C for Cupcake Cupcakery: Mystery Murderer Dinner Party

Each year I try to do something different for my birthday, of course, this year was no expection. I wanted to do a mystery murderer themed party for my birthday for a long time. This year, I was able to make it with help from my friends and family, I was one happy birthday girl!

My friend had a mystery murderer party few years ago for her birthday. She kept most of the materials and I borrowed the materials from her. She and her husband were helping me to plan the party since they had experience of what we should do.

For decoration, I had started thinking of how to decorating my party about a month before the party. I set few themed colors first (red, black, gold and white). And work around with those colors and added little details to match the 1940s theme. Luckily, the themed colors at my house are red and little black, so I could easily reuse some of the decoration stuffs and frames from home and repurposed them. We also created a photo booth and some photo props for pictures. Everyone had a great time of taking pictures of the photo props I made.

For desserts, I made few different desserts for the party, including donut holes and smore bites and of course cupcakes. They were so yummy and great for us to walk around to communicate with other characters to find out who the murderer was. I also made some little tags for each desserts, so people know what they were eating.

For food and drinks, we order Italian food from a local Italian restaurant. Their price was very reasonable and food was great. We also sticked with wines and old fashioned drinks the whole night. We had two speical cocktails, Bee's Knees and Old Fashioned. For non-alcohol beverage, we made cucumber rosemary lemon chiller; it was so refreshing!

I am so happy that most of my friends dressed up for their parts too. They made the party even more memoriable than it could be.

Here are some more pictures:

Found this old newspaper picture and a prescription for alcohol drinking online.
Yup, you needed to obtain a prescription for drinking back to the 1940s.