Birthday Party

Birthday Parties !

The idea behind this website is to equip you with all of thes information and exceptional concepts regarding birthday parties so you get considered as a true legend and a master of outstandings birthday party ideas among your friends and family.

Everybody around you would be dying to seek your expert advice on the preparations of their birthday parties. After browsing through all of the contents of this website, you would be able to throw the birthday parties of yourself or of your family & friends that will be remembered for a long, long time.

By the way, you should not be surprised if you receive letters and emails from miles away for your expert advice.

Let us start from the very basics to make you a celebrity.

How Celebrating Birthdays Started?

It was not until ancient people began taking notice of the moon’s cycles and formulated calendars to mark time changes. This marking system became the reason for celebrating birthdays the same day each year. In the recorded history, evidences of birthday ceremonies are found before the rise of Christianity. It was believed that evil spirits were more perilous to a person when he or she turned a year older. As a result, birthdays were started to celebrate as happy occasions with family and friends, who surrounded the person of honor with laughter and joy in order to protect them from evil. Most guests brought positive thoughts and happy wishes for the upcoming year, but gifts weren’t common then. However, some guests did bring gifts for an especially good influence for the birthday person.

The First Birthday Parties

Initially, only kings who were recognized as important celebrated their birthdays. Maybe this is how the tradition of birthday crowns began. Over time, children became included in birthday celebrations. The first children's birthday parties occurred in Germany and were called Kinderfeste. Then, birthday parties were not limited to age, position, color, race, etc.

Birthday Celebrations in Various Global Regions:

All around the World birthdays are celebrated with different styles. This is because of the traditional and environmental influences which are dissimilar in different regions of the globe.

In many African communities, the day a child born is not celebrated as his/her birthday, but the day the child is initiated into the community is celebrated.

Asante people of Ghana celebrate “Krada” meaning soul day on the day of each week they were born.

In Latin America, a girl's 15th birthday, called a "Quinceanera", shows her entrance into adulthood. This celebration often includes a religious ceremony at church. Many Quinceaneras include a candle-lighting ceremony.

In Egypt, birthdays are celebrated by dancing and singing. The party is decorated with flowers and fruits as the signs of life and growth.

In Saudi Arabia, birthdays are not celebrated due to religious beliefs.

An Israeli birthday person sits on a chair decorated with flowers on his birthday with families and friends all around him/her.

In China, parents are paid full respect by the birthday person, who gets money as his birthday gift. Friends and family are invited for lunch and are served with noodles.

An Indian child’s birthday is full of colored dresses and chocolates. The home is decorated with colorful balloons. The child wears a colorful dress in school and passes out chocolates to his class fellows.
In Philippines, people blink a light in their homes to show that there is a birthday of someone today in their family.

In England, sending birthday wish cards is a tradition that began over 100 years ago.

It sounds quite interesting to hear that an Irish child gets hit on the floor by family and friends on his birthday, gently, of course.

Russian people prefer to have pies instead of cakes on their birthdays.

Historians mention Germans, who were the first in the history to throw birthday parties for kids. The birthday parties are called Geburtstags party in Germany.

Danish people seem to truly love their country. They fly their country flag outside their homes when they have someone’s birthday in their homes.

The majority of Americans celebrate their birthdays with a cake topped with lighted candles. The number of candles on top of the cake represents the number of years the birthday person has spent of his life. Before blowing out the candles, the birthday person makes a wish without telling it to someone else as it is believed that telling it to someone right away won’t result in the interest of the wish. However, one can know whether the wish will come true or not by seeing whether all the candles go out or not with one breath. If the candles go out with one breath, the wish will come true.

Singing "Happy Birthday to You" has also been a venerable tradition on birthdays. It was written by two American sisters in 1893, and has been translated into several languages around the globe.