Amazing Summer Birthday Themes

Summer is a great time to have a birthday—especially if you’re a kid! All of the messes can be left outside & be hosed off easily. Try these fun summer birthday themes for your next birthday bash under the sun.

Pool Party
What says summer better than a pool party? Not much, in my opinion. Guests can bring their swim suits & towels for all kinds of water games and activities:
• Use duck pond floaters with stickers on the bottom for guests to fish out of a small pool. The kind of sticker that they get results in different prizes!
• Hold relays with water balloons, a relay egg game, and field cones.
• End the fun with a beach ball piñata and let everyone take the candy home as their party favors.
Whether you have a large pool, use a kiddie pool, or sprinkler, the pool themed fun will go on and on!

Luau Party
You will have your guests “limboing” their way over to the best party of the summer when you throw a luau party for your birthday!
• Hand out leis to guests as they enter your party.
• Keep everyone cool with water bottles complete with luau bottle labels placed in an inflatable palm tree cooler that keeps your theme going.
• Entertain your guests with a limbo kit while playing a luau island party music CD.

Garden Party
Nature lovers can go elegant with a garden party for birthdays! Your guests will love your outdoor space when you transform it using garden party supplies.
• Pass out cute retro mini flower fans that will keep guests cool.
• Add flowers to your garden for even more lushness using silk roses and tulips.
• Decorate your tables with lighted English ivy twig garland, twig garland, and cuckoo trees.

Backyard/Cookout Party
For a less formal birthday bash, hang out with your friends and family at a good old fashioned backyard party or barbeque.
• Invite guests to your birthday with cookout party invitations.
• Try BBQ party table decorations for no fuss decorating or be unique with fun backyard grillin’ dinner plates for your guests to put those hot wings and ribs upon.
• Buy printed stadium cups as reusable party favors for each of your guests to remember your party by.

Adults and children of all ages will appreciate your summer birthday party when you plan it with Shindigz’ help. From start to finish, invitations to favors, Shindigz has you covered!

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Design Elegant Garden Party Weddings

Suspend pink hanging floral topiaries from tree branches or your tent canopy for an elegant garden wedding accent.

Congratulations! You’re getting married! You’ve decided to have a simple but elegant garden party wedding. That’s an excellent idea. Let Shindigz set you up with some simple and affordable decorations to make your day memorable, without breaking your budget.

• Although your day will most likely have perfect weather, you may want to consider being prepared with a easy up canopy. Then you can let your mind relax, knowing you’re prepared. Even if it’s a really hot day, you may want it so you don’t melt. You can decorate with metallic white gossamer or any other color you want. For more decorations, be sure to check out our Martha Stewart collection.
• You do NOT need to have chairs for everyone attending the ceremony. Keep that part short, so most people can stand. It’ll feel more intimate, more exciting, and it’ll save a lot of room and money. You may want a few chairs for some of your family and friends. Be sure to cover them with a white fabric cover and a chair band to fit your color theme.
• Don’t think you are limited to expensive flowers. You can line the periphery with candles or balloons. That’s a great way of bringing your colors outdoors and making it seem like a relaxed party.
• Feel like walking the red carpet? This aisle runner is a great way of feeling more stable as you and your bridesmaids walk through the garden in your high heels, not to mention you’ll feel like a Hollywood star!
• Lastly, if you want your guests to feel comfortable while watching you, then give them sunglasses and sunscreen. Or have the wedding in the evening and surround the place with lots of candles and lanterns, then everyone will be aglow!

Decorate a Canopy for an Outdoor Event

Many canopies for indoor use are elegant by design. Those meant for the great outdoors are bound to be more utilitarian and therefore, depending upon the event, in need of some combination of camouflage and softening as well as festive decoration.

There is also real potential for safety issues when it comes to wind, and trip hazards posed by lines and cords.

