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I have tried to give you lots of ideas on hollywood party invitations, hollywood food, hollywood decorations, hollywood costumes, hollywood games and hollywood favors which will be great for any venue. Also some unique ideas to make it more fun!

A hollywood party theme just needs lots of glitz and glamor.

With lots of fun, energy and enthusiasm your Hollywood graduation party ideas can be a brilliant success.

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Invitations

The style of graduation invitations will depend on the exact style of Hollywood party. There are loads of creative ways of creating a brilliant Hollywood party theme. Amongst the hollywood graduation party ideas are:

• Awards Night (which suits a graduation perfectly)


• Opening Night


• A glamorous Hollywood party


• A party dedicated to a particular film

Here is a hollywood party theme invitation you can print off or get inspiration from:

Click through to the college graduation party invitations page to get full personalisation and printing instructions.

Also some great ideas on wording, Hollywood invite styles, simple photo invites and project ideas.

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Decorations

A good amount of decorations can make your graduation party totally Hollywood.

Entrance

Create a stunning first impression with your entrance.

• Red carpet entrance, try and find a decent piece of red carpet with aisle runners from curbside to the entrance. Set it off with lighting if you can and create a scene all ready for your star guests to arrive in style.


• Enhance Hollywood party theme entrance with banners saying Awards Night, Opening Night, Name of Film, and decorate with balloons and streamers, and add in some security people. Have a personalised message over the entrance. Also have red curtains for guests to walk through.


• You could create a banner just like a the sign above a cinema entrance showing the movie about to air that features the graduate as the star.


• Red carpet entrances will also have some beautiful small shrubs and plants.


• Make stars and put the name of the guests on them. Use them to line the entrance to the party.

Scene Setters

• Create street signs for Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Strip


• Make Freeway signs with Los Angeles, Hollywood, Malibu and Universal Studios.


• Wall covering with the Hollywood sign, film reels, film cans, cuttings from celebrity, directors chairs, spotlights and film magazines


• You could have some sunset in LA with a sunset scene against a beach backdrop.


• Palm trees


• Hollywood Gossamer, surround the party goers with the glamour of Tinseltown. Covers columns, ceilings, walls, floors and windows.


• Old fashioned movie cameras


• If you have an artist friend they could draw a Hollywood party theme mural. The guests can color it in, add their own drawing and leave messages for the graduates


• Set up a ticket booth


• Make an awards ceremony podium and have an MC. Call each guest out perhaps during the dinner to receive their unique award, let them say thanks if their is time and have a photograph taken.


• Make up fake paving stones from poster board. Write the guests name on them perhaps surrounded by a drawing of a star. Place the boards safely on the floor around the venue.


• Display still photos of Hollywood‘s famous scenes through the years.


• As part of the Hollywood party theme you may like to create a real movie scene. This could be a movie set filming a scene that your guests have prepared for as actors. You could have video cameras, a director, extras, actors, scenery, cast chairs, sound people and all that it takes to film a scene. This would be good if some of your guests do amateur theatre. In a final twist to the hollywood party theme you could also have a seperate crew who are filming the movie set in a documentary style with a narrator. You could make DVDs of the movie scene and the documentary together to send to guests. A great final flourish for your Hollywood party theme.

Classic Decorations

• Balloons in red, silver, gold and black, which can also be shaped as stars, clapboards, popcorn holders or golden Hollywood tickets.


• Streamers


• Film reels


• Make lots of glittery stars, place them all around and hang them up, add in some star confetti.


• Hanging decorations such as Spotlights, Mirror Balls and Awards


• Wall decorations can be red carpet, awards, celebrity and film poster, black and white film pictures. From the internet you may be able to find your favorite film posters, pictures of movie stars, stills from films and lots of personal film star pictures.


• Use posters of a few famous people like Elvis, Ryan Gosling, Meryl Streep, Marilyn Monro, Gregory Peck, Tom Hanks and Errol Flynn, for example.


• Popcorn boxes


• Clapboards which can be personalised


• Replace the light bulbs with colored ones.

Table

Set up your tables according to the style of Hollywood party.

• Centrepiece depending on your style of party , ideas include Oscars, Popcorn boxes, Stars, Balloons, Clapboards and Cameras. Add a graduation photo!


