Make sure guests bring their purses to the banquet.
Planning a mother-daughter banquet can be stressful, but choosing a theme for the event makes deciding on banquet favors and games a lot easier. A purse theme can involve lots of colorful decorations and favors as well as purse-shaped desserts. Ask your daughter and her friends about their favorite purse shapes and color schemes for inspiration when planning the event.
Invitations
Create invitations in the shape of purses, or order purse-shaped invitations from online stationery stores. Browsing a local card shop is also an option, and some invitations feature purse chains. Find a purse template from a craft website or draw your own. Cards can be all the same size and type of purse, or create a variety of purse-shaped invitations. Look at your own purses for inspiration or find purse pictures online. Purse shapes can include rectangular clutches, rounded-bottom totes and square shapes.
Favors
Purchase purse-theme favors for guests from shopping websites, including mini purse favor boxes with handles, purse-shaped picture frames, large purse key chains in assorted styles and colors, and purse place card holders. Other options include purse candle holders, purse-shaped mirror compacts, purse hook favors, Asian coin purses, pewter purse caddies and small "fancy dress" purse favors. Small purses filled with trinkets are also options, such as those with a skull or "Little Mermaid" theme. Create your own purse favors using scrap fabric, plastic bags, candy and chewing gum wrappers, and recycled plastic.
Desserts
The options for creating purse-shaped cakes are as endless as the styles of purses. Purse-shaped sheet cakes are one option, or go for a tall, 3-D cake, depending on skill level. Match the cake to the banquet's color scheme if applicable, such as pink and purple, gold and white, or green and pink. Order or bake custom purse-shaped cookies and brownies, or serve cupcakes with edible purse treat decorations.
Games
Play purse-theme party games, such as handbag bingo, in which guests receive bingo cards as well as pieces of paper. Guests must remove items from their purses, such as lipstick, library card, driver's license, change purse, mints or any small item found in handbags. They must write the names (along with guests' names in case of duplicate items) of these items on pieces of paper and hand them to the bingo leader. The paper is thrown in a bowl and removed one at a time. The first person to clear a bingo row wins. "What's in the Purse" is an icebreaker game; the host names an item likely to be found in a purse. The guest who produces the item most quickly wins the game.
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