Having A Great Graduation Party

Added: 11/08/2007

Graduation parties are a rite of passage for someone who is leaving one stage of their life and moving on to another. Whether the student is graduating from high school and moving on to college or graduating from college and moving on to the real world a graduation party is a great way to send them off right. It would probably be a good idea to make sure the student is involved in the planning.

A great graduation party really depends on who the party is for and what their plans are for the future. The great graduation party can be a theme for moving on to a new stage in life or it can be a trip down memory lane for the good times, and the bad, had during the previous school years. High school graduation parties need to be treated differently than college graduation parties and you must always keep in mind that no matter how great a graduation party may be the student may be having more than one party. That’s okay and normal so don’t get hung up on that. But every student should have a great graduation party from their parents to go along with any great graduation parties that may be thrown by their friends. It is just customary for the student to be memorialized by their friends and family for their educational achievements. Although it is debatable how many of those achievements with their friends were educational at school or some place else.

For high school students the great graduation party begins with the right setting. Talk to your high school graduate and ask them where they would like their great graduation party to take place. When they tell you, and you realize that there is no way you can afford the party they want, go ahead and ask them what they need to make the backyard of your house suitable for their great graduation party. Be warned that for high school students the thing to have at their graduation party is a live band and many times that live band is their friends from school. The band will probably be very loud, not very good, and expect to be paid. The band will think they sound good, and their friends will be nice about it, but you won’t like it. Remember that this is not your day so, as long as your neighbors agree not to sue, go ahead and have your student’s band play. The worst thing you can do is know that your student wants a live band and then go and hire a band yourself. It isn’t the same thing, it won’t be good enough, and they won’t like it. This is the one event in your student’s life that you will just have to let go and let them do the things they want. Do not send out invitations to your student’s friends. Your student will probably really hate that and be very embarrassed by it. If you want to send out invitations to family and friends of the family then that is fine. But your high school student will not go for sending out invitations to their friends. You are probably going to have to mix your family with your student’s friends for this party so be aware of that.

College students are a little different as they have a tendency to be a little more mature or, depending on what they did for four years in college, they are a little worn out from parties and don’t mind their parents doing a little get together to celebrate their graduation. A college graduation party can probably be a little more subdued that the high school one and more than likely the guest list will be mostly family and friends of the family. Usually a college student is only a couple of weeks away from taking on their new job so they do not have a lot of time to help plan a graduation party. Just keep it simple and make sure there is a lot of food and drink. A college graduation party thrown by the parents will probably be a nice change of pace from four years of God knows what so make it the event you want it to be and your student will probably think it was a very nice event and thank you for it.

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