Birthday is gifts, numerous congratulations, good mood and positive emotions. On this day, a person was born, and every next year of celebration, the birthday man wants to surprise his guests with new ideas for holding a celebration. Some people like to arrange a celebration in a cafe, water park or bowling alley, someone prefers a calm reception of their loved ones at home. Probably you, on the eve of your name day, are thinking about how to celebrate your birthday in an unusual and inexpensive way.
How unusual to celebrate a birthday?
The main criterion in the process of organizing a birthday party are financial opportunities birthday boy. Consider how unusually and inexpensively you can celebrate your birthday:
- Winter. If it snows outside, the whole company can go to make snowmen. After a fun "work", you can refresh yourself on the spot with a pie and tea from a thermos. The event ends with a photo shoot with a snowman or a snowball fight.
- Spring - autumn. And for these times of the year, there are many options for holding a budget birthday. Pizza and watching a good comedy, tea drinking and playing Monopoly will help to have a fun birthday party for both teenagers and adults.
- Summer. It's warm outside, so a great option would be to hold a birthday outside the city. Fresh air, warm sun, cheerful company - in such situations, even potatoes baked in ashes and sausages fried on the grill will be an excellent treat. The cultural program will be diversified by pre-prepared active games.
How is a birthday celebrated in Russia?
Birthdays were first celebrated in Egypt around 2500 BC. This tradition came to our country much later, in the 19th century - ceremonial receptions were hosted by wealthy merchants and nobles.
Only in the last century did birthdays finally take shape as we see them today.
Note 5 main features, which at all times characterized the holding of name days in our country:
- Song "Karavai". Traditional song in honor of the hero of the holiday. Nowadays, mostly songs are performed for children.
- Guests. The birthday boy invites relatives and guests. The traditional celebration takes place at the table.
- Ear pulling. Usually the parents of the birthday boy do this. Believe - to grow big. After turning 18, the hero of the day is simply kissed on the cheek.
- Cake and candles. Candles are stuck on the cake (according to the number of years). The hero of the occasion extinguishes all the candles with one exhalation.
- Toast. In turn, all the guests, without exception, congratulate the birthday man and make a toast. First, parents do this, that is, the closest relatives, then godparents, etc.
How fun to celebrate a birthday?
Until recently, birthdays in Russia were considered exclusively family holidays. Invited close relatives and friends gathered at the festive table. The birthday boy sits at the head of the table and receives congratulations during the meal.
Now the situation has changed, and you can mark your date in one of the places:
- Aquapark. At any time of the year, your guests can have a great time in the water park. Standard water attractions are combined with a visit to a bar or cafe located inside the entertainment complex.
- Cinema. A banal trip to the cinema can turn into the most fun birthday in the life of a birthday person. As a rule, not only auditoriums, but also all kinds of cafes, attractions and other entertainment facilities are concentrated in one room.
- Bowling. Sports combined with an entertainment program will give a lot of impressions even to those guests who have never approached the bowling alley.
Alternative celebration: exotic and extreme
If visiting cinemas, cafes and traditional gatherings at the table are tired, you can spend your birthday in an alternative way:
- shopping. First of all, this method is suitable for the female sex. During the day there are visits to shopping centers, in the evening there is a disco in the festive program, where friends put on new clothes.
- Rooftop party. Celebrating a birthday on the roof of the house will help get rid of prying eyes and see your city from an unusual angle.
- Laser tag (Q-Zar). After the active part of the program, which even older guests will enjoy - relaxing with blasters in the labyrinths, get into as many of your guests as possible.
- Rink. Love to skate? Now this opportunity has appeared not only in winter, but also in summer. In glacial arenas, you can combine the love of sports with a pleasant pastime.
How to celebrate a child's birthday?
A birthday for any child is the most long-awaited holiday, which he is looking forward to with great impatience for a whole year. The main task of parents is to organize a celebration in such a way that so that it will be remembered for a long time by their child.
