Comments on: Reader Request: 50th Birthday Thoughts!

By: Greeting Card Printing

Greeting Card Printing — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:52:20 +0000

50 is indeed a wonderful time to celebrate family and friendships. At that age, we would’ve realized that the people who are around us are the ones who have stood with us all throughout and will most likely be the ones who will stay another 50 more.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:24:24 +0000

Erin, that’s fantastic! You really created a lovely event. Love the gratitude box and my favorite things bag. Please feel free to send us some pictures, we’d love to post a few and tell your story. Happy 50th!

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:57:26 +0000

Hi from Erin,

I just had my girlfriend celebration today!!! The occasion was my 50th birthday, but as I commented before it was all about my girlfriends.

I had a catered Sunday Champagne brunch in my back yard. The weather was perfect. In California, yes, but it rained last weekend so… You never know. I had a Harpist playing and I had a Caricature artist as well.
She drew each girlfriend doing their favorite thing or hobby. I asked her to put a tiara on each one and the saying below read” It is about creating yourself not about finding yourself. She was a huge hit! Everyone loved her!

I also had gratitude boxes. Each person had a box at their place setting and I had paper laid out, some with prompts, such as Thank you for… I admire you because.. My wish for you is…. the idea was to write a message to someone and put it into the box. They will keep them and put them on their desk or night stand and read them whenever the need. ( I got this idea from the Oprah show)

I also played Get to know you Bingo. Even though most of my girlfriends knew each other.

Everyone gave a fun fact about themselves prior to the party. I made Bingo cards up with the facts. The girls had to go around finding who’s fun fact was who’s. This was a huge hit. We had a winner but no one wanted to quit the game so they kept playing to find out all the fun facts about everyone.

I gave out My Favorite Things Party Bags. Each bag had a few of my favorite things in it. Samples of my favorite perfume, lotion, seeds of my favorite flower, my favorite candy etc….

There is nothing like spending an afternoon with such fabulous friends!!!!

Thank you for your website. It inspired me and gave me some wonderful ideas!

Erin

By: Jene Hullett

Jene Hullett — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:27:37 +0000

Erin – This sounds like a great 50th. I told my hubby in Oct. ‘07 I wanted my 50th to be a “Girlfriend Getaway” and I love cooking so we took off for a Hill Country Cooking Class/ Sleepover and had so much fun. It was in Dripping Springs, Texas http://www.juniperhillsfarms.com if you are ever in that area. Two ideas you could incoporate are – have all your friends “cook the brunch together” This is so much fun to all get in the kitchen, divide the recipes and buy all ingredients ahead of time and print off the recipes and put the friends in assignments together. For the small gift you can give the recipes & a photo of all of you in the kitchen.
My friends are still talking about how this was the most fun party they had ever been to, and they used the recipes when they returned home and had cooking parties! Enjoy…and Happy Birthday

By: Sandra Hersey

Sandra Hersey — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:15:48 +0000

Anytime we can make the women and people in our life feel special we should do it. With life so crazy we do not always stop and slow down on a regular basis as we should. However a birthday is an amazing time to do this! Celebrating girlfriends and one another in life is a gift in itself!