Tag Archives: party apps for iphone

Party Invitation App – iPartyGram – Independent Review

Posted on by
Reply
iPartyGramPro – Party Invitation Appipartygram-250-250-c
Here are the features:
- Unlimited party app for iPhone/iPad
- Organize and invite guests via Contact Lists
- Post Party Pics to Facebook, Twitter and Email
- Use Invitation Designs included or create your own Invitation Design
- Secure Party VIPs can post pics
- Secure Party Guests can only view
- New Party Tips & Ideas on website
- Pro Version has an integrated calendar with more than 180 unique icons to describe the event.

Here is an Independent  Review by J.H

Have you ever been missing out on something for a long time, something your friends may have had for months, and then, all of the sudden, you finally find it for yourself. You’re thrilled! You wonder how you could have been without this for so long. This is exactly how I felt after discovering iPartyGramPro. Are you the socialite type who’s always entertaining other people? Do you like to have smaller, more intimate gatherings? Do you find planning a party stressful or hectic because of organizational problems? If any of this is true of you, then there is no doubt iPartyGramPro will be invaluable to you.

This app is the easiest way to get parties planned in today’s cyber world. To get started, all you have to do is click on Plan Parties. From here, another simple click on a + sign allows you to add parties Yes it’s that simple – which is the name of the game with this professional little app. IPartyGramPro is definitely one of the easiest to use apps out there. With its intuitive design, anybody can figure out how to use all its features within minutes of downloading.

Once you have added a party, you can easily add all of the following: Party name, host name, date & time, where the party is to be held, notes and email/contact #. I personally made use of notes, because it is the perfect way to give you guests some simple directions or options such as “bring your own drinks,” what type of entertainment is going to be available and proper dress attire, such as semi-formal or casual. I put this app to use last night for a small gathering and my guest really liked seeing the extra notes, as it didn’t leave them guessing about what kind of food to bring or what they should wear.

I really loved the option of adding photos, as I’m an avid photographer. Once you’re done setting up your invitation, you’re able to view your parties and invite guests. This is very easy to do by simply adding friends from your contacts list. You can designate someone as a VIP which allows them to add pics to the party. As is typical of Techtionary.com’s apps, integrated tools and features round out the entire experience. iPartyGramPro acts as a cool, feature packed sketchbook and all around great notepad which adds a nice touch to the app’s total package. There is of course, a built in calendar for keeping track of your parties.

I wouldn’t mind to see buttons for the “View Parties & Invite Guests” and “Plan Parties” text controls on the opening screen. I also in favor of a different icon for the app (just don’t care for the college girl on the dance floor look) in general, plus a different background for the main screen in general just because I think this would increase appeal to everyone, besides just catering to one single audience stereotype. I just think it would make it a bit more versatile and it would be more marketable, since all types of people are party planners. This of course, just my opinion. Otherwise, this program gets five stars from me and its one I’ll definitely be using for a long time to come. Sometimes you have buyer’s remorse after you download another cookie-cutter app. iPartyGramPro is just too versatile and feature packed not to have around on your iDevice. You’ll find yourself using it all the time. This app fills a niche that’s been cracked for a long time, and does so with style. I love it!

postcard-8-7-b

Poker Night Party Using iPartyGramPro For iPad/iPhone

Posted on by
Reply

Blackjack partyPoker is not just a weekly reprieve from work any longer. The card game is now an exciting bash to throw for all your guests too! With iPartyGramPro from TECHtionary, planning is convenient, simplified, and fun!

Players

Use the invitation section of the app to send personalized PDF formats guests can print out. Specify when and where it takes place, by what time to R.S.V.P., and indicate notes and reminders (see the Party heading below).There’s lots of themed backgrounds to chose from for the invitations, or take a picture of a playing card to be the set for the invite. Keep everyone’s email private when sending your contact list invites in mass – add recipients in the ‘bcc’ box and your name in the ‘to’ box. ipartygram-main-calSelect a dozen people to be your VIP guests and help out with preparations. VIP guests can also post pictures through Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and email to raise hype, like you, and guests can view these via the personal ID code registered to party members. This party-circle of images can get people excited and document the event as well! For instance, tape a video of yourself with fun trivia facts about card games or things people can do to help out with the party, and post them online.

If you want to add décor to you party – stick playing cards all around the room with a little tape on the back. Then, send separate directions for an easy headband guests can create for costume ideas. Just take a 2-inch wide strip of construction paper, bend it so that it makes a loop, and staple the two ends together. Make your own card out of construction paper, or staple a real one to the center of the band. Guests can try mini cards around the entire band for variation if they want.

