Create a day to remember for the Graduate in your life and throw a photo-themed graduation party. Reminisce with old photos and capture new Kodak moments. Graduates can enjoy all the glory and smiles while indulging in a cap and gown-worthy party in their honor.
Interactive Photo Album
Hand out old-fashioned Polaroid cameras for instant gratification. Or go all out by renting a classic photo booth to help your guests create lasting memories.
Place a photo album or two on a decorated table. Place plenty of pens and double-sided tape near the albums. Allow your guests to tape in their instant photos and write in a wish for the honorees. It’s like creating a yearbook or annual to help capture this momentous occasion.
Guests will love to share their favorite stories from their years in school together and the honorees will have a keepsake to last a life time.
You can also set up a photo-op with a backdrop of the graduate’s school logos, pennants, bumper stickers and jerseys. Make sure each guest is photographed. Use the pictures to create a graduation party themed album as keepsake for the grad.
Photo Posters and Decorative Banners
Select one or a few favorite pictures of your graduate and have them blown up as posters.
If throwing a party in conjunction with other grads, gather up childhood photos as well as current ones of all the honorees. Create poster sized collages and mount them around the party area. This is a fun way to remember the journey to this moment!
Your photos can also be turned into unique, life-size standees or wall graphics. Put one at the door to greet your guests. Or set one up in a special spot in your party area where guests can get their picture taken. Photo standees and graduation-themed standees are available at Shindigz.
Simple Décor Ideas
Decorate inside and out. Deck the yard with balloons, school flags and wind spinners. Hang graduation banners indoors or outdoors and let everyone know how proud you are.
Turning graduation caps upside down and filling them with flowers or balloons adds flair and makes for a beautiful centerpiece.
Use graduation themed tableware in your grad’s high school or college colors.
Photofetti is a great table décor idea. It is confetti made out of your own personalized photos. Sprinkle photofetti on your dining tables, guest book table, gift table, or anywhere else your guests will be hanging out.
Gifts
The Popcorn Factory has Graduation gifts that could make for a perfect study break just before Graduation.
Honor your guests in a “sweet” way with edible chocolate diplomas and caps.
Send your graduate a congratulatory bouquet complete with Lotsa Love
and well-wishes! from 1-800-Flowers.com.
Music
If your graduate loves music, a DJ would keep the party pumped! Collaborating with several families is a way to keep the cost down. If a DJ is outside the budget, a great alternative is loading an iPod with graduation-themed songs as well as your graduate’s other favorite tunes:
- GreenDay –Time of Your Life by
- Carrie Underwood– Whenever You Remember
- Kanye West– Graduation Day
- Vitamin C– Graduation
- Queen– We are the Champions
- Eve 6 –Here’s to the Night by
- Kelly Clarkson– Breakaway
- The Beatles– With a Little Help from My Friend
Most of all remember this is a day for celebration of your graduate’s past, present and future accomplishments. Have fun and savor the moment!
