The “Boogie” or Party Bus

You’ve thought of the casino, the bar and grill, the strip club, a hockey game and endless ideas for your buddy’s bachelor party and you’re inviting tons of people.  As a result, you want your party to rent a limo or pick up the usual taxi, but not everyone may be able to fit due to its limited capacity.  This causes guests to show up at different times and that creates delays.  Delays and the frantic dialing of everyone’s number asking where they are and how long they’ll be.  Plus parking hassles.  Have you ever heard of the “Boogie Bus” or party bus?  It seats up to 40 people in a lounge-style, luxury bus that has a built-in theatre system, iPod dock, bar, strobe lights on the ceiling and walls similar to that of a nightclub, and a dancer’s poll.  The party bus is essentially everything you want at a party, brought to you in a moving vehicle!  Other than it’s high-class interior, there are some other great qualities a party bus can offer you and your friends:

 It’s convenient

No need to worry about ensuring all your friends have a ride to the venue or back home – the bus can seat up to 40 passengers, comfortably.  You don’t have to give everyone directions and have them fend for themselves, risking the possibility of your guests getting lost on their way to each venue.  Furthermore, you do not need to appoint anyone to be a designated driver, worry about parking or face possible DUI charges since everyone plans on drinking.  The party bus driver you’re assigned with that night stays with your party at each destination and waits for everyone at night.

 Pre-planned Destinations

Unsure about where you’d like to take your friends with the party bus? You can register for a package with your bus rental.  Some of the packages include visiting up to five bars in one night! Mix it up and start with some fine dining at a fancy restaurant, head over to a pub for some pre-drinking and pool, and end the night at a strip club. You can request customized ones as well.  Often times these multiple destinations are included with the price you pay when renting the party bus.  This makes it easier to head over to your restaurant or club and you won’t be waiting in any lineups, as the venues are pre-booked for your party.

 Hire Entertainment

 Be it karaoke, your iPod or a few ladies in lingerie – or all three – you decide what entertainment you and your friends want to hire to entertain the crowd on the way to your destinations.  This will make traveling to each venue just as enjoyable as being at each destination, so the party never ends.  You can chose from a variety of busses with various features from karaoke busses, to busses with a complete dance floor.

 The Perfect Pre-Party

 What makes the party bus stand out from renting the average limo is that it will make the perfect pre-party before your destination and in-between destinations.  You don’t have to worry if there is not enough beer or food for your guests nor would you have the burden of cleaning up the mess in your house at the end of the night.  Lastly, all guests can enjoy every second of the party, even the in-between, travel times!

It is the most important communication piece you will ever have pertaining to your event.  Guests most of the time would have to purchase one in order to be in attendance – of course, all proceeds would benefit the guest of honour, The Groom. These are the invitations and they are an essential and necessary communication piece to give to your guests.  While online social media invites like iContact, E-vite and Facebook Groups allow a much simpler and quicker format to invite guests to a bachelor party, there is a much more formalness to a professionally made, printed invite.  This is a communication piece that commemorates a transition in a man’s life, a rite of passage before he is committed to one person for the rest of his life and ending his crazy, single partying lifestyle.  Here are a few more reasons why a tangible invitation is a must-do:

In an age of instant communication, you lose the human touch:

We get invited to the odd party, concert, birthday bash, beer fest, walk-a-thon and so on through Facebook and other social media invitations.  Since we’re so use to this platform, it only seems like the best way to communicate about a bachelor party, right? Wrong.  We’ve become so accustomed to this standard way of invitation giving that we lose sight of the importance a tangible invitation gives us – that human touch.  Furthermore, it’s created on a cookie-cutter platform, leaving no room for a creative or personalized input and your invitation would therefore look like any other.  Thirdly, your guests will think that since it was created online, it is a casual event and they may feel they can invite other people and before you know it, 100 guests show up when you had intended on only 30 that night.  Lastly, you can’t keep track of who’s coming with an online invitation.  Because it’s such an informal invite, people will just state that they’re attending and feel they still can chose to be a no-show, should anything else come up.  Or worse, they will be listed as a “maybe” and you’re caught trying to regularly get in touch with them to confirm who’s coming and who’s not, leaving you struggling up until the night before the party, just to get the final guest count. 

 The right kind of communication:

Nothing communicates better than a tangible invitation in the hands of your invitees.  The invitation will set the tone of your event and give the appropriate information on the venue, theme, activities and the like – without any miscommunication (or anyone to reply on some event “wall” or two-way social media platform with alternative suggestions and inappropriate comments).  This is a controlled invitation because it is issued to only those invited and they “earn” it by purchasing them.  They can’t bring a friend last minute or delay their status confirmation either – once they’ve bought their ticket, they make it a priority to attend.  It’s also what’s written in the invitation that counts too, so get creative! An invitation doesn’t have to be boring with the same old headings like, date, time, place and R.S.V.P. There are many options to make your tickets suited to your likes and tastes.  Share some jokes about the groom or include that a magnum-sized bottle of Vodka will be given as a door prize. 

It makes your party official:

Once you have finalized the venue, date and every miniscule detail possible, the invitation is the final touch to make the bachelor party you’re organizing official.  Everything comes together once the invitations are done.  A professionally designed invite gives your event a more richer, holistic feeling.  Like a fundraiser or gala event, the tickets are to be sold and hopefully kept as a souvenir afterwards of a night well spent!