India is commonly known for its cultural festivities and people all around the world look forward to celebrating them. These festivals bring unity and excitement amongst people and therefore are exclusively celebrated. As important as it is to the locals, even newly married couples go big on such occasions because it is the first festival post the wedding. If you are one of them, then this blog will tell you how you can plan your first Holi Party. Holi, the festival of colours is the ultimate craze that everyone should experience once in their lifetime. 

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Appealing Invitation

For any party that needs planning, the first and foremost step is to invest in an appealing Invitation because that will draw the attention of your guests. Nowadays, with technology advancements, there are options to forward E-cards, but if you wish to consider traditional cards then you may want to check out the listed options below.

E- Invitation

E-Invitations are in trend as they are less time-consuming. 

All you’ve got to do is select a design you wish to send out and request your graphic designer to customise it as per your date, venue and other additions.

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Loud coloured background with Light creatives. 

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Light Background and Colourful Creatives.

Quirky Cards

Quirky cards are the new millennial thing! You may mix up a little humour in your invitation for a joyful festival like Holi. 

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You can add little bhang thrills in your invitation.

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Adding water guns and colours like this image are quirky too.

Traditional Invitation Cards

Traditional Invitation Cards are a great way to personally invite your guests and make them feel their importance in the event. There are gazillions of options when it comes to physical invitation cards. You may find the cards listed below interesting for your holi invitation.

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Gulaal ambience of red and pink.

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Defining Holi using multiple colours.

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Tasteful Music

A successful Holi Event is nothing without music so you can arrange music that your audience will enjoy or suits your genre. The following options suggest four genres that you may be into. 

Holi Special Playlist

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Your entire Holi oriented playlist that definitely includes ‘Rang Barse’ and ‘Balam Pichkari’. 

Bollywood Dance Hits

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If you want to move to the new beats of Bollywood hits, then you can consider Bollywood Dance Hits.

Punjabi Dhol

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Punjabi music and Punjabi dhol take a party to the next level. You may as well arrange for Dhol-Wala and Burraaah!

Mixed Playlist

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If your audience likes a mixed genre then you can mix your playlist with Bollywood and Pop English songs. 

Organic Colour & Flowers

The next step is to arrange for Holi colours. Holi is played by all age groups and therefore the colours used during the event must be chemical-free. Organic colours are way better and preferred over chemical ones, after all, it is any day better than ruining your beautiful skin, hair and eyes. You can pre-oil your body to easily remove the colours or avoid using toxic Holi colours at all. There are organic colours in the market that can be bought or a flower petal holi is equally fun if you are with kids. 

Non-Toxic Gulal Choice

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Choose your colours right and request for non-chemical colours for a safe Holi Party.

Organic Dry Colours

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Derived from Flowers, Herbs, Fruits and Vegetables, Organic colours are harmless, so they can be used in the Holi celebration.

Dust The Flower Petals

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With a dash of colours, dust a lot of flower petals because, in Indian celebrations, this ritual is great fun.

Street Food & Beverage 

Ideally at a Holi Party what gets served the most is Indian Street food like Panipuri, Bhelpuri, Potato Tikki, Samosa, Kachori and Gujiya. You can have food and beverage counters all around the venue. 

Street-Chaat Counter

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Signature Gujiya

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Drink, Drink, DRINK! 

Two main drinks that are must-haves in a Holi party are Thandai and Alcoholic beverages to fuel up the guests in the heat.

Special Holi Thandai

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Icy Alcoholic Counter

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Keep a White Dress Code

Let the Holi colours show on white attires. As per your preference you may choose to go Ethnic or Western.

Traditional

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Non-Traditional

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Enjoy planning your first Holi party with your loved ones and do not forget to conserve water in the process. Let us know in the comment section about how you decided to arrange your event.

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