Decor for the perfect summer party
For summer holiday decor, choose a bright and festive design; don’t be afraid of bold colors and unusual solutions. We offer a tropical themed party with large palm leaves, pineapples of all types and colors (this summer's fashion trend!) and orchids. Add figures of flamingos and wild animals, and a real jungle in your garden is ready!
Balloons, streamers, garlands and flags are necessary to create a festive atmosphere. All serving items and table textiles should echo the chosen theme in colors and patterns in order to harmoniously complement the tropical mood.
Don't forget about the light! Place glowing garlands on the floor and hang them freely on the wall or tree branches. They will provide soft light without disturbing the magic of a summer evening. Another option for lighting the perfect summer party is colorful lanterns. They not only look bright and colorful, but also perfectly perform their main function, creating a pleasant background light.
DIY New Year's decor
Here are ten simple stylish ideas for decorating an apartment or house on New Year's Eve
Giant confetti on the walls
Decorate the walls of your home with festive confetti. To do this, you just need to cut out circles of different sizes from colored paper and stick them to the wall with double-sided tape.
What to do at a party?
Basic plans for a summer party: have fun, enjoy food, drinks and music and have a good time with friends. It is not necessary to set a large table - for a successful party it will be enough to prepare several simple dishes that can be quickly served for a large number of guests.
- Gazpacho or okroshka
- Sliced cheese with grapes
- Sandwiches and small sandwiches
- Green salads from fresh vegetables
- Chips, nuts, olives and other snacks.
And, of course, sweets! On a hot summer evening, no one will be hungry for ice cream or cold desserts. Don't forget about seasonal berries! Strawberries, strawberries and raspberries from your garden will be a wonderful addition to any table.
Beverages. Make sure that all guests get their favorite drinks and prepare a table with different types of drinks to suit every taste: wines, beers, spirits, soft drinks, juices and, of course, enough mineral water. On hot days, it's especially important to keep drinks chilled, so freeze plenty of ice ahead of time and place it in bowls between bottles.
Shiny garland of macaroni bows
As you may have guessed from the name, for this craft we will need a pack of bow pasta, gold thread, PVA glue, a tassel and glitter.
How to do
- First, coat the pasta with glue and sprinkle it with glitter.
- Let dry and repeat on the back side.
- Once the glitter bows are completely dry, simply tie them to thick thread or rope.
Read also: How to make a composition with fir branches, candles and pine cones
New Year's cocktail stirrers with tinsel
Any cocktail with such a beautiful shiny stirrer will look festive and even taste better to drink. To make stirrers you will need wooden sticks and pieces of tinsel that need to be glued to the ends. New Year's stirrers are ready!
Even more ideas for decorating an apartment for the New Year are here
Seat cards
In order to create original place cards for guests at the New Year's table, you can easily decorate them with Christmas tree branches.
Garland of stars
This garland is very easy to make. Cut out stars from metallic or glitter paper and glue to the string. Hang from the ceiling and you're ready for your New Year's Eve party.
New Year's hats
Party hats are a simple accessory that can create a cheerful mood in a matter of seconds. And you don’t have to wear hats only for birthdays. They would also be appropriate at a New Year's party. The main thing is to add New Year's decor to them.
Making caps couldn’t be easier—you just need to roll a circle of cardboard into a cone and secure it with glue. And for decoration, tinsel, confetti, foil are suitable - anything bright and shiny. Then everything depends only on your imagination.
Balloons with confetti and fortunes
Buy clear balloons, fill them with confetti, glitter and include a note with New Year's predictions. Inflate, secure with a thread and tie the balloons throughout the room (you can glue the strings to the ceiling with double-sided tape). It will make an excellent decor for parties and a game of predictions. After all, at the end of the holiday, each guest will be able to choose a balloon, burst it and find out what surprise awaits him in the new year.
Champagne bottles with glitter
Add sparkle to your champagne bottles, it will make them festive, and pouring champagne on New Year's Eve will be much more enjoyable.
To create such a decor, you can use a can of glitter paint or use a brush to apply glue to the bottle and “dump” it in glitter.
Vase with Christmas balls and pine cones
Any transparent containers: jars, vases can be filled with pine cones, small Christmas balls, tinsel. And if you add a mini ice ribbon you will get a beautiful holiday decor.
LED disco ball
Believe me, this is a very important element for a holiday disco. And although it is difficult to make a similar ball with your own hands, we strongly recommend purchasing it for home parties. A disco ball will easily create a club atmosphere, and in combination with cool music, not a single guest will definitely sit still and start dancing.
An excellent option for a compact, inexpensive, but cool disco ball - Led Magic Ball
Author: Marina Verkhovtseva
Hello! I'm Marina, author of articles on the holiday portal RedMonkey. I really love the theme of weddings, parties, birthdays, and indeed any holidays. I am constantly looking for interesting ideas for a bright celebration and am happy to share them with you.
