How to Host a Preppy Birthday Party

INSIDE: HOW TO HOST A PREPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR A TEENAGE GIRL. EVERYTHING YOU NEED WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK AND STILL CREATE A MEMORABLE PARTY!

I did not know this was a thing…but I guess all 13 year old girls want a preppy birthday party. What does that mean you ask? I had NO IDEA! But I took to Pinterest and found some realistic and NOT so realistic ideas.

Keeping with my Party Planning Guide – I went to work.

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1 – Theme – check – preppy

AKA – lots of pink and gold, smiley faces, lighting bolts, and stars – I’m not sure what makes this preppy BUT….I’m old so what do I know?

Not sure of a theme? NO problem – check out my Birthday Party suggestions here.

2 – Location

We decided to have it at our house, and against my better judgment…AGAIN….a sleepover. I mean she is going to be 13…BUT NO MORE after this! I mean it this time!!!

Have you found a different place to have parties?? Let us know, we are always open to suggestions (and to get people out of the house).

3 – Date

Her birthday fell on a Saturday this year so we picked that day to start our shenanigans.

Remember to stay away from holidays and other birthdays.

4 – Invitations

This one was a bit difficult for me. The young lady wanted to make, that’s right, MAKE her own invitations. Due to the sleepover, I put a limit on how many kiddos could be invited. So she literally made 6 individual invitations.

On the invitation, she wrote hibachi for dinner but in the end we decided it was too expensive and time consuming – so we went with Chick Fil-A catering.

If you want an invitation but don’t want to hand write, try these out – at Etsy and Zazzle.

5 – Decorations

With A LOT of help from the birthday girl, we found some great things on Amazon.

Then she decided everyone needed to sleep in a TeePee (check out how we made them “coming soon”). We purchased individual trays like these and used the Cricut to put everyone’s name on them.

****UPDATE: I never made the post about making the TeePees because they were a disaster. Just rent them! The price for the dowels and twine plus the irritation from trying to get them correctly – not worth it. I promise….just rent them!

6 – Food

When you have a picky eater as the birthday girl, you have to be creative with your menu. This year was easy, Chick Fil-A to the rescue.

Nuggets, macaroni and cheese, and fruit.

Unfortunately, I did not get pictures of the set up. Why you ask?

Because I like to live in the moment these days. I swear these kids are growing so quickly. I’m waiting for someone to come pinch me and say….just kidding, they are still babies and they need you to do everything for them. Don’t get me wrong, I love their independence and ability to be self sufficient, I just worry that I’m gonna miss all of this! Hence, I put my phone down and enjoy.

I digress………

Of course no birthday party is complete without dessert. Alas, my child does not like cake but will eat cupcakes. So we bought some generic ones for the grocery store (Publix has amazing ones if you have one near you) and stuck these decorations in the tops.

Also to avoid spillage we opted for these cute Drink boxes instead of cups.

7 – Goody bags

As always, give the kids something to go home with but don’t make the other parents mad….

Here are the bags the birthday girl picked – and then she added makeup bags, candy, and bracelets.

And we let them take their trays home. There wasn’t anything we were going to be able to do with them after the party.

Overall, it was a fun evening. Most of the girls did not sleep under the TeePee, they couldn’t see the TV…..or so they said. About 2 weeks after we did all of this, I discovered you can actually RENT the TeePees………….

Happy Partying,