How2Day: Unique Ideas for Birthday Celebrations

Forget the birthday dinner and opt instead for a birthday breakfast. chocolate cake, kettle and a cup of tea image by Elnur from Fotolia.com
While the birthday song followed by the blowing out of candles on the cake is a tradition worth keeping, the celebration surrounding the birthday cake can be anything but traditional. Plan a birthday party with a creative edge, and make it something that the guest of honor as well as those in attendance will remember for years to come. Keep the cake, however, so the birthday girl will have a chance to make a wish that all of her birthdays be celebrated in this fashion.

Instead of the traditional birthday dinner, celebrate with a birthday breakfast. Gather family and friends to meet at a restaurant that serves breakfast. Bring along balloons and gifts to brighten up this morning birthday party. Choose from an elegant candlelight champagne breakfast complete with fine china, eggs Benedict and cappuccino, or have a less formal gathering at a pancake house or coffee shop.

Host the breakfast in your own home where you can decorate as you wish or incorporate a theme. Consider rooms other than the kitchen to host your breakfast birthday party. Set our tray tables by the living room fireplace or create an elegant table setting on your sunlit front porch. To add some whimsy, invite guests to attend in their pajamas.

How can you host unlimited guests without having to house or feed them? Have your party on the Internet. This is a fun way to unite family members and friends who live out of town and would otherwise be unable to attend. Begin with a birthday party website, which can be built from a web template that includes features where guests can RSVP and upload pictures of themselves. Include a forum where guests can meet at the designated date and time to chat and exchange birthday greeting and photos. If you're not tech-savvy enough to build a website, post your event on a social networking site and have party guests meet at the birthday person's profile page. When the party is over, the birthday person will have the website messages, posts and photos as a keepsake to look back on in the future. Guests who wish to send gifts can do so via email in the form of gift cards.

Host a birthday party in honor of the birthday boy's favorite charity. From the location to the food, the celebration elements can be donated for the fundraiser. Instead of giving gifts, guests purchase tickets to the event and the money from the ticket sales is donated to the charity. The party can still focus on the birthday, as guests get together to celebrate and sing over cake, but it also serves the community and awards the birthday guy the satisfaction of giving to a cause that is meaningful to him.

Host a home product direct sales party in your home for your friend's birthday. These parties typically center around the party hostess, but for this occasion ask the consultant to focus her efforts on the birthday girl. She can incorporate the birthday theme into her party games and demonstration. Guests can purchase their birthday gifts right at the party based on what the birthday girl sees that she likes. At these events, the party hostess typically receives free merchandise and bonus gifts as a thank you for hosting the party. Instead of collecting these benefits, pass them on to birthday girl.

How2Day