College Graduation Invitations

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!) 

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 probably).  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!

Centerpieces can really add flair to your table:   

• Personalized Centerpiece -  If you like the personal touch this three-sided centerpiece lets you personalized the wording and add a photo!

• Tabletop Lanterns - These vinyl lanterns are personalized with your photo and wording, and come with an LED candle!

• Graduate Cap Cascade Centerpiece - Add academic excellence to your party table in an instant with this colorful 21" high spray centerpiece.

• 2009 Spray Centerpiece - Add balloons to this bright centerpiece for a fantastic look.

·      Sprinkle some 2009 confetti on the tables for added decoration.

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 Party Favors

Personalized candy bars are the best kind of favor, the chocolate-y edible kind!  You personalize the wrapper with info about your grad (and many styles 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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