Garland with lights for the holiday
A simple solution, but how much beauty, grace, warmth and light it contains! Yes, it won’t cost you three kopecks, but it will remain with you for many years - years of joy and pleasure, pleasant moments and warm memories, wonderful meetings and wonderful gatherings with guests. However, if you really want a garland, but don’t want to spend money, you can rent such a thing, that’s not bad either.
How to make a garland with light bulbs for a party with your own hands - master class from Monsterscircus
Don't skimp on disposable tableware
Disposable glasses and plates are a lifesaver for the party host because they cut down on cleanup time after the party. And you shouldn't skimp on them. Buy enough dishes so that guests can throw them away when they get dirty.
Opt for bright cardboard cups and plates. Firstly, plastic cups look dull and sloppy - you’re having a party, not a drinking party in the entrance. Save pennies, but ruin the holiday atmosphere. Secondly, remember about the environment.
Make cocktails
Cheap alcohol is a bad idea, you'll realize that the next morning. Therefore, it is better to use high-quality alcohol sparingly. Soda, juices, and syrups are inexpensive, and mixing drinks will be an element of fun.
You can prepare cards with recipes or invite guests to get creative with additives (you shouldn’t mindlessly mix different types of alcohol). Place bets on long drinks, save shots for better times.
If you don’t want to fantasize, remember the existence of sangria, mulled wine, grog and punch, which will help save alcohol and provide everyone with delicious drinks.
To avoid standing at the stove the whole holiday, heating drinks that are served warm, pour them into the multicooker and turn on the heating mode. This way your mulled wine or grog will maintain its temperature, but will not boil.
Invitations
When composing the text of the invitation, use dude slang - let the guests get a feel for the theme in advance. Come up with stylish nicknames for your friends, remaking the name in the American style: Annie, Lucy, Alex. Write in light, friendly phrases without officialdom: “Hi, Pat! 17.17. We're hanging out at Frank's house. There will be a lot of stylish guys, jazz and US whiskey. We wait!".
You can design invitations in the form of a plate postcard, a saxophone, skirts for girls and ties for guys (bright, in the style of dudes) . An unexpected invitation to a party will be a mini-clip or song recorded on a CD. If you can see a lot of movie details in the decoration of the hall, you can make a poster or a ticket to the stylish past.
Tips for Summer Snacks
Now we move from drinks to food... Our first gourmet tip is quite simple, and it is used quite often:
Do something unexpected with basic ingredients for a special occasion. Below we see goat cheese on cucumbers, topped with lemon and pepper. What makes this recipe so special? Some beets add color to the goat cheese!
Goat cheese appetizer with beets
A similar recipe is the following gourmet idea, which reminds us to spruce up simple appetizers with an extra special ingredient or two. Who doesn't love popsicles?
What if you cut a little heart out of one popsicle and then add a dollop of cherry jam, whipped cream or apricot marmalade? So, ordinary ice cream becomes a gourmet treat.
Delicious popsicles in summer
Our next tip will also not leave you indifferent. Buy ready-made pastries, and then decorate them with fresh fruits or berries. For example, you can order several cupcakes from your favorite bakery and top them with any of the ingredients. Although, we admit that the dessert in the photo below looks completely homemade!
Angel cupcakes
Add light
Light can create an atmosphere worthy of the most magical party. There are a great many ways to decorate an apartment with light: a disco ball, garlands, candles, light music and even small light gadgets that are sold in passages. There are many places where you can now buy special light bulbs that are inserted into the socket you have at home and emit multi-colored moving beams.
Suits
The image of a dude is not as simple as it might seem at first glance. A lot of attention was paid to details: costumes for a dude-style party should be consistent, not tacky. As in decor, “parrotism” in clothing is more likely to be ridiculed, a caricature.
Dude, dude
Boldness in choosing clothes often resulted in loss of reputation, which was a disaster for women of that time. If stylish guys were considered simply hooligans, then the weaker sex was accused of debauchery. Therefore, the clothes of the girls walking in the company of dudes were not too revealing (on the verge, so to speak). What should a girl wear to a stylish party:
- bright dress to the knees or below . The waist is slightly high, and there is a wide ribbon with a bow at the waist. The hem is bell or fluffy, with a tulle petticoat. Hip-hugging dresses with a revealing neckline are appropriate - this option was considered more daring;
- a blouse “accidentally” unbuttoned with a couple of extra buttons . The skirt is fluffy or tight, boldly revealing the knees;
- In addition to typical women's clothing, stylish girls wore trouser suits - classic or sports . But this was decided mainly by residents of large cities, where society was less sensitive to youth quirks.
To highlight the image, you will need accessories and recognizable elements of the costume:
- tights, fishnet stockings;
- closed shoes with heels slightly higher than average (too high a heel interferes with active dancing);
- large bright beads, earrings, bracelets;
- hair support tape or plastic headband. On the side this accessory was decorated with a bow, a flower bud;
- trendy “cat” or square glasses with colored frames;
- gloves of any length, light openwork;
- a miniature handbag with a thin strap or clutch.
