Theme parties for adults: 5 original ideas

Are you looking for tips and ideas to organize perfect adult-themed parties? You are in the right place!

Here are 15 ideas for a birthday party or for your corporate event.

Adult themed parties are really special: it's a bit like going back to children, reliving that emotion of a journey out of time. partyThe more a party is organized in detail and details, the more engaging it will be for the participants. The guests will not be dressed only because the invitation requires it, but they will have a 360 ° experience. So I want to help you organize an unforgettable one. In this article I talk to you about:

How to choose the theme

15 different ideas to put into practice

For each one, I also recommend:

The ideal location

The unfailing decorations

The clothes and/or costumes that cannot be renounced

Adult themed parties: how to organize them

We cut off the bull's head and immediately enter the heart of the speech. How to choose the best theme? My advice is to think for a moment about the guests :

How old are they?

What do they have in common?

What do they share?

For example, if you are organizing a themed birthday party for adults, for example for a friend of yours, it means that more or less you are all in the same age group. You have the same interests in common, for example, football or the desire to save the world. Share many moments together because you are there every weekend, you like pizzas and superhero movies.

Are you instead of organizing a themed party for your company?

The guests are work colleagues, therefore they only share certain spaces, their interests are among the most diverse and disparate. Probably outside the working environment, they are seen as little or not at all.

Now that you have in mind who will attend the event, you can start discarding ideas. For example, a Harry Potter-themed party for your friends is perfect because you are all passionate, while for the company it is better to choose a total black & white party.

Why this?

Dressing as wizards and witches in the company could create some embarrassment, especially for the hierarchical system: someone might feel out of place to see a manager in playful and funny clothes. Indeed, someone may even refuse to change their usual clothes. Opting on choosing a color as a theme, on the other hand, makes everything easier: if you want to avoid trivial things like black and white, choose corporate colors. Maybe force the guests to wear at least one garment or an accessory of the color you choose, then you will embellish everything with the decorations.

For example, I attended a company party where it was mandatory to wear something green (it was the color of the brand): having no dress of that color I wore a pair of bright green earrings, I queued up at the hair and my problem it was solved!

Theme party ideas for adults

Bulb: idea now that I have explained how to consider or discard ideas, here is what I thought for you.

Of each proposal, I will also briefly describe some details that should not be missing.

1. Themed party adults 70/80 years

True, they are the most classic themed parties that can come to your mind. But if you think carefully they are also the least difficult to organize because the clothes are either already at home or are easily recovered in vintage or second-hand stores. So even for the guests, it is less demanding to participate and it is also good for an event in the company. Dresses: you can find more information in the article dedicated to how to organize a 70s themed party. Location: disco or set-up rooms with a stage for the band, area dedicated to dancing. you may read also party themes ideas

Decorations: balloons, shiny fluttering ribbons (to reflect the lights) and fluo, disco ball, movie poster on the walls. Instrumentation: DJ console, sound system for music, lighting system.
Music: either you find a band that plays cover music of that era or a DJ that plays with vinyl or you get a karaoke.

Menu: at that time the typical dishes were scampi cocktails, vodka penne, tortellini with cream and peas, roast (to be brought to the table with candles and lights off), hamburger, panna cotta, and cream caramel!

Here are clothes, accessories, and lifestyle in the years 8 0, on Pinterest you will find many ideas:

The 70s-80s parties

2. Time machine

Choose a historical period that you like, classics are those with ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Egypt. The era of the Vikings is less popular, but do you want to put guests on wearing make-up, with skins on their shoulders and axes in their hands? Maybe for a corporate event, it's a bit risky. Dresses, decorations: they vary according to the era you choose, you can find a wide selection of costumes of various kinds on Tutto Costumi, including those from every historical era. Location: in a historic home, in a castle or outdoors. It would be nice if I prepared a corridor to access the location that simulates a journey through time.

Instrumentation: a sound system for music, lighting system, tables.

Music: there are many bands that can do for you, that play danceable music but that recall a certain historical era. Alternatively, you can leave the music alone in the background, looking for suitable songs. Menu: it is true that it varies according to the historical period, but only the nobles ate with cutlery and knives (from the Middle Ages onwards). Then set up a buffet with classic recipes and possibly with foods that can be eaten only with your hands. In general, bread and grilled meats always work. On Cook Around you can find some ideas for ancient Greece while on Tibursuperbum you discover recipes from ancient Rome.

