Themed events planned and run end to end, from casino nights and Arabian Nights to 1920s speakeasies, with the theme carried through the room, the lighting and the entertainment. Mr Flavour began as a themed events specialist in 2014.
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At a glance
Themed events, in short
Mr Flavour plans and runs themed events for private and corporate clients. We design the décor and lighting, book the performers, bring in the catering, the AV and the bar through our own team and trusted suppliers, then set up and clear down the venue. This page covers nine themes, from casino nights and Arabian Nights to 1920s, Bollywood and circus parties, and we work across the UK. Our largest event is the St John's May Ball in Cambridge, at up to 10,000 guests.
We have run themed events of every kind, from casino nights to full Arabian Nights builds. Fire and Ice, Casino and Arabic themes have all been built for Christmas parties. These are the themes clients ask about most, and each section lists what goes into one. Not decided yet? Start here.
Casino nightMonte Carlo or Las Vegas, with croupiers, gaming tables and Vegas showgirls. Casino themed parties.
Arabian NightsLanterns, draped tents, belly dancers and a hosted shisha lounge. Arabian Nights theme.
1920sSpeakeasy glamour, jazz bands and a red carpet entrance. 1920s themed party.
CircusA big top, aerialists, stilt walkers and a ringmaster. Circus theme.
1960sFlower power, lava lamps and a live sixties band. 1960s themed party.
HalloweenOur Halloween parties have a page of their own, with a themed 40th birthday on film: Halloween party planner.
Casino night
Casino themed parties, from Monte Carlo to Las Vegas
A casino night in a ballroom, a private venue or a marquee: gaming tables, croupiers and a room dressed to match.
We set a venue up as a casino night, styled as a chic Monte Carlo soirée or a bold Las Vegas night. Our event designers plan the décor, the gaming tables and the live acts, with our in house team and trusted suppliers.
Blackjack, poker and roulette tables are run by professional croupiers, and guests play with custom casino currency printed with your name or your logo. Acts can include Vegas showgirls, singing waiters, a roaming magician and fire breathers at the entrance.
Food runs from canapés to a full sit down dinner, through caterers we trust, and the bar serves martinis. A casino night works in a hotel ballroom, a private venue or a marquee, and we can convert private homes and gardens too. It also suits a Christmas party for a team or a client list; see our Christmas party planners.
On the casino floor
Gaming tables
Blackjack, poker and roulette, run by professional croupiers.
Casino currency
Custom notes printed with your name or logo.
Vegas entertainment
Showgirls, singing waiters, magicians and fire breathers.
The styling
Low lighting and your logo on the tables.
Searching for Las Vegas themed entertainment or a Monte Carlo themed party in London? It is the same casino night, styled to the city you want.
Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights theme, lanterns, spice and shisha
An Arabian Nights party built around draped tents, Middle Eastern performers and a hosted shisha lounge.
We have delivered Arabian Nights events across the UK, from high profile gatherings in Mayfair to private birthday parties. The room is built from tents, golden lanterns and flowing fabrics, with low seating, incense and shisha.
We work with Syrian caterers on shawarma wraps, falafel and baklava, and with Middle Eastern performers on belly dancing, fire breathing hostesses and live Arabic music.
A hosted shisha lounge sits at the centre of the theme, and it is one of our own services. We have run a shisha tent at a student ball in Oxford and shisha for a large May Ball in Cambridge. Our shisha hire hosts manage every pipe, with electronic shisha indoors under UK smoke free law, confirmed with your venue in writing.
A private garden marquee and a fully dressed venue both suit the theme. A lounge build includes the structure, low seating, side tables, lighting and the shisha service itself, and open sided structures keep charcoal pipes compliant outdoors.
Inside the Arabian Nights tent
Styling
Tents, golden lanterns, draped fabrics and incense.
Food
Syrian caterers: shawarma, falafel and baklava.
Entertainment
Belly dancers, fire breathing hostesses and live Arabic music.
Shisha lounge
Low seating, lanterns and hosted shisha.
An Arabian Nights theme suits a garden marquee, a birthday or a wedding evening.
The Roaring Twenties
1920s themed party, speakeasy glamour and jazz
A speakeasy, jazz and old Hollywood, in a marquee or a dressed venue.
The settingSecret den style marquees, a red carpet, vintage cars and a black and white dance floor, styled as Gatsby or Chicago gangster.
The entertainmentJazz bands, burlesque chair routines, fire performers in mobster dress and Marilyn in a Martini Glass, a performer in a seven foot martini glass.
The lookDressing up is not essential. We can provide vintage props, accessories and stylists, with coupes of champagne for the toast.
On filmVideo coverage and professional photography.
Bollywood night
Bollywood night theme, drums, dancers and colour
Dhol drums and dancers, drawn from the music, culture and cinema of India.
The Bollywood Dhol ShowTwo drummers greet your guests, lead them to the dance floor and start a surprise Bollywood dance flash mob.
The settingDraped marquees, low seating, brass tables, ice sculptures and incense, in your venue or marquee.
