I have to admit that I never read any of the Twilight books, and I had not seen all of the movies. Luckily, two of the other hostesses knew more than one ever needs to know about Twilight, and Google helped educate me as well.
Blood Inspired Drinks
When I came across this party featured on Hostess With the Mostess, I could not contain my excitement. My favorite part of the decor from the featured party was the drink and food signs, so I tried to design some. Then, out of nowhere, the wedding photographer sent me a copy of a beautiful picture she took (and edited) of the bachelorette with her soon-to-be-hubby, and I could not resist.
The picture screamed Twilight, so I found a way to include it in all of the labels. (Because I want to respect privacy, I covered the best part of the photo, which is their vampire eyes. You will just have to trust me that it looked amazing).
As an extra gift to the bachelorette, I had an 8x10 printed of the picture of the happy couple (without Twilight quotes or names of drinks).
We made a drink menu so that everyone could easily identify the drinks. We marked alcoholic drinks "positive" and non-alcoholic drinks
"negative." We also used red font for the alcoholic drinks and white font for the non-alcoholic drinks. We made sure to tell each of the under-age guests about our system, so that they knew which drinks were off limits. Finally, we filled a large drink bucket with sodas and labeled the bucket "For the Humans."
We served blood shots after dinner (we made them by mixing punch, pomegranate juice, and vodka, but we also made a non-alcoholic version for the minors without the vodka), to toast the bride-to-be.
Menu
For dinner we served the Twilight-obvious: Italian food. We made the food ourselves, and it was two of my favorite things: cheap and easy.
- We served bruchetta and olive tapanade (both from Trader Joe's) on premade crustini from Whole Foods as an appetizer
- Salad
- Dinner Rolls
- Pizza (we made assorted frozen pizza from Trader Joe's)
- Pasta
- Cupcakes (one of the hostesses made three kids of cupcakes, one to represent each team: Edward (red velvet with white frosting and bloody red drips of blood), Jacob (chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and choclate sprinkles), and a final team named for the groom-to-be's first name (decorated in a theme that was very personal to the groom-to-be).
Decor
For the decor, we stuck to black and red. We set up a long table underneath some trees in the corner of my yard to feel like we were in Forks (where Twilight takes place). We strung white lights in the trees to evoke the white lights from Bella and Edward's wedding. We rented black tablecloths and black chairs. I then created a faux runner out of boas.
One of the guests owned this cut out of Edward (the bachelorette's favorite), and it was a true source of entertainment throughout the party.
Activities
The bachelorette made it very clear that she did not want a stripper, and that she didn't want to play any games that would be inappropriate for her sisters. We went back and forth about whether we should bother to play any games. We finally decided that we would have one game - "Pin the Penis Onto Edward." We would play the game towards the end of the night, but during the party we told guests to make and decorate a penis. Making the penises ended up being one of the best parts of the game.
The other great part of the game was the result of an awesome plan B. The hostess in charge of getting the Twilight poster for the game couldn't find a poster of Edward. She improvised and got a poster of Jacob, Bella, and Edward, with Bella front and center. Because Edward was off to the side, we changed the game a bit, and guests had to pin the penis to Bella's mouth. I think that actually made the game much better (we all got a lot of laughs out of it).
Not only was there a winner for the penis pinning game, but the
bachelorette also picked out the top three penises, and the artists won
prizes as well.
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