Like any loving parent, you want to give your child a birthday party he or she will always remember. But you probably also have your hands full juggling work, family duties, and other responsibilities too. It's tough to set time aside to plan every single minute of your child's party. Fortunately, these Bay Area party rentals can provide all the equipment and party supplies you need for an unforgettable birthday.

Piedmont Party Rentals

Don't you just hate it when you plan a large party, only to realize too late that you don't have enough chairs or china? Or do find yourself saying, "I'm never going to host a party again because I hate cleaning up after"? You might need the services of Piedmont Party Rentals, an Oakland-based party supplies company who can provide you with chairs, tables, linens, tents, and fun extras like popcorn machines. Their rates are a little pricey, but they can provide you with everything you need for your child's party, even if you call them at the last minute. If you can't make it to the showroom to look through their selections, you can browse through the online catalogue and place an order over the phone. Regardless of how you place your order, their friendly staff will be more than happy to help you figure out which items will suit your needs best and other exciting add-ons you might want for your child's party.

Bay City Bouncers

These days, pin the tail on the donkey won't do much to keep kids entertained. If you want to keep your little guests happy without too much effort on your part, consider renting an inflatable bounce house from Bay City Bouncers. They pride themselves on providing clients with safe, clean, and fun jumpers that will keep active kids occupied for hours. Bay City Bouncers also has party packages that allow you to get tables, chairs, and other party rentals along with your bounce house, eliminating the hassle of renting from two different companies.

Backyard Carnivals

What could any child want more than to have a carnival in your backyard for an entire day? Backyard Carnival makes this childhood dream come true with their comprehensive catalogue of bounce houses, games, and other attractions. They've got carnival games and booths made just for kids so that they can actually win the fun prizes at stake, as well as ball crawls, inflatable obstacle courses, and a wacky Velcro wall. If carnival games and bounce houses aren't your child's thing, Backyard Carnivals also has other fun stuff on the menu like air hockey tables, cotton candy machines, a rock climbing wall, and electronic basketball. With all these attractions at your child's birthday, everyone will be talking about the party for weeks!

In planning a hockey theme party, follow these easy steps to ensure your celebration is a huge success.

Invitations: The invitations will set the tone for the rest of the party. You don't have to choose a particular team to base your party around, though if the guest of honor is a fan of one NHL player or even an entire team, you can send invitations with that logo on them. If you'd prefer to have a more general hockey themed party, you can order many different designs on zazzle.com. The options range from a picture of hockey skates to a pink background with crossing hockey sticks. The selection includes something for everyone.

Decorations: The decorations should match the invitations you sent to your guests. Whether they include streamers and balloons in colors to match an NHL team, or generic hockey table covers and flag banners (both available online or at a Party City location), your decorations will be a hockey enthusiast's dream. Partycity.com also has puck centerpieces, table settings, and foil balloons. Also, you can tie balloons to the end of a hockey stick and put the sticks in the corner of each room.

Dessert: First decide if you will have a full meal or appetizers and desserts. Hostess King Dongs are a fun dessert to have on each table, as they look like hockey pucks. You may also want to have a cake with a hockey puck or stick theme, and you may even include a picture of the guest of honor in full hockey uniform

Hockey Favors: You can provide favors for your guests to remember your event. For younger guests, you may consider temporary tattoos or NHL pencils for them to bring to school. For guests of all ages, chocolate is a treat enjoyed by everyone. You may consider chocolate hockey skates, chocolate hockey pucks, or hockey player pops. You can tie the cellophane in ribbon that matches your decorations and hand the gifts to guests on their way out. Also, some companies offer their chocolates tied with personalized ribbons.

You can really set the party atmosphere with a few sets of neon lights and neon lights themed party goods scattered around the party area. They work super well for Halloween, New Years, and Glow sticks parties, where it's going to be somewhat dark in the first place. Of course you can have neon lights set up at any party.

Neon lights themed party goods are such items as plates, cups and napkins that have intensely chromatic light patterns printed against a black background. The light patterns on these paper goods will glow nicely under black light too. Most paper goods with the neon lights patterns are geared towards New Years, but you can find some paper goods without any phrasing referring to a specific holiday.

Accent your neon lights pattern with a Casino night's scene setter. These scene setters are made of vinyl and can be unrolled and hung on the wall just like you would with wall paper, except the scene setters hang with sticky tack.

Add real lights to the mix to finish off your decoration. Any sort of party light will serve as a neon light. There are small magnet lights filled with LEDs that will stick to any metal and flash away merrily. You can pick up a couple dozen light sticks to hand out as party favors and the guests will go wild on the dance floor by shaking them around and trying to write stuff in the air with the glow from them. There are many kinds of light sticks to give out to guests too. You can get bracelets, necklaces, and pendants as party favors.

String lights can be hung up around the party area to create a fun neon lights effect. There are sets of shamrock shaped lights, cactus shaped lights, fiesta lights and even seventies disco lights available.

