How to Host a Summer Party Guide

Summer is here and the temperature is rising.

Flare up the temperature some more by hosting your own awesome summer party.

If you haven’t hosted any summer party in the past, don’t worry.

Here’s a guide that will make it easier for you to throw a cool summer party not only for friends and family, but a party where strangers will be paying admission to get to.

Hire a catering company to drop off or get a food truck to come. 

Number one on the list is food. But if you are going to host a large crowd, it might be better off if you would just hire a professional catering company.

Preparing the food yourself will just eat up all your time that is better used in organizing the event itself. Besides, you think you are saving money by cooking the food by yourself, but for large groups, you might be surprised that the cost of hiring caterers is not that far off from the cost of doing it yourself.

Another option, aside from hiring a catering company, is to get a food truck to come to your event. It will be a cool factor thrown into your summer party.

Anticipation is everything. Build an event website to get registration and have a designer create a flyer. 

All your efforts will be for naught if you are not able to get people to go to your event. The best way to do that is to market your party extensively.

One way to effectively do it is to build an event website to get registration. The site will also include all the details of your summer party including the date, location, itinerary, and line up of guests and performers.

Use the website as the center of your marketing campaigns. Extensively promote it on social media, go as far as boost your posts through paid ads.

You can also delve into traditional marketing. Have a designer create a cool flyer that also indicates your website. Pass it around town.

Rent an open-air photo booth 

I always say that the photo booth is the ultimate rental for any event, summer parties are not an exception.

And you know what’s better than a photo booth? And open-air photobooth. Yup no walls. A photobooth where everyone sees how everyone poses.

It is a fun way to get everybody involved in the event. It’s a souvenir for your guests too.

Hire local DJ with sound system

There will be lull moments during your summer party. A DJ can fill those silent moments with groovy music.

Your DJ can also be one of the performers. Ask your DJ to play a killer set for you.

And once all the performers are done, your DJ can take control and get everyone to dance through the summer heat.

Rent Tables and chairs with table linen

Your party is about summer so it is important that your tables, chairs and other decors reflect that.

Make sure that the linen used on the tables matches the color and theme of your event.

If not, your guests will surely notice that the décor is just an afterthought.

Get a bartender to serve mixed drinks and signature cocktails 

What kind of summer party doesn’t have alcohol? Make sure that you rent a bar or have a beverage caterer to take care of the drinks during your summer party.

Coordinate with your beverage caterer about the types of mixed drinks that will be available. You can even concoct your own signature cocktail so that it will be identified to your event.

These are just some simple things you can follow if you want to organize a kickass summer party. It will take some time and effort, but it will be worth it.