Party

If you want to make playing more interesting with antes, get a few friends together, and cut out 50 circular cardboard shapes in three different sizes (to total 150) to stand in as poker chips. Color the three shapes differently – 1-value, small in yellow; 5-value, medium in red; and 10-value, large in black. Ask a few guests if they’ll bring a deck of cards so that there can be several games going at once. You can either host this party at an outside grilling station where they have multiple picnic tables and field space. Or you can compromise with several sheets or rugs laid out to separate game spaces. And you don’t have to play just poker, especially since there’s no pot or prize played for (unless you want to get creative with the rules agreed upon in the different groups) – look up the directions for games like BS (super fun with a crowd and multiple decks), 7-card stud, 3-card draw, or ask others for suggestions during alternating dealers.

Any music is appropriate for poker night. So opt for a real jukebox type of interaction from the crowd. Let everyone know they can come up and switch to their own devices, or chose from the set.

Sustaining snack food to counter that light-headedness is the craze at typical poker gatherings – with all that concentration and blaring music, you’ll need to replenish that energy! Ask enough VIP guests to bring either a few bags of chips, microwave appetizers like potato skins, pizza-bites, or pretzels, pixie sticks and a bag of mini chocolate candy bars with a crunch to them.

Then, mix 4 gallons of Root Beer with 2 cups of chocolate syrup. Add a jar of maraschino cherries to the mix. Let the sugar fruit sink to the bottom and stir well. Stick it in the fridge for a few hours before the party to deliver a sugarplum buzz. Set all these food and beverage items on a cute paper table cloth that you’ve drawn and colored card designs on. You can do several card images, only card symbols, line the sides with cards and poker chip pictures, or make a huge portrait on the center. Remember to provide napkins, paper cups, and a giant trash bag next to the serving table.

Pick-Up

Poker night is generally messy by nature – plan on paper towels for spills, a dust pan for crumbs, and a few giant bags for debris to make this clean-up session smooth.

With this app, you can make detailed preparations for the entire festivities while commuting or waiting in long lines. This way, you can enjoy the party too when the time arrives!

Check out CollegeAppsGuide for more apps and reviews

college-apps-new-main-3

iPartyGramsPro 3.1 Released – called the “Coolest Party Invitation Pic App” for iPhone and iPad Now Available on iTunes

Posted on by
Reply

BOULDER – Techtionary just announced a new release of its iPartyGramsPro party invitation and picture sharing app for Apple iPhone and iPad available now on iTunes. “iPartyGramPro is an exciting way for party-wedding planners, event organizers and partygoers to plan, invite and provide a private party picture sharing experience,” noted Tom Cross creator. According to TheAppWhisperer, the #1 Mobile App Reviewer, “iPartyGrams is the coolest party planning app for iPhone/iPad designed to help you organize and plan your next party. It allows you to select invitees from your contacts list and send them an invitation within the app. You can also send additional details about the party to your contacts and receive their replies too. This app is particularly useful if you are inviting a lot of people to one event and want to manage all the replies.” Click on the icon to the left for the complete review and video.

More than 50 party ideas, tips and fun on iPartyGrams website – click here.

iPartyGramsPro has no annoying popup ads.

Details can be found on the iPartyGramsPro website at http://ipartygrams.com or immediately on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/techtionary.com/id379186267

Key Features Include:

1) Unlimited party app for iPhone/iPad

- Organize and invite guests via Contact Lists

- Post Party Pics to Facebook, Twitter and Email

- Use Invitation Designs included or create your own Invitation Design

- Secure Party VIPs can post pics

- Secure Party Guests can only view

- New Party Tips & Ideas on website

2) iPartygramPro Version has an integrated calendar with more than 180 unique icons to describe the event

3) Easy to use iPartyPads provide for reminders, notes, and quick ideas which can be shared with party goers, event, wedding and meeting planners. iPartyPads are unique multicolored post notes and more than 130 backgrounds included and users can take pics and use as backgrounds. The iPartyPad multimedia image editor can be used to create sharable art drawings, postit notes, dooglegrams or scribblegrams.

iPartyGramPro

iPartyPads can be shared/posted to Twitter, Linkedin Facebook or email.

 

The app is designed to help party hosts create invitations, send invitations and involve party VIPs and guests seeking easy-rapid ways to send invitations, receive guests and allow guests and VIPs to either view party pics and videos or VIPs to add pics to the party.

Here is an independent review of iPartygram. “With a variety of different background photos and images available through the app, you can choose an image that suits the theme or occasion of your party. You can add all the information you need to the party invitation and it’s the perfect opportunity to let guests know if the party has a certain dress code, theme, or whether they should bring their own drinks. You can also use the “Notes” and “Reminders” sections to give guests a date by which they should RSVP, saving you the hassle of having to chase people up later.

iPartyGramPro

When sending invitations to guests, you can select the box marked “VIP” if you want that guest to be able to upload their own photos to the party section within iPartyGram.

You can either send the invitation to each guest individually with your own customized message, or send the same PDF file to multiple people. To keep each individual’s email address private, enter your own email address in the “To:” field, then enter the other recipients’ addresses in the “BCC:” field. That way, when guests receive the invitations, they only see your email address, and other guests’ emails stay hidden. The graphic format means that guests can easily print out and take the invitation with them to the party, so they have all the details on hand.

