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My Super-Sweet 21st.

  • 05-07-2009 6:15pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    I'm aware I'm unlikely to get any decent responses, but still...

    I'm turning 21 in September. I've had countless people asking me what sort of party/celebration I'm going to have.

    I'm know it's stupidly early to even be thinking about it, but any ideas of what I could do?

    Don't want a typical rehash-your-debs party.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    I'm aware I'm unlikely to get any decent responses, but still...

    I'm turning 21 in September. I've had countless people asking me what sort of party/celebration I'm going to have.

    I'm know it's stupidly early to even be thinking about it, but any ideas of what I could do?

    MJ/thriller Theme....hopefully if nobody else famous has kicked the bucket by then it'll still be plastered all over the papers and on telly enough to be "in"

    unless we get another 9/11 in the mean time then your fooked...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    Am I invited?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    A bikini party.

    I'm going to crash it. ;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    I spent my 21st at home playing Neverwinter Nights.

    Your move.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Give Lorcan a ring.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Screw having some big shin dig for it. Just go to a pub/nightclub with your friends and have a load of drink waiting back at yours or a friends house. This will be much better than booking out some stupid venue and inviting about 100 people most of which you probably don't care about.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Retirement Party Theme cause, like, you're so, like old now and stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    TheZohan wrote: »
    A bikini party.

    I'm going to crash it. ;)

    Actually, that's not a bad idea! I'll call up Heff and see what he thinks! :p

    You can be the official photographer!

    And yeah, I'll have an open invitation for Boardsies! :D


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Mira Puny Chisel


    I brought a bunch of friends to the pub one night, and brought another few close friends to movies + dinner another night.
    None of the typical giant party with a cheesy dj type.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Just have some fun. Get a decent venue, get your friends there, provide alcohol.

    I recently worked at a twenty-first where the family spent approx. €50,000 on the night and had nearly 200 people along. It was crazy, but in a "oh my god, what have you spent!?!?!" kind of way rather than "This is the best party EVERRRRR!!" kind of way.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭narwog81


    weekend away in europe. if ye book now you'll get flights for about 50 quid, just email the dates to everyone and leave it up to them....

    all the tight/boring/not really a friend people wont go, cue good weekend....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭themilkyone


    I'm aware I'm unlikely to get any decent responses, but still...

    I'm turning 21 in September. I've had countless people asking me what sort of party/celebration I'm going to have.

    I'm know it's stupidly early to even be thinking about it, but any ideas of what I could do?

    Don't want a typical rehash-your-debs party.

    I rented out a place called the Earl of Kildare on Kildare Street for my 21st last September. Was a pretty decent venue. If you have any friends that can DJ they'll supply the equipment free of charge. The only thing I will say is that the food platters were kinda pricey. All in all I think it cost me about €400 for food,room and bar extension til 4am. It's part of a hotel so you can get a late night out of it.

    Hope this is some use.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    Fajitas! wrote: »
    Just have some fun. Get a decent venue, get your friends there, provide alcohol.

    I recently worked at a twenty-first where the family spent approx. €50,000 on the night and had nearly 200 people along. It was crazy, but in a "oh my god, what have you spent!?!?!" kind of way rather than "This is the best party EVERRRRR!!" kind of way.

    holy ****!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    You should do what I did on my 21st (after I started a thread) and just go out on the piss with your friends. Make sure ye all have somewhere to go after the pub/club too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    narwog81 wrote: »
    weekend away in europe. if ye book now you'll get flights for about 50 quid, just email the dates to everyone and leave it up to them....

    all the tight/boring/not really a friend people wont go, cue good weekend....

    That's what I was thinking, go away somewhere nice for a few days, have a change of scenery.
    I rented out a place called the Earl of Kildare on Kildare Street for my 21st last September. Was a pretty decent venue. If you have any friends that can DJ they'll supply the equipment free of charge. The only thing I will say is that the food platters were kinda pricey. All in all I think it cost me about €400 for food,room and bar extension til 4am. It's part of a hotel so you can get a late night out of it.