Nothing beats the sight of a crisp white or green tent canopy set against a blue or twilit sky, but Rule Number One is that the pretty tent will fly if given half a chance — even more so if you have one or more sidewalls attached! If tent instructions say guy lines and/or staking are necessary, believe them! Try also to select a site that is sheltered from the prevailing wind by, say, a copse of trees or a building. If for some reason you can’t stake, keep in mind that the average 10X10 canopy is going to require up to a couple hundred pounds of weight to keep it from drifting away in any significant wind. You can buy or make weights, and you can use bungee cords to tie legs to heavy tables, coolers and the like. (As you can imagine, this is where the need for camouflage begins to come in!)

When you have the wind-proofing figured out, the next thing to look at is electricity. Run extension cords from the power supply along routes where you’re sure folks won’t be walking, or cover them with planking or mats. Snake the cord(s) up a tent leg and attach with twist ties.

From here, it’s all about the decorating!

For lighting, string twinkle lights like scattered stars across the tent ceiling, or use them around the inside edge and hang a lantern from the middle.

Soften the look of metal poles by wrapping them in fabric such as tulle, chiffon, or gossamer streamers. For garden themes, wind floral or ivy garland over the fabric. You might also add twinkle lights here, too.

Use tree decorations or scene setter pieces to help hide canopy weights, keep guests away from guy lines and stakes, and guide the flow of traffic.

Hang party curtains in place of tent sidewalls.

Browse ShindigZ Decorations pages for more ideas on turning your utilitarian canopy into an attractive space for your outdoor events.

Take Advantage of Warm Weather – Throw a Garden Party!

Large Garden Party Tulips

It’s coming to the end of spring, and the flowers are all in bloom. If you have a beautiful garden, show it off to your friends and family by throwing a garden party!

A party in the backyard is a great way to gather around your loved ones and let them bask in the warm sun, while they admire your green thumb. There are a lot of garden party supplies you can purchase to spruce up your yard for the bash!

A floral banner welcoming your guests is a great way to get the celebration going. To give your garden a magical feel, add some white columns or a cardboard waterfall to the background.

You can also purchase topiaries or a fountain to add to the lively springtime tone of your garden. If you have a fence in your yard, purchase some faux-vines or roses to add to the effect.

Garden parties can also be thrown in the evening hours! Decorate with standing luminous columns or hanging white lights to make your party sparkle.

Decorate a Warm-Weather Venue for a Twilight Garden Party

As the weather gets fine and we look ahead to milestones in the coming months – birthdays, retirements, anniversaries, graduations and weddings – a garden party stands out as an enduring, tried-and-true theme tradition for spring and summer. Evening events, indoors or out, are quite naturally seasonal candidates for a twilight or “midnight” garden party.

Planning just the right lighting will be particularly important for a garden party in the evening. You’ll want the lighting somewhat subdued for ambience, yet powerful enough for safety, especially along pathways and stairs.

Attach clear or multi-color twinkle or rope lights to stair handrails, banisters, trellises and garden gates.

Put out ShindigZ star luminaries, which are great for lining pathways and sitting pretty on tables. They are a good value and come in four colors. For convenience and an extra degree of safety, try our battery-operated LED Flickering Flame Tealights in the luminaries.

If wind may be an issue, place Mason jars inside your luminaries. Put sand in the bottoms for extra weight, to anchor the candles and to catch dripping wax for easier cleanup.

Give your old tiki torches a new look by wrapping them with ivy or floral garland.

Create a “moon” with a large round white lantern hung high.

Keep in mind as you plan the decorations that because it reflects the lighting, anything white will be a standout. A canopy, water feature, or centerpiece may be a spot where you will want to use white strategically for this reason.

Try contrasts by pairing the white with vivid color. For example, a deep red rose garland draped along a swag of white gossamer fabric or laced through white lattice will provide dramatic beauty.

Whatever your upcoming occasion, consider a twilight garden party theme — and visit ShindigZ for the best selection of garden party supplies!