When guests receive their invitations, it contains a unique ID number. To access the party details, all they have to do is download the iPartyGram app or log on to the website, and enter the ID number in the Guest Login section, then they can access the party details and, if they are VIP guests, upload their own photos.

iPartyGram is a versatile app that makes the party planning process simple, quick, and cost-effective. It allows you to spend less time on practical tasks, like sending invitations, leaving you with more time to focus on the big event.”

iPartygram also provides tutorials, webseminars, blog and newsletter to have more fun at parties and improve use of iPartygram and other ideas on parties, party planning, party management, social media practices and simply better parties.

iPartyGramPro

iPartygram is part of a suite of communications and collaboration tools designed to improved personal time management and customer communications including iFlipTips, ScribbleGrams, Pictagrams, iCompactMirror and iMakeupMirror and others.

Company

iFlipTips http://ifliptips.com, iPartyGrams http://ipartygrams.com along with CrossPinPoints and other cloud online solutions from TECHtionary (http://techtionary.com). Other iPhone/iPad apps include iPartyGrams, iMakeupMirror, iCompactMirror and Pictagrams all available on iTunes.

Techtionary is the developer of iPhone/iPad apps including iPartygrams, iFlipTips http://ifliptips.com – flip/flashcard study app with calendar and stickynotes, iPartygram http://ipartygram.com – party/event planning and pic post app with calendar and sticky notes, iMakeupMirror-iCompactMirror iPhone4 personal makeup mirror app and Pictagrams – picture post app. In addition, Techtionary developed CrossPinPoints, iSportsCal, iComcal and iREcal are all integrated MARCOM-marketing communications solutions designed for small to large business manage small to large marketing efforts. Twitter accounts include @beautyapps, @techtionary and others. Techtionary also businesses maximize their social media marketing and teaches professional development courses in social media which are approved by the Colorado Supreme Court for attorneys and Colorado DORA for real estate professionals via Social Business College http://socialbusinesscollege.com/. Additional sites include: http://imakeupmodel.com, http://crosspinpoints.com, http://techtionary.com and many others.

Thomas B. Cross is the creator of unique marketing communications and an avid social media expert focusing primarily on Twitter with @techtionary https://twitter.com/#!/techtionary and @beautyapps account https://twitter.com/#!/BeautyApps, CrossTalk blog, Linkedin and CrossPinPoints (online marketing communications solution). He posts daily to Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and CrossTalk blog. He assists businesses maximize their social media marketing and teaches professional development courses in social media which are approved by the Colorado Supreme Court for attorneys and Colorado DORA for real estate professionals via Social Business College http://socialbusinesscollege.com/.

Contact & Social Media

Contact: Tom Cross

Email: cross@gocross.com

Website: http://ipartygrams.com

Twitter: @techtionary & @beautyapps

Phone: 303-594-1694

# # #

Sweetheart Match Party Planning Using iPartyGramPro

Posted on by
Reply

PrintIt’s that time of the year again. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are in a whirlwind of emotions – faint and frightened, hot and heady, romantic yet reserved, intrigued yet isolated. It’s a very confusing time for people in different stages of status. So the perfect solution to this mix-up is to throw a fun, heart-pumping party! A sweetheart match is a blind-date of sorts that takes singles out of the turbulent toss-up of an equation, and has them paired up many times throughout the night! With no pressure to say the right things, act accordingly, pretend-to-be or reveal flaws, this gathering is a carefree zone of flirting and frolicking!

Yes, party planning has a reputation of being timely, costly, and uneventful for the planner. But with TECHtionary’s helpful app – iPartyGramPro – putting together a bash is laid-back like lounging on your porch after a long hard day of work.

Virtual Meet-And-Greet

ipartygrampro-ipad-3The invitation section of the app makes inviting people simply effortless. Chose from any one of the many backgrounds provided in the app, or take a picture of something that specifically reminds you of love for this holiday. Then, include details about when it is, where it is, and what the details of the party are like the concept of blind dating! You can set R.S.V.P. deadlines so that no one is left unmatched up. Then, assign VIPs out of your invited guests to help you post images that get anticipation for the party started! For example, someone will snap a smiling shot of themselves with the tag ‘I just aced my Geography exam, and I’m lookin’ for someone to celebrate with!’ Guests can log in with their special ID code to view this comment and picture so that they are reminded of the whole idea for the party. In order to keep privacy for guests, enter your name in the ‘to’ box and theirs in the ‘bcc’ box – this is useful for sending invites to your contact list at once. Or, send each person a separate PDF so you can specify who is able to bring a plus one, if you want couples to be a part of the celebration but not take part in the mix-match set up.

The Trio

You’ll need minor preparation to gear up the party. A fun hot and cold beverage and food idea is easy. A playlist of hard and soft music for dancing and mingling is vital. And typical pink and red themed decorations are perfect! Think about cleaning up, before hand, so the next morning is a breeze. Set out trash bags and other bins for recycling all around the allotted space and aside the concession stand especially.