    Hope this is some use.

    Thanks for that! Funnily enough, I have a few friends who are into DJing, but unfortunately, my uncle would be heartbroken if I asked them over him! He's having a bit of a mid-life crisis at the moment and has starting buying all this mad, expensive equipment and "DJs" at local events! Haha! :D

    He actually suggested to me months ago that he be the DJ at my party *sigh*

    The idea of having a traditional 21st party scares me, because all the ones I've been to have been utterly crap. We're talking pissed grandparents in the corner wearing party hats, chatting to relatives you never knew existed and greasy cocktail sausages in Tupperware bowls :(
    You should do what I did on my 21st (after I started a thread) and just go out on the piss with your friends. Make sure ye all have somewhere to go after the pub/club too.

    The going on the piss thing is obviously appealing! I was thinking of staging a hen night. Get all the girls to dress up and look ridiculous, and just pretend I'm getting married :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    The going on the piss thing is obviously appealing! I was thinking of staging a hen night. Get all the girls to dress up and look ridiculous, and just pretend I'm getting married :pac:

    Yep. Do that. Wear the "L" sign and everything. It'll be rad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭In All Fairness


    Screw having some big shin dig for it. Just go to a pub/nightclub with your friends and have a load of drink waiting back at yours or a friends house. This will be much better than booking out some stupid venue and inviting about 100 people most of which you probably don't care about.

    This is definitely the best way to go. Less hassle,less expense, no fretting about numbers or food and you get to enjoy the night yourself instead of worrying if the party is going alright. A friend of mine split two cases of beer into 12 x 4can bags and stashed them in different gardens on the way from the pub back to her house and had clues as to which gardens they were in and we had a treasure hunt on the way back. Sounds childish (and it was) but we were drunk and it is still the 21st that sticks in my mind. Just be sure to pick the pub carefully and if possible get them to reserve a few tables together so everyone isn't split up. But whatever you decide to do just enjoy yourself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Screw having some big shin dig for it. Just go to a pub/nightclub with your friends and have a load of drink waiting back at yours or a friends house. This will be much better than booking out some stupid venue and inviting about 100 people most of which you probably don't care about.

    We have a winner. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    To-ga To-ga To-ga...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I brought a bunch of friends to the pub one night, and brought another few close friends to movies + dinner another night.
    None of the typical giant party with a cheesy dj type.

    Nail on the head Blue. Too diva-ish for me, and made it very clear there were no surprises. I've heard one or two people mentioning they were taking time off work suspiciously around my imminent 30th, and I'm not liking it. Think I'll surprise them by fcuking off out of the country for a few days ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    You could just have one do with your mates, one with your family. Don't mix the two - the auld wans will hate the music and noise and your friends/workmates will be on their best behaviour in front of your family... and where's the fun in that? :D

    Basically, do what YOU want. Everyone celebrates their 21st many times over with various groups of mates! :) You'll get around to everyone eventually!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 938 ✭✭✭chuci


    myself and my 2 best friends turned 21 at the same time so we went to a pub invited family and friends. then we had a house party supplied the drink and had an i pod with speakers best night ever such craic thats all you need really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    You should do what I did on my 21st (after I started a thread) and just go out on the piss with your friends. Make sure ye all have somewhere to go after the pub/club too.

    Totally!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I'm aware I'm unlikely to get any decent responses, but still...

    I'm turning 21 in September. I've had countless people asking me what sort of party/celebration I'm going to have.

    I'm know it's stupidly early to even be thinking about it, but any ideas of what I could do?
    How about booking yourself and partner / boyfriend / into a hotel for the night ,that way you fall up into bed instead of looking for a taxi home


    BTW pika ,what date in sept ......

