Lingo & Laughs

My girlfriends took me out for my birthday, and we had a silly conversation about the crazy slang that our teenagers and students use.  Nothing makes you feel more old than hearing this lingo & not knowing what it means! This funny conversation brought me to the idea of hosting a Lingo and Laughs party to have a little fun with teen slang.

Invite: I designed the invitation with bright neon colors to add a teenage vibe.  I played with various teen slang phrases to come up with the wording which was quite fun.  "No cap" (no lie) and "straight fire" (great, awesome, cool) are two of my son's favorites currently.  I also am constantly being called "bruh" by him on accident, which lead to the "RSVP Bruh" at the end.

I set the table with a black tablecloth and bright colors to match the invitation.

Two friends gave me beautiful flowers on my birthday.  I used the bright pink roses as part of my centerpiece, and the smily face mug that the other flowers came in as well. I had a light up board with a message using some teen lingo.

For the mug, I filled it with neon glowsticks I purchased at Dollar Tree.  

For a table runner, I designed a timeline of teen logo through the decades.  Starting with the 1950's "Come and get it, Daddy-O" to the 2020's "Dinners a vibe, pull up!"  I just printed these out and taped the cardstock together to create the runner.

I had fun coming up with slang text conversations for my placecards.  I used an image of a iphone screen, and designed text boxes with silly conversations between two friends.  (Sorry photos not great of these placecards).

Each place card had a different slang focus: Savage, Slay Queen, The Real MVP, Glow-Up Goddess, Extra AF, Lit Legend, Bae, and Boss. I added a Reeces Peanut Butter Cup candy bar to the back to make it a thicker (more like a phone) than just card stock.

For the napkins, I purchased various bold colors and then added a slang flashcard to the front.  I tried to use different phrases than were on the place cards. Things like: Mid, Gucci, Cringe, Drip, Delulu, etc.

Designing wine labels to match the party theme is always a fun challenge for me.  For these labels, I incorporated more teen slang of course.  "Lowkey" this white wine is "Savage" for the chardonnay label.  For the red wine it was, Don't be "Sus" - "Slay" this Cabernet.

For the wine charms, I used popular emojis that teens use in their text threads.  My daughter helped me with the most popular ones, and then I added the ghost (for ghosting) and the GOAT (greatest of all time) that represent popular slang terms.

Menu:  There is a lot going on for me right now, so I decided to make the menu super easy, and catered most of it.  We started with guacamole, salsa, and chips as an appetizer.  I used alliteration with slang words to call these "GOAT Guacamole and Salsa with "Turnt" Tortilla Chips.

The main dish was tacos with two meat choices.  I called these "Bussin'" Beef Tacos and "Lit Chicken Tacos."  Bussin = extremely good or tasty; Lit = exciting or excellent.

Alongside the tacos, we had "Basic" Beans and "Rizz" rice.  Basic = average in slang; Rizz = charisma in slang.

For dessert, we had "Fire" cupcakes.  Vanilla cupcakes with red, yellow and orange frosting piped on to look like fire.  Fire = exciting or cool.

Favor: As a fun decoration and silly parting gift, I decided to make kitchen tea towels with silly slang phrases.  I purchased flour towels on Amazon that were thin to help make the permanent iron on vinyl stick longer.  I used my Photoshop to design the images, cut them out using my Cricut, and then ironed them onto the towels.  I hung them up on ribbon like a clothesline over my beverage station.  I had 8 different phrases, so guests picked which one they wanted as they left.

A silly theme, so we had some laughs out of this one trying to figure out what the phrases meant & laughing at the changing slang through the decades.  It was a fun VIBE all night and the theme was FIRE!