Snacks

Set out plates of easy-to-heat spicy hot wings (the spicier the better) with cool ranch dipping. Then, for drinks, make both a hot cider and an icy pitcher of peppermint-colada.

ipartygram-4For the cider, mix 2 teaspoons of cinnamon, ½ a cup of caramel topping, one gallon of apple juice, and 3 sliced peaches or plums. Let the flavors marinate together while simmering in a pot for 10 minutes if you have a hot-plate, or in a microwave-safe container, slightly uncovered, in microwave for 5 minute sections. Cool for 3 minutes in-between the 5-minute periods, stir, and then proceed to heat. Do this three times throughout the full 15 minutes. – WARNING: bowl will be hot! Approach each interval with caution and an oven-mitt of some sort. Handle with care! –

Then, for the coloda, mix a can of sweetened-condensed milk with a gallon of cranberry juice. Steep 3 bags of peppermint tea for 5 minutes in the thickened mixture (or add 2-3 drops of extract if you have it on hand). Crush and add ½ a bag of peppermint candies and 3 cups of ice – you can do this with a giant 5-gallon plastic baggie, covered with a washcloth, and beat with the bottom of a flat heavy binder or book of some sort, if you don’t have a blender.

Set out some themed plastic cups (for the cider), paper plates, and napkins. Heat up the cider whenever it gets cold, very briefly for a few minutes. And keep another pitcher on hand in the fridge when the first one runs out. The cider warms you up and loosens that tense disposition to date-night, and the icy refreshing drink rejuvenates your mind-set in-between different parings. These food and drink combos give a tingling sensation to your senses that co-mingles with the butterflies fluttering around in your stomach all night!

9letter3Soundtrack

Everything from Kay Perry, Kesha and Lady Gaga to Cypress Hill, Stevie Wonder, and Def Leppard is appropriate! To make those slow-dances softer but fun, try some of The Penguins, more specifically ‘Earth Angel’. Or try ‘Blue Moon’ by The Marcels. Those will really kick in some emotional connections while still being playful. And of course, have a bowl with pieces of paper for every person’s name so that you can randomly match people at intervals in the party. Have a sequence that everyone follows, so it’s not awkward and more light-hearted – kind of like a dating palooza! For instance – introduce yourself, your major, where you’re from, and then leave the last question for different favorites’ topics or revealing embarrassing dating moments to break the ice.

Interior Design

Dress the room in shades of pink, red, and even purple so the theme is instantly recognizable. You can have a lot of creative input with these colors. Ask a few select friends to cut hearts out of construction paper, in varying sizes. Use pipe cleaners – little furry pieces of flexible material that you find at craft stores – to mold these shapes, or make other romance-related items like lips, eyes, flowers, etc, and hang them around the room. Drape long sparkly scarves along windows. Or, dye cloth table covers in the different colors with buckets, water, and an outside space – following the directions on the different dye packets – to get an almost tie-dye effect for Valentine’s Day.

With this app, mastering the art of party-throwing is like making those grand grades in school – it ups your G.P.A. or Great Planning Ability!

7retro1

 

Mardi Gras Party Planning Using iPartyGramPro

Posted on by
Reply

mardigra572XSLife for college students feels like a balancing act – we’re juggling classes, studying for exams, tending to family obligations – not-to-mention a social life! Whew! It’s a wonder we manage time for sleep! While we care for our varying matters, we still have a duty as vibrant young adults to party! Planning such events, however, can be utterly time consuming – although, now, creating an event that’s memorable and fun can be simple and quick with iPartyGramPro. This app from TECHtionary allows all your events to come together easily and enjoy them yourself too!

If you’re looking to liven up your Mardi Gras Celebration this year, develop more excitement for the event with a pre-bash party! It’s a fun way to get pumped for the big event while throwing an original gathering guests’ can revel in!

Bring Awareness

ipartygram-4Throwing this type of theme involves unique invitations and photos that will create lots of hype before the big night! Use the invitation section of the app to design one that gets people excited about the fiesta up front. Search ‘mardi gras’ and use images from the internet to take pictures, which will be the background for your invite. Or pick from the variety of backgrounds available on the app as well.

You can establish RSVP deadlines, enclose details about the event like time, location and notes or reminders that you find necessary to provide guests with. Since most people have plans for this day (2/12/13), and many cultures have different traditional ceremonies related to it, it’s good to have this party at least a week ahead of time.

The invitation section also allows you to send individualized memos in PDF format to multiple guests, or send one to every person on your contact list – in order to keep their emails private from other receivers, put your name in the ‘to’ box, and their names in the ‘bcc’ box.

The guests then type in the code they receive with their invitation to view pictures before and after the event. To instill even more anticipation for the party, you can post pictures of costume ideas or other holiday related images via Facebook or Twitter to create a madhouse of energy for your party. Even assign VIPs to post some of their related pictures so guests can get doubly excited for the event.