We want to note that the amount spent on the holiday is not at all important. The main thing is an interesting idea:
The culmination of the holiday is a gift. Let it be insignificant and not expensive, but the child will like it and be sure to be beautifully decorated.
Birthdays in other countries
Interesting facts about how people celebrate birthdays around the world:
- Vietnam. During the new year, which is called " Tet" Every Vietnamese celebrates his birthday. Age is referred to as the number of such lived years.
- China. A birthday cake in China is made to order. The dessert comes with: forks, spoons, a spatula and ... a paper crown for the birthday boy.
- Japan. They celebrate the birthdays of children (under 10 years old), and the elderly (after 60 years old). As such, adults have no celebration: no gifts, no treats.
- Africa. In the countries of North Africa, name days are held twice in life: the birth itself and at 52 years old, in the southern part of the continent: on the birthday and at 21 years old.
- Spain. Similar to our traditions of “pulling by the ears”, in Spain the birthday boy is given crackers.
- Mexico. The hero of the occasion is rolled his eyes, and he beats a toy hanging on a tree with a stick. piñati". Sweets fall out of it, and the birthday boy collects all the sweets.
The original ideas discussed in the article will help the birthday man on the eve of his main holiday, organize an unforgettable celebration.
We considered such a question as how to celebrate a birthday in an unusual and inexpensive way, not such a difficult task, as it turned out. The main thing in this matter is good mood, a little positive and cheerful guests. Everything else, as they say, will follow.
Video ideas: celebrating an original birthday
In this video, the organizer of the holidays Roman Savitsky will tell you how interesting and unusual, and most importantly inexpensive, to celebrate your birthday with friends:
I have a difficult relationship with birthdays. I don’t like to “cover the clearing” at work and banal congratulations on the wall in Vkontakte, but I always try to organize something unusual for my friends on my birthday. I must admit that sometimes diiiko has no time, sometimes it’s insanely lazy, sometimes you want to spit on everything and say that “I don’t want to order, it’s better to organize a holiday on any other day just like that”, and sometimes original ideas just don’t come to mind and even Pinterest does not save.
1. Role play
It was at the institute. We celebrated a birthday with my classmate, somehow magically pushed about thirty people into my three-room, but small apartment and staged (don't laugh!) role-playing game. In theory, a role-playing game could be taken ready-made, but we decided to come up with the whole plot on our own. The script was not particularly intriguing, but each of the guests received a description of their role (there was an elderly millionaire, young hunters for his inheritance, a Greenpeace fan and a lover of furs) and had to fulfill their goals. We, as birthday girls and authors of the story, played the role of journalists, filmed it all on camera and interviewed the participants in the events on a rolling pin instead of a microphone. The alcohol was strong and it was clearly enough. The heroes of the drama (and not all of the guests were familiar with each other) quickly dispersed through the rooms and got to know each other. I remember that even the defender of animals made friends with the lady in the fur collar.
2. Quest
If the budget allows, then you can already invite professionals to host an interesting game, which I did in 2010. Once again, the end of May was approaching, and once again I puzzled over how to arrange such an interesting game for my friends on my birthday. This time I did not come up with the script myself, but ordered the organization and conduct of a pro quest. We all reincarnated as actors, actresses, screenwriters who came to the hotel for testing and further filming of the film, but our task was to find the killer of the director. In parallel, we still somehow managed to take part in the auditions for the role of the main character of the film. Great pastime: on the one hand, a great opportunity to be at the table (well, you understand me), on the other hand, to move your brains and participate in the action, but without jumping in bags.
If you want to order a quest, I recommend contacting the guys from Questime. Their representative offices are located in many cities of Russia, as well as in Kiev, Astana and even New York. I personally know the founders. They are passionate about what they do, so I highly recommend it.
