Casino Style Party Ideas
The Ultimate Casino Party FAQ. While casino themed parties are certainly popular, many people shy away from hosting them out of fear of it costing a lot money, being overly complicated, and not being well-organised leaving guests bored. How To Throw The Perfect Casino Themed Party Games. Game wise, feel free to pick whatever games you think your guests will enjoy the most. Remember to keep it simple. Give your guests the opportunity to enter in style by setting up a mini red carpet. No casino theme party. For your casino-themed party, think red, black and especially green! Decorate your place with fake money, chips and cards. Turn the lights down low and string twinkly lights everywhere to set the mood.
You’ve tasked yourself to throw a casino party and are in need of a few casino themed party ideas to get the ball rolling.
Everyone knows that when you throw a party, it’s the event of the season, one that will be spoken about for years to come.
You’ve worked hard to earn the reputation of the best party hostess ever and your hosting skills are so legendary that even the corporation you work for calls on you to plan the big events.
Nice job!
Now’s the time to plan the biggest bash in your party history. Stressed? Don’t worry, I have your back. (smiles)
Are you going for something glamorous and exciting? Not a problem! Here are five stylish casino themed party ideas that will help you keep your status as the reining queen when it comes to planning and throwing a party.
1. Invitations for Any Casino Themed Party
Whatever type of casino themed party you throw, get your friends or colleagues to join in by sending the right message. Send them an invitation through evite.com, an affordable eco-solution to traditional paper invitations.
Looking for something in print? Vistaprint sells these classy White Casino Night Invites.
Vistaprint’s Casino Night invitation
Best of all, you can order matching banners, envelope stamps and note cards for a finished look.
Now that you have the invites, let’s move on to decorations!
2. Birthday Casino Themed Party Ideas
Birthdays are to be toasted, especially the 21st. Throw the best birthday casino themed party for your newly legal friend or relative!
Decorate your venue with casino swag sure to make Las Vegas jealous. Buy casino themed party fans, lanterns, streamers and matching tableware from Party City.
Tell the guests to dress up for a night in Little Las Vegas. Offer felt top hats to the gents and feather boas to the ladies as they enter the scene.
When you hire a company to host the casino night, they will bring the gaming tables, play money and chips. Give your guests souvenirs honoring the birthday.
Custom Dice Favors via Sweetly Wrapped Occasions
Place personalized dice at the craps table! Each time a new person visits the table and plays, they get to keep a set of dice!
Remember to place popcorn and sweet treats around the party in ritzy casino favors boxes.
Casino themed party ideas on Kara’s Party Ideas Blog
I suggest filling these boxes with yummy gummy dice and poker candies.
3. Casino Night/Poker Night Party
Holding a swanky poker party for your closest friends?
Set the theme of any poker night with a Steve Silver Tournament Game Table. Then add excitement and glamour with candle holders and martini glasses filled with poker chips and dice, like the ones below as seen on Every Little Detail Event Blog – a must see blog for a high-class poker night!
Perfect for table décor and for place settings
Serve your favorite drinks and hors d’oeuvres and play some classic Sinatra. Don’t forget to offer some sweet desserts!
Casino themed mini cupcakes via creativecupcakes.com
4. Corporate Holiday Casino Themed Party
Tired of the boring holiday parties at work each year? Liven up the party with a corporate holiday casino theme!
Christmas and New Year’s will never be the same once you hire a professional casino company to host your event!
Hire a catering company and bartender for the evening and watch your colleagues loosen up and have fun.
Give the men these fabulous poker boutonnieres and the ladies chocolate playing cards!
Poker boutonnieres for a casino themed party
Don’t forget to have plenty of custom dice and poker chips with the corporate logo to hand out during the evening too!
5. James Bond and Casino Royale or Shanghai Nights
If you are hosting a charity event or social gala, consider a James Bond Casino Royale theme or a Shanghai Nights theme for an oriental flair. Both are sophisticated and sensational.
Ask your guests to come dressed to the nines for a Black Tie or White Tie affair. Include a martini bar to set the mood. After you hire your professional casino company, caterers and entertainment, look for a party cake to wow the guests.
I love this James Bond Cake below by CakesDecor.com. You can serve it or use the cake as an auction item for raising funds at the charity event. Of course this a much smaller version of the cake you’ll be having. (smiles)
And how about some irresistible and classy James Bond gift bags like the ones below found at Catch My Party.
James Bond inspired favor bags
Fill them with party favors worthy of your guests. Or if you want you can simply use two solid color bags (black and white). I love keeping things simple because sometimes, less is more.
When choosing the oriental flair of Shanghai Night’s, ask guests to wear red accents as it’s consider good fortune.
