Ideas for a 25th Birthday - suggestions and advice please :)

[Paul the 6th]

It's the missus' 25th birthday on wednesday next week, and we're having a massive bbq on the 2nd of may where all her/our friends and family are coming along, with a view to heading into york afterwards.

My ideas are usually pretty rubbish for birthdays/suprises so could any of you offer any advice from things you've done in the past or had done for you in the past?

Idea's so far:

Booking a table in one of our favorite resaurants in york, surprise birthday meal with her parents there (although that could be a bit tricky with them living in middlesbrough/picking them up and hiding them during the day for a few hours. They're down for the weekend this weekend so I'll have a chat with them then.

Printed birthday cakes - the ones where people have an embarrassing picture from their childhood printed on... these strike me as painfully tacky, but it's all subjective. I guess it depends on the picture used for the cake, but I'm still not sure...

Birthday presents - not a flipping clue. She's mentioned about those spa day/sauna treatment type things. I bought tickets to see basement jaxx aaages ago, which just so happens to be on the day after her birthday.

I also managed to get 2 tickets to see Take:That on 8th of june - she went mental when I told her... starting to wish I'd saved them for a b'day present now (see, I'm not very good at planning surprises as I don't think far enough ahead).

Can anyone help me out with advice/ideas plz?

Oh and as for the likes of YC who's prolly gonna call me a poof re: takethat or numpty for basement jaxx, feel free to leave a load of abuse on my profile wall. I'm keeping this thread strictly on topic



thanks in advance!

[dizzyblonde]

Booking a table in one of our favorite resaurants in york, surprise birthday meal with her parents there (although that could be a bit tricky with them living in middlesbrough/picking them up and hiding them during the day for a few hours. They're down for the weekend this weekend so I'll have a chat with them then.

anything is possible Paul. Me and my mum kept a secret for weeks from my dad. His face was a picture when I turned up for his birthday, on his holiday 300 miles away
I'm sure if they like the idea, then they'll make it possible, rather than you picking them up and hiding them under the stairs for the day

[Paul the 6th]

cheer dizz... just having a bit of trouble thinking of exciting things lol, trying to find out where to get hold of some helium for the balloons amongst other daft little things

[dizzyblonde]

sometimes its not exciting things that are important. My dad said me being there and making the effort to ride there all on my tod, was he best birthday present anyone could have given him. The happy tears welling in the crner of his eye said it all really.

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

Idea's so far:

Booking a table in one of our favorite resaurants in york, surprise birthday meal with her parents there (although that could be a bit tricky with them living in middlesbrough/picking them up and hiding them during the day for a few hours. They're down for the weekend this weekend so I'll have a chat with them then.

Could they maybe spend the afternoon in York? and book an early meal so they dont have to hang around too long? Then you can turn up to meal and ask for table, then recognise them from distance... if that makes sense... Nice surprise I reckon.

Spa day type thing would be good too if you can get your OH out in the morning, that lets you go to pick up the parents.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

sometimes its not exciting things that are important.

100% agree with this. My friends threw me a surprise bday party for my just gone 21st (in my kitchen), apparently they had it organised 3 weeks and I didn't suspect a darn thing. The fact they'd gone to all the effort of putting on a little spread on the table and balloons and stuff (plus clubbing together to get me a half day with birds of prey) was enough, I had a job keeping the tears away!

I expect you have a bit more cash to do a proper surprise job but tbh Paul, I should think it doesn't matter what you do, your lady will be happy, especially if it really does surprise her! Those basement jaxx tickets sound great, bet she'll be chuffed. As for the spa day that sounds great too but would you have to organise it for her and a friend or would you go along too

P.S. If YC calls you a poof I'll make him regret it

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

sometimes its not exciting things that are important. My dad said me being there and making the effort to ride there all on my tod, was he best birthday present anyone could have given him. The happy tears welling in the crner of his eye said it all really.

could you drop vicky off in devon for me and then I can ride down nah well done with that dizz, propper chuffed for ya

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

100% agree with this. My friends threw me a surprise bday party for my just gone 21st (in my kitchen), apparently they had it organised 3 weeks and I didn't suspect a darn thing. The fact they'd gone to all the effort of putting on a little spread on the table and balloons and stuff (plus clubbing together to get me a half day with birds of prey) was enough, I had a job keeping the tears away!

I expect you have a bit more cash to do a proper surprise job but tbh Paul, I should think it doesn't matter what you do, your lady will be happy, especially if it really does surprise her! Those basement jaxx tickets sound great, bet she'll be chuffed. As for the spa day that sounds great too but would you have to organise it for her and a friend or would you go along too

P.S. If YC calls you a poof I'll make him regret it

hmmm, I'll have a word with her parents when they come down for the weekend and see if they're up for a bit of a surprise party. Neither of them drive and they're down this weekend & the following weekend for the bbq, so I doubt they'll be up for trekking all the way down just for one night (vicky's mum is a full on worrier/faffer... big train journeys are a nightmare for her).

As for having more cash than thou maria - LOL - booked a week in italy for us both and then took the car for a service = shock horror £550 repair bill including a rear wheel bearing amongst other bits... £40 a month for the svThou doesn't seem such a good deal now that I'm well & truly skint If I'd seen the shocking bill coming and realised how much the holiday was going to set us back, I'd have just stuck with my trusty 650 but these things happen I guess...

I'm not focusing so much on spending a fortune on material things, but struggling to think of little bits and pieces, which, when added together in the form of a surprise, all make for a very nice treat... and I'm rubbish lol

[Paul the 6th]

second thoughts, screw the sentiment, I've just found a life sized dinosaur for £28,000

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Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

second thoughts, screw the sentiment, I've just found a life sized dinosaur for £28,000

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