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I am a senior girl getting ready to graduate, and I have never even been to a graduation party. It's not that I'm anti-social, the opposite actually, I've just never been to one. Just a couple graduation dinners.

My mom wants to have a party for me (family appropriate, no beer!), but I really don't know how to go about it, and neither does she. Most of my friends are having open houses, but I don't even really know that that is. My aunt is also graduating high school from the same school, so we are probably going to have one together, but she doesn't really know either. Can someone give me the info on this stuff? What do you do at grad parties, who comes, etc.?

& Personal experience is appreciated over links. Thank you so much!

Mine was awesome! We had the party at a really nice local park. If you're going to rent a certain place for a day, remember to do it in advance, to make sure you have it on the date you want your party, because it can fill up quickly. In fact, I'd do this asap.

I used a big decorated box for everyone to throw their cards in and I had an autograph dog (very cute idea, i loved it - my friends and family wrote a bunch of cute messages on it).

For games, we just had miscellaneous things like volleyball (for kids/teens) and horseshoes (for adults). I also had a DJ there to play cool music for each age group (this isn't TOO expensive, it depends who you get - my brother knew him, so it was about $100 for the whole day). It's also fun to just chill with your friends and take lots of pictures.

For food, we had Smokey Bones cater it for us, so there was plenty of really good food to go around. Everyone LOVED it! Just make sure you get enough food, because I had so many people there, we ran out and had to order more.

I didn't have any particular theme, except everything was decorated in green and gold, my school colors. We had lots of balloons, streamers, and confetti to make everything look festive.

Hope that helped and congratulations on graduating high school. :D

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