The event is linked to parades and is generally celebrated on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, where people can indulge before lent – although many cultures celebrate this particular event for three days to three months prior to! Remember to include the typical dress code involved, and push people to get creative! Masks, beads, and colorful glitz and feathers are normally associated with the attire for this event.

Set-Up

There are three things that make a party fabulous – a solid concession stand, venue appeal and lots of dancing! Chose selections that aren’t only appropriate for this type of bash, but accentuate its’ thrill more!

Try these easy and cute party drinks a few hours before the party that won’t burn a whole in your pocket –

You’ll Need… Prepare
- a jar with a lid- purple food coloring- 1 c. granulated sugar- 2 small bowls

- a pkg. of small plastic cups

- 2 gal. grape juice

- 1 canned fruit cocktail

- 1/2 bg. of grapes

- 4 limes

- edible gold dust

 1. Start with 3-5 drops of food coloring (I add more for a dramatic hue) into the granulated sugar – but add more or less to get preferred color – and seal the jar to shake vigorously. *Hint: find more recipe ideas like this on allrecipies.com.2. Fill 2 small bowls, one with the colored sugar, and the other with water.3. Dip plastic cup into water, then immediately trace the edge with the sugar. *Hint: tilt cup at an angle, then twist it to get more application of the sugar. Repeat these steps for all cups.4. Fill a large punch bowl with 2 gallons of grape juice, 1 can of fruit cocktail, half a bag of grapes, and 4 sliced limes (with the skin left on them).

5. Give the punch a quick stir, and leave the bowl in the fridge to chill until you’re ready to serve it. Then, add a few shakes of the gold dust to give it some extra sparkle.

 

The best thing about this festive cross between a sangria and cocktail is that you can make it with just about any other items on sale. For instance, try salt, green food coloring, fruit punch, canned mandarin oranges, apples, and lemons for a different twist! You can also get the cups, bowls, and dust at the dollar store!

Then, ask two friends to provide some snacks! All you’ll need to top this party off is a couple bags of chocolate chips and some kind of spicy finger-food item. Anything decadent is just how Mardi Gras is done.

Add streamers or confetti in glittery purple, gold, green or turquoise for a simple and festive décor. A lot of costume thrift shops or even craft stores sell abundance of brightly colored feathers and masks that you can hang everywhere for added effect. If you want to go even further, cover surfaces with plastic table cloths, cut small slits for tying twine into, and weave some chunky beads into the ends for more fun!

Deliver

4ipartgram2When the time comes, and the beverages, snacks and decorations are set, it’s time to establish the entertainment for the night! Rock out to a mixed playlist of tunes so that you can keep the energy for the party going throughout.  Think about flow and transitions with the list – it will make for a more linear and interesting soundtrack for the party. Or assign one of your VIP guests to DJ, and focus on the musical heart of the party.

Make sure to assign certain songs at intervals, marking the ‘parade line’ while encouraging everyone to participate in dancing, and see how long the line can get! It’s a fun way to engrain memories and collect loads of unique pics to relive the party by! Also, get little Maracas or hand shakers of some sort at your local party store for some festive noise to accompany the dancing!

After-Party

When it comes to the morning after, and the event must be cleaned up, have certain maxi-sized trash bags for recycling aluminum, paper and plastic! Have a few friends stick around to help with the mess, and box away neat items like any feathers used, or unstained table cloths, or masks that can be used for another party some other day.

This is a great way to keep spirits up until Mardi Gras, without all the expense of a typical college party.

10 Top College Party Themes from iPartygram – iPhone/iPad Party App

Posted on by
Reply

College party season is nearly here, and it’s time to start planning next semester’s parties. Party planning is a serious business, and the theme you choose could make or break the party’s success. When choosing a theme, think about the kind of guests you’ve invited, their interests, and what kind of party you think they might enjoy. Some people might find more risqué party themes a little uncomfortable, while others might find more traditional themes too vanilla. We’ve compiled a list of the 10 top college party themes to help you decide:

1.  Casino

You might not be 21 yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make your own casino. Even if you’ve never been to Vegas, you’ll still have a good idea of what it takes to make a casino-themed party. As you can’t go to a real casino, try bringing the casino to your dorm or apartment.

Drinks are an important part of playing the tables, so stock up. As well as the usual beer and cider, you can also offer guests more sophisticated beverages, like cocktails and mixers. Next, you need to arrange a selection of casino-style games. Card games are easy to recreate, as you don’t need much more than a deck and a table. Other games, like roulette and craps, might require a little more research, but you might be able to find discounted replica equipment online.

Dress code is also important. Vegas casinos like a certain standard of attire, so make sure your guests come dressed for the occasion. Business casual for the guys and cocktail dresses for the ladies are perfect for a casino-themed party.

