Scenario of the Black and White Party
When choosing a theme for a holiday, you want, first of all, to surprise your guests and create a cozy atmosphere. A great option is a black and white party. It will create the feeling of the last century, when people still watched black and white films, when color contrasts were not very popular, and people’s emotions and feelings, their sincere smiles and laughter, tears and sadness came to the fore. These are the times of Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, when their images shone in black and white films and the public admired them. You may want to take note of this.
Party decoration
There are only two colors in this range: black and white, but you can create many style options from them. First, let's talk about the decorations. The room should be white or black. Black in this case will not look gloomy, since it can be interrupted by white curtains and furniture.
But if there is no suitable interior, then there is no need to make urgent repairs. You can order a banquet hall or arrange an open air (open-air party), rent another room, for example, a children's camp, office, ship, club. The decor can be any and varied. The simplest would be a large and fluffy white curtain. A cheap option for party decoration is black and white balloons , ribbons and crepe paper. You can place balls and ribbons both on the ceiling and on the walls. If your furniture does not match, you can throw fabric over it, which will also preserve the upholstery after the holiday. Details will help you add black and white contrast: lamps, candlesticks, dishes, vases, flowers, and, finally, dishes and desserts. Some details may be silver, this will dilute your range of black and white colors. You can make hand made decorations and arrange or hang them. The silver starry sky on black fabric will look interesting.
As for the details, decorations and small details of the interior, this is where your imagination can run wild. But we will help you a little. Black vase with white flowers (roses, callas, chrysanthemums, lilies, tulips, carnations). You can display multiple flowers by placing them in a clear vase with silica gel beads (which expand in water). You can make a lush bouquet, for example, of carnations, low flowers, about 15 cm, and place it in a low vase, like a glass. Some buds, placed in water, in a low black and white vase, will look original standing on the table. Napkins with black and white print. the original folded ones will come in handy. Candles in glasses, matching colors, mirrors, paintings. Black and white confetti in small bags will turn out to be a fun fireworks display at the end of the holiday. As a "decoration" you can run an old black and white film on the projector. The picture should be cheerful, so as not to depress guests and acquaintances, so that guests are not distracted when they see the picture for the first time.
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Advice from a couple
- • Before you start preparing, answer yourself the question: “How do I see our wedding?” Definitely some kind of picture will immediately appear before your eyes. Therefore, not everything that is fashionable or on trend must be in your concept. Do it the way you want.
- • Invite only people close and dear to you, those who will be sincerely happy for you. Guests create a holiday!
- • Listen to the opinions of professionals. A good contractor is as interested in the result as you are.
- • If you do not have a lot of free time, you have not worked in organizing events - hire an organizer. There are many nuances that you are not even aware of. Relieve yourself of this responsibility.
- • Be sure to hire a coordinator! If the day is divided into several parts and includes several transfers, take several coordinators. On your wedding day, you should relax and enjoy yourself, and not worry about when the bus will arrive, whether there is enough champagne for everyone, and so on.
- • Choose contractors with whom you feel comfortable and pleasant to communicate with. A lot depends on this.
- • Don't be upset if something in your day doesn't go as planned. Enjoy every minute of the day!
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Party Invitations
Invitations are an important element of the holiday. The original option is an invitation with a photo. You can post a photo of yourself, a photo of a invited friend, or a photo of a star from that era. Invitation cards can be ordered at a printing house, where text will be printed in white paint on black cardboard, which will be simple and elegant. Or you can do it yourself by taking black cardboard and a silver gel pen. It is not necessary to make invitations on a black background. White will look no less elegant. Take a white piece of cardboard and black silk ribbon (or patterned). Write the text of the invitation in beautiful handwriting with monograms and decorate it all with a bow. If you are having a funny party, then the invitations can be in the shape of a zebra or decorated with polka dots. Don't forget to include your phone number and address, and make a note that black and white is the dress code.
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Music
The ideal musical accompaniment would be jazz . Twist and foreign rock and roll are also suitable. The music should be light, relaxed, but at the same time fun and captivating.
Why not throw a gangster-themed party?
Menu
This is where things get a little more complicated, but it's not all that complicated. If you want to serve only snacks , then sandwiches decorated with black olives or black caviar, tartlets with white cheese (brynza) are quite suitable.
Sweets : candies in appropriate color wrapping, cakes and cookies in black and white glaze, rolls, waffles and the like. Chocolate fondue can be served as an exotic dish. In which guests can dip cookies, marshmallows, and coconut.
If you want to serve hot , it can be white fish, with white sauce, or also decorated with black caviar. Or white meat, such as chicken with gravy.
If you are having a non-alcoholic party, then you can choose dark and white hot chocolate.
An alcoholic party option might consider an olive martini or golden champagne in neat glasses. The table can be decorated with contrasting greenery.
A composition of fresh white flowers in the center of the table will also look great.
rolls and sushi as party treats - they are also designed in dark white.
Decor
No matter the occasion, you have tons of script options! The classic solution is black and white decorations without reference to any theme. Cover the walls and ceiling with inexpensive fabric or cheap paper wallpaper. Drape the furniture in satin or velvet. Black and white stripes or polka dots, abstract bloopers or geometric patterns, Dalmatian, cow or zebra patterns - there is a wide choice, you don’t have to stop at a solid color. For a long time? Rent a white hall, add black decorations.