Women's hairstyles in the style of dudes are distinguished by reliable fixation, neat styling and smooth lines: a crown of the world, a fluffy ponytail, a babette, a high flight. The makeup is also neat - drawn eyebrows and arrows, bright shadows with clear boundaries, red, cherry or pink lipstick. The main thing is without negligence. Don't forget a bright manicure.
Dude
The male image is more impressive and clearly shocking. According to the recollections of contemporaries, the girls looked almost invisible against the background of dudes, the guys’ clothes were so provocative! It is not surprising that numerous poems, phrases, cartoons, etc. It was men who were fashionistas who were most often ridiculed. So, a dudes costume for a party consists of the following elements:
- bright shirt, plain or with a pattern;
- checkered jacket, double-breasted, a little big at the shoulders (jackets);
- narrow “pipe” trousers, also in plaid . Could be part of a suit or different in color from the jacket. The pipes are slightly short so that the sock can be seen from under the trouser leg;
- socks (socks) are bright, usually in harmony with a shirt or tie;
- herring tie (taek) is long, thin, tied in a small knot . Often with monkeys, saxophones, palm trees and other bright designs;
- suspenders in the color of other style accessories;
- pointed boots, with or without a high platform . To imitate a platform, the guys built up a layer of rubber, often white (shoes on a decoy). Shoes with a conversation - pointed toes, with a pattern of holes on the toe - were considered very fashionable.
On the head of a real dude there was always a shiny spinner, firmly fixed in place. If your hair is not long enough, put on a hat - dudes wore them too.
In addition to the stylish girl and the dude, the following can come to the party:
- vigilantes, Komsomol members “in uniform”;
- caricatures . Everything described above, but “too much,” is clearly exaggerated. A dress that is too short, trousers that are too tight, an unimaginable combination of all the shades of the rainbow in clothes;
- dudes from the outback, imitators and loaf girls . Regular 50s clothes, (sort of), but with some stylish accessories, often clumsily chosen;
- "early" dude . The image is comical in many ways: wide long trousers, a thin belt almost above the navel, a huge baggy jacket, a wide-brimmed hat, a wide flashy tie. A parody of the American “zoot suit”;
- a black marketeer who hides under the flaps of a long jacket a variety of ties, ribbons, suspenders and other accessories for sale.
All the clothes are easy to buy. But it will take time to think through the image and select the elements - let us know about the party a couple of weeks in advance. For forgetful guests, prepare buckle ties and beaded hairpins.
Retro party
We are not talking about a boring meeting with one glass of cocktail per evening and languid glances. A real retro party is a crazy party in the style of the 50s and 60s, when people knew how to have fun. Rock and roll, carelessness and optimism - you forget about your problems and dance until your legs give out or the lights go out.
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How much space do you need?
100 m² - so that there is room to dance the twist.
What to eat and drink
Light snacks, homemade lemonade and wine. Don't cook anything filling, otherwise it will be difficult to dance. Slice fruit, cheese, make canapés and order mini cakes, cake pops and berry muffins for your sweet table.
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How to arrange everything
Retro posters, black and white photographs, vintage items. If you have grandma's suitcases, a vintage chair or a floor lamp lying around in the attic, take it out. Decorate your walls with posters, photos and garlands from AliExpress. Set up a photo zone and remove everything unnecessary from the dance floor. Place a vinyl record player in the most visible place.
The ION Audio Mustang LP vinyl turntable is inspired by the iconic 1965 Ford Mustang.
Warn your friends in advance that you are planning a retro party: you need to dress accordingly. Let the girls come in bright dresses with fluffy petticoats, the guys in tight trousers, colored jackets and a bouffant like Elvis Presley.
What to listen to
Retro party is music on vinyl. Play records by Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones. ION Audio sells turntables at different prices and features. For example, the ION MAX LP player in a wooden case. It produces clear, noise-free sound and can be connected to speakers or a laptop to digitize recordings.
The ION Audio MAX LP turntable has two built-in stereo speakers with a power of 10 W. This volume is enough for a party for a small company
A more serious option is the professional vinyl turntable ION PRO 80. Features: automatic pickup control, silent belt drive system, sapphire-coated ceramic stylus and RCA output for connecting to a stereo system.
The ION Audio PRO80 produces the warm, deep sound of vinyl
ION Audio's retro-design vinyl players will truly brighten up your party: MUSTANG LP, MOTION and TRIO LP. They have built-in speakers, but if your company doesn't have enough noise, you can connect external ones.
How to have fun
The dances of the 1950s were rock and roll, boogie-woogie and the twist. The first two are paired; the twist can be danced alone. It's simple: make a movement with one foot, as if crushing a cigarette butt, and simply wave your arms in different directions.