• An Awards party can have crisp white table covers and formal cutlery.


• Hollywood style napkins, plates and candles can set the scene.


• Glittering table skirting


• Sprinkle some star shaped confetti for effect.

Decorate Your Guests

This is a brilliant way to add to get your guests into the graduation party mood!

• Create a hollywood style make up chair and mirror. Give guests an actors makeover all ready for filming. Make it fun if they are in character and apply the right make up.


• Fake jewelry, feather boas hats and sunglasses.


• Access All Areas passes


• Paparazzi press passes

A great Hollywood party idea is to have a box of guest decorations at the graduation party entrance and hand them out liberally!

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Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Costumes

Fantastic to make your own hollywood party costumes. For an Awards night Tuxedo, Glamorous dresses, and glittering accessories.

• Find a glamorous dress and accessories with tiara, sparkling jewellery, a boa and the right make up. Feel like a star!


• Tuxedo, white shirt, bow tie, hat and silk scarf, make you an amazing star


• Marilyn Munro outfit with glamorous dress and blond wig


• Elvis outfit.


• Sunglasses with some bling on them!


• If you are in character from a film you should be able to find the right clothing. For a simple homemade touch, that could be togas and sandals for Gladiator, cloth robe and sandals for Ghandi, or hats, shades, dark suit as the Blues Brothers.


• Film director, dressed in leather jacket, boots, britches and shirt, carrying a megaphone


• Use fake movie blood if your character needs it

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You'll love the feeling you get in Hollywood party costumes.

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Confetti

One of the great graduation party ideas is to have personalised confetti. The most amazing photo confetti maker

can produce confetti using up to 10 hollywood style photos and up to 3 accent colors. You can choose silver, gold and black for glamour. They have packs to suit your occassion.

The hollywood party theme photos could be of the graduate dressed as a Hollywood Oscars star.

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Food and Drink

The food you serve can simply be a sumptuous buffet which everyone can enjoy. Just serving the food on Hollywood themed napkins and plates can set the scene.

Some other ideas could relate to your set up:

• Awards ceremony can be set up as a formal dinner with catering.


• Cinema style can have popcorn, hot dogs, nachos and ice cream


• Film Set can have outside catering with hot food and drinks vans


• Movie can food that fit’s the movie you are honouring. For example, a Godfather theme will have Italian food.

To drink, lots of sparkling non alcoholic drinks such as sparkling grape juice or ginger ale to give the champagne touch. Of course coca cola and lots of water to keep the party goers going.

Of course, you may have a good budget and can afford to have caterers supply a glitzy buffet. You might even pay for white glove service.

Hollywood Party Theme Cake

For the Hollywood party Cake, there are many, many brilliant decorations which will thrill the graduate. Perhaps they have a favorite film or movie star. Once you bake the cake it can be frosted, decorated and cut to the shape you want.

Hollywood Cake Decorating Idea

1) Completely cover the cake in frosting 2) Pipe the outline of a star shape on the top of your circular cake in a contrasting color. 3) Again, in a contrasting color pipe the message “(name of the graduate) Reach for the Stars. 

A cake is a fantastic way of celebrating graduation.The Graduation Cake page gives you the cooking tools, ingredients, recipe and cooking instructions you need to make a great cake. There are lots of ideas on cupcakes, graduation cap cakes, cake decorations and lots of tips and techniques.

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Games

Get the excitement levels up with Hollywood Party Games.

There are simple to do games, amazing games to thrill your guests and icebreakers to get the party started!

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Favors

There are lots of Hollywood party favor ideas, like this favor pack. Fill Hollywood party theme favor bags with lots of fake glittering gifts. Sunglasses, boas, jewels, hats, shiny stars, balloons, Oscar type statues, disposable camera, 3d movie glasses, 3d movie DVDs, Hollywood joke books, A book on the history of Hollywood, Guides to the movie studios, a pass to Universal Studios theme park, film roll, clapboard, megaphone, top hat, stickers, candies, key rings, awards, mint tins, and buttons.

One unusual one is to have a fake drivers license or a VIP pass made up with the graduate or guest's photo. This could be named after their favorite star.

