**Disclaimer: My fiance and his friends are the ultimate nerds. I love this because they’re super nice, funny, and they embrace being “lame” because we end up having fun. Board game birthday party was definitely one of these cases**
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Like most girls, I love birthdays. Unlike most girls, I have a fiance who loves to celebrate my birthday. This includes an annual incredible dinner at a Michelin restaurant, flowers, presents, a birthday party and a full “everything I want” week. Needless to say, a mix of that and valentine’s/anniversary week which comes 2 weeks later, makes me want to do something special back by the time the fiance’s bday rolls around.
We chose to go to Disney World and had an amazing time acting like kids and skipping the whole getting drunk/birthday party. The goal is to start celebrating birthdays with less drinking and more traveling. We kind of failed because when we got back his friends really wanted to celebrate together so we decided on a themed-party. This happened during my last 2 weeks of my old job so my original intention of printing out one Happy Birthday banner from pinterest quickly turned into creating DIY decorations. (If I had access to photoshop all of these would’ve come out much nicer, but all I had was paint)
I started off with the intention to print out some Happy Birthday banners. After printing 2 that I found on pinterest (not pictured) I decided to create a giant one by myself customized with board games.
It then snowballed into cup/beer labels so people could keep track of their drinks with Monopoly pieces (original and Nintendo version – see nerd disclaimer):
And then I found a template for party hats, so that turned into creating these (risk because it’s the fiance’s favorite game):
Of course my failed wine glass decorations (failed because we decided everyone should drink from classy red solo cups) were re-purposed into donation holder:
Finally, “rules” for the party. Mostly because like the fiance, I’m super cheesy: