End of the Roaring 20s: 1920s Speakeasy Birthday Party

This past weekend we celebrated the End of the Roaring 20s for my hubs and I, with a 1920s Speakeasy Birthday Party. My hubs turns 29 in March and I turn 28 tomorrow, so we thought it would be a fitting theme.

The party was surprisingly easy to plan, even if it had me stumped at first. We lit candles all over the house and changed some of the lights to red party light bulbs. This set the mood perfectly.

We started a facebook group inviting friends, where we told guests the secret knock and password they had to say before they entered the speakeasy. We also shared some 1920s slang words, songs, and other fun stuff to prep out guests before the big party.

At the entrance to our house we put boxes with "imported gin" "whiskey" and other crates, with a sign I made for the house to be closed for prohibition violations (my friends loved this).

Once inside, we had wanted posters of my hubs and I that I created with a wanted poster generator.

I also made round printable banners I hung around the house in classic Gatsby-era style, along with other printables (cupcake toppers, drink labels, etc- all of which you can download in an upcoming post.)

Can you catch my typo on my chalkboard wall? lol.

We put all the beverages in paper bags (with "medical use" tags added to all of them, with what drinks they were).

Because this speakeasy has plenty of underground criminals (haha) we made a photobooth-esque wall that was a prison lineup (along with a printable I made for the lineup sign- using the date and our location). I made the lineup wall from a white shower curtain and black electrical tape (because we are classy like that, haha). My friends had plenty of fun taking their 1920s prison photos. ;)

Hubs and I take a very "bonnie & clyde-esque" photo

The food was pretty straight forward- lots of finger foods, such as deviled eggs, mini sandwiches, cheese/meats/crackers, and these super easy pecan+cream cheese+dried apricot things that my friend's sister-in-law made for her bridal shower and I just had to try making them. SOOOO easy!

Our menu

the food setup (in all my typo glory)

left side of food setup

right side of food setup

We setup a rack that helped save space elsewhere- candle lighting (top), jello shots (second shelf) taffy and take-home treat bags of taffy (middle shelf) cups/plates/bowls/napkins/utensils (second from bottom) and more decor (bottom).

Drunk fruit

Taffy treats and take home bags of taffy (got these cute little bags at the dollar store-10 for $1!)

Pecan/cream cheese/dried apricot things!

I also picked up some cute cupcakes from our local Giant Supermarket (normally we'd make our own, but our day was pretty packed beforehand, so we didn't have the time).
 The hubs also made some Spike-Your-Juice homebrewed juices, which we put in these brown beer bottles with little tags I made for them.

 

We setup our round dining room table up for poker...

and put on some 1920s tunes (found some a cool playlist here).

Wendy wants to play poker!

We had a marvelous time! It was a blast, and my friends all commented how much fun they had. You too can have a Speakeasy party- it isn't that hard!
You can download the printables I made for the 1920s party here!
Have a great day!
-M

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