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For the Busy Celebrant - Fifteen Ideas for Making 30th Birthday Invitations

Need ideas on making 30th birthday invitations? Here are 15 of them:

1. Decide on a theme for your party first.

2. Search the Internet for design and theme ideas.

3. If you don't want to spend too much time working on the invites, just use the free samples offered by various sites and send them to your friends through email.

4. If you prefer to do it yourself, allot enough time to give your artistic talent more chance to be on prominent display.

5. You can purchase your materials easily enough from stationery shops.

6. If you want it to be all-natural, use what the environment has to offer, like leaves, old candy wrappers, egg shells, etc.

7. Consider where you want to hold the celebration. If the venue is too far from most of your guests' home, better send those invites at least two weeks before the event. If you're turning 30, chances are, most guests will be of the same age as yours and will be busy with family and job responsibilities.

8. Require a response from the invitees confirming that they will attend. You need to plan the menu and the venue.

9. If you have the luxury of time, send the invites through snail mail. Posts are so rare these days that it will be fun for the guests to receive one.

10. If you will invite some people from work, you can just tell them the when and where, but believe me, giving them each an invitation with their name on it would make them more eager to attend than just telling them verbally that they are invited.

11. Remember that invitations can make or break your party, so make sure that they are presentable and interesting.

12. Don't forget to put important information on the invitations, such as what kind of party it is (and what guests should wear), what activities will be involved, when and where it will be held, etc.

13. Choose a theme for your party that involves activities that you personally like doing. There's no point in holding a dance party if you don't like dancing or having a swimming party if you don't much like swimming yourself.

14. Do consider the budget. If you have tons of money, you can always hire a professional party planner who takes care of everything from invitations to cleaning up after the event.

15. Doesn't want to be bothered by such details? Buy a pack of ready-made 30th birthday invitations from the bookstore and send or hand them to the invitees. Not as creative, but still does the job.