Organising a surprise party

It was the Boy Wonder’s 30^th birthday on Saturday and to mark the occasion I organised him a surprise jam/party, which was fun! Admittedly, doing it so shortly after our wedding was a little stressful, but mostly not being able to tell him what I was doing was very difficult – I kept speaking to people who updated me on news etc, and then couldn’t say anything to the Boy Wonder. But, not content with organising two events marking big occasions this year, in my drunken state on Saturday night I also began the process of planning the next extravaganza – a New Orleans fundraiser in the New Year. I have already recruited our richest friends to provide a venue and possible source of wealthy attendees from amongst their friends (although I have a feeling that my subtlety was slightly lacking when it came to sharing the details in my Bow-laden state!).

So whilst on the one hand I was just pleased that everyone came and nobody ruined the surprise element, the completion of our second successful gathering of the year did give me a sense of satisfaction, marred only by the fact that it was more fun planning things with the Boy Wonder – we are both people who like to picture things as we would like them and then recreate that on a larger scale, which makes the planning much more fun than following a formal path of doing what you should do, or compromising, or the dreaded ‘done thing’.

All of this means that I am already thinking of ways to make the fundraiser work, and I am really excited about the idea of supporting a charity which is so in line with our shared interest. The whole thing is still very much in the ideas stage at the moment, but I am sure it won’t be long before the whole thing is imminent and being as I have just looked it up and found out that Mardi Gras 2009 is on Feb 24^th, I’m already thinking some kind of Mardi Gras theme would be a good basis for the event…