The nominees for the Academy Awards have been announced and your VIP pass seems to have gotten lost in the mail. Now what? Why not plan your own rock-star fabulous soiree fit for even the most high-maintenance A-Lister? Let The Party Goddess! show you how to enjoy the show in the best seat in town! You’ll have your friends clamoring for a front row seat at your house in no time flat!
TIPS:
* Involve your guests. Have your guests come dressed as their favorite actor or actress and turn it into a “Best Dressed” contest and award them with a mini trophy at the end! Pass out ballots and have your guests cast their votes prior to the Awards ceremony. Offer a fun gift to all the winners and a Grand Prize to the person who gets the most categories.
* Go glam! Deck out your house with glamorous props and pieces! Have guests enter via red carpet. Buy a large piece of red fabric and center at the entrance to your house. Decorate your house by placing items such as award trophy statuettes, director’s clipboards, movie reels and Hollywood stars throughout the space.
* Paparazzi! Enlist the kids as paparazzi. Keep the kids occupied at the party by letting them take pictures of the guests. It’s fun to include a life-size celebrity standup that guests can take pictures with. After the event you can upload your digital party pics to Flickr, Facebook, Shutterfly etc. to share with your family and friends!
* Trick out your bar. If you really want your bar to shine in the limelight, try stacking champagne flutes into a pyramid to act as a bar backdrop. Have fun naming the drinks after nominated actors, actresses and TV shows!
* Name that Host! With such a controversy over the host’s for this year’s Academy Awards, why not play a trivia game about the various hosts over the years! During commercial breaks ask your friends some witty and fun questions. Add a little twist and anytime someone answers incorrectly they have to take a drink!
RANDOM ACADEMY AWARDS FACTS & FIGURES:
* The first Academy Awards were presented on May 16, 1929.
* The official name of the golden statue is the Academy Award of Merit.
* The late Walt Disney leads the pack with 59 nominations and 26 awards.
* After many years of being held on Mondays at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/6:00 p.m Pacific, in 1999 the ceremonies were moved to Sundays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern/5:30 p.m. Pacific.
* During the first ten years of the Academy Awards’ existence, Oscar winners’ names were handed to newspapers at 11pm on award night. One year, the LA Times announced the award winners before the Academy actually gave them out. Since then, the awards have been sealed in envelopes.
So what do you think? Give me your comments and feedback below. And, oh, by the way, don’t forget to tell a friend if you like what you see! xo
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