70th Birthday Party Decorations & Ideas
By an Award-Winning Professional Party Planner
Get ideas for room decorations, entrance decor, welcome areas, and dessert table decor
Identify the party location, direct guests to the entrance, and create a warm welcome
Greet guests with signage, décor, arrival drinks, activities, photo ops, and party favors
Maximize your budget by concentrating decorations around a dessert / buffet table
Add creative twists and personal touches to everyday decorations
We’ve all turned up to a party where it’s just a cold front door awaiting you...
You can’t hear any music or see any people inside, so you immediately feel a sense of dread…
It doesn’t sound much like a party, what if there’s hardly anyone there?
Will I be stuck making awkward small talk with people I don’t know?
Am I going to be itching to leave in five minutes?
Hell, am I even in the right place?
Grrr....I knew I should’ve stayed on the sofa!
Entrance decorations need to be welcoming and functional
They should identify the location of the party, direct guests to the entrance, and creating a warm welcome.
The first few minutes of a party set the tone and reassure your guests it’s going to be fun event, so first impressions matter.
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+ READ MOREWhen the party starts, in an ideal world, you'd be answering the door, greeting guests, taking coats, offering drinks, and introducing people to one another.
Which is fine for the first few people who arrive
But in reality, it’s just not realistic to try to greet every guest personally the moment they arrive; unless you plan to hang around the entrance all night.
Which is why it pays to create a welcome area to:
This way, guests feel acknowledged upon arrival and it’s clear what they should do and where they should go; without you having to act as a receptionist.
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+ READ MOREA common mistake people make is to try to dress an entire room or venue.
Decorations often have to compete with existing room décor, so they can get a bit lost if spread too thinly and it dilutes the overall effect.
I always recommend concentrating the majority of party decorations around a dessert or buffet table, in order to create a focal point in the room.
It’s far better to invest your budget in creating one well-dressed feature wall that everyone’s eye will be drawn to.
This way, the food—along with it’s styling and presentation—also contributes to the décor, working together to create a larger display and amplifying the overall effect.
This approach will give you far more ‘bang for your buck’ than trying to dress the entire room.
You can then use a few general decorations, such as balloons and banners, around the room to tie everything together.
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+ READ MOREWhen decorating a room, consider how it will look when it’s full of people, rather than when it’s empty.
This will prevent you wasting time and budget trying to hide too much of the existing room décor.
Focus decorations in clusters around focal points, such as the welcome area, bars, and dessert / buffet tables.
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