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Throwing Weekend Parties Throughout t...
by NewZelandNz.co.nz
on 12/27/2011 - 12:18 am
Category: Culture
Throwing Weekend Parties Throughout the Season is a Great Idea for to Be a Married Friend
No, I don’t know what that means either. I suspect I had been drinking rather heavily when I penned this title. It sounds like Shakespeare, doesn’t it? “A great idea for to be a married friend – that is the question.”
I suspect I was thinking (having just been to one, clearly, the state my sentence construction was in when I got back!) that regular weekend parties would be awesome. To be honest I didn’t know there was a season for them. I suppose it would be during July, August, September, October, when holidays are happening and everything is open.
I’d pick September and October, or April and May, as the best time for weekend parties. Why? Because then you get decent weather and all the bars and restaurants and whatnot are open without being packed.
Because you do need some good venues for a weekend party. Specifically where that party involves a bunch of people who don’t really know each other. Until the booze has caught up with the shyness and everyone starts talking to each other, the only real ice breaker is the venue itself – which can set the tone for the whole rest of the evening. A good one makes for a good night, obviously and a bad one makes for a poor night.
But then a good venue that’s too crowded or too loud becomes a bad venue. There’s a whole effect that volume levels can have on weekend parties, which I think you should pay a bit of attention to (particularly if you’re throwing the dam’ things every weekend!).
At the start of the evening, there should be at most quiet funky music on in the background. Something that sound pretty groovy if you zone out to it, but which is lost completely when you are talking to people. It makes for a good vibe, which relaxes everyone and puts them at their ease.
An hour or two in it is acceptable for the volume to increase. By this time people should be pretty well oiled and conversations are likely to be getting a bit raucous anyway. An increase in volume of music (a good bar will do that automatically at 8 or 9 in the evening for this precise reason) actually covers the increase in the volume of your conversation – so you don’t realise that you have all started yelling drunkenly at each other, and therefore don’t suddenly feel conspicuous and embarrassed.
Really loud music is reserved for 11pm onwards. At this point you’ll all be seven sails to the wind and charging hard anyway, so you won’t notice that you’re in a place where you have to yell to make yourself heard!
If you’re organising weekend parties on a regular basis, you’ll probably have a pretty good idea of the pubs, bars and clubs in your area that have the best atmosphere. You’ll want to chop and change things a bit though or you’ll get insanely bored – and a bored host makes for a bored party all round. Keeping things fresh is the key to any successful weekend do.
Do you know what? I think I’ve just realised what I was thinking. I meant “for a to be married friend”. In which case throwing just the one weekend party will do I think. Unless of course you to be married friends just keep on getting engaged – in which case, go for your life.
About the Author:
The above article is composed and edited by Shannen D. She is associated with many fashion and designing communities as their freelance writer and adviser. In her free time she writes articles related to stag destinations abroad, stag weekends, fashion accessories, mobile applications, etc.
