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Top 5 Greatest Party Themes

2021-09-01

Here is a necessary collection of party themes and tips to help inspire ideas for your next gathering. Because nothing says “I have a vibrant, interesting personality” like forcing 50 strangers to wear the same cheap plastic accessories.

A theme is an easy way to elevate your party game from “depressing room full of people staring at their phones” to “themed, depressing room full of people staring at their phones.” It gives everyone a fantastic excuse to temporarily shed their pathetic real-world existence, put on a terrible costume, and act a little differently—usually by drinking until they forget the costume entirely.

Themed parties generally ensure a better turn-out, mostly because people are desperately looking for a reason to leave the house. But the entire effort hinges on your execution.

In this blog post, we’ll feature exactly how to execute these themes perfectly, ensuring your adult event avoids the crushing humiliation of looking like a cheap children’s birthday party.

Quote of the day:

A drunk mans words are a sober mans thoughts.

1. Neon: Low Effort, Maximum Irresponsibility

At number one, we have the best theme by far. It offers everything and absolutely nothing simultaneously, which is perfect. It allows expectations to go wild and gives you the sacred freedom to make the party about literally whatever you like.

Just slap some glow-in-the-dark items and toxic neon paint around, and you can achieve any vibe you desire, from a psychedelic festival to an Alien Sci-fi rave. Dump cheap blacklights in every corner of the venue. Paint on the walls to create your desired atmosphere. Don’t worry about the mess; if you’re hosting this theme, you’ve already accepted a certain level of chaos and property damage. The more glowing crap you have, the more you successfully conceal the misery of the room.

Shit you’ll need:

-   Neon paint to spread around -   Blacklights -   Glow in the dark stuff -   Glow sticks -   Glow in the dark clothing -   Glow in the dark pens -   Rave music

2. Disco: Crowd pleaser

You simply cannot beat this theme for its reliable ability to attract women, and where the women go, the desperate men follow. This makes it our second favorite theme for cynical social engineering.

For this theme to work, you must commit to the sound. Disco is all about the music and the aggressive, self-conscious dancing. Find a DJ—preferably one with vinyl or CDJs, but a glorified laptop jockey will do, playing funky music that forces people to move against their will. This can be restrictive, but if you have multiple rooms, you can play a variation of music to appease the masses.

Shit you’ll need:

-   Glitter fucking everywhere -   Disco Ball -   Colourful lights -   A punch bowl with a ladle that will probably spiked -   Bathtub of colourful ball pit balls -   Balloons & anything sparkly (the official aesthetic of low standards) -   Checkered dance floor -   Dangling chrome decor & fake vinyl records -   Lasers/Strobes to give someone a seizure -   An embarrassingly vocal DJ

3. Toga: The nudist’s fantasy

An ultimate party theme that gets everyone unified in the sacred toga costume. Make way for games, brotherly love and probably a bit of accidental nudity at some point.

Stick to the classic colours: white, gold, and the occasional, sparingly used royal purple. Rule number one is knowing how to keep your bedsheet on. After that, the focus is pure, unadulterated tribalism: lots of “toga” chanting, team games, eating grapes and drinking from chalices until you weep.

Shit you’ll need:

-   Award laurel wreath crowns -   Greco-Roman invitations for pretentious flair -   Toga costume (the uniform of the drunk and unified) -   Roman pillars -   Fake ivy -   Lots of white sheets -   A throne -   Grapes for snacks -   Chariot races -   Tug of war -   Oiled up wrestling? -   Chalices

4. Jungle: Adults playing dress-up

A fun and easy theme, usually done on a low budget because people will do most of the work for you by painting their own faces to look like morons. It can be a low-effort affair or turned into a full-on tropical paradise.

The Jungle theme’s main requirement is that guests must either dress up or have questionable body painting to look like jungle animals. The focus must be on decoration, mostly to distract from the costumes. Use tissue paper, plastic plants, and cheap inflatables, everything possible to create the illusion of a damp, claustrophobic forest.

Shit you’ll need:

-   Forest-like wall decorations -   Atmospheric sound effects in the halls to scare your neighbours -   Dangling tissue paper as tree vines -   Plants -   Inflatable nature -   Coconuts for some headcase to try and smash -   Fake leaves -   Green balloons -   Animal masks or face paint

5. Masquerade: Reduced effort, increased sophistication

For those who crave a higher class event but lack the funds for one, the Masquerade party offers a smarter theme where people can ironically dress to impress.

This “classy affair” focuses on the social aspect and the up-market ambience that you’ll pretend to maintain for the first 45 minutes. The pace will inevitably descends into whatever trash fire you desire after the heavy alcohol percentage of the cocktails kicks in. At the very least, the masks can provide anonymity for bad choices.

Shit you’ll need:

-   Cocktails -   Champagne/Prosecco -   Drapes -   Plants -   Gold and silver decorations -   Food and canapés -   Masks (the only essential accessory) -   Suits and dresses

Additional Themes

More theme ideas:

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