3. Party at the Jolly Roger
It was 2007, the day before my birthday, another film from the series about the pirates of the Caribbean came out in Russian cinemas. To this topic, I decided to time the theme of the celebration. The evening began with a joint trip to the cinema, and then we sat down in a small company in the restaurant "Jolly Roger" with the appropriate interior, which I had previously found. It was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly, in addition to the feast itself, I organized a mafia game, which I remade in a pirate style with black marks, a ship's doctor and a cabin boy. There were also small gifts for the participants - some simple souvenir with images of the Pirates of the Caribbean.
My friend and I are at the cinema for the Pirates of the Caribbean premiere.
4. Costume party
The idea is simple - everyone comes in costumes. You can turn this idea around in any way you like: say that the theme is not important, the main thing is that the costume should fit (my friends in such a situation quickly played free, kicked dandelions in the yard and came in wreaths) or set a specific theme for reincarnation.
My friend was throwing an American style party for her birthday. Aside from the stylized clothes she asked guests to wear, the theme of the party was kept alive by the menu - awesome homemade burgers and chips.
But another friend of mine decided to arrange a trip to karaoke for her birthday (and no, I do not agree that this is banal!). All invitees had to transform into some kind of musical hero (you could choose at least Beethoven, at least Lady Gaga). It just so happened that both of my friends celebrated their birthdays with different companies, but on the same day. So I became an American Britney Spears. True, everyone confused me with a Japanese schoolgirl.
5. Every hunter wants to know
In 2012, the theme of my birthday was a rainbow. No, a law against propaganda had not yet been passed, so I invited seven invited friends to choose one color from the rainbow and choose clothes and accessories of this color (although, of course, you could stir up something in the style of Snow White and the seven dwarfs). The idea was to go so beautiful and colorful to nature and take a good picture (). My girlfriend is a very good photographer and gave me a photo shoot, and bought all sorts of colored accessories and donuts. By the way, I also gave each guest an envelope with colored Skittles (try the rainbow!) and hairpins with a flower of the chosen color.
Colorful donuts were also accessories at the party, but not for long.
6. Walk on the rooftops
For a long time I have been talking about the fact that I want to climb onto the roofs of St. Petersburg. Somehow, of course, it turned out very stupid that I, a Petersburg girl, had never been there, although it seems to be considered almost the main romantic pastime in our city. Even my parents ran away from their own wedding to sit on the roof wrapped in a blanket. Well, at least that's what the family story says. In general, at the age of 27, I decided that it was time and found a link on the Internet for a tour and invited my sisters for a walk (one of them with a camera - yes, I really like to be photographed).
My sisters and I are on the roofs of St. Petersburg on my birthday. No special photo shoots, we just took a camera and this photo was taken for us by the organizer of the walk.
7. Cooking workshop
Joint cooking unites, this was proved by corporate team building. In addition, this is a double benefit - you do not need to spend money separately on the event, but separately on feeding a horde of your beloved (and hungry!) Friends. Since, as usual, I lasted until the last minute and started preparing the event at the last moment, all the establishments specially designed for such a business were already occupied (this is on a warm May weekend, no wonder!). But I found a wonderful cafe where we had a master class on making cookies.
Girlfriends with pleasure stuck silver balls-eyes to crabs.
8. White Nights Party
And finally, the theme of the 2014 party was the White Nights White Party. Of course, everyone cursed me that I again came up with a dress code, but this time absolutely all the invitees observed it (and no wreaths of dandelions). The celebration was in a rooftop bar in the center of St. Petersburg with a beautiful view of St. Isaac's Cathedral, the evening sun at ten in the evening framed by thirty white and silver balloons. And then we walked along the embankment, admired the drawbridges (every time I fall into such delight, as if I had not looked at them since childhood) and huge rusty barges passing by. Passers-by were talking, guessing whether we had a wedding, or whether we were graduates (white dresses are the secret of eternal fashion) and begged for balloons from us. And we made wishes and released them in the middle of the Champ de Mars.