When a woman gets married, she wants a beautiful white dress, bridesmaids who will treat her like a princess, and a bachelorette party that kicks major butt. And to make sure the party is truly epic, someone will need to step forward and volunteer to be the head planner. It doesn't matter if the planner is the maid of honor, the bride's mother, or the bride herself, as long as she is committed to fun and focused on some key details.

Bachelorette parties are not one-size-fits-all events. Everyone has her own idea of the best kind of fun. Will it be held in someone's house or a hall, or will there be bar hopping to the best spots in the city? Will the tone of the party be tasteful fun or outright debauchery? Will partygoers include just the bridal group and a few more friends or everyone the bride knew since junior high? Each decision brings a cascade of choices.

Before the planning progresses too far, one important question needs to be answered: Where do we get the "stuff"? Even before you decide on what kind of stuff, and how much, the where question needs a solution. Make the right choice here and many other problems and decisions melt away quickly.

Here's a quick answer: The best place to find everything you need for a great bachelorette party is from an online store. Why hoof around to shopping centers and strip malls when one internet location has everything you need? It would be nearly impossible for any one store, or even several, to stock all the bachelorette party items available online. There just wouldn't be enough shelf space.

There's also the cost factor. Although you want to throw the bride the party of her life, the budget will not be unlimited. Subtract the cost of booze and food, and you've got even less to spend. Again, the internet comes to the rescue. Prices that are lower than retail stores' mean more fun stuff for everyone at the party.

Like everything else wedding-related, bachelorette parties benefit from serious planning. As a start, consider the list of major party stuff categories that must be addressed:

Decorations
General supplies
Food-related items
Drink-related items
Clothing
Special bride items
Games & activities
Accessories

Does that seem like a lot? Those are just the categories! Each has a list of specific items that could enhance the fun. You don't need all of them, but you need enough of the right ones to make a great party.

For example, in the category of decorations, you may need banners, streamers, balloons and centerpieces. Party supplies include cups, plates, napkins and straws.

Food items (not counting the food itself) include candy, cake pans, jello molds and snack trays. To do the proper drinking, you'll need glasses, mugs, cups and shot glasses.

Bachelorette party clothing includes tank tops, T-shirts, sashes, boas, rings, hats and necklaces. If the bride herself is to stand out properly, she will need a tiara, veil, sash, and special shirts that proclaim her status.

Will there be games and activities? May we suggest inflatable male dolls, games like Pin the Macho on the Man, scavenger hunts, trivia games, and piñatas.

If you have any money left, blow it on the dozens of accessories like pens, stickers, notepads, pacifiers, noisemakers, pins, whistles, foam fingers and much more.

Every one of these products is available online. And there are choices between the types of products according to your budget and preference. For example, you may want to spice things up with some "naughty" bachelorette party choices, or keep things squeaky clean.

About the Author

Sally Hastings helps promote the many exciting products sold by Bachelorette.com and other web stores operated by PriveCo, Inc., the world's most private company.

There isn't a man who doesn't love a good stag night. It just doesn't get better than going out with all of your mates on the 'stag's' last night of freedom (or last weekend) just before he is due to get married.

Being his last weekend of freedom, the perfect location for his party must be found. For any trip, it is essential to try to create the perfect balance between entertainment, cost and convenience. And don't forget that this is not just any trip, it must be the trip of a lifetime.

I have three great places that are not the usual for bachelor parties but may strike you as interesting choices. They are not the ones that you would have had suggested to you before but you will definitely have a laugh at any one of them.

Austin, Texas being the first of the three is a really nice place to visit. It's good for those that live around the Western or Southern part of the country but it's also great for those who don't have the budget for Las Vegas.

Not only does it have practical prices but also the money spent goes a long way with good weather and a pretty active nightlife and is a real alternative to Vegas.

Another city to be impressed with is Montreal. It reminds you of a busy European city and gives you the feeling of being in Paris but without the French people.

My third choice is country music capital, Nashville. This might not be a usual choice for a bachelor party but Nashville has quite a lot going on at night. There are many wonderful restaurants and bars to visit and plenty to do. If you're looking for something different then it really is worth taking a trip there.

I know they are an unusual bunch of places to consider for a bachelor party but if you're stuck for ideas then do look into the ones mentioned and you might find you have an exceptional bachelor weekend.

Renowned as one of the trendiest cities in the heart of northern India, it really shouldn't come as a surprise that New Delhi also has a vibrant nightlife that rivals any Indian city of the same calibre. Regardless of what nightlife distractions one prefers, the ever evolving city that is New Delhi surpasses all expectations when it comes to having an unforgettable night out on the town.

