Mean Girls Dinner Party

With Mean Girls the musical playing in Orange County, I decided to organize my girlfriends for a fun Girls Night Out to see the show.  This month's monthly dinner was a few days before our tickets to the theater, so I decided to keep in theme and host a Mean Girls dinner.  It was so fun (and the musical was amazing too!). Check out the details.

Invite: I modeled the invitation off the iconic Burn Book from the movie downloading a free font that was similar to the actual book.  I then added the party details using as many references to Mean Girls quotes as possible.  All of us wore pink which added another fun element to the theme.

Decorations:  Of course I went with pink, black, and white as the main colors for the party.  I set the table with a bright pink tablecloth and white plates.  The centerpiece was iconic items from the movie/musical.

The Burn Book centerpiece was made with a rectangular vase and cardstock that I then drew designs and cut out letters to paste on it.  I purchased bright and light pink flowers from a local florist to fill the vase.

Also on the table was a Santa hat to represent the routine the girls did for the Winter Talent Show.

A cube of butter represented Regina George's question at the cafeteria table asking if butter was a carb as she was trying to perfect her figure for Prom.

The tiara symbolized the Prom Queen tiara that Cady won that she then breaks into pieces in the movie.  The DumDum lollipops represent Karen and her constant stupid questions in the musical and movie. 

I always find the cut out white tank top scene of the movie and it's corresponding "trend" at the high school hilarious, so I wanted to incorporate it somehow into my dinner.  I decide to cut white paper napkins into tank tops with cut outs over the breasts just like the tank top in the movie.  I placed a small piece of purple cardstock in between the napkin like Regina's shirt underneath in the movie.

As place cards, I printed the guest's in the same Mean Girls font that I used on the invitation, and paired each name with a popular saying in the movie.  I printed these and placed them on the center of each plate.  Besides the above examples, some other guests were "So Grool," "So Fetch," or "She's REALLY pretty." 

In the movie/musical, the three main girls are called The Plastics because of their fake nature.  I decided to use plastic utensils instead of silverware to tie in this piece.  I created a sleeve for the utensils and designed a "Beware of the Plastics" image to glue to the front.

I created a simple banner out of cardstock and fishing line to read "That's So Fetch" with lips in between words.

I designed wine labels to match common sayings in the movie as well.  On one bottle I tweaked the "You Can't Sit with Us" phrase from the movie into "You Can't SIP with us".  For another bottle, I played off the Halloween scene where Karen says, "I'm a mouse, duh" when she has mouse ears on.  Just switched mouse to wine bottle.

For wine charms, I designed small circles will various iconic items from the movie/play.  The iconic pieces were pretty easy to find online and create into charms.  Some of the items I used: The Burn Book, Boo You Whore, You Go Glen Coco, etc.

Menu: There are a ton of food references in Mean Girls, so it wasn't too difficult to come up with a menu.  We started with a Caesar Salad to represent when Gretchen gives her speech about Julius Caesar and let's her class know "We should totally just stab Caesar".

For the main dish, I served delicious hot dogs.  I didn't want just plain hot dogs, so I purchased Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Chicken Sausages, and they were tasty.  This dish went with Janis Ian's response to her note in the Burn Book, "Made Out with a Hot Dog? Oh my God, that was one time!"

Along with this, I served cheese fries to with with Regina George's comment, "Whatever, I'm Getting Cheese Fries."  Frozen french fries and shredded cheese...easy.

For dessert, I made strawberry shortcake out of Toaster Strudel.  I baked the strawberry toaster strudel, cut each in half, and layered the halves with sliced strawberries and whip cream.  This went with Gretchen Weiner's comment about her father.

Favor: For a party favor, I had a Kalteen bar for each guest. I bought Hershey bars from the grocery, and then wrapped a new wrapper around them to look like the Kalteen bar in the movie.  

This was a super fun and easy theme for a girls night.  It would be great for a birthday party or movie showing night with the ladies.