How to create the perfect Midsummer Night’s Dream Party
Hosting a Midsummer Night's Dream party is simple: all you need is a beginning, a muddle and an end.
How to stand out in the whirlwind of summer events? Create the perfect dream-themed party and encourage your guests to get creative. Bring that starlit vision to life.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the perfect summer party theme. Balmy evenings cast a magic spell of their own. Create a whimsical, fairy-tale atmosphere, with a beautiful, bucolic background using greenery for a magical, mood-inducing ambience. Your guests will be transported. The famous Shakespeare play tells a tale of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest – how fantastic is that?
The title itself suggests ideas of fantasy and imagination and is where the characters experience events that seem to be more dream than reality – an ideal feeling to create at a party. Lead your audience to doubt what is reality and what is illusion. You can enter your own ‘magical’ world and indulge in the beauty of nature and the mid-summer night sky.
But it’s not just about fairies and other worlds – it’s about mischief and this is where you can have real fun from the start. Fairies, lovers, confusion. Why not inhabit a character, be it Titania Queen of The Fairies or Puck the unlikely hero of the piece?
There are plenty to choose from: Oberon, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, Egeus, Theseus, Hippolyta, Bottom, Quince, Flute, Starveling, Snout, Snug, Philostrate, then Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and Mustardseed. Allocating a character to your guests beforehand will encourage them to get on board with the theme.
This magical theme is ideal for birthdays and other joyful celebrations, so encourage your guests to embrace the dream and follow our guide to creating the ultimate Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Arabian Tent Company guide to getting the Midsummer Night's Dream party look
Keep it Au Natural
All signs point to a dreamy outdoor event. Think twilight magic, twinkling lights in the trees, natural looking woodland decor. Our team can provide greenery and decorations and help you create the perfect environment. From place settings to furnishings to lighting, we are here to provide the mischief and fun and all the practicalities of safe settings. We will drape, garland and festoon like no other and using our wide range of lanterns, we will be able to create an ethereal feel by utilising the colours of the forest.
Let our beautifully intricate lanterns light the way for your guests (and the fairies…)
The different tents available from the Arabian Tent Company allow us to make your dream party a reality. With our greenery options, we can create the picture-perfect background that A Midsummer Night's Dream presents. Furthermore, we are able to provide our customers with a rustic woodland look within our Oyster Pearl tent, which enhances the forest feel.
The Oyster Pearl tent and our greenery chandelier make the perfect combination to create a forest vibe indoors.
Our William Morris tent can also be used to produce a spectacular party, with its beautiful floral theme, adding the necessary greenery transforms the tent into a woodland dreamland.
Our stunningly intricate draping is perfect to create a woodland vibe!
Have a look at our extensive range of props and furniture like the William Morris chaise lounge and our deck chairs.
Create The Magic
Lighting and ambience is key to creating the magical, dreamy vibe required. No harsh lighting, keep it soft and low – augmented with fairy lights of course. Beautiful mirrored fabrics and drapes will twinkle by night and reflect the light. Lights suspended using fishing wire will look like flickering fairies flying through the forest.
The Food
The cuisine should complement the vibe. Light and elegant, a buffet or canapes. Use foraged ingredients, fresh fruit, fairy cakes and dainty treats. Food fit for fairies…
A Secret Den
Why not create a hidden nook for your guests to discover… A magical realm with flickering lights and maybe a character waiting to read them some quotes from the bard.
A party like A Midsummer Night's Dream party is something that people will never forget, and we will show you how to create a truly magical event. Let us take you on the journey where fairies and fantasies come alive.
Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.
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