Over The Hill Party Ideas

By birthday girl on January 31st, 2009

Celebrate The Milestone! Someone is turning 50 years old and it should not be a time of mourning. Life is a celebration… and there is no better way to celebrate that fact than with friends and family.

An “Over the Hill” birthday should be a day that brings together food, family, friends and fun with as much hoopla as you can muster up!

These Over The Hill Party ideas should get the wheels turning for a fantastic plan for your own celebration or that of someone you love.

My Favorite Idea For An Over The Hill Birthday Party Bash Is A Roast.

Those irreverent and hilarious television shows that “rake someone over the coals” is the inspiration for this party idea. This idea will only work if you have the type of friends and family to pull this off and not be offended by the things being said. It’s a ton of fun with the right audience.

Have a great meal and allow all the guests, who want to get up and deliver their roast to the birthday “boy or girl. If you want a party filled with laughs this is definitely the way to celebrate the half century mark and the friends you have (at least those that you are still speaking to).

A This Is (Was) Your Life Film Debut Birthday Party Idea

Metallic Gold Academy Award Prop Oscar Statue Statuette

This is a great way to pay tribute to someone that has meant a great deal to you when planning a birthday bash to be remembered.

Have a red carpet sort of theme and allow guests to pay tribute to the birthday girl or boy by extolling their virtues. This is another great celebration that is a lot more sentimental in nature than a roast but along the same lines when it comes to decoration and meal planning.

You can use glittery star nameplates to indicate seating, have the “Oscar Room” decorated elegantly with a white table clothe and fine china, and have cameras flashing throughout the event to record important moments.

Don’t forget the completely “Oscar worthy” goody bag. Great ideas to fill this bag include items for facials, manicures, pedicures, a photo frame for the fabulous photos you will be sending home, and an autograph “scrapbook” in which you can all work to create a scrapbook of the evening with photographs and autographs. How much fun will it be to pull out a gorgeous display of your prized memories to show off to visitors?

The “OLD” Wild West Theme Birthday Party Idea

COWBOY hat sheriff western STRING LIGHTS party outdoor

Inflatable Chili Pepper 3ft

Rivers Edge 10-Piece Horse Party Light Set

RUSTIC NYLON BARB WIRE WILD WEST DECORATION – 18 Feet

Western Decorating Kit – 21 Pieces

Western Decorating Kit – 27 Pieces

If the birthday girl or boy is a relic you can give the party an Old West theme. A party such as this can be a great deal of fun to plan and even more fun to attend.

Set up a Wild West saloon and have everyone come dressed for occasion. If you have a covered wagon (feel free to use your imagination for this), an open fire (check with local regulations but open fires are great for cooking hot dogs, s’mores, and using a Dutch oven for stew as well as warmth and light at night (especially if this is an overnight party).

This is a great photo opportunity for most and if you plan things well the theme can be one that will go down in memory by every guest, especially, the guest of honor. Be sure to keep the drinks flowing and make the food portable (finger food is almost always a good plan for adult birthday parties unless they involve plenty of space for sitting down to dine).

Tombstone Not Required For This Party Idea… But It’s Still All In Fun

Over The Hill Coffin Gift Set – Birthday Gift Basket

Of course there is the standard “One Foot In The Grave” type of over the hill birthday party. There are things of course you can do to make your party stand out from all the rest but that will require a creative spark and knowledge of the guest of honor to pull off well.

Use what you have to work with in order to create the perfect celebration of life or death in the new century. Of course if you are truly brave you can make it an out of this world experience and instead of the traditional black- give the party a over the top “Black Light” theme.

The sky is the limit when celebrating milestone birthdays and nothing is too outrageous depending on the personality of the guest of honor. Just remember that over the hill doesn’t mean not long for this world and life, at all stages, should be celebrated and honored.

A great over the hill party can be had for the cost of very careful planning and a great group of friends and family in order to help pull things off. If you are lost for inspiration hopefully the ideas mentioned above will help at least point you in the right direction if not solve your party planning woes.

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