The Shrine

Well first of all, there will be a lot of booze, this is where I clear out all the hard liquor and stuff that I've bought/been given as gifts over the year.

Phase 1 - Dinner

Starting at approximately 7:30 PM will be the dinner. I got my hands on a very large table for the dining room (very glad it fits, even though it does extend into the good living room). For the meal, we will have typical vegetables (carrots, potatoes, etc...) along with three roast chickens (which is an estimate of how many we'll need), wings, and a salad bar off to the side. At various points down the table will be white wine on ice, various brands (though I would like to get the cheap wine I'm accustomed too, I know it won't go over well at dinner). There are fourteen guests total, including myself and my girlfriend which makes 16 people altogether. Candles. The dress code will be strictly formal for the first phase, and it's alright, all of the guests at this particular part have that sort of attire. The music selection I have planned is mainly piano and orchestrated stuff (shhhhh, don't tell anyone I slipped in 10 or 11 songs from Final Fantasy 8 and 10 -_-)

Phase 2 - Formal Dance

After the dinner, those attending the dinner will then go to a formal/semi-formal dance which begins running at 9:00 not far from where I live. Normally a lot of University students attend these as those are the target croud for these. So we'll enjoy our time there until about 10:30-11:00 when we will head back to my place, while we are at the dance, we will at least try to bring back a good portion of people to fill the party up at my place.

Phase 3 - The Bash

11:00 will be when the party kicks up at my place. Most of the people will be in formal attire, but it is not a requirement. The music selection will vary here, but will remain almost exclusively upbeat music from various decades. I kind of want to set a bit of a latin-America theme to the party as well since there seems to be a lot of interesting music coming from out of there recently. The drinks being served will be mainly coctails, but also some wine; want beer? That stuff doesn't last long at my place, and we have no plans for a keg just yet (probably won't, I have a lot of liquor to get rid of). Anyways, the cost of the whole thing will be three hundred and some odd dollars (minus the alcohol already here) so far, which is already more than any party I have ever thrown before; expenses have been covered by friends who are invited to the dinner.

Thoughts

Whether or not this party will absolutely blow the roof off of my birthday party last year (which was nuts) has yet to be seen. They seem to have been getting better every year (except in 2000, when it was actually a surprise party and the entire dorm I lived in was in on it, and that was unforgettable). Anyways, I think I posted about my party last year if you can dig far enough back. Last year it involved going out to the bars, as has been the case every year except 2002 when I turned 21.

The party is next Friday, but my birthday is on the 16th. I'll be 24. And yes, I'm very excited about it =)

I know you're a bit in the upper class, though I seem to have more fun in the informal parties, where you basically just cram about 10-20 friends into a house, start grilling shit, smoke some weed, and try out some drinking games.

Wow, that's formal. I gotta agree with Sine on this one, though.

Well, I love all types of parties, it's just I most like to throw this particular kind of party.

I'm with Sine minus the weed but adding alcohol

Yeah, this party sounds uber gay. I wouldnt want to even if it was a good friend. Of course, i would go, and then just have a terrible time.

not bad, seek, though i like my parties a little wilder

Flip wrote:Yeah, this party sounds uber gay. I wouldnt want to even if it was a good friend. Of course, i would go, and then just have a terrible time.

It's not that the party is "uber gay" it's just that you are from a place which has a fairly ignorant and lowbrow culture. Yes, you probably would have a terrible time, afterall, there will be some black, arab, and asian people at my party.

Mental wrote:not bad, seek, though i like my parties a little wilder

Dinner won't be wild. The semi-formal probably won't be wild. The party, once we've drained the booze, will be through the roof =)

Yes, you probably would have a terrible time, afterall, there will be some black, arab, and asian people at my party.

BURN

Gentz wrote:

Yes, you probably would have a terrible time, afterall, there will be some black, arab, and asian people at my party.

