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You’ve tasked yourself to throw a casino party and are in need of a few casino themed party ideas to get the ball rolling.
Everyone knows that when you throw a party, it’s the event of the season, one that will be spoken about for years to come.
You’ve worked hard to earn the reputation of the best party hostess ever and your hosting skills are so legendary that even the corporation you work for calls on you to plan the big events.
Nice job!
Now’s the time to plan the biggest bash in your party history. Stressed? Don’t worry, I have your back. (smiles)
Are you going for something glamorous and exciting? Not a problem! Here are five stylish casino themed party ideas that will help you keep your status as the reining queen when it comes to planning and throwing a party.
1. Invitations for Any Casino Themed Party
Whatever type of casino themed party you throw, get your friends or colleagues to join in by sending the right message. Send them an invitation through evite.com, an affordable eco-solution to traditional paper invitations.
Looking for something in print? Vistaprint sells these classy White Casino Night Invites.
Vistaprint’s Casino Night invitation
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Best of all, you can order matching banners, envelope stamps and note cards for a finished look.
Now that you have the invites, let’s move on to decorations!
2. Birthday Casino Themed Party Ideas
Birthdays are to be toasted, especially the 21st. Throw the best birthday casino themed party for your newly legal friend or relative!
Decorate your venue with casino swag sure to make Las Vegas jealous. Buy casino themed party fans, lanterns, streamers and matching tableware from Party City.
Tell the guests to dress up for a night in Little Las Vegas. Offer felt top hats to the gents and feather boas to the ladies as they enter the scene.
When you hire a company to host the casino night, they will bring the gaming tables, play money and chips. Give your guests souvenirs honoring the birthday.
Custom Dice Favors via Sweetly Wrapped Occasions
Place personalized dice at the craps table! Each time a new person visits the table and plays, they get to keep a set of dice!
Remember to place popcorn and sweet treats around the party in ritzy casino favors boxes.
Casino themed party ideas on Kara’s Party Ideas Blog
I suggest filling these boxes with yummy gummy dice and poker candies.
3. Casino Night/Poker Night Party
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Holding a swanky poker party for your closest friends?
Set the theme of any poker night with a Steve Silver Tournament Game Table. Then add excitement and glamour with candle holders and martini glasses filled with poker chips and dice, like the ones below as seen on Every Little Detail Event Blog – a must see blog for a high-class poker night!
Perfect for table décor and for place settings
Serve your favorite drinks and hors d’oeuvres and play some classic Sinatra. Don’t forget to offer some sweet desserts!
Casino themed mini cupcakes via creativecupcakes.com
4. Corporate Holiday Casino Themed Party
Tired of the boring holiday parties at work each year? Liven up the party with a corporate holiday casino theme!
Christmas and New Year’s will never be the same once you hire a professional casino company to host your event!
Hire a catering company and bartender for the evening and watch your colleagues loosen up and have fun.
Give the men these fabulous poker boutonnieres and the ladies chocolate playing cards!
Poker boutonnieres for a casino themed party
Don’t forget to have plenty of custom dice and poker chips with the corporate logo to hand out during the evening too!
5. James Bond and Casino Royale or Shanghai Nights
If you are hosting a charity event or social gala, consider a James Bond Casino Royale theme or a Shanghai Nights theme for an oriental flair. Both are sophisticated and sensational.
Ask your guests to come dressed to the nines for a Black Tie or White Tie affair. Include a martini bar to set the mood. After you hire your professional casino company, caterers and entertainment, look for a party cake to wow the guests.
I love this James Bond Cake below by CakesDecor.com. You can serve it or use the cake as an auction item for raising funds at the charity event. Of course this a much smaller version of the cake you’ll be having. (smiles)
And how about some irresistible and classy James Bond gift bags like the ones below found at Catch My Party.
James Bond inspired favor bags
Fill them with party favors worthy of your guests. Or if you want you can simply use two solid color bags (black and white). I love keeping things simple because sometimes, less is more.
