We only turn 50 once so why not celebrate it in memorable fashion with one of these fun 50th birthday ideas. Here are the top most popular 50th birthday party themes today. These will be presented in reverse order.
Mexican Fiesta
At number five is the Mexican Fiesta theme. This can be a of course fun and colorful party with the right music, decorations and food. For decorations you will want to keep in mind the Mexican flag colors: red, blue and green. You can decorate with sombreros, maracas, dried chili peppers, table cloths in intelligent colors, small white Christmas lights strung about, ponchos, cactus, and any Mexican posters you can get your hands on. A creative idea for a game would have your guests involved in a timed nachos eating contest. Line up the contestants and load up the plates with nachos chips, and all of the fixings! Tie the contestant's hands behind their backs and have them dig in! A self serve taco bar is a fun idea for food. Your guests can generate their own concoction if the nacho eating contest didn't fill them up!
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Mardi Gras
At number 4 in popularity for 50th birthday ideas is a Mardi Gras party perfect with beads, masks and Cajun food and decorations. Mardi Gras colors are blue, green and purple-use these colors in your decorating theme. Decorate with beads, pictures of New Orleans, jazz players, gold chocolate doubloons. Shrimp, crawfish and whatever with Cajun spice make great food ideas. Be sure to offer up "hurricane" cocktails for a real authentic flavor. Mardi Gras wouldn't be Mardi Gras without lots of separate beads. You can fabricate games fashioned around winning or using beads. Request your guests to bring Mardi Gras masks and have a game intelligent the masks.
World Beer Party
Coming in at number three on our list might seem a surprise, but it is becoming more and more popular. An around the World Beer Party can be very fun and creative if you're 50 year old is a connoisseur of beer. Obviously this party will involve varieties of beers from around the world-so you will have to find a good store that specializes in this area to help you with your selections. You can decorate in an international theme with flags from separate countries. The store you buy the beer from may have samples of posters, coasters or even the cases the beer comes in to be used as decorations. Always fun at this type of party will be a time for a beer tasting-just as one might do at a wine tasting. Present some of the background and data on each beer so your guests will have fun tasting and studying at the same time. Food of the appetizer type would lend itself well for this type of 50th birthday party.
Luau Party
A tropical or Hawaiian Luau style themed party is highly popular. Habitancy normally have tropical clothing so it is fun to dress the part for this theme. Keep the tropical theme in mind for decorations with tiki torches, shells, palm trees, lots of leis, surf boards, coconuts, pineapples, grass skirts, hula dancers, and citronella candles to ward off the bugs if outside. Pina coladas and mai tais make great drinks and if inherent roasted pork for the meal. A tropical fruit salad with pineapple, mango, papaya served in a hollowed out watermelon works well and haupia, a primary coconut pudding, for a desert idea. Games intelligent the limbo and hula hoops are fun for any age even at 50, especially if accompanied with music by Don Ho.
Casino Party
At number one for 50th birthday ideas, in terms of popularity today, is the Casino party theme. This is where you turn your house into an intelligent casino for the evening. For this party you will want to decorate as much as inherent so that you look like a casino. Lots of intelligent and colored lights, music by Las Vegas headliners playing in the background, take separate size boxes and paint to look like dice and place around the room, decorate with playing cards strung out or on tables. This is a theme where you will probably be best served by calling a firm that rents the gaming tables. You can just rent the tables or many associates also contain the Habitancy to run the tables. Blackjack, craps and roulette are very popular games at these types of parties. You can also have a table for poker playing Texas Hold-em. Have a no limit game that is timed, last for 30-45 minutes so all moves fast. For those guests not into gaming, karaoke can be a lot of fun. A buffet with lots of varieties of salads and finger foods work well-just like a primary Las Vegas buffet. A martini bar would be excellent for this theme. At the end of the evening you can auction off prizes with the money your guests have won.
