Dear Friend: 90's Hen Party

This weekend Matt and I went to a wedding of a beautiful friend. I just wanted to share with you the 90's party I put on as part of her Hen weekend.

I have no idea why we chose 90's theme but it was a lot of fun! I was on a tight budget so utilized as many things we had kicking around as I could.
I decided to do a loosely themed games evening. I didn't want the games to overtake the evening but as everyone was from a different area of her life I wanted to help break the ice; I think it was a success. When everyone arrived I split them into three teams (Becca's wedding colours), we then had 3 different tasks to complete to determine the winner. The first was using these plastic cups with blackboard paint and chalk. Everyone was given a cup as they came in and each had a different snippet of a no.1 song from the 90's. They got into their teams and had to guess the songs as quickly as they could- then they were allowed to drink. We then made them do a rendition of one of the songs with extra points for creative dancing!

I made some Nickelodeon straws, a 90's classic.

I had wanted to buy some cassette tapes from the charity shop, i totally assumed they would have loads, but alas, there were none. So I ended up making my own tapes for bunting using an old cardboard box.

Posh Jelly shots with sherbet on top. Im not gonna lie, these were pretty gross. I put bits of fresh mint in them but the flavour made the lime jelly taste really bitter.

This was a lot of fun to make! All along I wanted to do some kind of photobooth, but this struck me as a more 90's way of doing things. The combination of Spice girls and these no headed funfair things really bought back the 90's for me.

This was by far my favourite activity. It was the final part of the evening and stolen from the 'Crystal Maze' TV show. At the end of the show 6 people would step into a giant crystal. There were silver and a few gold pieces of paper being blown around and you had to try and gather as many gold papers as you could. We recreated this by having everyone squeezed into our bathroom, I stood on the edge of the bath and threw the coloured pieces down with a fan pointed into them. They blew everywhere and it was hilarious. The team with the most blue pieces won. I made them from spray painted cellophane so they would catch the wind brilliantly.