Top College Party Themes

As you head back to college, you might already be planning the first party of the semester. Here are nine of the best college party themes to inspire and entertain:

Halloween

Halloween comes around just after the fall semester starts, so it’s never too early to start preparing. You can use ‘Halloween’ as a theme in itself, or choose a different theme for the occasion.

Toga Party

The Toga Party is a college classic. The craze has somewhat worn off now, and a Toga Party is more the territory of middle-aged partygoers than college teens. However, it’s a good theme to fall back on if all else fails, and will produce a novelty evening.

Pick a Decade

Like the Toga Party, theming your party around a certain decade works every time. The sixties, eighties and nineties are most popular, but you can also go back further and throw a prohibition or war-themed party. Some decades definitely have more party potential then others, so choose wisely.

Pick a TV show or Movie

This type of theme is ripe with possibilities, so it’s probably best to be specific. You could ask guests to come as their favorite reality star, to dress up as a celebrity they look like or base the whole party around a certain TV shows.

Dress up

It’s college, so smart dress counts as a theme. Asking guests to come in black tie and cocktail dresses or ball-gowns will put an unusual spin on the traditional college house party. You could also take the theme further, serving cocktails and spirits instead of beer.

Make a Random Selection

If you’re really stuck for suggestions, bring 5-10 of your closest friends together, ask them each to write a theme on a piece of paper, and then put all papers into a bag. Draw one out blind, and you have your party theme!

Choose Alumni

All colleges have celebrity alumni of one form or another. If you go to a college with a particularly famous roster of graduates, bring them back to the dorms for one night only by requiring guests to dress as their favorite character.

Look to the Future

Movies and TV shows depicting future life are notoriously inaccurate, and you can throw a party that follows this trend. Choosing ‘the future’ as a theme is broad enough to give guests a lot of choice, but not so broad that they’ll be stuck for options.

Letter Party

This is a fun theme that challenges guests to get creative. As the party creator, choose a single letter from the alphabet. All guests have to come dressed as a noun (person, place or thing) that starts with the letter.

Don’t forget to use iPartyGram to manage your guest list and send out invitations. Using the app, you can create and send professional-looking invitations for free. VIP guests can also upload pictures to the app, giving you a chance to remember the night before the morning after!

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iPartyGram is a new party-planning app from TECHtionary. It’s a useful tool for planning parties, sending out invitations to guests, and uploading photos. Inviting guests usually takes so much time, it’s a relief to find an app that can make the process quicker, simpler, and, best of all, lets you send invitations for free.  

Hosts When you open up iPartyGram, you’ll see a log on screen for hosts and guests. Hosts can create their own account, from which they can input party details and invite guests. Each party has its own separate “folder” with details and pictures, and you can create as many parties as you like. Once you’ve entered all the party details into your host account, you can send out invitations to guests. Usually this is something that can take hours or, if you get professional invitations printed, can be very costly. 

With iPartyGram, however, you can create professional-looking invitations for a fraction of the price, and send them out to guests for free via email. When you tap “Invite Guests” the app automatically compiles all the party information into an invitation. You can then choose a background to suit the party, which makes it look professional, and then email it to as many people as you like. The invitation shows up in the email as a PDF. Partygoers can then respond to your email to RSVP, and keep the PDF for reference later. When I’ve used iPartyGram, this feature has been really helpful, as you can include information about dress code and what guests need to bring on the invitation, which reduces the amount of questions you get from attendees later! When inviting people to your party, you can select individuals to be “VIP” guests. These guests have special privileges in iPartyGram, including the ability to add their own photos. This feature is lovely, as it means I can share pictures with my closest friends.  

Guests At the top of each iPartyGram invitation, guests receive their own unique log-in number. They can use this to log in to the iPartyGram app or website to view details of the party and any pictures the host and VIP guests have uploaded. As the invitation is a PDF, guests can download this and save it to their computer, or print it out, so they have the details with them when traveling to the party venue.  

iPartyCal iPartyCal is the newest feature in iPartyGram is really useful whether you’re a guest or a host. I find it really helpful when scheduling parties, as I can take a quick look and see when other people have already arranged events, without leaving the app. It's a great way of keeping track of your own events, and friends’ parties too. iPartyGram is an easy-to-use and intuitive party-planning system that makes life easier for hosts and guests. Having used the app both as a party organizer and an attendee, it’s really helpful to be able to view all the party details in one place, straight from my phone. iPartyGram helps you get the practical arrangements out of the way quickly so you can focus on more fun aspects of planning - and enjoying - the event!