Thread: Anyone doing an Oct 31 party?

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I am having my first halloween party this year on the 31st also! We are a bunch of 25-30 yr olds that just love having fun! We drink but not to the point where people get crazy.

We are mainly going to just have 2 games going on at the same time(murder mystery and toe tag) and regular conversation will fit in between them. Party will start at 8pm for those with cousins/brothers and sisters who go trick or treating. Like my other parties, I have everyone bring a little something to eat so that I dont have to spend tons of money on food. This works out very well. I never knew my friends cooked so well! lol

Wish me luck! At first I wasnt too excited about having a halloween party but after coming here, i am psyched and cant wait!!

Our party is Saturday the 31st. We have about 50 people coming. I'm having it catered. I hired a bartender and a DJ. Also bought several thousand dollars worth of props and decorations.

This is our first Halloween party in about 10 yrs....we were both in our mid 20's at the time and a little crazier...long story short that party led to 2 arrests and a divorce. No kidding.

I'm hoping for a calmer party this time around.

Hello all. This is our 10th yr of having a halloween party. It was a deal w/a friend, I do halloween she does New Year! Anyways, Our party is on the 31st this yr. (Yay!!) It starts @ 8pm, so I figure that really means 9, 9:30 . We purposly moved it from the 7 pm start time we usually have. I've only had 1 person complain. They do have younger kids and didn't think they could find a babysitter. I purposly told them the date way back in August, so they would have plenty of time to make arrangements. She keeps making comments about it being on the 31st, and how it's hard to find a sitter, why would we have it then... well ya know what..Our kids are older, we've been there. Sometimes you just have to stay home. I don't feel bad about the date. We are gave out 40 invites, one per household and have had friends of friends say they've heard about our party and would it be okay if they came!! I decided yrs ago, I'm going to have a good time no matter how many people show up!

Originally Posted by DRKSAINT

Our party is Saturday the 31st. We have about 50 people coming. I'm having it catered. I hired a bartender and a DJ. Also bought several thousand dollars worth of props and decorations.

This is our first Halloween party in about 10 yrs....we were both in our mid 20's at the time and a little crazier...long story short that party led to 2 arrests and a divorce. No kidding.

I'm hoping for a calmer party this time around.

Ha ha...that's hilarious!

Well we had 48 (counting us, we had invited about 110) and had the best party ever (out of 16 parties we have done). Invite time was 7:30, but probably nearly half the people came after 8:30-9:00, some as late as 9:45. But they stayed late too. We had one exodus at about 11:30 ish (after we announced the costume contest winners), but still had a small critical mass of people there at 1am!

So I can say that the 31st caused some problems for a few people but they seemed to work around it. People who really wanted to come found a way. I would do it again on the 31st, I think the 24th is too early and the 6th is just way too late....

We did do Nov 1 one year though, and people like that because they could go shop for Halloween stuff that day and get some killer deals...

We had around 25 folks at our Halloween party this year. Mostly neighbors and a few friends who don't get kids at their houses for Halloween. We have a Pirate theme party to go with the Pirate ship haunt that I do on the front of my house. I encourage everyone to go out on the deck and out to the front yard and greet all the ToT's....It is like having a whole live "Crew"....!

We had the same party last year the day after Halloween and it was a big hit...!

Originally Posted by mic214

We had around 25 folks at our Halloween party this year. Mostly neighbors and a few friends who don't get kids at their houses for Halloween. We have a Pirate theme party to go with the Pirate ship haunt that I do on the front of my house. I encourage everyone to go out on the deck and out to the front yard and greet all the ToT's....It is like having a whole live "Crew"....!

We had the same party last year the day after Halloween and it was a big hit...!

We live in a very rural area, on a private drive with 5 other homes and get NO TOT's, so that is not an issue.

The pirate party is a good idea..... of course then I'd have to build a 3 deck, 4 masted ship in my living room.......

We have people come over to help out with the haunting, so it is a de-facto party on the 31st every year. It does get a little difficult to be everywhere at once, though... in the yard scaring ToTers, or in the house socializing?

This year I had a separate party on the 30th, so I could actually enjoy the party. Had 35 people. It was fun, but I didn't manage to get everything cleaned up and re-set for the haunt on the 31st. Next year I am moving the regular party back to the previous weekend.

Although it was great having our first Halloween party on Halloween I don't think I will have it on the same night. It was way to much since we set up everything outside the day of. We were detained cause of the weather and other things and when we finally got done outside I was rushing around trying to get ready for 6:00 and then in between giving out candy trying to set up the food tables and last minute things. I didn't have time to do some of the things I had planned on but no one knew except me. The party was a huge success and I also had a great time and relaxed after a few drinks lol!!! Will do it again next year but not on Halloween night.

nothing wrong with having a halloween party on halloween; we told people to make our house the last stop!! we invited around 100 and 80 showed up, but we had wings, shrimp and beer, so there was enough food...not too many people rsvp'd to snail mail, so from now on, we're using e-vites to keep better tabs.