When choosing the oriental flair of Shanghai Night’s, ask guests to wear red accents as it’s consider good fortune.
Men can wear Tuxedos with Mandarin Collars while the ladies can wear beautiful cheongsams and style their hair and jewels in classic 1930s style.
Ask your caterers to serve Dim Sum and rice wine for the occasion. Add a sophisticated flair with paper lanterns, roses, and tea light candles for your dinner party.
Mixing Chinese New Year decorations with casino gaming will impress your guests.
Top off the dinner with fortune cookie cupcakes. I found the inspiration for these at Laura’s Little Party Site Blog.
For a more formal occasion, I suggest a spectacular Dragon Cake.
Dragon Cake
Dragons are wise and are a perfect reminder for a fun night of gambling; generously bet your money to support charity! I found this dragon cake on Love This Pic.
Hand out Asian Gift Boxes, to each guest at the end of the night. The ones I found at Oriental Trading Company are perfect for this.
Fill these boxes with foil wrapped chocolate poker chips or chocolate dice.
Five Stylish Casino Themed Party Ideas to Excite Your Guests
Regardless of the occasion, these casino themed party ideas will wow and excite your guests.
Be sure to check out my website for edible casino themed party favors ideas.
Poker night? We’re all in. Check out our pointers for planning one.
Invitations
Get started by sending an Evite invitation, like the free “Who’s In?” cards-themed invitation below or a premium “Ante Up” poker night invitation. Check out our game night invitation gallery for more designs.
Decorations
It’s easy to find a home poker kit that includes cards, nice chips and a good playing surface. But if you don’t have one of these fancy kits, take a trip to a fabric store and get a big swatch of green felt to put over your tabletop.
It’s important to make sure you have enough poker chips for all of your guests. You probably can’t get by with less than 35 chips per person — most experts suggest more like 50 to 100 per head. If you don’t mind a mish-mash, ask your guests to bring some extra chips of their own. If you’re playing Texas Hold ‘Em, make sure you have a special chip set aside for the button.
To round out the theme, pick up some casino-themed napkins and plates decorated with images of dice, cards or dollar signs from a party store.
Attire
Even if you’re not playing for high stakes, you can still dress the part. Asking guests to come in suits and ties or cocktail dresses makes a simple get-together seem like an event.
You can also go casual and ironic by getting cheap costume armbands and green plastic dealer visors — poker doesn’t have to be super serious.
Playing with some card sharks? If they arrive wearing shirts with billowy sleeves, make sure they roll them up when you play so they can’t hide cards in them.
Variants
Texas Hold ‘Em is all the rage, but you can have a great card party with other poker variations: five-card draw, seven-card stud, hi/lo, baseball poker and other make-up-your-own-rules games.
The most important thing when playing poker is to be familiar with the winning hands. Here they are from high to low:
- Royal flush
- Straight flush
- Four of a kind
- Full house
- Flush
- Straight
- Three of a kind
- Two pair
- One pair
Too confusing? Just remember that a full house flushes a straight.
Food
Get a pizza delivered for quick sustenance that minimizes card-playing down time. Or put together a simple spread of appetizers. Make your own or get a big box of warm-in-the-oven hors d’oeurves at a warehouse club store. Just keep the food away from the playing table.
Drinks
If you’re playing poker, you might be thinking martinis are in order. Martinis will make your party upscale for sure (but they do call to mind James Bond, and his game was baccarat). If you’re going to go for some straight liquor, grab a bottle of single-malt scotch. Or, to mix cards and cocktails, consider the classy, old-fashioned cocktail called the Sidecar.
Sidecar
- 2 parts Cognac
- 1 part triple sec
- 1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice
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Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Add ice. Shake, then strain into a chilled highball glass.
There are many who say that serious cards need to be played without the hazy influence of booze. So for a non-alcoholic alternative, grab some carbonated soda water and mix it up with some Italian syrup.
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