Cook around

Tibursuperbum

3. Anna Karenina

Bring your guests into Russia in the 1800s, among powerful czars, corrupt nobles and wonderful ladies in sumptuous clothes. It is good both with friends and as an alternative to the classic gala dinner on the farm.

Suits: for men, a tailcoat (penguin-tailed suit) in neutral colors, high-waisted trousers, top hat or lapel and stick; for women satin, silk, and tulle dresses, tight on the chest with square necklines, short puff sleeves, wide skirts. On Fantasie d'Epoca you will find many costumes and ideas for every era.

Vintage patterns

Location: in a historic home or in a castle. One room will be dedicated to dinner, another room to dance and the third one an area with sofas and armchairs to make conversation. Lit fireplaces cannot be missing. Decorations: the rooms must be furnished in a sumptuous but elegant way, better if the location already has historic furniture inside. Round tables with white tablecloths, silver cutlery, and lit candelabra. The best would be crystal chandeliers.

Instrumentation: a sound system for music (attention: it must not be visible, rather better not having it). Music: the ideal is to find a string quartet with a pianist, alternatively nineteenth-century and/or baroque classical music. Menu: just read the novel to realize the importance given to food, nothing is left to chance and everything is described in detail. If you want to do things big read the book and mark the foods that inspire you most. For example, I would like to taste:

perch with asparagus

oysters with champagne

cabbage soup with polenta

white bread with parmesan cream

hen in white sauce

Crimean white wine

Unmissable before, after and during the meal the bottles of vodka.

Here is a cut from the poster for the film "Anna Karenina" with Keira Knightley.

4. Steampunk

Maybe it's the most complicated to make but the effect will certainly be fabulous. This style combines the steam world of the industrial revolution with modern technology: it represents a science fiction version of the Victorian era. Suits: both women and men need nineteenth-century clothes (similar to the ones I recommended for Anna Karenina). But here you have to add a lot of details: pocket watches with long chains, fake electric guns, valves and gears attached to the dress, aviator glasses on the head.

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Location: the ideal would be a large space with visible pipes, perhaps an old factory or industrial loft; alternatively, historic homes are also fine. Decorations: gears, valves, clocks ... everything that can be made mechanical must be made mechanical! You have to camouflage modern technologies, without hiding them (yes, even your mobile phone), so let your imagination run free. Instrumentation: smoke machine, working clocks, sound system. The ringing of the bells cannot be missed every now and then.

Music: there are many bands that not only play Steampunk music but represent real shows of this genre on stage. In general, they are very orchestral, therefore with strings and pianos. On Youtube listen to this playlist to get an idea. menu: we are always in the 1800s so stay on that kind of dishes, but give everything an English nuance. You can also add breadcrumbs, Earl Gray, rigorously boiled or steamed meats and vegetables. Look for inspiration on Pinterest to create your own custom dress and understand which accessories you like best.

5. Ciak turns around

Here things start to get interesting. Participants will be able to choose their favorite movie character: how much fun would it be to see Massimo Decimo Meridio converse amiably with King Kong?
Being the disguise of the guest's free choice, it is a perfect theme even for a corporate event.
Clothes: they change according to the character that everyone wants to play. To give a narrower address, you could define a historical period, like the 1920s, 2000s, etc.

Movie characters

Location: a private room in a hotel, a disco with a band stage, a garden.

Decorations: Set up the room as if it were a movie set, with director's chairs, cameras in every area and an actor who goes around the rooms shouting "Motor, Clapperboard, Action". On each table the inevitable Oscars statuette. You could recreate the white writing "Hollywood" with cardboard. At the entrance a red carpet.

Instrumentation: a sound system for music, lighting system.

Music: there are many music stars, the ideal would be to keep soundtracks of auteur films in the background. Menu: it is not so important what you prepare, because everything could be fine (unless you choose a specific time). The important thing is the presentation: you are organizing everything for stars, sophisticated and accustomed to starred restaurants. The dishing will have to be well cared for, almost eccentric.