    *mines on the 17th *


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    My 21st was a bunch of friends at my parent's home with food cooked by them and drinks provided by my friends. Best laugh and didn't get to sleep til 7am and some of the guests had to be in work by 10am.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    Latchy wrote: »
    How about booking yourself and partner / boyfriend / into a hotel for the night ,that way you fall up into bed instead of looking for a taxi home


    BTW pika ,what date in sept ......

    *mines on the 17th *

    23rd :)

    Already have a 21st in the diary for the 22nd and 26th! It's madness.

    As for the hotel plan, I'm single. I'd end up sitting in the hotel room on my own on my birthday! Niiiiice! ;)


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,632 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Have drinks in your place first. Then goto the Leisureplex locked. Loads of fun playing Qzar when buckled.Then goto some nightclub. Dont waste your money on a big party.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    nothing beats a fantastic game of pin the tail on the donkey for a 21st.

    PARTY TO THE MAX, my friend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I don't remember my 21st, why bother spending money on something you won't remember just spend the year telling strangers it's your birthday for free drink. It';; work out better if your in a city I xcould only get a day out of it but you could get free drink for months.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,662 ✭✭✭Trinity


    Latchy and pika you should be charged advertising rates dammit :p

    Never had a party and i'm 34, was never into the attention, plus you'd have to invite elderly relatives and my idea of a party is everyone dressing as burlesque dancers and pimps (or something along these lines) including my nana ;)

    couple of close friends, less people to make a dick of myself in front of


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    TheZohan wrote: »
    She aready has one sorted, he's taking photos too. ;)

    Its a she? Happy days, rent out a horde of brassers and video it. How many people can say they had a lesbian orgy for their 21st?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    23rd :)

    Already have a 21st in the diary for the 22nd and 26th! It's madness.

    Ah fellow Christmas babies! Good to meet you all.

    Part of me thinks that half of Ireland must be born at the end of Sept/early Oct. I know rake of people born within a week of me (I'm 28th btw)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    PaulieD wrote: »
    Its a she? Happy days, rent out a horde of brassers and video it. How many people can say they had a lesbian orgy for their 21st?

    You thought I was a man? :eek: I know Pikachu is a boy, but pikachucheeks doesn't sound very masculine to me :(

    Oh, and I went to a boarding school - I had lesbian orgies for breakfast ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    Latchy wrote: »
    *mines on the 17th *
    23rd :)

    HA! I beat both of you. 15th!

    Don't think I'll be doing anything though. Never really got the point of 21sts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    =Carsinian Thau;61009238] HA! I beat both of you. 15th!
    Your an inbetweenie
    Don't think I'll be doing anything though. Never really got the point of 21sts
    Think I just had a random spur of the moement pub crawl with some friends when it was mine .......


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    You thought I was a man? :eek: I know Pikachu is a boy, but pikachucheeks doesn't sound very masculine to me :(

    Oh, and I went to a boarding school - I had lesbian orgies for breakfast ;)

    Pics?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    You thought I was a man? :eek: I know Pikachu is a boy, but pikachucheeks doesn't sound very masculine to me :(

    Oh, and I went to a boarding school - I had lesbian orgies for breakfast ;)

    Ah fish fingers for breakfast. The best way to start the day :pac:

    what about having a bonfire and doing some weird drunk naked pseudo-pagan ritual?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    Latchy wrote: »
    Think I just had a random spur of the moement pub crawl with some friends when it was mine .......

    That wouldn't really work for me. I don't drink so I think I'd end up bored.

    Thank f*ck it's ages away. No point in thinking about it.

    pikachucheeks: What about a race around the world to celebrate it? Start at the North Pole, go all the way to the South Pole and back up again. First one back buys you your first drink as a grown up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    kareoke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Go to a few pubs, get pretty pissed, have a load of drink and music back at your house, get everyone to land back, drink and sing until the early hours, fall into bed and regret it all the next day.

    Feck all that expensive ****e, its the company that makes a party good, not how much you spend on it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    i never understood the 21st thing in ireland, america i can understand but here :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Euro_Kraut wrote: »
    Ah fellow Christmas babies! Good to meet you all.

