If you are having a big birthday party a large part of organising it involves making and sending the invitations. A great invitation is a way to let the guests know what the theme of your party is going to be and what kind of event you are really hosting.

It is important to pay attention to the invitation because you can guarantee people are looking forward to the party if your invitation is fun and original. Here are some fun ideas for you to consider.

Something Handmade

If you are very creative it is a good idea to make your own invitations. For example, knitting your own invitation is a really unique and fun idea instead of the old crafted cards. You can learn about the art of knitting at the Knit Simple website.

You could also make really individual invitations by creating personalised photo invitations for your guests. Using old photos of you two together and adding the key information is a fun way to provide everyone their own unique invitation.

Balloon Invitation

There are many item invitations that you could consider but one of the quirkiest one is to send out balloon invitations. Don’t worry, you don’t necessarily need to blow all the balloons yourself, unless you want to, but you can send out the balloon and get the guests blowing the air in to reveal your invitation details.

There are many companies out there who sell personalised balloon invitations and you can search from them on Google. Make sure you always provide the key details on a piece of paper as well in case the balloon blows up before they get to see the information.

Big Posters

You can also create a lovely big poster and use it as the invitation. If you do it an artistic way the guests will have a lovely memory that they can even hang on the walls.

You can either go with a movie poster influence or perhaps create your own vintage poster. There are a lot of great ideas that you could use and really your own imagination is the limit.

Printing out posters isn’t as expensive as you might think. There have been new improvements in technology and for example digital printing services are very cost effective way to print posters. You can find more information from companies such as the Silverfox Legal.

Film A Video

A birthday party invitation doesn’t necessarily have to be the usual paper invitation. You can also come up with a video invitation and surprise your guests. Of course for this to truly work you must have the e-mail information available for all of your guests.

Make a short fun film where you either talk about the upcoming event or go down the memory lane of your life. Be creative and don’t make it anything too long so that people don’t lose interest.

When you do sent out the video invitation have all the essential information, like date, time and location, written down in the e-mail as well to make it easier for people to remember the key thin

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Paula loves to plan parties and she is always browsing the web for new information and ideas to make sure her parties are great. She is also in love with knitting and loves to make woolly socks for her family and friends.