You can also consider a caricature invitation. These are truly unique and the caricature can be used for your life size cutout, candy bar wrapper and more. You can incorporate the things that make your graduate special.  We just did a caricature invitation for a woman's husband who had just graduated from medical school. He was dressed in a doctor's white coat, and wearing his graduation cap.  He loves professional wrestling, so a professional wrestler is handing him his degree!  We even had him wearing his favorite pair of beat up sneakers his wife had been trying to throw out for years!

For an example of the many ways you can use caricatures throughout the party check out this caricature party package.

It would be fun to play off on the movie, The Graduate.  Have your caricature drawn as a movie poster for the Graduate with your grad on the cover.  (You can ignore that whole affair with an older woman part!) 

Inside you can decorate with products in gold and silver tones, which look sophisticated, but are still fun!  Try the graduation cap garland for your ceiling, and the golden grad garland everywhere else!  Use your caricature art and have Party411.com's Creations For You™ create a 3-sided centerpiece base with the art.  Fill the base with shreds and have balloons coming out of the top.  Or, you can fill the base with flowers for a fun and formal look.

Menu and Bar

Your graduate is older and has worked for years since graduating High School, so spoil them with a great meal at your event.  I would make my life easier and have everything catered.  You don't need a formal sit down meal.  A nice selection of pass appetizers and food stations would be wonderful.  Or just have heavy hors d'oeuvres.

Your catering company can set up a beautiful bar for you as well.  Ask them to mix up a specialty drink and name if for your graduate!  (They are over 21 now)  If you're serving champagne (for the inevitable toasts) use champagne bottle and glass balloons at the bar to let guests know where to find the bubbly!

Graduation Activities

Usually graduation parties are all about socializing, reminiscing, and congratulating the graduate, and activities are not necessary to keep your guests mixing.  But activities can be essential if your are going to have a large number of people who have never met, or just want to add something fun for your guests to do.

Create trivia sheets with questions and puzzles that pertain to the grad's area of study.  Literature major?  Try match the author with their famous novel.  Did the grad just get a master's in mathematics?  Set out logic problems.  A new doctor is in the house! Anatomy identification anyone?  Just print out activities sheets and leave out pencils, everyone will be mingling in the hopes of finding someone who has the answer to #8!

Graduation Favors

Candy bars are the best kind of favor, the chocolate-y edible kind!  You personalize the wrapper with info about your grad (and many style allow for a picture too) so that it is just one more way to show how special the graduate's accomplishments are! Our candy bars have 50% more chocolate than the standard Hershey® bar and nine out of ten people prefer the quality and taste of our candy bar over all other bars--just ask their dentist!  You can get them in dark chocolate as well as milk chocolate! 

Other great options for favors are personalized fountain pens, personalized graduation frames, or imprinted tassel keychains.  All of these are high quality favors any guest would love to receive.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

-Nelson Mandela

Give my congrats to the grad!

The Party Girl

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