I'm scared that my party will be boring?

[Stephanie]

I don't know how it even happened, but I'm having a Sweet Sixteen on February 8th. My family doesn't have too much money but they're really into parties so they wanted this to happen. I love parties, too, but I also get super stressed out.

Anyway, I have two weeks into my party and I have about 80 on my guest list. Today's the RSVP day and only like half of the guests responded. My friend said to make a Facebook page because that generally draws more attention to the event. I just made the Facebook page but I'm still really worried. I want to invite more people, but I don't know if this deadline is too soon.

Also, how do I make my party less boring? I'll die if people don't think it's fun.
Thank you so much for any responses!


BTW, I'm putting this in the weddings section because I know that a lot of people who have weddings go through the same stress.

[Darquetta Chanel]

It won't be

[Libby]

Get lots of alcohol if you can

[Claire]

OK one thing that you should do is plan everything out early. So you don't have to stress out about it. You could do that on facebook and invite more friends and also make it more interesting. Like things that grab peoples attentions like, karoke or band playing! IDK
but also have a lot of food!
happy sweet 16

[Veronica]

Fo my sweet 16th, gurl I playes a verry complicated game. My friends and my family all gathered into a corner. And we all drank my mama's sweet tea. Someone's bladder nearly exlpoded up in my house mhm. Dat was the game. We called it "Tea time". It's the simple things that keep the party alive mhmmmmmmmm.

[tra la la la la la]

generally your friends will have a great time as long as they can relax and be together. i assume youre going to have food drink and dancing.
maybe throw in a quiz for fun, we had this at a friends 18th, it broke up the evening, it was question sheets on each table that people could fill in about the guest of honor, there was a break fro the DJ while the answers were run through, the winning table got a box of quality street i think, it was all a bit of light hearted fun.
what if you had giant games there, eg giant jenga or giant nought and crosses, that kind of thing, it gives people something to do while they are being social.
relax aslong as you have enough food and drink im sure everyone will have a great time.

[Messykatt]

I don't know how to liven things up, but parties are usually fun for everyone. However, your friend gave you some terrible advice about the FB page! Why is that up there? You need to be really careful with that, because people who aren't invited will see it. Some may even crash it. And then you have a mess on our hands.

On the RSVP's, you can't just write off the people who haven't responded, because many probably will still show up. So you need to PM all the ones who haven't responded and tell them they need to let you know. Your RSVP isn't too early at all, and part of the reason for that is people being rude and not responding (teens get a bit of a free pass, but I can promise this even applies to weddings!). So get in touch with the others and even give them a new deadline, like Sunday or Monday. You have to find a way to tell them if they don't get back, their name is off the list.

If this sounds extreme, it isn't. It's really nice that your mom wants to do this for you, but planning a party for 80 involves a lot of detail, and she's going to need an exact count. Once you have it, then you'll know if you can invite others, but this might not be a good idea, especially if your FB page is open to a lot of people.

In fact, you might want to consider name tags once you have this finalized, just so people don't show up unexpectedly. If your mom has planned everything for 80 people and 100 show up, this will be a big problem for her. In fact, you might want to discuss some of this with her.

[MissPiggy]

You think a sweet sixteen causes the same stress as a wedding? You're a fool.

[Deziner]

What do you mean you don't know how it even happened? This party just dropped out of the sky or what?
It is impossible for anyone to tell you how to make it less boring because you do not even say what it is you have planned.