[hollywoodbudgie]

[Manitude]

I stayed at home, cracked open a bottle of my then favourite whisky.
Then in the day went to the local for a pint with my dad.

[mme_sisyphe]

My birthday was bang in the middle of my A2 exams (June 19th) so I didn't organise a party, but then I had a surprise party organised by my friends

However, for my boyfriend's, they all printed out Free Hugs t-shirts and made banners, and went to Leeds (our nearest city) and spent a day giving out free hugs to the general public, which I think is great think of something original!

[lilGem]

it's my 18th soon- I'm having a film/ tv themed fancy dress

another one of my friends is having a joint birthday masquerade and black tie party

[Boristhethird]

had my bike breakdown the day before (and my birthday was its last day of insurance)

met up with a few friends...

[ScottishShortiex]

Since my parents are split up I had two house parties over my birthday weekend. I had a house party at my dads with his side of family + stepmum's and had chinese, whilst the next night at my mums I had her side of family + my friends over, and got quite tipsy. Pretty good weekend I thought!

To make it even better, 2 days after my birthday, most of my family and I went to Blackpool for a few days and I bought my first drink - vodka + coke

[bethalex]

um well my birthday was on a Monday at the start of December, so not alot, went to see harry potter and got Chinese with my best friend on the Saturday and went out for a meal with my family on my actual birthday, and even though it was my birthday i wasn't allowed another Chinese not really fair!

[TheDubs]

I was on holiday in Ireland, the land of drink. I ended up playing a game called doctors and haircuts with my three year old cousin for the whole night.

[JaiiStarh]

Spent the day revising for my exam,which was on the next day. My family bought me a cake and stuff though. Then I went out to a roller disco when exam season finished for a belated celebration

[S_123]

Hmmm still got no idea!

[guantanamera]

i don't remember. so it was good.

[~*starlight*conquest*~]

I went to Glasgow by myself (first time in scotland, big fan) to the Glasgow University open day. Stayed in a youth hostel in the countryside, was lovely. Can't remember whether I actually celebrated it when I came back...Probably didn't really do much. I wasn't big on clubbing and drinking at the time and most of my friends were still 17 anyway. I recommend doing a day trip somewhere (e.g. theme park, shopping in london, beach) or doing a bbq/house party weather pending, or doing something fun like lazerquest/paintball/sumo suits. Try and take into account whether ALL of your friends are 18 (I've been to so many 18's where we all go to the pub only to be refused entry because one of us is under 18 or forgot their id, and then had to spend the night outside roaming the streets).

[hippieglitter]

(Original post by S_123)
My 18th birthday is coming up in October and I want to do something but I have no idea what! I want to invite about 40+ of my friends but I don't know what to do. So I want to know what other people did for their 18ths and see if I can get any ideas If you have any suggestions, please tell!

So, what did you do for your 18th?

Edit: I'd just like to add that my friends are all relatively sensible and all girls (I go to an all girls school) so I don't know if a house party would be boring?

Well it won't be able to involved 40+ people but my parents got together with my mates parents (our birthdays were only 4 days apart) and booked a table for eight at a really posh restaurant. I chose 3 friends and so did she and we all got dressed up and had a nice expensive meal.

On the other hand for our 16th our parents hired out a hall and we had a massive party and invited the whole year from school.

[Katiie467]

I was the last to turn 18 in my year, in fact i turned 18 yesterday! But it means everyone can come out for my birthday. Im going into town on thursday night with people my friends from that area, and then to a different town on Monday night with people from that area.
People that i know who turned 18 early on in the year have rented out places so that they could invite everyone and people can still drink, which seems a good way to go about things.

[Artemis 97]

(Original post by TheDubs)
I was on holiday in Ireland, the land of drink. I ended up playing a game called doctors and haircuts with my three year old cousin for the whole night.

sounds fun

basically we did this;

[098]

[QUOTE=Alison1992;33776253]i had a house party with about 60 people, it was AWESOME

don't hire a venue, i went to a lot of 18ths this year, venue parties are awkward and less people go because you can't byob/ they're effort to get to/the dj's are often ****

also it's really obvious when people don't turn up to a party at a venue
if it's at your house then you can pretend it's a small party/gathering[/QUOTE]

exactly what I'm talking about. So awkward if the room is half empty.

[098]

also, sad but true fact of the matter is that as long as people get wasted, they'll have a good time.

Just buy loads of alcohol and it'll go well.

[blahblahblah93]

Festival!

[sammyjade92]

I hired a room in a club.
My birthday is in september so only about 3 of the people that came were 18! but if you hire a nightclub room, somewhere you would normally go on a night out, because its a private party they tend to serve everyone!

thats if your looking to drink ofc

[lizzie123x]

I collected my A level results (yeah, would have sucked if I'd failed, huh?), went out for lunch with my family, went clubbing that night, went shopping when I got up the next day and then caught a flight to Ibiza with my best friend for a week.

all in all, it was a pretty good time.