Party Planning Technique - The Surprise

The element of surprise is something that is hard to achieve in a party nowadays. It seems that everything’s already been done, and if it hasn’t somebody probably blabbers and lets the whole surprise out two days before the party.

Watching movie scenes with surprise parties makes the activity look so easy. It’s as if the whole world conspires to keep the surprise a surprise, and make the look on the celebrant’s eyes something to remember forever. Well, it is never that easy and some people just can’t keep their mouth shut.

To help with the Surprise party planning, here are a few tips to guide and enlighten all those party planners through all the corners of planning a surprise party.

- The surprise element can be heightened by the presence of long lost friends, friends from college, from high school, cousins, close neighbors, parents, everyone you can think of. The mere presence of all these people will surely embed that beautiful surprised smile on the celebrant’s face.

- Ask all those invited, two weeks before the day, and don’t do this through a written note. Ask the people personally or on the phone, this way there’ll be no evidence. It’ll also help to ask in a bit of a menacing tone, as a sort of warning to keep quiet.

- Start thinking about the entertainment that you’d want to use. For a grown-up, it’ll probably be best if you hire some sort of live entertainment, something like a band. It’ll be a bit heavy on the pockets but it’ll surely raise the surprise effect. For children, a couple of well placed bubble machines and maybe a little petting zoo would do the trick.

- Stage a 3 hour trip to the store or the park so that the people left in the house could have time to prepare and decorate.

- Use food that is easy to prepare so that 3 hours would be enough to have the place decorated and the food ready.

- The lights don’t necessarily have to be off. The surprise would be just as effective from the lawn as it will be from inside the house.

- Inform the celebrant of a different celebration, like a dinner or a movie, so that he doesn’t get suspicious of the lack of preparation.

- Finally, wait until the last moment to tell the kids involved, daughters or children invited, so they don’t get too excited and spoil the secret.