Ch 1

Kind of odd calling this chapter one. There are many places for a story to begin but this one gets started right after the couple gets married. Right as they begin to live their happy ever after. My wife Olivia and myself Kevin, we love living life, we believe life is to be experienced and to be celebrated. Our marriage was short of a miracle for us and a disaster for others. I've always considered myself to be a "cup half full" type personality - an optimist and my wife is more of the "I'm thirsty, drinks the water in the cup" type personality - or a realist. We complement each other in more ways than I can explain. But, planning our wedding we experienced some troubling times.
Kicking things off my wife decided to say yes, when I proposed. That was red flag number one. I may be an optimist but I am a realist when it comes to money. My wife would've wanted a beautiful expensive luxurious wedding that we would've had to take a loan out and pay for the next five to ten years. She would have, what woman does not dream of being neck deep in debt for a party that lasts a day. But at last I appealed to her realist personality and we settled on a budget of $10,000 and a guestlist of about 100 people.
I know what you're thinking, if you're a man - good for you. If you're a lady - what a fool. And to both of those I say thank you. Haha, I was a bit naïve with the amount which lead to some unintended consequences.
So, what happened? first we bought tons of decorations - $650 out the door. This was probably one of our more savvy moves. We bought a packaged deal from a couple that had just gotten married and were selling all of their decorations. Their stuff was practically brand new and in such good taste that we saved about a thousand dollars here. Phew, one battle won. Next, we had to figure out a dancefloor. I consider myself to be haphazardly creative. Meaning, I did little research and only went of what I thought would work. This was not a good idea. I ended up spending about $300 of our budget on wedding dancefloor ideas that wouldn't work. I did not want to spend $600 to rent a tiny dance floor. Almost all of our guest were Hispanic and they all love to dance. A tiny 100 square-foot dance floor was not going to cut it! 
So what were my options? Give up on dancing or continue the search for dancefloor solution. The cup is always half full with me so I pressed on. I continued the search until I found another couple that actually purchased a dancefloor I reached out to them and they were happy to sell it to us. The dancefloor was huge and it was perfect for our backyard wedding. After purchasing the dancefloor we set it up on the backyard threw some coffee lights above it in the evening and bam the space was gorgeous! Another win for the books but at what cost? We were now almost $2,000 in on our $10,000 budget. There was so much more left to purchase we started to feel the pressure. 
A quick look at our budget and spending and we realized we would have to cut some costs. To be honest I could've saved some money by simply returning some of the items I purchased on Amazon, but I'm a guy and I forget, often. So I fumbled the returns. Anyways, after setting around $3,000 aside for catering we were left with only about $5,000 for other big ticket items such as chairs, tables, linens, chair covers, cutlery, napkins, lights, and other details. Also, wedding dress purchase and tuxedo rental. Our wedding was approaching quicker than we thought so we went ahead and started looking into party rental companies around Orlando, Mt Dora, Apopka and Eustis. We looked around for what we needed, simple stuff. Just 200 chairs 14 round tables, linens chair covers, buffet tables, cocktail tables, food warmers, chair sashes etc. Sounds expensive right? Yep it was, it was very expensive (sigh). We needed 200 chairs because we were supposed to have a ceremony, we were supposed to be dancing in the moonlight, we were supposed to have a grand entrance with our wedding party on the dancefloor. But at last, we did not. 
So what happened? Florida weather. Our beautifully planned on budget with all the bells and whistles backyard wedding was derailed by absolute insane weather. So, let me lay it out like this. The weather reports for the week did state we were going to have some precipitation from Thursday through Sunday. Our wedding was on a Saturday, so we were hopeful that rain would do its thing Thursday and Friday maybe even early Saturday since our wedding was on Saturday evening. What happened? Thursday passed by, we set up the backyard and prepared for our rental equipment to arrive. Friday, rolled around with absolute gorgeous wedding. I'm talking few clouds in the sky with a pleasantly cool breeze. While we were setting up we were excited that perhaps the weather man got it wrong. We were right, the weather man did get it wrong. But unfortunately he got 3 out of the 4 days wrong. Not just that but the storm that dropped in on us was similar to that which one would experience from a category one or two hurricane. Maybe you think I'm exaggerating, but the tarps we hung up with heavy duty anchors were getting picked off easily by the strong gusts of winds. We had no choice but to cancel the backyard ceremony and focus on the reception, which now would have to be held inside our family's home. Sounds easy right? Wrong! We were two hours from the wedding and the storm was still in full effect, tables and chairs were wet along with the table covers, and plates. Not only that but half of our wedding party *the ladies* were spending the entire day getting ready. In hindsight, I'm glad my girl was far away removed from the tragedy the storm brought. She would've lost her mind, maybe. Anyways, what do you get when you have a tight group of friends that are used to climbing on roofs, love doing dangerous stunts, and have zero care for their own well being? Well, a miracle I'd say. Friendship is to be respected, cherished and celebrated. My groomsmen, which consisted of my two brothers, along with three brothers from another mother and help from some late arrivals really came through that day. Also, my father and brothers and uncle in law. Just a bunch of men making short work of a precarious situation. Linens, in  the dryer, tables wiped, dished dried, new napkins brought out (thank goodness we had spares). Ooooof!
So after achieving greatness and 20 minutes from the ceremony what do we men do? Yep, pat each other on our backs and start drinking! It's such a trip recalling the events and sharing them. Continuing on, we were all drenched from the storm standing around the kitchen table each about 5 shots of tequila in when one of my wife's brother arrives to warn us that the bride would be arriving in 10 minutes! Thankfully the house has three bathrooms and plenty of rooms for everyone to get dressed in. My group and I rush to shower/rinse off and slip into our tuxes! My brothers helped me get ready by helping me down more tequila. This being minutes from my vows. My wife arrived and still had some finishing touches to complete. My groomsmen finished getting ready and took our spots on the improvised stage. The dj set up at some point midst the chaos and started playing my wife's music walk in music (Elvis - can't help falling in love with you). Emotions mixed with tequila were strong amongst my group. The moment I saw her, got dang I am a man! Tears started flowing. Everyone has different reactions to alcohol, I don't always cry, but I am known to shed a tear when I'm drunk and I'm deep in the motions. This day was one of those days. Wow, here I have the woman I love, happily entering her improvised wedding party, in her parents home as it rained outside. Yep, there was plenty of motions and moved I was. But, I was not the only one, my brothers apparently felt the same and shed some tears and even my close friends teared up. She was stunning, walking down the isle with a huge smile on her face! Why are you smiling? don't you see it's nothing like what we planned? Why are you smiling cant you see it rained on our special day? Why do you smile when you look at me? As I stand there smiling from ear to ear with tears in my eyes at the beauty and the grace that is my wife. 

