Wednesday, 1 May 2013

How To Plan A Great Graduation Party With Low Budget

By Cynthia Michael


Graduation party is a wonderful time celebrating teenage boys and girls graduating from high school or young adults from college. There are many things one can do to make the party more memorable. One of the things that can impress your guests is glow in the dark graduation party invitation. You can even customize the invitation with the graduate's picture in it. There are graduation custom banners to choose from. Other glow and light up products that can add fun to the occasion are light up glow sunglasses, LED flashing noise-making clappers, LED batons and light up balloons.

The traditional ways of sending out graduation invitation is not cheap if you are sending to a lot of guests. What people usually do is they make customized photo cards at Wal-Mart or Walgreens and send them out. That can get expensive if you need to send to couple hundreds of people. Thanks to the new emailing software such as Evite, you can send out customized invitations to unlimited number of guests. You can customize your invitation using their templates. And best of all, it's free. Glow With Us carries party products will light up many parties and events!

One of the tips of controlling costs is to have a party together with a few graduating friends. It's likely that you will be inviting some of the same people. By joining forces, you can costs on renting the place, buying party supplies and decorations, hiring DJ, ordering food and drinks, etc. And you will probably have more help from family members and friends.

For light up balloons, they can be custom imprinted with graduation logo. To blow them up, simply take them to places such as party city or dollar store where they have helium machines. Light up balloons come with colored balloons with white LED lights and white balloons with colored LED lights. Generally speaking, the white balloons with colored LED lights will give a more realistic color presentation as the colors are lit by LED lights, whereas in the case of colored balloons with white LED lights, the colors are by the paint color of the balloons. Party store such as Glow With Us carries a wide selections of party products so check them out including the LED balloons.

Another trend nowadays with graduation party is the "Open House" type which the guests can come and go as they wish so they can go through a few parties in a day. These are generally less formal parties and work great with busy schedule. If you are planning one of these you should note on the invitation that the type is "Open House" and might also need to explain what that means as many older folks might not know what it means by an Open House Graduation party.

Nowadays with emailing and texting so widespread, a formal announcement of a graduation party is probably the most appropriate with the traditional mailing method. After the announcement, the invitation will be sent to the guests. The announcement should be sent at least 5-6 weeks before the actual date of the party and invitation should be sent 2-3 weeks before the party.

On the invitation you should list what will be served for party so the guests will know if they need to eat before coming to the party. And obviously coordinate your party starting time with that. Also if you have a lot of programs for the party, you should list the programs and approximate time so the guests will have an idea what's going on at the party.




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