Steampunk
Celebration
Created by Erica Berman of
Photography by Abby Liga Shot on location in Delaney Park Props courtesy of Party City
Move over, Twilight; steampunk is the new vampire in town. This Halloween, leave the gory-detailed décor in storage and your children’s shrieks at bay. Instead, deck your party with cobweb-clad antique gadgets and gizmos that bring this Neo-Victorian-era theme to life.
What do you get when you combine sci-fi fantasy with modern-day America, and sprinkle that with an imagined future? Steampunk. Although the concept of “an alternate twist to reality” may be one that is difficult to explain to your young ones, as a party theme, it allows them to be inventive, avant-garde and (without their knowledge) educational.
Halloween celebrations are all about creating an atmosphere that triggers emotions of fright and fear. While steampunk is associated with dark, drab colors, jazz things up at your own festivities with muted pop colors, such as lavender and kiwi. The contrast of dainty hues with bold metals and heavy theatrical props puts the nail in the coffin that you've properly set the stage for this fright fest that won't soon be forgotten by your victims ... we mean, guests.
Amuse their senses as soon as they enter your eerie event by costuming the outside of your abode as much as the inside. For an eye-popping first impression, forget the standard graveyard or witch’s house settings, and create the illusion of a haunted factory or a supernatural laboratory
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