The entertainmentBollywood dancers, folk singers, henna artists, head masseuses and DJs, with custom fireworks to close.
The foodIndian catering and canapés with an Indian twist, with tastings in advance. For weddings, see our Asian wedding planner.
Burlesque
Burlesque party planning, Parisian cabaret glamour
Parisian cabaret, with the tone set to the audience.
The settingRed velvet backdrops, deep drapes, moody lighting, chandeliers and feathered centrepieces.
The entertainmentCan can dancers, chair acrobats, fire breathing showgirls, aerialists, magicians, contortionists and vintage jazz bands. One showpiece act or a full evening.
The toneFrom cheeky vintage charm to theatrical performance, with the acts chosen for the audience and the occasion.
The finishing touchesCatering with a French flair, a custom cake and fireworks set to your soundtrack.
Fire and ice
Fire and ice theme, heat against frost
Fiery reds against icy blues, carried through the lighting, the staff and the acts.
The designFire breathers at the entrance, then a room lit in reds and blues. We design the layout, the lighting and the outfits of your event staff.
The entertainmentSynchronised fire dancers, ice queens in giant martini glasses, LED shows and stilt walkers.
The detailsIce sculptures, dry ice and an LED lit ice bar.
SafetyEvery fire performer is a trained professional and fully insured. We carry out risk assessments and work with the venue on every act.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night's Dream theme, the enchanted forest
Drawn from Shakespeare's play: fairies, forests and low light.
The settingGreenery, moss and butterfly centrepieces, forest backdrops, floating florals, LED lit trees and fairy lights, installed by our team.
The entertainmentFire breathers dressed as fawns, LED fairies on stilts, aerial silk performers and body painted characters.
The detailsA bamboo torch entrance, fairy lit paths and a forest bar.
The venueRural venues suit the theme, and indoor spaces and themed marquees work too.
Circus
Circus theme, roll up for the big top
A big top tent or a made over venue, dressed and cast as a circus.
The settingA dressed big top or a vintage circus venue makeover, with candy striped décor and a production stage. Halls, barns and ballrooms work as well as a marquee.
The actsFoot archers, aerialists, acrobats, stilt walkers, clowns, contortionists, fire eaters and a ringmaster.
The treatsThemed hosts with candyfloss martinis at the door, then popcorn carts, candy floss stations, liquid nitrogen ice cream and full catering.
On the dayOur event managers coordinate suppliers, performers, AV and timings.
The Swinging Sixties
1960s themed party, flower power and lava lamps
Flower power, psychedelic colour and live sixties music.
The settingLava lamps, peace signs, daisy beaded curtains, bean bags, psychedelic lighting and mirrored disco balls.
The entertainmentFlower power dance troupes, stilt walkers and live bands covering Hendrix, The Doors and the great sixties hits, with custom fireworks to close.
The dress codeBell bottoms, mini skirts, tie dye, paisley prints and flower crowns, hippy or mod.
On filmEvent photography and custom event films.
Our approach
A personal approach to themed events planning
Mr Flavour began in 2014 as a themed events specialist, and every brief still starts with the room.
Our approach to themed events planning is easiest to see in the nights we have run. For one Halloween themed 40th birthday we liaised with the venue ahead of the night, dressed the courtyard and the bar, and ran a cocktail "blood" fountain in the barn, with actors and a band on the night. The room was ready before guests arrived, and nothing of ours was left behind afterwards. The host said it looked like a Halloween movie set.
For a Halloween night we called The Haunted Manor Experience, bone chandeliers and creeping fog set the room, and the light moved from smoky crimson at arrival to deeper purple as the DJ took over. A towering clown figure met guests at the entrance, with fortune tellers, zombie dancers and a stilt walking jester in the crowd. The guest route ran from an entrance tunnel of fog and red lit silhouettes to a branded photo wall, a tarot corner and live illusionists, then the main room.
A theme can also be a brand. P.Louise has held its Christmas parties with us in baby pink, with cocktail fountains as the centrepiece and custom clear ice moulds with its products set inside. For the Aston Martin Vanquish launch in Mayfair we carried the marque's green through the lighting, the bar fronts and the serves. For Aston Martin London's Vanquish Christmas Soiree, also in Mayfair, the Vanquish name was printed on the foam of the branded cocktails. At a zen garden themed event the bar had a curved black and gold marble front, with dry ice around it.
We offer a range of in house services for themed events, including event designers, bar hire and event entertainment, and trusted suppliers cover everything from catering to audio and visual. We liaise with every supplier and performer and set up and clear down your venue. Our event design team builds venue décor to the theme, from a fairytale wonderland to a trip back in time. If you have not decided on a theme yet, we have themed party ideas to start from. As themed event planners we will also design one of your own from scratch.
Bespoke services for themed events
Event design
Décor, layout and lighting built to the theme.
Props and stylists
Props, accessories and stylists for the look.
Entertainment
Performers briefed to the theme and timed into the night.
Suppliers
Catering and AV from partners we trust.
