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Organising a surprise birthday party could be easy and as well difficult to plan, depending on the steps used, the people involved and the effort you put into it. Before you plan a surprise birthday party you have to ensure that your celebrant is someone who loves or adores surprise party(when it comes to a surprise birthday party, the characteristics of the celebrant should be taken into consideration I.e if the celebrant is an extrovert or introvert always have the interest of the celebrant at heart).

Planning a surprise birthday party should be done without a hitch, snag or drawback and should be done in a sneaky and secret way and as such it requires few persons at the initial stage, thereby attaining or accomplishing a success which will be memorable to the celebrant. To plan this successfully the following steps should be followed:

PICK A PARTY THEME OR TOPIC

• Giving the party a theme or topic creates excitement in your celebrant and your guests and also makes your planning easy in the sense that; you will be guided in making your choices of foods and decorations. Choosing a party theme or topic is necessary and when doing this try to have your celebrant's interest in consideration i.e(what the celebrant likes e.g if the celebrant is a kid, try to play around his/her hobbies could be his/her favourite cartoons, stories and toys and make sure the foods and decorations are based on the party theme or topic that was chosen, and if the celebrant is an adult the party theme should be based on his favourite movie, could be football team(if he /she is a fan of any football team) e.t.c, and the foods and decorations should be done based on the party theme or topic. Moreover, if a party theme is not created it could make the party simple and suspicious. Therefore choosing a party theme is preferable.

PICK A TIME AND DATE

• Picking a date before the actual occasion is more preferable since it is a surprise party, holding a party on that particular day might be a little hard to turn into an awesome surprise because the celebrant might know his/her birthday and might be expecting something from you if you are close to the celebrant, but always ensure to plan the surprise birthday party a day to or on an actual day rather than planning the party after the actual day as this might make the celebrant feel you had forgotten their birthday. When picking a time and date for the surprise birthday party ensure that it doesn't affect the celebrant schedule and ensure that the celebrant and Invited guest will be available. So you have to ask to know the exact time and date that will be favourable for your plan, the celebrant and the invited guest. Ensure that your guest arrives at the party venue and hour before the actual time, avoid late coming as this might distract the party.

PICK A PLACE OR LOCATION

• It is preferable to pick a place or venue where the celebrant is frequent to avoid suspicions e.g his favourite bar, restaurant, sit out, hall, a friend's house or even the celebrant's house depending on the type of party you are organising. When picking a place, venue or location for your surprise party, always ensure that space will be enough to accommodate your guests or better still have an extra space in case a guest decides to come with a relative or a friend.

MAKE A LIST OF GUEST AND CALL THEM

• In this step, two options are taken into consideration, "A small group surprise birthday party and " A large group surprise birthday party. In the small group surprise birthday party, it's easier to plan, manage, and people can keep the secret without a hitch, a more intimate environment is created and it's also easier to book at a restaurant. However, it's less impressive and more people might be upset that they were not invited. While in a large group surprise birthday party, it's hard to plan, manage, hard to get space, but could be of great interest to the celebrant by getting to meet with his/her loved ones and could be overwhelmed depending on their personality. When inviting your guests, ensure that they are invited via calls, text, face to face, personal emails, or better still you create an event page, could be on any social media and involve only your guests on the page excluding the celebrant and make all your discussions and suggestions there and always emphasis that the party is a surprise birthday party and ensure secrecy. Avoid inviting guests via invitation cards to avoid exposing the surprise party.

PICK THE TYPE OF REQUIREMENTS THAT NEEDS TO BE SERVED AT THE PARTY.

• First, you have to consider who you are throwing the surprise birthday party for, if it's for a child, adult or for both. If it's for a child, then your refreshments should be based on the party theme and snacks such as cookies, punch, cupcakes and all kinds of kids party treats should be served. But if it's for an adult the refreshments could be all kinds of foods, drinks, cakes etc.but for cases where the father and the child share the same birthdays and a surprise birthday party is being planned for both of them, then your refreshments can be mixed.

MAKE PLANS WITH THE CELEBRANT

• This simply means that you make other plans with the celebrant to reserve their time, by this they don't make other plans that might disrupt the plans of the party; and also inform your guest to avoid engaging the celebrant on that particular day. It is advisable you have one of his/her closest friends to help out with the planning and also to come with the celebrant to the venue of the party while you are busy with the guests. Make sure everyone understands the big reveal, you can choose the standard light or off the light, hide behind couches, cheers surprise or pretend it's just a party and let the celebrant discover that the party was actually for him/her when he/she sees the name on the cake, whichever way you prefer, but always make sure your guest are on the same page and probably practise before the surprise, by doing this the celebrant feels incredibly loved and appreciate all the effort and work you went through. You can similarly plan a fake event to distract the mind of the celebrant, could be an event they already know about to avoid suspicion.

PICK THE TYPE OF GIFTS TO BE GIVEN TO THE CELEBRANT AND THE GUESTS

• Here you have to take into consideration the party theme, what the celebrant likes, the sex of the celebrant, the status of the celebrant, is the celebrant a child or an adult?. For kids, toys are preferable, most especially toys that have more to do with what they want to become in future e.g doctor, nurse, engineer, teacher, policeman, fashion designer, musician etc. For girl child gifts like baby dolls with a styling kit for barbies and dolls, a pair of toy binoculars, storybooks, toy guitar, toy violin, play kitchen set, beauty playset, pyjamas, balanced bike or tricycle, gardening playset etc. For boy child gifts like a toy car, toy guitar, toy violin, toy gun, toy spiderman, football, toy stethoscope etc. For female adult gifts like a nice dress, a pair of shoes, a car, a cake (with her best colours), a set of jewellery, a novel by her favourite writer or author etc.
• For male adult gifts like a nice shirt, a pair of shoes, a car, a belt, a tie etc. Choosing a gift for the celebrant is not what should be done by only you. You, guests, should also come with gift items to the celebrant as this will make the celebrant feel loved and valued. Also, you should provide gift items to your guests depending on the type of surprise birthday party(could be for kids or adults or for both). If it's for kids gift items like writing sets, colouring sets, storybooks, toy cars etc can be shared among the kids(guests). If it's for adults gift items like kitchen utensils, T-shirts, shopping bags, towels etc(with the names or pictures of the celebrant created on them) and if the surprise birthday party was for both e.g father and child celebrating the same day, then the gift items can be mixed and shared accordingly to the guests.
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