22 years old, two deuces wonderful
Life is fun, good, interesting.
Let the birthday be the 22nd,
Sometimes it will be the happiest.
Good luck let your palms stretch out
Love, a white swan will beckon to the sky,
Fair wind let it blow in the back,
And from that day on, life will be happy.
22 years is a wonderful date,
May this holiday bring success
Life will become wonderfully rich in happiness,
Your dreamy laugh sounds more often!
We wish to achieve new achievements,
Become even cooler, catch luck,
More fun with friends
And never lose heart!
Happy birthday, happy 22nd birthday. I wish you the fulfillment of your cherished desires and great luck, extraordinary strength and health, personal happiness and mutual love, prosperity and understanding of loved ones, right decisions and luck, joy and positive mood.
girlfriend
Sweet, gentle, like a rose leaf,
Which is pure, beautiful, fragrant.
Reaching for the good
And fortunately for his handsome.
Girlfriend, happy birthday.
And at twenty-two I wish you twice
For love to be the warmest ocean,
Only the strongest man held you in his hands.
Two deuces amicably stood in a row,
And today is your birthday
You are twenty two today
Great age for fun
We wish you to live without troubles always
And don't lose your smile
Let life give only success
And happiness will not be unsteady!
guy
A brave and strong guy
Congratulations on your birthday.
Happiness to you strong, abundant,
We will send you our wishes.
Let your dreams come true soon
May fortune smile on you at 22.
Open the doors for your joys,
And life will turn around again.
My head is not sober today.
Okay, today is a holiday.
And such a beautiful congratulations
Hurry up from us you accept
And raise that glass!
The road to life is already open
Sadness and sorrows are forgotten
You are young, cheerful and beautiful,
Let there be joy, happiness, creativity!
The most beautiful date is twenty and two years,
As if in a joyful dance, the two came together,
May the weather bring you sunshine
Let life spoil you with joys
May your youth inspire many,
Let the energy boil, let the dreams call
Ringing roads stretch to the horizon,
May success and victory await you!
A good age is 22 years old:
You are not yet an adult, you are no longer a child,
He is distinguished from all by his freedom,
You are entering a new phase of life today.
I wish you victories and fair wind
In all sails, and be lucky
May new colors and new faces
And let life find new feelings!
Let sincerely people wish good luck
Smiles will fill the souls of emptiness
Let everything be enough for happiness in abundance,
And life is gaining heights!
friend
When you're forty
I hope we celebrate our anniversary together.
After all, our friendship is just endless,
May your dreams come true.
Well, today you are a little smaller,
Turned twenty-two now.
My friend, I wish you happiness forever
May your family be strong.
You are twenty two
The holiday is important and big,
And there were more guests
Who congratulate with all my heart
Strive for the birthday
Says congratulations.
I wanted to apologize
That I couldn't come myself.
Date of: 06/06/2015 from 9:30 am to 6:30 am on 06/07/2015.
Characters: aged a year atlantida_dream
(already 32) and her friends, ex-boyfriend and girls in swimsuits.
Locations of action:
- a place to cook food
- a place to swim and warm up
- a place where you can have a drink and look at Moscow from a bird's eye view.
I thought for a long time how to celebrate my birthday this year. My birthdays were different. And with the filmed restaurants, and on the seashore, there was a birthday in Sanduny, it was a one-on-one birthday with a beloved man. But the birthday, when it would be all at once, has not yet happened. And so, I decided to arrange a holiday for my friends by organizing a multi-stage party for which a whole plan was written. 
The day before, I prepared instructions for the guests. We discussed the whole event on facebook. And that was our original plan... 
Let's see what happened in the end.
On my birthday, remembering the past years, when more than 200 congratulations were received and some of them in the middle of the night and early in the morning, I put all the devices in the house on the eve in order to get enough sleep before a long busy day. I wake up alone and stretch sweetly. 
