70th Birthday Party Ideas

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We had a family dinner last weekend to celebrate my Dad’s 70th birthday and, even though it was just our extended family at the dinner, we added a few personalized 70th birthday party ideas to make it feel like a party!

70th Birthday Party Decorations

I chose black and white as the color theme because I knew I wanted to use old black and white photos on the table. I kept everything quite simple and added some DIY ideas. I’m a big believer that a celebration doesn’t have to be complicated to be great.

70th Birthday Party Centerpiece Idea

I opted for a very simple but striking centerpiece. Because it’s nearly impossible to find large paper mache numbers, I bought paper mache letters at my local craft store and made a small alteration, the same way I did for Eli’s thirteenth birthday.

I used a letter O as a zero and I used a craft knife to cut the bottom off a Z to transform it into a seven. I spray painted the numbers black and stood them in the center of the table.

{A lot of letters can be altered to become numbers, in a pinch, although since this post was first written, paper mache numbers have become much easier to find.}

70th Birthday Party Table Decorations

To decorate the rest of the table, I used old photos.

I borrowed some old photo albums from my parents and made photo copies of old pictures of my Dad, just copying them onto plain white paper.

I framed some in small silver place card frames {the kind used for weddings} and set them around the centerpiece.

I also used the photocopied photos as table confetti. I used paper punches to punch three different sizes of circles and scattered them over a white paper table runner.