The events leading up to a wedding are always fun and this one was a new one on me. I had never helped plan a joint bachelor/bachelorette party before and I really had a great time planning and participating. The bride and groom wanted to go for a night out with all of their friends, rather than have the more traditional separate celebrations, but they wanted it to be more unique than an average Saturday night. The plan the bride and I came up with was to organize a bar crawl downtown, but with a twist. The party had an angels and demons theme where party goers were encouraged to dress as their choice of angel or devil. Also,  rather than having the more typical bachelor/bachelorette party gags and 'entertainment' we opted for a game that the whole group could play. A classic dusted off from college days, we played 'Anything for Money.'

Here is the graphic I created for the email invite. I think it helped set the mood.

Through the joys of Photoshop, I was to use my crude graphic design skills to whip up this comical graphic of the groom and bride-to-be in angel and devil gear.

My next Photoshop project was to create a stack of Monopoly-style funny money for each partygoer to wager.

The bills featured the same good/evil images of the bride and groom from the email invitation graphic and the money wrapper reads "Wouldn't it be cool if all this money was real?"--- because someone just has to say it anytime Monopoly money is involved, I thought I'd get it out of the way early.

After printing the funny money out on different colored paper, I trimmed it and wrapped it in stacks of $600. For the 'Anything for Money' game, each partygoer received a stack of money at the beginning of the night. The person with the most money at the end of the night won a prize. Other than that, there really are no rules. Playing "Anything for Money" is like the ultimate game of truth or dare, but everything has its price. It was a really fun game to play though out the night and was entertaining to say the least. It definitely helped break the ice in a group of people where not everyone knew each other well. Also, there was an element of 'riskiness' to the game, appropriate for a Bachelor/Bachelorette Party, but no one was really pressured to get too far out of their comfort zone. I think it would work well in many situations where there is a large group at a party and will lend itself to being as tame or wild as the partygoers themselves. Keep it in mind for your next bachelorette party, girls night, or birthday party out on the town.

I also used the DIY devil horns from the previous post. There was a great group of guest for this party who really got into the theme and dressed as angels or devils. But, for the party people who forgot to dress for the theme, the devil horns were on hand to give everyone a chance to participate.