I go into the kitchen and make myself some coffee first. The house is sparkling clean. The day before, the sisters came - and did a general cleaning for me with washing the windows. Because of the constant traveling in May, I didn’t have time for this at all, and in June, after returning from Turkey, I immediately got to turn off the hot water in our area, which was turned on only on June 5th. So, the cleaning was waiting for the day before the birthday. Well, I digress... 
While the coffee is being brewed, first of all, not yet washed and combed, I head to the laptop.
"Happy Birthday!" - pouring and pouring congratulations from colleagues, friends, relatives, volunteers, employees of charitable foundations, partners in yoga and tantra, from the guys with whom we passed the accelerator at IIDF. Many completely different, but amazing congratulations. Thanks to everyone who congratulated! It was a powerful flow of life-giving energy for me! 
By 9:20 a.m. on Saturday, 40 people had left congratulations on their Facebook feed. This is just the beginning... It's still good that I turned off all the gadgets for the night. 
At 10:00 sharp, food and drink delivery arrived. I often order water, juices, frozen food on the Internet, but I never order fresh vegetables and fruits there. 
Coffee is ready! Breakfast and a Scottish film about troubled teenagers who find themselves tasting Angels' Share whiskey. On my birthday, all the best for me. I went broke on the red game. Shikuyu! The mug was bought in a Scottish castle in Edinburgh. Morning is called: "Feel like a queen!" 
But we reigned and that's enough, it would be necessary while there is time to organize the ironing of the dried linen. I'm moving from the "Share of Angels" to Smart TV. By the way, I don’t have a TV antenna and cable, and the TV works exclusively as a smart TV, and does not show me regular TV. 
All stroked. Packing things for the water park "Kva-kva". The day before, I was presented with several tickets, and that is why I decided not to go several times myself, but to use them all at once for myself and my friends. 
I pick up everything I threw away. Still, cleaning is very cool and frees up a lot of time, which is never enough anyway. Now, having gone into my own business and startup, I realized that I don’t have enough time for anything at all, and therefore I minimized everything that I don’t like myself. I don't like cleaning, but I love cleanliness! 
I start cooking. Although the birthday will take place in the water park and in the bar, but if all of a sudden the guests want an after-party at my place, it is better that they have something to eat. That is why I have in my arsenal: stuffed champignons and delicious sandwiches with sprats, which my mother made back in Soviet times. 
I am preparing stuffing for stuffing hats. When the onions and mushrooms are browned, I turn off the stove, add sour cream and grated cheese, and let the stuffing sit and set for a while. 
And stuffed champignons are sent to the oven for 20 minutes. 
Alena's younger sister sends me a drawing that my niece drew. Of course, there are crowns on our heads, because Melanie and I are queens. Oh how! Not in vain, not in vain, I bought a mug in Edinburgh. How I felt! 
Meanwhile, I make sandwiches with sprats, garlic and pickles. High in calories but very tasty. Lena Miro would roll over on the simulator if she saw this. Well, yes, we resigned ourselves - we are fat. :) 
At 13:45 I take a taxi to the water park. 
Not made up, without hair, but with a full set of cosmetics, hair dryer and styling products with you. I have never had a birthday like this! 
We are on the spot! One and my girlfriends are already waiting for me inside the Kva-Kva Park. In general, I have fond memories of this water park. In 2008, the staff of the water park donated 1,500 tickets for orphans, children from large and low-income families to the Children's World Charitable Foundation, and we organized several mass trips for children from the poorest segments of the population to water slides in the middle of winter. Children's delight then knew no bounds! And so I will probably always treat this place with warmth. 
The entrance to the water park is inconspicuous. You walk through the shopping center and only the frog reports that there is the same indoor water amusement park on the 2nd floor. By the way, the event on Facebook for my birthday was called: "DR frog-travelers", because lately I've been flying somewhere and arriving all the time. 
