm and warmth with personal touches. Tie a sprig of holly to the base of each guest's water glass at a Christmas party. Put a red carnation at each Valentine's party place setting. Tiny pumpkins can dress up each place setting for Halloween.