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.
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!
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
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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
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