21st Party

This July I turned 21, and so we had a big party to celebrate. 

After working for a local catering company for 6 years I have seen my fair share of parties, some spectacular and some not so much. I with this in mind I thought it necessary to have some sort of theme and focus points.  With the party being held on the farmyard in one of the potatoes stores I thought it may be appropriate to bring this into my theme, however I still want there to be a glamorous aspect to it.

With this in mind I managed to get my hands on a number of pallets (not hard on a potato farm!) I had them drilled together a piece of ply board placed onto, sprayed white and there you go, one champagne bar!

And it just happened to be that the gaps in the pallets were the perfect size to store the empty champagne bottles.

As the yard is so large I wanted to make sure that the guests didn’t feel lost in such a big area, and that they were meant to be there. So I decided to hire some large trees, lucky I managed to bargain with a local garden center to hire them for the weekend, otherwise it could have been pricey! And re-planted them is some of our own apple bins, making sure the name was on show. Apple and potato boxes seemed to prove very useful for the party as good barriers and wall to hide anything not wanting to be seen.

 

Keeping to the potato theme that was emerging I had some potato chitting trays adapted so that canapé could be served of them, I told the caterers ‘Bigger the better!’

 

Leaving the potatoes outside, inside the barn was were the glamorous bit kicked in, as it was a black tie party. We had the barn marquee lined with lighting above the dance floor, which was a great touch.  The main feature as you walked in was the white circular bar, which was well used that night!

The colouring through out the party was black and white; the black table clothes white chairs and black and white dance floor.

As it was a party not a wedding I wanted to stay away from using flowers, instead I had moss-covered candelabras and covered vases on the tables, and there were spotlights onto them, which added hugely to the affect.

 

Have to say planning this party was almost as much fun as the actual night itself, bring on 30!