Ch 2

After some tears, laughs, dance moves and tons of alcohol our wedding came to an end. The beauty of having a backyard wedding was that our party ended at 3 AM. So we partied pretty late and didn't have to worry about having to leave. Now, fast forward a few months and we launched OK Party Rental. Why? Because we love new adventures and we love parties! So if you want more than just party rentals such as advise and what to do give us a call. Also, check out our YouTube channel and our Instagram page to keep up to date with OK Party Rental's tips and trick and most recent pictures.

Ch 3

Babies! We believe that we're on the next baby boom. The future baby boomers will be COVID babies. My wife and I got married during the pandemic like many other couples. Maybe is just the age demographic of our immediate circle but wow! A baby boom is underway for our families. We love celebrating births with baby showers and gender reveals! There are many ways to set up a gender reveal or a baby shower. 
Traditionally, you can go baby blue or pink. We love a clean white linen on our tables surrounded by chairs with white chair covers and pink and blue sashes. If you check out our gallery you can see a few examples. A clean white, with tones of baby blue and pink are perfect for an elegant minimalist baby shower. However, many people love adding themes! We love themes! One of the most popular baby shower theme seems to be a safari theme baby shower. These are super fun, we love the pictures of these parties. The colors for the safari themed baby shower can be light and dark green with tones of white and yellow or gold. These color combinations are beautiful. If you ever want to set up a safari themed baby shower you can call us and we can help you. For a safari theme, we love seeing white tables with green or gold table runners. The tables having large jungle leaves for charger plates. This accompanied with white chairs and a combination of dark green and gold sashes. Adding dark green balloons with gold and white accents will help. We can help with many different baby shower themes. 
Maybe, you really like the moon and the stars. Perhaps an "Over the Moon" theme will suit you best. There are many ways to accomplish this theme with a few simple steps.

