hi everyone its Melanie from living
luxuriously for less and today I am so
ecstatic to be sharing with you birthday
party ideas for adult birthday so um
this is a video that has come highly
requested and it's an event that I've
done a lot earlier but I'm just getting
around to sharing it with you but it
definitely encompasses tons of ideas and
tips for celebrating your 30th birthday
your 40th birthday your 50th birthday
your 60th birthday your 70th birthday
and beyond so one of the unique things
about this party is that it was a co-ed
party and they were birthday twins and
they decided to go in and do this party
together so it will encompass ideas for
both men and women and I'm super excited
about that so I will be sharing with you
guys lots of tips and ideas on how to
host this type of party if you're
planning one for yourself or for someone
else so I hope you leave with tons of
inspiration so stay tuned now both of
these birthday twins were turning 50 and
they decided to go in and rent out a
lounge and do their birthday party
together and so I had to come up with a
way in order to combine the two
different themes she wanted more of an
afro centric woman type theme and then
he wanted to do more of a masquerade so
in order to combine the two themes
together flawlessly we decided to focus
more on the color theme for each of the
dessert tables and we didn't want to do
like a masculine color so we did black
white and gold and so for his table he
wanted
of The Masquerade type theme we did it
in front of the stage with exposed brick
and more of the rustic look and then we
included all the masks and things like
that and his tablecloth matched the
backdrop for her table and so that is
one of the tips when you're maybe doing
a co-ed party or something for a man or
a man and a woman or boy and a girl
I'm definitely look at combining the
themes together by using the same color
so for him we use masks and for her we
use more of the you know the afro
centric type lady look and they both
turned out super cute and they meshed
together really really well so this is
his party is a dessert table set up
they both hired their own cake bakers
and things like that
and I just set it up and styled it and
I've also done a video on how to style a
dessert table I will leave that link
down in the description box below for
those of you guys who are interested in
that now on his cupcake he wanted to
include a mask and a picture of himself
and then on her cupcake she had the
number 50 so this is what his dessert
table look like
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on the guest tables we decided since it
was a lounge we definitely had to bring
in chair covers because they had
different types of chairs and so chair
covers was definitely the way to go to
bring in some continuity in terms of how
the chairs looked so I had the black and
white stripe ones as well as the black
ones and for the centerpieces I just
went with different gold pieces that we
had in inventory it's because I did not
want it to look too masculine or too
feminine so we were able to mix the two
together we use a lot of candle light
and a lot of gold pieces I often find
these at Ross so if you are shopping at
Ross Dress for Less over the holidays
and you are in event planning definitely
pick up these things as you see them
because they are seasonal but they are
also very very very good prices I do
have a video coming up later this month
on different centerpieces and places
that you can find them so definitely
stay tuned for that that's how I did
this table and again this was allowed so
we had to create kind of a seating as
yeah a seating area for seating for all
the guests and then we put the chairs
for the special guests in the black and
white stripes and then the other chairs
were in black so I love the way that
that turned out again this was a really
really really large space so I could not
drape it all off and it'd be within the
budget so up lighting was the next best
and a thing to do and it was also very
cost effective so yeah it definitely
added to the mood once we added two up
lights and then we had the candle lights
and we did the LED candles because I did
not want to burn the place down
because they were partying as well and
then in the far back you guys will see a
pool table but I will share that with
you a little bit later so this was kind
of like another type of space to rent
out but you can still make it look
beautiful although it was a lounge
it was still
beautiful and they enjoyed having the
area for dinner it had a humongous dance
floor it also had a stage and a pose so
this preacher's wife had to get out
before the party started so I absolutely
loved the way that everything turned out
and how we were able to layer the
centerpieces and the candelabras were
actually absolutely gorgeous so I just
kind of played off the placement but
everything turned out absolutely
beautiful and again it was encompassing
for both a man and a woman I did not
want to do anything super super feminine
or super super masculine but I wanted to
intertwine the two and I thought that
using the candelabras look very mature
for both parties so this was their 50th
birthday celebration so I definitely
wanted it to look very mature and very
sophisticated now the black and the gray
in white check area is the dance floor
and then we had just different tables
spread throughout the venue and then as
you can see over in the back there is a
pool table there so those who wanted to
play pool could play pool at the front
we had a kissing booth and all of the
food area and then we also had more
tables for guests that we use like more
of the crystal Shannon and candelabras
and we layered those with the metallic
gold placemat on top of that as well so
there is the other table there and then
on back were like the bathrooms and then
behind this table was actually the bar
area so here's another lustreless tip
you see the little crystal strands that
are hanging from the tree here the metal
tree those strands can be extremely
expensive if you buy them strand by
strand but if you buy a crystal strand
curtain and I will leave the link down
below
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