50th birthday celebration ideas

collegeshopping
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:01:28 +0000

For my husband’s 50th, I threw a Casino Party in our home and it was a complete blast, by far the best party I ever have ever thrown. I moved all my downstairs “public space” furniture into the garage and the casino company brought in two black jack tables, Teas Hold’em, Three Card Poker, Roulette, and a Craps Table. As each guest entered, they saw the “banker” (our daughter) and she distributed $500 in chips. Players played until they were broke or built a stash and we awarded prizes at the end of the night. A Trophy going to first place, which we had made at the local trophy shop. If you went broke, you could take out a marker from the banker for more money, but when prizes were awarded, any extra money you took would be subtracted from the winnings. This way you could always be playing. We piped in music from an IPOD play list with the guest of honor’s favorite music and mixed it up with songs from the 50’s/60’s. I did hire a caterer for heavy appetizers all night and we created our own bar, but did hire a bartender. For the Casino staff and all the tables, it was $1100.00. I thought it was a bargain for a crazy good night. We had about 70 people and I can’t remember how much the food was.