Men can wear Tuxedos with Mandarin Collars while the ladies can wear beautiful cheongsams and style their hair and jewels in classic 1930s style.
Ask your caterers to serve Dim Sum and rice wine for the occasion. Add a sophisticated flair with paper lanterns, roses, and tea light candles for your dinner party.
Mixing Chinese New Year decorations with casino gaming will impress your guests.
Top off the dinner with fortune cookie cupcakes. I found the inspiration for these at Laura’s Little Party Site Blog.
For a more formal occasion, I suggest a spectacular Dragon Cake.
Dragon Cake
Dragons are wise and are a perfect reminder for a fun night of gambling; generously bet your money to support charity! I found this dragon cake on Love This Pic.
Hand out Asian Gift Boxes, to each guest at the end of the night. The ones I found at Oriental Trading Company are perfect for this.
Fill these boxes with foil wrapped chocolate poker chips or chocolate dice.
Five Stylish Casino Themed Party Ideas to Excite Your Guests
Regardless of the occasion, these casino themed party ideas will wow and excite your guests.
Be sure to check out my website for edible casino themed party favors ideas.
Whilst no real gambling is involved, as each guest is given tokens at the start of the event, a casino party for teenagers is enjoyable and somewhat educational. I am not just talking about preparing youngsters for the tables at Vegas but a basic understanding of probability together with balancing risk and reward is needed to be able to play games of chance with any sort of strategy.
The idea of a casino party for teens is to set up 3 popular games of chance (blackjack, roulette and craps) and give every player the same amount of tokens at the start of the party and then at the end of the event, declare the person with the most tokens as the ‘winner’. Food and music are easily incorporated into this activity.
Casino Night Theme Party Ideas
This type of event could accommodate a large number of people but a party size of around 20 with a large room (2 or 3 smaller rooms) is ideal. It is also suitable for smaller numbers, around 6, and only one (or 2) of the games needs to be played.
There is no need to hire any professional dealers to put on this event. What is needed though is several ‘volunteers’ from the party that will take on the role of the dealers. This will take a little co-ordination and planning but it is worth the effort. The idea being that the ‘would be’ dealers will be trained in dealing or operating roulette, craps and blackjack games ahead of time. This, preparation, is an enjoyable activity within itself as a small group of friends get together and figure out how to play these games and organize the logistics of the event. These games are not that difficult to operate and in each case simpler versions of the rules can be played.
The only, relatively, expensive equipment you need to purchase is a small roulette game (from EBay). There are small roulette sets that are sold as games, just search ‘roulette game’ on eBay and will see some suitable games for under $50. You need a ‘wheel’ size of about 16 inches. For the other 2 games of chance, blackjack and craps, you can make do with some homemade efforts (on large dinning tables) although if you wanted you can also purchase game versions of these activities, again from eBay.
You also need to purchase tokens (use poker chips) for blackjack and craps, EBay or Amazon has these. The roulette game will have its own chips. In addition you will need dice and playing cards. At the start of the event give out the tokens (poker chips) and the roulette chips to each guest, making sure you have enough left for the dealers to operate their tables. To make things simpler, for the organizers and guests, you might want to just use the poker chips for all games (including the roulette game). In this way the roulette chips that came with the game are not used and the poker chips are substituted. Everyone can then move from ‘table to table’ using the same type of chips. Make sure you purchase enough chips to operate all the games, with the required number of guests playing.
The rules for the game of roulette should come with the game you purchase, in any event just Google – ‘roulette rules’, ‘crap rules’ and ‘blackjack rules’ and there are Wikipedia entries for each of the games as well as many other sites explaining how to play.
For the craps table you need only to copy the ‘betting layout’ onto a large piece of card and stick it to a table. The dice can just be thrown on a table or an old Yahtzee board (to stop them rolling off the table) can be placed on the table. An old shirt box (or similar) also works as a shallow container to roll the dice in.
There is no need to have a marked out table for blackjack just play the game on a normal table.
Each of the above games should be able accommodate 6 players at a time. The volunteer dealers (who, ideally, should wear white shirts) should do 45 to 60 minute stints at the tables then rotate. So for a party of 20 I would recommend that 6 guests be designated as volunteer dealers, in this way the dealers can also play the games and the party will last about 2 hours.
Casino Style Party Ideas
I would also encourage the guests to move around the tables so that each has a turn on a particular game. If a guest ‘runs out of chips’ then simply give them some more, although this guest cannot be declared the ‘winner’.
Casino Theme Party Outfit Ideas
Light snacks and (soft) drinks could be served, just like a casino, with some music in the background. Loud and gaudy, casino style, decorations are also optional.