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Last night we threw an Oktoberfest party and it was AMAZING. Everyone had such a good time and it was hilarious. Here’s what we did to make it a success:
1) Fancy Dress
General theme was Oktoberfest ( Leiderhosen and Beer Girls ) or just German in general. We had two pretzels turn up (they’re made in Germany) and someone else was ‘Greece’ (apparantly Germany now ‘owns’ Greece after the bail out).
2) Bring your own Stein BYOS
We got everyone to buy steins/mugs to drink out of. You can get them ridiculously cheap on eBay if you have long enough to look. They come in a range of sizes from diddy shot glass size to litre tankards! ( I went for a litre one, see picture for ideas) If you want a new one the average price we paid was ~£9 inc p&p. Don’t forget you can stick it straight back on eBay afterwards.
3) German Music
There is an Oktoberfest album, this is some type of euro-pop all sang in german. I downloaded one album that was 3 hours worth and stuck it on repeat. (no one can tell its repeated because no one has heard it before!)
4) Dress the house
We had labels in German for the toilets, the beer garden and the living rooms. Also had a blue checked table runner and some german flags.
5) Food
Cooked Bratwurst (big hotdogs) with Löwensenf mustard for sauce. Also we had pretzels to snack on.
Thats it’s party on! We did buy lots of german beer and some german mulled wine, but we cheated and had some other alcohol as well. The absinthe went down well, lethal stuff!
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