Tell me about - your Hen's party!

**~*Niadalla*~** · October 3rd, 2011, 11:28 AM

I'm trying to organise my sister's hen's for Jan and I need a few small ideas. I'm tossing up between having it in our 'home' town, or heading to Melbourne. Cost and accessibility will be the determining factor there....

We're having a dress up theme. I'm going to get the invitations sent out that double as lanyards (i've got a nice cheap contact) and depending on the where, a mini bus. We'll be doing a dance class aswell.

So, I'd love to hear about what you had. What did you LOVE? What did you not like? What do you wish you'd done differently? An estimated cost for your guests and how much that included would be AWESOME aswell. I'm not really sure what the cost per guest SHOULD be... I'm thinking anything between $50 and $100, but I've not done very many hen's parties before.

Anything you think would be helpful, please feel free to include and I'd really appreciate as many replies as possible

Thanks ladies!! xx

**Marley&Me** · October 3rd, 2011, 11:35 AM

I hate driving into the city and hate making everybody find a way there and back. So I had my hens at my place with the options of shirtless barmen and/or stripper (police uniform of course!) My friends wanted both, but we ended up just having the stripper. I would have liked the barmen though

We had a ****tail night where everyone bring a bottle of liquor from the list and we made ****tails all night, especially made up stuff at the end of a very drunken night!

We also played dirty pass the parcel and 'pin the tail on the donkey', but with a can of whipped cream and pages from a playgirl mag.
yeah, my friends are animals!

ETA-we also had a dress up theme too!

**Traveller** · October 3rd, 2011, 11:36 AM

Mine was lots of years ago now, but we did a fun activity (white water rafting) in the morning, followed by lunch, a sex toys/lingerie party, dinner, and a trip to the pub where I had to do various challenges. Although it was a really long day, it meant that my friends (many of whom were shifts workers) could come to at least some of it if they couldn't make the whole day. We kept the cost down by catering for the lunch at a friend's house. There was no theme although I was dressed as a bee for some bizarre reason (I got no say in that

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**MummyDuck** · October 3rd, 2011, 11:53 AM

To save on costs we had a hucks night and it was awesome!!!

We had a bus booked at $35 per head and entry to 4 clubs/bars including bar 20 for the boys and inflation for the girls

The only downside for us was lack of knowledge about some clubs so we spent some time in the bus when we really didn't like one and decided on another.

Girls did a pole class before hand lots of fun

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**~TT40~** · October 3rd, 2011, 12:38 PM

We went on a ghost tour, was awesome, started late and didnt finish til like 11 we then went to the pub. Plan was to get drunk but we only had 1 but had the most amazing night. Was pure honest fun.
Was a pain with numbers cause we needed exact numbers and had to have a certain number and i had ppl say they were coming and just not show up.
But was a great night.

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**OceanPrincess** · October 3rd, 2011, 12:47 PM

Woo I love a good hen's night! I've had my own, organised my sister's and organised two friends'!!! They were all very different...

My sister's, we hired a beachhouse and split the cost. We had pre-drinks in the house, went into town for dinner and back to the house for drinking and dancing. Had a ball. Made my sister a top with her DF's face printed on it and she wore that. We made her take a quiz to see how well she knew her H2B! Can't remember how much it cost but it wasn't outrageous. I asked everyone to bring a gift for the "Hen's hamper" - naughty or nice, they could chose, but something for my sister to use in her new married life. She got some sexy lingerie, some massage oil type things, as well as some more practical things. But most people went down the slightly "naughty" path!

Mine - we started with a fancy lunch, just my sister and my two closest girlfriends. Then we went to an apartment in the city that they had rented and met up with my "inner circle" of friends (about 6 others). We had a few games and drinks there. We had the hen's hamper again and we did a quiz. Then we went for dinner and met the extended family and had a civilised dinner, then attempted to go out but couldn't be bothered so we went back to the apartment and chilled out with a few more drinks. No idea about cost!

My two friends - I organised them pretty similar as they were only a month apart. Friend 1 we did the lunch thing, then went off to a belly dancing class - loads of fun. Then to an apartment in the city, had some people over for some games. We did this awesome game where you get everyone to complete this sentence: "The household chore I dislike the most is............ Because........." and then you get the Hen to read them out but change the first bit to "The thing I dislike most about sex is...." Really funny, especially if you get someone like me playing it who has done it before and writes something like "cleaning the shower because you have to get on your hands and knees, work really hard and its dirty and disgusting"

Anyway we went for dinner and played "Pin the macho on the man" at the restaurant which the other diners thought was hysterical - yes, you are pinning something on a hunky half nekkid man. We cut up funny shaped willies to make it a bit less ruuude. We did a quiz in the restaurant - how well did each of us know the bride to be? That was good fun for all the older attendees.

Then we went out to a nice bar, danced, drank some more, then went back to the apartment and opened the hen's hamper I think.

