Here’s How You Can Organize A Budget-Friendly Hen do
Weddings are an expensive affair and can be difficult to afford when you have a lot of expenses lined up. From wedding cake to dresses, to Cinderella shoes, to hen party celebrations, a wedding can take up a huge up amount of your savings. Hosting a hen party can be another expense added to the already expensive, wedding budget.
But if you are the maid of honour, it becomes your responsibility to ensure that your bride friend gets to have a blast celebrating her last days of freedom before saying ‘I do’.
Planning a hen do can be tricky, confusing and yet an exciting task. You may not have the luxury to spend a bomb of money, but there are ways to throw a budget-friendly hen do and make it memorable for your friend.
So, gather the bridesmaid and get started on planning a memorable party, even if you can’t throw a hen party in Benidorm, here are some tips that will help you live up to the bride’s expectations.
Host a Sleepover
Go old school and invite the girl gang for a house party and a cosy sleepover. A get together at home will beat a hen party in Benidorm, Paris or Barcelona. Here’s how.
Get lots and lots of liquor and decorate the entire house with the bride’s favourite hen party theme. Ask everyone to get a treat of some sort and set a dress code. Make it your own night club and project some dirty, naughty pictures of the bride-to-be on the screen. Play hen party games and line up the chick flicks.
A hen party at home has all the elements – the drama, unlimited alcohol, food, unrestricted music, subtracting the stress of travelling back to the hotel as everyone will be sleeping over at the same place. All of this will cost you way less than what a destination hen do would – without compromising on the fun quotient.
Hen Camping
If the bride isn’t much of a party girl, you can always go camping on a budget and have a weekend in the great outdoors. Drive down with your girl gang to a campsite with some food, alcohol, music and games, and make the most of your friend’s last days of freedom.
You girls can go on head-clearing walks in the morning, spend the evening toasting marshmallows by the fire, and the night admiring the stars and gossiping the time away. Hen Camping will be like a mini road trip – cheap, beautiful, and definitely a memorable experience which will not require you to spend on air tickets.
A Morning Hen Do
What’s better than surprising the bride-to-be in her bed the moment she wakes up? You have no idea how your friend will feel to wake up to the faces of her close friends and a bottle of Vodka. As the maid of honour, you can kick start the hen party at the bride’s home with Vodka over breakfast. Vodka for breakfast? Sounds crazy? Well, since no rules apply to a hen party, after the vodka shots, you can spend the day dancing, singing, eating, gossiping, dressing up and clicking instagrammable photos, all at the bride’s house without breaking the bank.
Hag Do
A hag do is a combination of the hen do and stag do. Well, sounds crazy, but it isn’t crazy at all. This celebration is a common trend among grooms and brides who want to celebrate their last night of freedom as a bachelor and bachelorette together. This hen do will not only be affordable but will also be unique, adventurous and a lot more fun.
Conclusion
The only aim of a hen party is to make the bride happy and celebrate her last days before she ties the knot. So, even if you are on a fixed budget, you can throw an epic hen do for your BFF as the most important part of the hen do are the bridesmaids.
More money or less, it doesn’t really make a difference in hen do being a hit when the entire girl gang is there to dance and laugh with the hen one last time at the celebration.