Rooms dressed
Themed parties from our recent events
Rooms lit, tables dressed and lounges built: the styling our themed event planners do before the first guest arrives.
A ballroom lit in purpleBallroom partyHalloween, styledHalloween partyGold from the floor upMarqueeA lounge built for the nightLoungeFireworks to close the nightThe finaleA table, dressedStyling
Choosing a theme
Choosing a theme for your event
Every theme can be built for any room, but some suit an occasion better than others. This is how they compare.
Croupiers at the tables and currency printed with your name
Arabian Nights
Garden marquees, birthdays, wedding evenings
Belly dancers and a hosted shisha lounge
1920s
Galas, milestone birthdays, New Year
Marilyn in a Martini Glass
Bollywood night
Large family celebrations and parties
The Dhol Show and a surprise flash mob
Burlesque
Private soirées and evening parties
Can can dancers and chair acrobats
Fire and ice
Winter parties and launches
Fire breathers and ice queens
Midsummer Night's Dream
Summer, rural venues and marquees
LED fairies on stilts in a lit forest
Circus
Big top tents, halls and ballrooms
Aerialists and a ringmaster
1960s
Birthdays and retro parties
A live sixties band under the disco balls
Have a theme of your own? Tell us in the brief and we will design it from scratch.
Packages
Themed event packages and planning
Every themed event is quoted to the brief. The theme, the guest numbers, the scale of the décor, the performers, the catering and the venue set the figure, and the proposal is itemised so you can see each element. Travel is quoted for each event and added to your final price.
IThe styled room
The room, in character
Décor, lighting and props designed to the theme, with the timings agreed with you and your venue.
Events with the acts already booked
IITheme and entertainment
The room and the acts
The styled room plus the performers, designed together and timed into the night.
Parties and corporate evenings
IIIThe whole themed event
Planned end to end
We plan and run the event from the first idea to the clear down: venue, catering, AV, décor, entertainment and the bar, with one point of contact throughout.
From the moment we first made contact, we knew that we were working with a team who could provide a bespoke service that perfectly met our needs.
Trish and Jason AmarteyWedding
Nothing was ever too much and the team were always smiling and ready to have fun with us. You were always polite courteous and professional at the same time.
Nadia ShereenPrivate party
I've used Mr Flavour when hosting events over the last few years and cannot recommend enough.
Our HQ is in Manchester and our themed events run across the UK, with regular events in London and casino nights, Arabian Nights and 1920s parties planned for venues in the capital.
The questions clients ask before they choose a theme.
How much does a themed event cost?
The theme, the guest numbers, the scale of the décor, the performers, the drinks menu and the venue set the figure, and travel is quoted for each event. You receive an itemised proposal, and we reply to every enquiry within 24 hours.
What themes do you offer?
The nine on this page are casino nights, Arabian Nights, 1920s, 1960s, Bollywood nights, burlesque, circus, fire and ice and Midsummer Night's Dream, and we will design one of your own from scratch. Halloween has its own page: Halloween party planner.
What casino games can you provide?
A full range of classic casino games, including roulette, blackjack and poker, all run by professional croupiers, with custom casino currency printed with your name or logo.
Can you set up a casino night at home or do I need a venue?
Both work. We convert private homes, gardens and venues into casino nights, with the décor, lighting and entertainment set up before your guests arrive.
Can we have shisha at an Arabian Nights party indoors?
Indoors it has to be electronic shisha, which most indoor venues approve because nothing is burned. Charcoal pipes are for outdoor spaces under UK smoke free law. Our hosts manage every pipe, and we confirm the position with your venue in writing.
Do guests need to dress up?
It is not essential, though flapper dresses and tuxedos, saris and sherwanis, or bell bottoms and flower crowns all help. We can provide props, accessories and stylists to complete the look.
Is the fire entertainment safe?
Every fire performer is a fully insured, trained professional, and we carry out risk assessments and agree every fire act with the venue before the day.
Can the food match the theme?
Our catering partners match the food to the theme, from shawarma and baklava for Arabian Nights to canapés with an Indian twist for a Bollywood night, with tastings in advance. The bar follows the theme too: at one Halloween 40th it was a cocktail "blood" fountain.
Is a burlesque party suitable for all audiences?
It can be. Every burlesque event is customisable, from cheeky vintage charm to theatrical and artistic performance, and we tailor the entertainment to the audience and the occasion.
Can the event be filmed or photographed?
We offer full video coverage and professional photography.
Do you plan themed corporate events and Christmas parties?
A theme works as well for a company party or a client evening as for a birthday. P.Louise holds its Christmas parties with us in the brand's baby pink. See event management and Christmas party planners.
Are themed events the same as themed parties or theme nights?
Here they are. Themed events, themed parties, theme nights and themed evening events all describe the same service, and themed event planners and themed party organisers are what we do: we design the theme with you and run it on the day.
Your theme
Plan your themed event with our event planners
Tell us the theme you have in mind, or ask us for one. We will come back with ideas and an itemised proposal, usually within 24 hours.
01Halloween
02Christmas parties
03Birthdays
04Private parties
05Corporate events