2.  Seven Deadly Sins

Most people have heard of the seven deadly sins. For those that haven’t, this theme is an education in culture, as well as a chance to dress up and have a good time. The seven deadly sins are originally a religious concept, but have long been used by college partygoers all over the country as an opportunity to create entertaining costumes. In no particular order, the seven deadly sins are:

  • Pride
  • Envy
  • Gluttony
  • Lust
  • Wrath
  • Greed
  • Sloth

Obviously, some of these are easier to recreate than others, but the seven deadly sins give guests the chance to get creative. For example, someone coming as “Greed” could dress up like a Wall Street banker, while someone choosing “Sloth” could come in Pajamas, no costume at all, or, if they wanted to be literal, dress up like an actual sloth.

3.  I’m Glad I’m not

This is an amusing theme that requires guests to choose something they’re glad they’re not, then come dressed as that. For example, if one guest decided that they were glad they weren’t a cast member on “Real Housewives of Beverley Hills”, then they’d have to come dressed as one.

For this theme, you can select individual people, celebrity features, an adjective (e.g. fat, pregnant, dead, and so on), or an object. The results are often hilarious, and guests usually turn up in some very unique costumes.

4.  ABC – Anything But Clothes

ABC sounds educational, but it actually stands for “Anything But Clothes”. The premise is simple: guests have to dress up in anything but clothes. This can be absolutely anything, from aluminum foil, to toilet paper, to police tape, to whatever your imagination allows.

Bonus points go to the person with the most original and creative outfit. ABC is not for the easily offended!

5.  Black Light

Black light parties are a great way to hold a dance party with a difference. You can also combine this with number 10: the graffiti party.

For this party, you’ll need to get hold of a black light (UV light). Set it up in a room where everyone has enough space to move around and dance. Natural light lessens the effect of UV, so for maximum effectiveness, block out as much light as possible. A great way to do this is to tape black card over the windows, creating a black out effect.

Instruct all guests to come in white or has white patterning on it, as this is what will show up with a black light. The most effective types of costume are those that are black and white, as black won’t show up at all under the black light, while the white will be highlighted.

To combine a black light party with a graffiti party, purchase some UV pens or glow paint, then let guests write all over each other. Just remember to let everyone know in advance so they wear something they don’t mind getting ruined.

6.  High School

High school is a fixture of most people’s teenage lives, so this themed college party is a great way to level up and poke a bit of fun at the jocks and cheerleaders. As well as the obvious stereotypes like the above, the geeks and the preppy kids, you can get a bit creative and choose other stereotypes like homecoming king and queen, drama king and queen, and rock band kid.

7.  Decades/Retro Parties

Retro parties, or those themed on a particular decade, are a lot of fun. When you choose to throw a decade-themed party, you also have a lot to choose from. Whether you want to go for a roaring 20s-style party, throw a prohibition-era speak easy, or take it all the way to the 90s, your choice is guaranteed to be a hit.

As well as recreating the style of dress from a particular era, you can also theme the party around celebrities, cultural icons, or events from that time. A sixties party could include the Beatles, a seventies party could be themed around Saturday Night Fever, while guests attending a 90s party could come as Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, the Spice Girls, and other cultural icons from the time.

8.  Around the World

Around the World is a theme that celebrates the differences between cultures around the world. As it suggests, the aim of theme is to pick a country and come in the traditional dress of that particular area.

Hosting an “Around the World”-themed party also allows you to get creative with drinks and food. You can depart from the traditional beer keg by serving different types of drinks from around the world too. Ask your guests to bring authentic food and drink from the country they’ve chosen. Someone who has chosen Mexico could bring tequila and guacamole, while someone coming from Russia could bring vodka.

Guests can also choose to dress as individuals whose jobs might take them all around the world, such as a sailor or an air hostess. If you’re really struggling, go as a tourist!

9.  Letter

The concept of a letter party is pretty simple: the host chooses a letter, and guests have to come as an object that begins with that letter.

This theme can produce some interesting costume choices! If you’re feeling particularly mean as a host, you might be tempted to choose a letter like X or Z that is going to give guests a challenge. Your party will be more successful, however, if you choose a letter that gives guests lots of options, otherwise everyone will be forced to come as the same two or three objects. To encourage originality, offer a prize for the most unique costume.

10.  Graffiti Party

As you might have worked out from “Black Light”, a graffiti party involves, well, graffiti. Guests come wearing clothes they don’t mind ruining, pick up a selection of sharpies at the door, then spend the party putting graffiti on each other. White t-shirts work best, and guests should avoid wearing ribbed ruffled shirts, as those are hard to tag.

As a host, you should get washable sharpies. Pen will get on furniture, the floor and various items around the party house or room, so you need to be able to wash it off afterwards.

 

 

College Party Planning

Posted on by
Reply

Partying is a rite of passage at college so if you’re planning a party, you want to make sure it’s one your guests will remember. Finding the time to plan a college party can be tricky when you’re studying too, so we’ve created a step-by-step party planning guide to help.