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Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Music

Just find lots of gteat movie soundtrack music and play it!

The right hollywood party theme music makes a fantastic event. Make sure the graduate gets a say in the choice of music. Including Hurray For Hollywood, There's No Business Like Showbusiness, Forty Second Street, Moon River and Singin In The Rain.

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Entertainment

A Hollywood party can be all about putting on a show. If you look at a movie premier there are lots of on theme characters entertaining the crowd. Of course if you have a movie as the main theme that would determine the entertainers. They could be Star Wars or Superman characters for example. Some ideas for entertainers are:

• Robotics performers


• Stilts walkers


• Unicyclists


• Circus type performers such as jugglers and Ringmasters


• Outside the entrance to the venue you can have a band and an MC


• Use the talents of your guests and helpers to best effect at your Hollywood party theme. If the person is a piano player they can play for a while. If they are an artist perhaps they could entertain by drawing a mural live at the party. A make up artist can work wonders on some of the guests.


• perhaps you can arrange one of those mentalist acts where they guess what is on people's minds. A professional would be best or a very well worked stunt.


• Fake TV crew and interviewer to parade around the red carpet interviewing the stars as they arrive. Even better if the interviewer is good at improvised comedy.

Other ideas for entertaining your guests and celebrating the graduate are:

• Make a film about the graduate before the graduation party and air it at the party
  
• If you can, have a local celebrity host the awards. They can also do a red carpet interview as guests arrive to get the Hollywood party theme off to a great start.


• Perhaps you can play 3d movies. You may need to hire equipment and the glasses but it will be a great show.


• Have a caricaturist who will draw each guest in the style of their favorite movie star.


• Perhaps you can find a DVD presentation of all the upcoming innovations that Hollywood expects to come. These technological innovations could be amazing.


• Show highlights of the last OSCARS ceremony.


• Set up Google Earth on your computer and let guests look around Hollywood.


• Set up a film theatre to let guests have a quiet time watching a film. This could be set up outside. have different movies for different age groups.


• 3D is fresh enough for it to be great fun to show a 3D DVD at the graduation party and give everyone 3D glasses which can be one of their favors.

Graduation Hollywood Party Theme - Ideas

Lots of extra ideas to make the hollywood party outstanding.

• Hire a good photographer to take red carpet photos, this will make a great gift for everyone


• If you can, send guests home with their entrance photo in a hollywood frame. Should be ok to do if you have enough helpers and a digital camera.


• Use the photographs and stories from the graduation party to make your own gossip type magazine. Print it off and send to the guests, who was kissing who?


• Ask lots of parents and friends to make up the paparazzi at the entrance


• Have a friend pose as an autograph hunter and get each guests autograph. This will be a treasured book for the graduate for many years to come. You may like to ask a few friends to be the fans asking for autographs.


• Rent a Limo and have photos taken beside it. The limo can be used to transport some guests.


• Take videos of those who cannot make the party, in advance. Play their best wishes at the party.


• Celebrate the best movies in other countries. You may have guests at the party from various national backgrounds. You can use movies from their country as inspiration for your decorations.


• Create an Awards ceremony online magazine. If you have used awards as a basis for the Hollywood party you can have photos of the award winners, the reason they received the award and also their comments on receiving it. If you have good web site security you can allow guests to leave comments.


• Play name that tune except using the soundtracks from famous movies.


• There will be lots of gifts for the graduate. Thank You notes written by the graduate are the best!


• Preparing any party takes time and patience. Try these Graduation Party Tips to help you!


• Young kids need some free time just to play, arrange activity areas where they can choose what to do, or just run around exploring the Hollywood party theme. They could decorate stars, just give them cut out stars, pens, and glitter


• Base the party on a particular era of Hollywood.


• Save money and use graduation party supply ideas.


• Save money and book venues for the cheaper weeknights, perhaps giving more money for your hollywood party theme.


• Think about the hollywood party theme venue and the likely weather. A tent, kindergarten, YMCA, local park or school gym can be great alternatives for a hollywood party.

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Being glamorous at a hollywood party theme is fantastic. Graduates deserve plenty of glitter and excitement with a hollywood party theme.

Good luck with your hollywood party theme!

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