Wild West Themed Party
So we had a lot to celebrate recently. Both my fiancée and I celebrated birthdays, we moved into a new house and we got engaged. Phew! That’s a lot of celebrations isn’t it? So we decided to combine all our celebrations and have a house and garden party.
We decided that this party should be a Wild West themed party. Yeeha!
So as any good party planner does, they go on to Pinterest for inspiration. I found loads of ideas, but being quite short of time, I decided to keep it quite simple with a few decorations and some Wild West themed food.
The decorations were made up of a lot of bunting, hung around the house and in the garden. We turned the door to the downstairs loo into a saloon door, for extra decoration.
Food-wise, I decided to cook hot food and then serve this in buffet servers to keep it warm and let people help themselves. I cooked chilli, sausages, pulled pork, veggie chilli and corn on the cobs. These dishes were accompanied by baps, wraps, cheese, salad, nachos and a variety of BBQ sauces and varying dips.
Entertainment wise, we had country music playing throughout the day, but this eventually got a bit mellow for everyone, so we switched it up to some party tunes, including cotton-eye Joe which seemed appropriate for this type of party. That kicked off the dancing in the garden. We lit tiki torch candles when it got dark – not very Wild West I know, but we are waiting for our outside lights to be repaired.
When we’d had enough of dancing, we set up a card den in the living room and played card games until the early hours.
All in all, a great party. Maybe we didn’t stick strictly to theme on all aspects, but it all seemed to go down well and everyone had a great time.
If I were to do this theme again, I would make some personalised wanted posters to stick around the house and garden. I would have also served Wild West themed cocktails. If I had the time or budget a photo prop with face cut outs would have been a fun addition to the party too.
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Congrats again on the engagement, what a full on amazing month you've had! Looks like a fun party too.
Stevie x
Thanks Stevie. It was such good fun. I can't wait to host more parties next summer.
Amazing! Love the outfits and decorations ; ). The personalised wanted posters sound like a great idea as well. Looks like you all had loads of fun, I may have to steal this theme idea : ). Thanks for sharing with #GlobalBlogging!
You definitely should use this theme for a party. It would be so much fun.
It looks like you had an awesome time, what a brilliant theme! Thanks for joining in with #TuesdayTreasures!
Thanks Rachel. Everyone looked really fantastic and we all enjoyed the theme.
What an exciting and fun evening! What an eventful couple of months you have had! Thanks for sharing! #globalblogging
I know. We are so lucky to have so much to celebrate. Let all the fun wedding planning begin.
FUN! We’re so glad you party with us at Merry Monday. We always look forward to your projects.
Thanks Shirley. It was a lot of fun.
This sounds brilliant! I wish we had a garden to have parties 🙂 and a big congratulations on the engagement! #picknmix
Thanks Amie 🙂 I know exactly how you feel. We moved from a flat with no garden just this year and it's been wonderful. I'm always out there pottering. We ate dinner for a week at the garden table. I love having a garden now. Hope you get one in your next place.
This looks fab - great theme! Congratulations and happy birthday to you both, I hope you all enjoyed the party
Thanks for linking up to #AnythingGoes 🙂
Debbie
Thanks Debbie. It was so much fun. A lot of hard work to get it ready, but well worth it.
Sounds like a great party. I like the thought of a late night card den too! My son had a cowboy themed birthday a couple of years ago and we made a wanted poster photo booth from cardboard and used hay bales as seating. I'm still finding straw in my car boot! Congratulations on your engagement and new home. #globalblogging
Thanks Caroline. That sounds like a lot of fun. We should have got straw bales. That would have been brilliant.
My mummy had a Western themed 30th Birthday Party in a converted barn with line dancing and everyone dressed up as cowboys. It was really good fun. Some great ideas here! #DreamTeam
That sounds so much fun. We definitely did a bit of line dancing (as you can tell by the pictures) but it was more dancing in a line than actual line dancing. What a hoot!
Oh my 12 year old would love this theme, looks amazing and like lots of fun! #anythinggoes