    Part of me thinks that half of Ireland must be born at the end of Sept/early Oct. I know rake of people born within a week of me (I'm 28th btw)


    Hmmm... suspiciously nine months after new years....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,745 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Why has nobody said a big party? organise a party in some pub with sandwichs, you can organise it very cheaply. Then (the most important part) invite EVERYBODY, esp friends of your parents. Invite as many people you know, even ones who arent going to turn up. The night doesnt have to be special, but most people esp. the ones who dont go will throw 50 quid in a card anyway and send it on, handiest fundraiser you'll ever have besides you're confirmation! have it on a friday and ya can be out on the saturday doing all the non party ideas listed above, except now you'll be loaded!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    ColHol wrote: »
    Why has nobody said a big party? organise a party in some pub with sandwichs, you can organise it very cheaply. Then (the most important part) invite EVERYBODY, esp friends of your parents. Invite as many people you know, even ones who arent going to turn up. The night doesnt have to be special, but most people esp. the ones who dont go will throw 50 quid in a card anyway and send it on, handiest fundraiser you'll ever have besides you're confirmation! have it on a friday and ya can be out on the saturday doing all the non party ideas listed above, except now you'll be loaded!!

    That sounds like hell on earth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    /Thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    If you have a party don't have it on a Friday night, trust me. Also don't hire me as the Dj because i suck...apparently.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Id rent a bouncing castle at my perents house start at about 10/12 ish its september the weather's allways good, party through out the day tins drink champaign yada yada, if you perants are cool they wont give a naff whats goes on join in, then if your able to party through the night get a markey at out the back bit of catering sise bbq, maybe some paddeling pools and giant blow up/ animals / dolls roaming around the place. genrally party, feck that renting a room out buzz not worht it you can have just as much fun at your own house, perants permitting off course.... If there cool theyle join in get drunk pass out,.. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Id rent a bouncing castle at my perents house start at about 10/12 ish its september the weather's allways good, party through out the day tins drink champaign yada yada, if you perants are cool they wont give a naff whats goes on join in, then if your able to party through the night get a markey at out the back bit of catering sise bbq, maybe some paddeling pools and giant blow up/ animals / dolls roaming around the place. genrally party, feck that renting a room out buzz not worht it you can have just as much fun at your own house, perants permitting off course.... If there cool theyle join in get drunk pass out,.. :D

    Best idea i've heard yet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    Id rent a bouncing castle at my perents house start at about 10/12 ish its september the weather's allways good, party through out the day tins drink champaign yada yada, if you perants are cool they wont give a naff whats goes on join in, then if your able to party through the night get a markey at out the back bit of catering sise bbq, maybe some paddeling pools and giant blow up/ animals / dolls roaming around the place. genrally party, feck that renting a room out buzz not worht it you can have just as much fun at your own house, perants permitting off course.... If there cool theyle join in get drunk pass out,.. :D

    My parents actually suggested that. We have a big garden and already own a good few marquee things ... They host this fete every summer, so they bought a load of them.

    Only problem is, it's in the backarse of nowhere in Cork! :(

    It's a good idea though! I might just have a massive bbq thing with family and close friends, then go out in Dublin afterwards at some stage, to celebrate further! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Id rent a bouncing castle at my perents house start at about 10/12 ish its september the weather's allways good, party through out the day tins drink champaign yada yada, if you perants are cool they wont give a naff whats goes on join in, then if your able to party through the night get a markey at out the back bit of catering sise bbq, maybe some paddeling pools and giant blow up/ animals / dolls roaming around the place. genrally party, feck that renting a room out buzz not worht it you can have just as much fun at your own house, perants permitting off course.... If there cool theyle join in get drunk pass out,.. :D
    Anytime ive been at a party that combined booze & bouncy castles I usually end up goin bounce,out over the wall and land on head:(...........actually that might explain a lot:confused:


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