Thread: Alice in Wonderland Themed Party

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That's what we've decided to do this year. It'll likely be sort of a combination of various AIW incarnations. I've seen a couple of other people are doing the same theme, and there might be more to come, so I figured I'd start a fresh thread for everyone to post their ideas.

Not sure what our party will be called. Any suggestions are welcome. We figure to decorate as follows...

front door - The Rabbit Hole (plan to make a facade of a tree to go in front of the door that people will walk through)

living room - Queen's Court (lotsa card-themed decorations)

dining room/kitchen - Mad Hatter's Tea Party (teacups/pots all over)

one bedroom - the Jabberwocky's Lair (I wanna try to make the Jabberywocky. We'll see how that goes.)

basement - the forest with the Cheshire Cat, Catepillar, flowers, etc)

bathroom - not sure yet

The food & drink will be AIW-themed, of course. I have a few specific ideas that I'll post when they're more nailed down.

The wife will be the Red Queen & I'll be the Mad Hatter.

Anyone else have any ideas/suggestions? Or let us know what you're planning?

Is this going to be a darker version of tim burton's movie? If it is I was thinking having decapitated heads all over the queens room. A jail for the bathroom. Allot of pastries and miniature cakes ( cupcakes) for the Mad Hatter room. A prop that looks like a crazed Alice. I am just brainstorming but the idea of doing AIW is very cool.

You could always do the jabberwocky as a shadow puppet if you don't have time to make a "realistic" one. I sometimes think that the implied horror is even better than overt scariness

Hallow Yves- I'm not sure how dark of a take we'll do. I know there's always the Burton movie & the American McGee's Alice to pull from, if we decide to go that route. Thanks for the bathroom idea. We might just use that.

HeatherEve1234 - Thanks. I kinda like the idea of doing the shadow puppet. It'd be much easier. And the way our floor plan is, it'd work out really well actually.

I think the shadow puppet Idea sounds great.

Heston Bluemthal did an episode on Alice in Wonderland Food. Obviously his ideas are quite complicated but it might give so unique ideas for some creative foods...

Yeah, the more I think about it, I think I'm gonna go the shadow puppet route. I'll just need to find a cd of growls & such to play in the room as well.

Thinking more about the bathroom, I might make that the White Rabbit room, with a bunch of crazy clocks (I've seen a few - backwards, "melting", etc.) and a bunch of bunnies.

Play snippets from various films. In the hall make a footprint path like in the Disney version with the footstool

mr. synical,

just finished a farewell party and birthday party in this theme.
as party goers would drive up they saw oversized pinwheels and colorful signs in the yard. the signs said yonder, this way, that way, up, down, do not enter, go back!, and the like. a welcome to wonderland sign was on the front door to greet the guests.
i intended to have the entryway/ front room covered in clocks and vintage keys...ran out of time - but if i had it all to do over again...that is what i would do because...
i have an arch decorated with balloons. the larger opening facing this room and getting smaller to the next room...(the rabbit hole) before the arch sits a table with glass bottles filled with colored liquid decorated with a ribbon and a tag that says drink me. (Shots anyone.) for a kid friendly party you could have red and blue jellybeans with a tag that says eat me. a large stuffed rabbit invited everyone to go down the rabbit hole.
i did my kitchen in an overgrown garden theme with lots of vines, huge toadstools and birdhouses. i made topiaries out of bamboo sticks and styro balls with the vines wrapped around them. i pinned on cheap little flowers and some butterflies. i suspended, from the ceiling, huge flowers i found in the garden party section of hobby lobby. this gave the illusion that the guest had shrunk in the forest. my dining area was decorated with a black and white tulle ceiling and i suspended colorful paper lanterns beneath. i had strung garland made from ribbon and playing cards. of course there were lots of tea pots and tea cups with many flower arrangements of crazy colored flowers.
you can always darken these ideas up a bit for halloween. i wanted to share my ideas with you because my guests said they really felt immersed in the theme.
also, my prizes for best mad hatter hats....oversized teapot planters with ivy plants in them. you could always get the planters you decorate youref and do a dark design, add a skull stake in the ivy and some black roses.
i will try to add pictures. hope this is helpful!

Zombiefrac, that sounds like it was awesome. You have pics?

If you are going to dress as the mad hatter, I'd like to suggest something similar to the outfit worn by the lead singer of Oomph! in their "Labyrinth" music video. I can't get enough of this band or this video right now.


YouTube- Oomph! - Labyrinth [HD 720p]

Of course, I don't know how similar that is to the outfit worn by the real mad hatter (I've never even seen Alice in Wonderland, to be honest) and maybe not everyone could pull that look off anyway . . . but if you can, it would be so cool! Their singer is awesome and does this "creepy / insane" act so well, I think he (or someone doing the same act) would be great at a Halloween party. Plus, thousands of ladies all around the world have the hots for this man, so looking like him seems a good idea, no?

Just an idea, of course.