Surprise Birthday Party Ideas

You know what I love? Celebrating other people’s birthdays. I know it sounds weird but it’s true. I like watching the guest of honor open their presents and just the pure joy of the event. You know what is even better? A surprise party!

Want to throw a great surprise party for your friend's birthday party? Here are a few tips to make your surprise party a success.

 

• Bring the celebrants favorite cake or pie. It’s their special day so make sure they have their special treat. Make sure you have a little message written on the cake/pie to make sure it doesn’t look like a stock cake.

• Bring trick candles. Why not? Trick candles are always hilarious. Always. It’s even better when the celebrant doesn’t know they’re trick candles. They are already excited about the surprise, so add in one more surprise with the trick candles.
• Keep your mouth shut. This is the hardest thing to do. It is your friend you are surprising so you don’t want them to be bummed about their birthday. For the sake of the surprise, keep your mouth shut and keep saying you have other plans. Have to.
• Get to someone on the inside. If you’re traveling to a destination for this surprise party make sure you have an inside source. I recently traveled to Chicago to surprise one of my best friends, so we had to absolutely had to get into contact with one of her high school pals. End result, success.
• Fake an event. You need one person to work with your friend and convince them to go to a lunch or bowling. You need to trick the celebrant into moving. Once they are on the move your surprise is all ready. I mean, it’s hard to surprise someone if they are in the house all day.
• The timing of the guests is of the utmost importance. Make sure all of the party attendees show up at least 30 minutes before the party. And to park out of site. Nobody is going to miss the 17 cars parked outside. It’s ok to walk, it’s for your friend.
• Keep in touch with the celebrant. Someone has to be with the guest of honor. Texting is easy enough to do. Make sure you know when the guest of honor is set to arrive so you have the perfect “SURPRISE” planned.

Do you have any other birthday surprise tips? Feel free to leave them in the comments section below.

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Comments

[Chris]

I once went to a surprise 40th birthday party and we all parked out the front. She had worked out what was going on before she got in her front door, which somewhat spoilt the surprise. The party went very well, but that is definitely a point to keep in mind.

Well done with your suggestions.

[Surprise Birthday Ideas]

Thanks a lot for this detailed idea. it makes things so simple. I have been in search of ideas for my wife and its nice of you to share these ideas. thanks again.

I wanted to add that during my search I found this nice surprise birthday idea posted by this guy where he explains a very simple innovative surprise birthday idea and how he went about it, where he messed up and where we can do it better. very nice I must say!

I have provided the link as my name because my name is not that significant. hope you like it.

Cheers
John

[H Miracle Review]

It's nice to your blog, your article is well written, thank you for sharing!

[Sue Mattson]

It really is hard to pull off a surprise party; for one, the celebrant already knows it's his/her birthday, so there's no surprise there. But when pulled off right, it's gonna be one of the kids most memorable experiences in life, and he'll forever treasure that.