Friend 2 was about the same except we did a Kitchen Tea first, which the mum organised for all the older relos, then we took over for the Hen's part - and we did pole dancing instead of belly dancing. I found pole dancing a little confronting TBH - it was good fun but there's only three poles so you take it in turns and everyone got to see how unfit and uncoordinated I am

I also didn't like it as they made me take my wedding band off and at that point I'd never taken it off

Cost for those hen's parties: dinner we kept to about $40-50 per person, wine included, set menu type thing. We found places that would let us BYO wine, which helped a lot with price. The apartments we found through the Entertainment Book and worked out to only maybe $50-70pp, but we only had like 6 people staying there, it wasn't for everyone.

The classes were I think $35-50pp.

People seem ok to spend about that much, or they did for us anyway! We just wrote a big information sheet thing saying what we were doing, when and what cost. They could then choose what they did or didn't want to do!

**OceanPrincess** · October 3rd, 2011, 12:50 PM

Was a pain with numbers cause we needed exact numbers and had to have a certain number and i had ppl say they were coming and just not show up.

That's sucky T, I can't believe they stood you up on your hen's night!

We had a numbers problem too - with the classes we had to have exact numbers, no one could turn up without letting us know and likewise we didn't want people doing a no-show... so we said they had to pre-pay. Worked really well - the transferred the money to the other girl who organised it with me and then she paid the company. That way we made sure the people who said they were coming, actually came. If they didn't, their loss, literally!

**TeniBear** · October 3rd, 2011, 12:51 PM

Only invite people you actually like, especially if you're going to drink

I invited heaps of people because I wanted to do a bus tour thing and needed a minimum amount - and got utterly smashed. Now all these women who aren't actually friends have seen me at my worst, spewing my guts out (sorry) and making a fool of myself.

I do have some positive memories of my hen's night, but that's what comes immediately to mind when I think of it - how embarrassed I am of myself

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**MummyNaomi** · October 3rd, 2011, 01:09 PM

My Hens organised a c0cktail party for me at an inner city bar which was awesome, they organised for a section to be reserved for us, we had nibbles and c0cktails and they all threw cash in a dish for my drinks so I don't think I spent a penny all night. We didn't dress up and I was not a fan of wearing a veil to identify myself as the bride to be (I didn't even wear a veil at my wedding) so it was just about glamming up for the night in killer heals and gorgeous dresses and living it up a bit

We had a ball, it was a nice relaxed evening, I was surrounded by people I love and we all got drunk and silly and had a ball

**~*Niadalla*~** · October 3rd, 2011, 02:10 PM

Thanks for your replies ladies!!

**~TT40~** · October 3rd, 2011, 08:10 PM

That's sucky T, I can't believe they stood you up on your hen's night!

We had a numbers problem too - with the classes we had to have exact numbers, no one could turn up without letting us know and likewise we didn't want people doing a no-show... so we said they had to pre-pay. Worked really well - the transferred the money to the other girl who organised it with me and then she paid the company. That way we made sure the people who said they were coming, actually came. If they didn't, their loss, literally!

One of them also stood me up at my wedding! ...we arent talking anymore...

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**Beatrix** · October 3rd, 2011, 08:32 PM

My hens is in 2 weeks.

What I know of if we are doing dinner first for the older generation which everyone pays their own.
Then we are heading to a pole dancing class which is $10 to watch and have nibbles and champa's or $40 to participate. Everyone is paying a extra $5 for my night.

Then off to a ****tail bar.

We have a masquerade theme and I have a hot little red corset and veil (thanks to the awesome cougars)

Looking forward to the night.

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**Amy_jellybean** · October 3rd, 2011, 11:14 PM

We had a late afternoon Kitchen Tea with drinks and nibbles. Then us youngin's hired a 12 seater bus (Sisters hubby drove it) and we went into the city to the pubs and clubs.

I wore a hideous veil covered in willies, condoms etc and the girls made me a 'suck for a buck top'. They basically sewed lifesavers onto a singlet top that I wore and for to suck a lolly off my top they had to give me a $1. By the end of the night we had about $200 (and some very funny photos!!!) we put the money on the bar and bought a few rounds of drinks.

I had a fab night...although the photo of me spewing in an ice cream container on the bus trip home wasnt so classy.....

**feeb** · October 3rd, 2011, 11:34 PM

Dinner at hard rock cafe with some games.
1 game everyone brought a gift naughty or nice wrapped up and put in a box and I had to guess who it was from.
2nd game was a pass the parcel with qns about me on it and each person who un wrapped one a cheeky prize!

Then a booze cruise stripper cruise was $70 a head included nibbles and drinks!!!

Awesome night!! We then went on Ferris wheel on banks of Yarra after so much fun!!

DH picked myself my mum and a friend up from city and drive us home!! (I picked him and best mate up on his bucks night)

**helle** · October 4th, 2011, 04:53 AM

I wish I had had mine on a different night!! Hubby had a skimpy for his bucks, and most of the girls at mine had partners at his and bailed early and went to hubby's because they were all paranoid/curious about the damn skimpy. -.-;

**Laranna** · October 4th, 2011, 09:58 AM

We had a photo shoot in a studio. My bridesmaids organized it all with games and drinks and nibbles, was a lot of fun and I have some great pro photos. We then went off to a bar for some drinks and food.