Better Graduation Party Ideas

Graduation party ideas are plentiful. Yet despite the plentiful nature of the ideas it does seem hard to decide on the ones you will use. I have struggled each time our children have graduated to decide which party ideas to use. I look back and realize the mistakes I made should have been avoided. I sometimes wish I had a chance to do the graduation parties again. I started each time by deciding on the theme I wanted to use as I thought that I could reflect the personality of the graduate in the theme and that would drive all the other decisions I had to make. I then made each of the themes into a home party. I believed at the time that I would give a party for the graduate. I also wanted to keep costs to a minimum which meant the party decorations were not quite as good as they should have been. I am sure there were other mistakes I made but these are the ones that have stayed in my mind.

One of the things I wish I had done is to have the graduation party in conjunction with the school. This is a brilliant way of having a special party. There will be a good budget, a great venue and lots of keen party goers having fun.  The school gym will make a great venue. It will be a blank canvass that you can decorate in any way you want. Our home was a good venue but it did have its limitations. Our backyard is small. The room sizes are good but it is hard to bring more than 20 people together. Dancing is very difficult to arrange.  Whereas the school gym is better all round.

Looking back on the cost constraints I set, I wish I had been more ambitious. Graduation is one of the special moments in life. There are not too many opportunities to celebrate with your children and graduation is one of the best. For each of our graduates we thought we had set sensible budgets. Looking back I wish we had spent a bit more and made it all a bit more exciting.

However the things I really wished I had achieved as the party organiser centre on what kind of party I really would have worked to give the graduates. The party should have been vibrant, fun, with great music, entertainers, great food and a very friendly atmosphere. This kind of party needs the parents and the school to work together. I believe if we had done this we would have looked at the kinds of venues available. Once we had the right venue we could have arranged a brilliant party. The venues available to us are excellent. We have a night club, school gym, tennis club, golf club, health club and hotels which cater to wedding parties. The graduates did report they would like to have dressed up ready for a glamorous party. Delivering this kind of party would have been much more ambitious. It would also have been much more rewarding. We could have used fund raising techniques to raise the money we needed to deliver the party.

My graduation party ideas would have been much more exciting if I had been more adventurous at the time.