A Great Time Had by All…

Planning and executing a birthday party is always fun. A milestone

birthday party is the most fun of all. Recently my best friend and I

threw a 30th birthday party for a mutual friend and we held it at a

condo in the Aldyn.

For those of you not familiar with The Aldyn, it is a great luxury condo

complex in Manhattan. I, unfortunately do not live there, but another

friend of mine does and he graciously allowed us to use his condo.

When planning the party we went easy on the décor. The views from

The Aldyn are pretty spectacular so we added some floating candles

in vases around the place and some balloons.

The food we ordered from a site called Appetizers To Go. It is a high-

end frozen appetizers company. Most of the food was great, but the

biggest hits were the Latkes, the Beef Wellington and the Sliders.

We had a bartender and a basic bar which was mostly stocked with

some great wine and beer. We did not have a fully stocked bar which

made it work more smoothly. Experience has shown us that if you have

a fully stocked bar it takes longer for people to decide what they want

and also longer for the bartender to make the drinks.

For entertainment we had some fun with the music. iTunes has a great

application that lets you preset your music and allows anyone else

with an iPhone, iPod or iPad to request music, vote on the next songs

to be played and things like that. We left an iPad out so people can

make requests if they did not have a device of their own. People loved
it! Basically the entire party was the DJ.

As people left we gave them a box that had two cupcakes in it and a

note that thanked them for coming and wishing them some sweet

memories of the party. We bought the cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery.

By keeping things simple the party was a lot of fun and not hard to

prepare for. The Aldyn was a great place to host the party and

everything went over really well. You should check out the Appetizers

to Go website, they ship everywhere. For those fortunate enough to live
in Manhattan you can never go wrong with Magnolia Bakery.

Plan your party like this and fun will be had by all.