Elegant white candles in blackened candelabra, mirrors in heavy dark frames, snow-white flowers in black miniature vases, black and white glass beads. From corrugated paper it is not difficult to assemble lush flounces or bouquets, garlands for wall decoration or ceiling “hangers”. Don't have time to glue and cut? Decorate the room with contrasting balloons.
Simple and cheap: old tulle or lace, gouache in two colors, fabric dye, twigs without leaves (the more crooked, the more interesting). Bleach half the lace, dye half black. The branches are the same - paint half with gouache black, half white. Collect flowers from lace, attach them to branches - black flowers to white branches and vice versa. Place in vases and you’re done!
If you are planning a party in the style of a black and white movie, decorate the walls with aged posters, playbills or photos of celebrities of a bygone era: Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe. Make garlands from film strips, and flower buds from cinema tickets (print in black and white). Firecrackers for taking takes, movie cameras, awards. Feathers, hats, veils, cigarette holders, silverware are appropriate - everything is vintage, in a retro style, making you mentally travel back in time.
Not interested? Invite your friends to expose themselves by coming to the party in the form of a white angel or a black demon! Decor: feathers, wings, halos, angels and evil demons - figures, drawings. Or have some fun by throwing your friends... in jail! Striped robes, minimal decor, fake bars, chains, shackles and “terrible” instruments of torture.
Suits
The outfits can be varied, but remember that black and white is the dress code for this party. If you want to maintain a formal style, then men can come in suits or tuxedos. Ladies can get by with a dress and a pair of shoes.
If the party is more relaxed, then it could be loose suits and loose-fitting dresses. Also blouses, skirts, funny hats, top hats, gloves, masks, fur coats, boleros, capes, vests, handbags, canes, umbrellas, glasses, scarves, ties and bowties, all kinds of accessories : feathers, hairpins, brooches, chains, watches , bracelets, earrings, rings. Don't forget to indicate the style of your party on your invitations.
If you decide to throw a costume party in the “Angels-Demons” style, then you should notify the guests early, and be sure to indicate this. Otherwise, you will be alone in the suit. Do you agree that it will be awkward?
Entertainment
What will your party be in black and white style: a social event, crazy fun or quiet get-togethers? For any option, it is not difficult to choose games to match the theme. The most obvious ones are “Mafia” cards, chess, dominoes, watching a b/w movie. Just make sure the guests don’t get bored!
1. Dancing on a newspaper is a classic of the genre. The newspaper fits right into the surroundings! Couples dance to the music on the unfolded strip, after a while the sheet is folded in half, then in half again, and so on until the guests can move, standing on the newspaper with at least the toe of their shoe.
2. Dancing with a newspaper - more cheeky. You need to move, holding the sheet with your bodies. The winner is the couple whose newspaper at the end of the song turns out to be the most unsightly looking. You can dance with your legs tied (the guy's leg to the girl's leg), remembering Yin-Yang.
3. Surely friends have old childhood photos in black and white color. Guess which of the guests turned into that cute girl or that shy guy?
4. Play shadow theater (white fabric screen and lamp on the back side). Guess what the presenter is showing. Act out scenes. Guess who is behind the screen (fake breasts, fake belly, huge hat - don’t let the answer be too obvious).
5. If you want to end the scenario effectively, prepare black and white sheets for each party guest. Let friends write their fears on black cards, and their secret dreams on white cards. Crumple the black sheets all together and burn them on a large metal tray. And let your dreams go free - along the river in boats, from the balcony in airplanes, into the sky on helium balloons (tie to a string). You can attach them to paper lanterns - they fly up especially beautifully at night!
Competitions
Everyone decides how to entertain guests in their own way. And there are no specific entertainments on the black and white theme, but there are still several funny competitions.
You can divide your guests into teams and arrange a shadow theater . For this you will need a table lamp and a sheet. The point is that one team shows a skit, the other guesses what their opponents wanted to say.
The second thing you can do is dancing . Try to dance with each other to cheerful music. Towards the end of the holiday, invite guests to take photos and hand out black and white photographs as a keepsake of the occasion.
Serving, menu
A black tablecloth looks mournful - it is better to cover the tables with a white cloth with a black ornament or a striped, spotted, checkerboard tablecloth. You can play with a layered option: a black tablecloth to the floor, and a white one on top, to the middle of the table legs. Plates of different sizes and colors, stacked on top of each other. The menu is at your discretion, from light snacks to a hearty feast. You don't have to make every dish black and white (impressive, but very difficult).
Products that are useful for decorating in white:
- feta cheese, cottage cheese, rice, white beans, grated protein;
- white sauce, radishes and peeled cucumbers;
- currants, grapes, slices of melon, apples and pears without skin;
- coconuts and shavings, white chocolate, marshmallows and frosting, powdered sugar, whipped cream.
Black color:
- olives, eggplants, dark beans;
- black bell peppers and tomatoes;
- grapes, currants, cherries, blackberries;
- dark chocolate, glaze, cocoa.
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Black Tie Dress Code for Women
By writing Black Tie on the invitation, event organizers expect the woman to appear in an evening or cocktail dress. It all depends on how serious the event will be. Choose an outfit, taking into account several important nuances that are included in the concept of women's Black Tie.
Cloth
If you are going to an evening accompanied by a man, then according to etiquette you should wear a long evening dress. It should not be provocative or overly extravagant. It is better to choose a classic design: open (or closed) shoulders, a shallow neckline (or boat neckline), an accentuated waist, a flowing or fitted silhouette. If you plan to go to the celebration on your own, you can choose a cocktail dress, but it should cover your knees.