 

1. Choose a theme

The theme you choose can make or break your college party. Some popular party themes, like toga parties, decades and high school stereotypes, can lose their novelty after a while. If you want to choose a ‘traditional’ college party theme, try to introduce a new twist to make it more exciting.

2.  Send out the invitations

Use the iPartyGram app to send invitations to guests quickly, and for free. You can personalize your invitations and include all the information guests need about date, time and place, as well as individual instructions or notes. When you create a party, you can upload photos, for example of previous parties or costume ideas. You can also nominate ‘VIP guests’, who can upload their own photos for other guests to see.

When guests receive their invitations via email, they get a special code they can use to log in to the iPartyGram website and view details of the parties, photographs and more. It’s the perfect way to save yourself time, while still creating an atmospheric buzz around the event.

3.  Select food and drink

The type of food and drink you choose will depend on the type of party you’re organizing and your budget. If you want to keep costs to a minimum, ask each guest to bring their own drinks and snacks to share.

Food and drink is a great opportunity to get creative if you’re planning a themed party. For example, if the theme is “Around the world”, you can also organize a selection of food and drink from all around the world. If it’s a decade’s party, try to get hold of some retro snacks and soda for guests.

4.  During the party

All major party planning should be done before the party actually starts. That way, you get to enjoy the event instead of worrying about your guests.

On the night of the party, make sure you have everything ready ahead of time, including music playlists. You can also make your work easier after the party by putting out extra garbage bags and designating a specific place for empty bottles and trash. This is also a great time to enlist some friends to help with the clean-up immediately after the party and the next day.

5.  The morning after

 The morning after the night before can be a real come-down, especially when the party was a great success and you’re left with a landfill-sized amount of trash to clean. Make the job easier by designating specific tasks to certain people and purchasing any extra cleaning products or household items you might need ahead of time. That way, even the most daunting clean-up shouldn’t take less than a couple of hours, after which you’re free to spend the rest of the day recovering.

Anything But Clothes Party Planning

Posted on by
Reply

Anything But Clothes (or ABC for short) is one of the most popular college party themes. It doesn’t require much work on the part of the person organizing the party and it produces some hilarious results. Unlike other party themes, the endless possibilities for costumes means ABC never gets old.

If you’re planning an ABC-themed party, here are a couple of tips and ideas to get you started.

Dress Code

This should be obvious from the name of the party, but you might want to go into a bit more detail about what guests can wear. Examples might include newspaper, Christmas decorations like tinsel (for a seasonal party), warning tape, curtains, blankets, garbage bags… and so on. Help guests out by sending them a list of items they could use.

To incentivize guests to get inventive, hold a best-dressed competition for the most original outfit. One of the potential downsides of an ABC party is that it can be hard work for guests to think of and create a truly clothes-free outfit. To boost their enthusiasm and reduce the chance that people turn up in their normal clothes, let everyone know in advance that you’ll be giving a prize to the most creative outfits on the night.

Invitations

Send out your invitations using iPartyGram. This app will save you time and helps you get guests talking about the event before the big day. You can use the image feature in the app to post pictures of previous ABC parties to give guests ideas about the kind of costume they can wear. You can also nominate VIP guests to upload their own photos.

The app is perfect for creating eye-catching customized invitations and sending them out to guests quickly. You can include all the details guests will need, like time and place, and give them instructions about whether they can bring guests, need to bring any food and when to RSVP.

Food and drink

More often than not, attention to detail is what makes a party memorable. Just as you’re asking guests to come in ABC, you can extend the theme to include food and drink too.

At a party, you’ll usually find beer, cider and certain spirits, so challenge yourself and your guests to bring anything but traditional college party drinks and food. You can still keep some extra beer on hand in case you need extra supplies, but it will be entertaining for both you and other guests to see the kind of items people bring along.

The Clean-Up

Clearing up after an ABC party is notoriously difficult as many people end up discarding their ABC costumes during the evening. Make your job easier by asking friends to help, and make sure you have an industrial amount of garbage bags on hand to clear up all the rubbish afterwards.

ipartygram

Party Planning Apps for iPhone & iPad

Posted on by
Reply

Party Planning Apps

Whether you’re celebrating a milestone in life, such as a wedding or graduation, or simply want to plan a fun time together with family and friends, a party can be the ideal way to celebrate most any occasion. As technology progresses and becomes more highly integrated into everyday life, it provides us with better methods for planning and preparation. Smartphone and computer apps can be used to help you plan your next party. By streamlining the time and effort you put into planning and preparation you can provide yourself with the opportunity to enjoy your party as much as your guests do. Use one or more of these apps the next time you’ve got a shindig to plan.