BURN

Haha, sucks for Seek that i lived with an indian guy junior year and a black guy senior year in my 4 person townhouse at college. Our parties were always a mix and noone had a problem with it.

Anyways, i dont need to defend myself, i still feel as if the party will be uber gay. Formal dinners and dances are fun for work parties, holidays, and weddings, but for the hell of it? I dont think so, i would pass. The only fun thing sounds like the after bash, but with only liquor it will just be a pukefest. Plus, without beer you cant exactly play a lot of drinking games for an extended amount of time.

Be your age, and leave the formal crap for later. As a young professional who also has an uppity suburbia clan of friends with money, i think the idea would be laughed at.

Just my .02

Heh heh. Sorry, Flip, but I don't factor "truth" into judgements on the overall quality of a BURN. The only criteria are BURNitude (a function of the lack of context/provocation multiplied by the number of "heh's" I expel) and a measurement of the overall BTUs (BURNish Thermal Units) emitted. This particular BURN earned an 4.1 on the logarithmic BURNosity scale utilized by a consensus of certified BURNologists. Not bad.

Forget it Flip: you're an American so you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says "I rail my sister while running down coons in my pickup."

Seeker: Stay out of my province.

Gentz wrote:Heh heh. Sorry, Flip, but I don't factor "truth" into judgements on the overall quality of a BURN. The only criteria are BURNitude (a function of the lack of context/provocation multiplied by the number of "heh's" I expel) and a measurement of the overall BTUs (BURNish Thermal Units) emitted. This particular BURN earned an 4.1 on the logarithmic BURNosity scale utilized by a consensus of certified BURNologists. Not bad.

Touche, i got mad burned. ^_^

Black Lotus wrote:Forget it Flip: you're an American so you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says "I rail my sister while running down coons in my pickup."

Seeker: Stay out of my province.

A southern American at that (if you consider NoVa south, i dont) so i may as well were a tape player with a loudspeaker announcing i have 40 shotguns and 6 cars in my yard which i watch over from my front porch in a teeter chair, old blue by my side, and in my overalls.

Flip wrote: A southern American at that (if you consider NoVa south, i dont) so i may as well were a tape player with a loudspeaker announcing i have 40 shotguns and 6 cars in my yard which i watch over from my front porch in a teeter chair, old blue by my side, and in my overalls.

I still maintain the Mason Dixon line cuts diagonally across Northern Virginia.

The cutoff point being Manassas, of course.

Tortolia wrote:The cutoff point being Manassas, of course.

Is that a combination of Man, ass, and Kansas?

SineSwiper wrote:

Tortolia wrote:The cutoff point being Manassas, of course.

Is that a combination of Man, ass, and Kansas?

Haha, i was born in Manassas and moved a little further north when i was very young, so my friends always call me a Manasshole.

Manassas is where the Battle of Bull Run was. There is a train there so it was an important location back when, now its just the poor part of NoVa...

Hey, at least you don't live in Big Bone Lick, IN.

Either way, my birthday kicked ass; but I couldn't enjoy myself the way I wanted to (in other words, I didn't drink an incredible amount), there were WAY too many people getting trashed. Dinner went well, after that we went out to the Delta Hotel for the Spring Semi-Formal which had a few hundred people there. We left about 11:00 and got back to my place by about 11:20 and the place was packed. By about 2:00 we had about 20 people trashed off their ass, and the other 40 or so were at least drunk. By the end of the night, whatever mix we were using in the drinks was just for colour. A lot of people got laid that night; it seemed like almost everyone picked up. The party was shut down at about 3:30, but it was already well on the way down anyways.

The problem I had was that the place was actually too packed, there wasn't a lot of room to move around so things moved more slowly than I would have liked. There were a lot of very nice looking girls there though.

There's a lot of pictures as well, I'm going to get them up soon (I usually hate pictures, but I'm putting them up for other peoples benefit).

Shut down? Did The Man cancel the party for you, or were you too tired to moderate it after 3AM?