We leave all things in the locker room, change into swimsuits, and go to the slides. It was planned that there would be 10 of us, but for various reasons only 5 people arrived. We're going to ride the hills. 
We soak in the jacuzzi. 
But since none of us have children yet, our zone is a zone with a swimming pool and a relaxation zone with saunas. :)
At the side, my best friend Yana and her husband are splashing in the upper right corner in the photo. 
They just recently got married and are still enjoying their honey relationship. Our company, by the way, immediately split up - these two are waterfowl. 
And my friends and I are relaxing ... In the spa area, we visited all the baths: a Finnish sauna, a hammam, a Russian wet bath, a Russian dry bath, we didn’t just jump into the font (because it’s not good). Relax so relax. 
In one of the baths, such an automatic thing gives steam. Hands are asked not to touch. 
Nastya wrapped a towel around her head, because of course none of us took hats for the sauna. 
To enter the spa area, you need to pay a little more. But why go to the water park without a sauna, I don't know. For me, this is the most useful thing there is. I am delighted with the dark, damp hammam with multi-colored light bulbs in the ceiling. But it’s impossible to take pictures there, because you can’t see anything. 
At 19:20, we are clean, but still with damp hair and without make-up, we leave the main qua-qua zone, and dry ourselves with our hair dryers at the exit, and put on makeup there. 
Our next destination is my house, to throw all the bathing towels there, and for me to put on a beautiful dress. My girls all arrived at the water park during the parade. 
The guys managed to buy coffee and some sandwiches, bought up and got hungry. Hamsters in the parking lot. 
Yana and Sasha present me a basket of flowers. Yana has known me for more than 13 years, and she guesses exactly what I like and what not. 
At home, I quickly change the dress, Yana repaints, and in 10 minutes we are already going to Mayakovskaya. 
7 minutes before the start of the party, we arrive at Timeout. 
Since the bar is located on the 13th floor, and there is only 1 elevator with a capacity for 4 normal or 5 very thin people, a long line of people who want to get inside is formed. We are waiting... 
I chose this place for a cocktail party because the Grand's brand event was held here and it was called IOU Friends. The theme of the party is "Friends who go with us through life." Well, what about without friends? Despite the fact that the party was very popular, I managed to book a big table for my friends.15 different people with whom I go through life, sometimes close sometimes diverging.Someone has been with me for many years, and someone I met less than a year ago . 
At the entrance we were given round pieces of paper with the inscription free drink, they immediately exchanged them for punch - this is such a whiskey-based cocktail. 
We tried to take an Oscar-style selfie, but not everyone got in... 
Somewhere near us there was a performance by a boy from the Comedy Club, but we could not hear anything, because the toasts were drowned out. :) 
Late guests gradually began to arrive, Olya (on the right), for example, stood in line for the elevator for 30 minutes, arriving at 21:15. They made her drink a free kick. 
Tired, lying on a blanket. We took a photo, and put the hashtag #IOUFriends on Instagram, and immediately got it printed on a stand nearby. After that, we made a lot of photos with hashtags! 
Oh, those queues to the toilet ... And why are there always queues in the women's toilets? 
The time is closer to 23:30... a lot of whiskey has already been drunk. Grant's whiskey ambassador, having learned that it was my birthday, gave me a bottle of whiskey as a gift, and told me not to forget to look at the pictures on their Facebook page.
How to note...
If you're a fan of extreme sensations, try rock climbing to celebrate your 22nd birthday. If you don’t already know how to climb rocks, then it’s time to learn it.
Take with you the same extreme personalities as you. They are engaged in rock climbing, both on natural and artificial reliefs. For its sports version, it was artificial climbing walls that were invented in many large cities. At the same time, natural rocks are equipped with special tracks that are cleared of stones. Top and bottom belay is also organized. Contact a special sports section where they teach mountaineering and rock climbing. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes.
After an active holiday, you can go to a cafe or home, and already there you can relax and sit at the table, discussing the past day.
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