Those in search of a cosy bar with great food, ambience and music have a number of options at their disposal when in Delhi. Drop in on Baci Bar in chic Sunder Nagar where Italian delicacies are served with luscious spirits. A cosy pub also adorns the premises while Lebanese food connoisseurs should venture down Greater Kailash to Shalom which also boasts an eclectic selection of music and an innovative cocktail menu. Pebble Street on the other hand is a hotspot for Mexican, Continental, Indian and Italian food and exotic drinks as southern Delhi's only Signature 96 cover eatery.

Live music lovers must check out Haze at Visant Vihar where blues and jazz offerings are the order of the day. With jazz legends decorating its walls, the homely atmosphere of this delightful bar is all the more significant as it is the only place in Delhi where live jazz is on the menu. Frequented by expats, tourists and locals alike The Living Room Café and Kitchen is where reggae, soul, soft rock and raga fans head to as the sun sets on another day. A four floor bar cum club with a terrace on the topmost floor, dancing the night away is also a possibility in the distinctly casual and friendly setting of the locale.

The hottest nightclubs in New Delhi include Costa Del House in Urban Pind where salsa, jazz and Bollywood fusion keep the crowds gyrating to the rhythm of the night. Other highlights include Kuki E 7, Elevate, Fifth Floor and Buzz while Dances of India is also popular with the young and fashionable crowd in the city. The Lizard Lounge dominates southern Delhi with its unique mixofrock, hip hop and Bollywood offerings while those who wish to dance the night away to a live band should step in to the @Live Bar where the energy is as palatable as the ambience.

Visitors in search of a stylish and ideally located New Delhi hotel will find no better alternative to The Leela Palace Kempinski New Delhi. Situated within close proximity to popular attractions such as the Presidential Palace, this cosy rest is one of the most conveniently positioned New Delhi luxury hotels in town.

Pushpitha Wijesinghe is an experienced independent freelance writer. He specializes in providing a wide variety of content and articles related to the travel hospitality industry.

Welcome to the big city, Manhattan, NYC.

Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha are surely all Martini Girls. Martinis have played a big role in the TV show and movie, "Sex and the City", since the beginning. The concoction of choice always seems to return to the Cosmopolitan, which is Carrie's favorite drink.

So you're thinking of hosting a "Sex and the City" Martini party? Here you'll find everything you need to pull of an unforgettable evening of female bonding.

Decorations

When decorating for a "Sex and the City" Martini Party, remember to celebrate each of the girls' individual tastes. There should be plenty of shoes and tiny purses around, and perhaps some "I (heart) NY" stuff as well. Around your party room can be "icons" of each character, like an open laptop and lots of clothes laying around for Carrie, preppy items that only Charlotte would have (think plaid!), sexy and passionate colors for Samantha, and Miranda's area of the party room would look professional but a bit nerdy.

Food and Drink

When planning food for your "Sex and the City" Martini Party, you may want to order in Chinese food, which is a big comfort food on the show for the girls. Other food ideas include shrimp, sushi, Mexican or any other fare from one of the New York City restaurants the girls may have been bonding in during one of the episodes. Of course, the featured drink will be Cosmopolitans, but Apple-tinis should also be offered.

Dress

It's all about looking like you're partying in New York City, with short skirts, tight fitting tops and shoes to die for! Guests may choose to dress as one of the characters on the show, not only the four main characters, but also any of the recurring or significant roles that have popped up during the show.

"Look Charlotte brought party favors!"

Last but not least, the party favors. They can be joke items like tampons. This comes from the episode where Miranda finds out she's pregnant and Charlotte finds out she's not. Charlotte brings a rather large box of tampons to brunch and slams them down on the table. Carrie then says "Look, Charlotte brought party favors." Other ideas include any "I (heart) NY" stuff or Cosmopolitan mix.

When it comes to planning baby's first birthday party, costs can start to add up after you buy invitations, supplies, decorations, cake, food, and gifts. But you can save your budget if you know how to buy your first birthday party supplies at a great discount. Here is some helpful information to save you money on party supplies for baby's first birthday:

1. Try eBay - I bought my oldest son's first birthday party supplies on eBay. Sellers often list a big group of themed supplies for quite a bit less than you will pay in stores.

2. Craigslist - Another place you can find great deals. I usually see at least a few listings a week on my local Craigslist for groups of party supplies.

3. Online Party Supply Sites - There are several online websites that specialize in selling party supplies. They offer packages that include everything you need from balloons and streamers to plates, cups, and napkins. These packages can start around $20 for a package of supplies for eight guests.

4. Check Stores for Bargains - Walmart, Big Lots, and your local dollar stores are just a few places you should be able to score some great savings on party supplies.

5. Party City - Party City carries a huge selection of first birthday party supplies and decorations. If you have one near you, go to their website and sign up for their email list. They will send you coupons for $5 off a $25 purchase.

Another way you can save are to buy solid color plates, cups, and napkins instead of first birthday party supplies. Then just buy first birthday themed decorations like table clothes, banners, balloons, table centerpieces, and streamers. You will save money and everything will still look just as nice!