  • Evite. People have been using Evite on their computers for years. This handy application allows you to create customized party invitations and send them to people on your contact list. Now you can use Evite Mobile to create and send your party invitations on-the-go. This app provides you with a few convenient ways to invite people to your party, including sending the invitations from your mobile app to their email, phone or via text message.
  • The Cocktails App. You don’t have to be a trained bartender to delight your adult guests with delicious cocktails. The Cocktails App helps you determine which mixed drinks would be best for your party. It also provides you with a list of necessary ingredients and simple directions to make the drinks. The additional tips provided with this app help you add delicious variations to your drinks and explain the benefits of using certain bartending tools and supplies.
  • Dinner Party Food Street. If you’ve planned a party but have no idea what to serve your guests to eat, this useful app can assist you in creating and planning the entire spread. Look through countless meal and appetizer suggestions and click on each to obtain a necessary ingredients list and recipe. When you’re not using this app for party planning, you’ll enjoy using it to plan your regular meals, as well.
  • Let’s Party! After enjoying the delicious dinner spread you’ve created with the Dinner Part Food Street app, your guests might be too full to dance but they’ll enjoy the party games you come up with Let’s Party! This party game-lover’s app has games for all kind of occasions, from children’s parties to holiday parties. Search through the app’s database to find several games that fit with your theme or occasion.
  • iPartygram Organizing, planning and having a great party experience is the concept behind iPartyGram.  With more than hundred different background photos and images available through the app, you can choose an image that suits the theme or occasion of your party. You can add all the information you need to the party invitation, and it’s the perfect opportunity to let guests know if the party has a certain dress code, theme, or whether they should bring their own drinks. You can also use the “Notes” and “Reminders” sections to give guests a date by which they should RSVP, saving you the hassle of having to chase people up later.  When sending invitations to guests, you can select the box marked “VIP” if you want that guest to be able to upload their own photos to the party section within iPartyGram.  You can either send the invitation to each guest individually with your own customized message, or send the same graphic file to multiple people.   iPartyGram is a versatile app that makes the party planning process simple, quick, and cost-effective. It allows you to spend less time on practical tasks, like sending invitations, leaving you with more time to focus on the big event.

Using apps to create, invitation and drastically reduce your party preparation time and your stress level by taking advantage of party planning apps that give ideas and instructions for creating the perfect party. Whether your occasion is casual or formal, in the backyard or at the local club, these party planning apps can take the stress out of “being the host or the hostess with the mostest.” When all is said and done and the last guest has said “goodnight”, you’ll be able to look back on a party that was easy to plan and fun to enjoy with your guests.

iPartyGram Independent Review – Pre Release First Look – By Hannah B

Posted on by
Reply

iPartyGram is a new party-planning app for the iPhone and iPad from TECHtionary. It enables you to upload party details and photos, share information with friends, and create customized invitations to send via email. You can use iPartyGram when planning variety of parties, from large-scale events like weddings, to smaller events like house-warming parties. You can also use the app in combination with other software, such as Microsoft Excel, to keep track of your guest list and RSVPs.

Party hosts can sign up to a special account on the app, which allows them to create new parties, add details, such as time, place, and other notes and instructions, and share these details with guests. As a party host, you can also upload photos that your guests will see when they log in using the details in their invitation. These could be photos of the party venue, costume ideas for a themed party, or photos of previous parties.

One of the app’s most useful features is the ability to create and send invitations to guests.  Using iPartyGram, you can create customized invitations and send them to others for free via email. Not only does this save you the time it takes to write out and mail physical invitations, but it also saves you money – particularly if you intend to send invitations to a lot of people.

To send an invitation, simply enter the correct details in the boxes provided, choose a background image, then enter your guests’ email addresses. The app transforms the invitation into a graphic file that guests can view in the body of the email. With a variety of different background photos and images available through the app, you can choose an image that suits the theme or occasion of your party. You can add all the information you need to the invitation, and it’s the perfect opportunity to let guests know if the party has a certain dress code, theme, or whether they should bring their own drinks. You can also use the “Notes” and “Reminders” sections to give guests a date by which they should RSVP, saving you the hassle of having to chase people up later.

When sending invitations to guests, you can select the box marked “VIP” if you want that guest to be able to upload their own photos to the party section within iPartyGram.  Guests can only view party pics/snaps

You can either send the invitation to each guest individually with your own customized message, or send the same graphic file to multiple people. To keep each individual’s email address private, enter your own email address in the “To:” field, then enter the other recipients’ addresses in the “BCC:” field. That way, when guests receive the invitations, they only see your email address, and other guests’ emails stay hidden. The graphic format means that guests can easily print out and take the invitation with them to the party, so they have all the details on hand.

When guests receive their invitations, it contains a unique ID number. To access the party details, all they have to do is download the iPartyGram app or log on to the website, and enter the ID number in the Guest Login section, then they can access the party details and, if they are VIP guests, upload their own photos.

iPartyGram is an extraordinary, simple and versatile app that makes the party planning process simple, quick, and cost-effective. It allows you to spend less time on practical tasks, like sending invitations, leaving you with more time to focus on the big event.

Speaking of planning, the iPartygram website has a growing list of cool ideas on all kinds of party planning ideas, tips, checklists and more.