I am planning a surprise birthday party next month on a sat for hubby. Now i need ideas to make it quite fun as i am expecting only about 8 very close friends of ours. The prob is that hubby is gonna be home as well. I am thinking maybe i should get the food catered but they need minimum no 20ppl. How on earth am i gonna distract him? I have a day off on fri so i can cook all then and on sat, as i have to cook the roast, i’ll make an excuse that im taking him to a very expensive restaurant for which he will have to get ready for. I am also thinking that i am gonna ask the friends to park their cars away from our driveway and come altogether and will take them to the dining room and hide them for about 10mins…Party poppers and everything ready…
Will ask him to help me with something in the dining room just as he thinks we are ready to leave for our dinner and then BOOM!!
How does that sound? I need this idea tweaked…please help! Give me some ideas for party bags, and decorations etc which i can get in UK…
Why don't u ask one of u'r friends, to take him out for few hours. May be for a movie/a game of tennis/for a walk. This will give u some time. Cauz i think as long as he'll be in the house, it wont be a surprise anymore.
Decoration part you hve to do on friday and close that room. Finish of cooking on friday as much as u can. Cooking on Saturday can be dangerous. But yea u can still cook some thing.
Other thing u can do, if he is not willing to go out with friends, is to ask 1-2 friends to come before time and start chatting to him. Just to distract
him for some time. Than use back door, and let every one come in from there. Plus food and fresh cake etc etc.
Hmmm...well i think he's too lazy to go out with anyone else apart from me. most of the saturdays he is resting anyway...
I am gonna cook on fri and do all the decorations on fri and lock the room anyway. I think cake will be delivered to one of my friends house, so they can bring it on the day. Namaan, yar...i think he will be bit suspicious if i invite one of his frinds around to keep distracted becuase he will be asking me to serve them something and then what do i say? Also, how are his friends gonna say "oh dude, lets go back to your place now.." - now one cant say that can they...?
ur hubby sounds like my hubby...would go out without me. so what I did was that I invited all his friends with their wives over to a really nice restuarent and pretended that the two of us were going for a date there and when we got there he was jsut soooo surpriced:D
I would never have managed to keep it secret if I was having the party at home and he was going to be home too..
Ya chameli i was thinking that too as the restaurant i want to book has a seperate room but there are time restrictions - if dinner is booked at 7.30 - we have to leave at 9.30 - its just so silly!
Well then what type of entertainment does your hubby like when in company with his/your friend?
You could all have dinner and cake at your place and then all go out for some entertaining activity that your hubby just loves. That could be related to his favourite footballteam, bowling, lasershots, paintball.
You could let your wedding movie or other special occasion’s movie being played while you are having dinner. Or perhaps you could have classical Indian music (tabla, sittar) being played in the background.
Between dinner and cake you could have some games for the guests. For example you could make a “Who know my hubby best” game yourself with questions written on small pieces of paper and the guests can pick one up and then try to answer some funny questions like if he snores when sleeping or not…don’t know where ur and ur hubby’s limits go :)
You could also ask his closest friends to prepare for short speeches during dinner. That way everyone will be entertained while having dinner.
and btw why dont you outsource the cooking to the closest friends? and only make one dish at home...if he smells the cooking and sees that a room is locked he will definently get suspicious!!!
you could also just order the food from outside (catering) and just enjoy the day with ur hubby..
surprice him in the morning with a nice breakfast and flowers and let him think that was it;)
Ok - wedding movie i would actually put on a wedding anniversary dinner rather than a birthday dinner. I definately will put some music on...
The game idea sounds really good too - do you know any good questions that you might have asked your friends about your hubby?
Outsourcing the dinner amongst the friends - i wouldnt feel comfortable as you never know, they might bring presents so i wouldnt want them to go out of their way - because he is going to be at home, if the no of ppl has been confirmed, i will be getting the food from catering company which is not too bad who also did out walima food which he loved. The only thing i will have to worry about is the cake and the roast leg of lamb. I want to decorate the dining room as well with banners and all sorts. Gonna get one of my friends to record the moment he enters the room. Aaahhh so many ideas and i just want to do it now...hehehe...