• Hang moon, star, planet, rocket cutouts from the ceiling.
• Use dark blue and silver tones. You can rent silver table linens, or dark blue table linens. 
• You can use black chair covers with dark blue or silver sashes to spruce up your chairs.
• Create a backdrop with a moon and stars or space scene. 
• Decorate your tables with galaxy themed items, be creative and try to use things you already have around the house. Otherwise, you can buy or rent.
• Display a rocket or spaceship props in a photo booth. Set a table with plenty of props.
• Serve food on moon and star shaped dishes, or get creative and use blue lights to make your food glow like the moon!
• Have a gift table with a futuristic or mystical glow, use back lights or globe lights.
• Have a corner for universe related games. 

So, lets assume you want you love plush teddy bears. This is a super cute theme that you could use for your next party. 

• Use a fall color scheme for your colors; tan, dark brown, beige. 
• Use dark tan or white table linens to go with the pastel colors. 
• You can use white chair covers with brown sashes to accent the chairs.
• Create a teddy bear themed photo booth with teddy bear props.
• Use teddy bear centerpieces, such as a plush teddy bear or a teddy bear shaped vase filled with flowers.
• Display teddy bear themed cupcakes, cookies, and other treats on your dessert table.
• Have the dessert table stand out, use a tan, brown, or beige table cloths. Make it a different color from the guest tables. 
• Have a teddy bear shaped card box for guests to drop in their well wishes.

If you are anything like my wife and I you're probably going to go with a more silly or intense baby shower. I was talking to her about doing an Alien themed baby shower. She vetoed my idea. I'm going to also be pitching her a Jurassic Park themed baby shower. I love movies and dinosaurs. Currently we're discussing a Star Wars themed baby shower. Her family is pretty big on Star Wars and I like the outer space theme myself. Here are a few ways of making these movie themed baby showers happen. 

Lets start with a Jurassic Park themed baby shower:

• Use a green and brown color scheme to reflect the jungle setting.
• Create a backdrop, you can rent a back drop, arch, or flowers (mainly green) wall.
• Hang garland, jungle leaves from the backdrop
• Use dinosaur cutouts, such as a T-Rex or velociraptor.
• Decorate the tables with green or tan tablecloths, dinosaur figurines, and jungle foliage.
• Use black chair covers with yellow or red sashes for accent. 
• Serve food on dinosaur-themed plates and cups.
• Wrap gifts in dinosaur themed wrapping paper and ribbon.
• Have a photo booth with dinosaur props, such as cardboard cutouts or masks.
• Play Jurassic Park inspired games, such as "Dino Egg Hunt" or "Name that Dinosaur".
• Use a Jurassic Park inspired soundtrack for mood
• Have a cutout that says "Life found a way"

Now lets discuss the Star Wars themed baby shower:

• Use a color scheme of black, white, and metallic silver.
• Create a backdrop with a Star Wars inspired scene, such as a space battle or planet landscape.
• Hang Star Wars cutouts and banners.
• Use Star Wars props, such as light sabers or cardboard cutouts of characters.
• Decorate tables with black tablecloths, neon napkins, and centerpieces featuring characters or ships.
• Use black or red chair covers with either black or red sashes for accent. 
• Serve food on Star Wars themed plates and cups.
• Wrap gifts in Star Wars wrapping paper and ribbon.
• Have a photo booth with Star Wars props, such as light sabers or cardboard cutouts of characters.
• Play Star Wars inspired games, such as "Name that Star Wars Character" or "Star Wars Trivia".
• Use a Star Wars inspired soundtrack to set the mood.

There are many different themes for a baby shower, two of the most popular themes for 2023 that we've seen is the Woodland Creatures theme. 

Let's discuss how to set up a Woodland Creatures themed baby shower

• Choose a color palette: choose colors like green, brown, and beige as they give an earthy and natural feel to the decoration.
• Decorate the walls: Cover the walls with nature-inspired prints or hang branches and twigs on the walls to give a forest-like feel to the space.
• Use white, dark green, or tan table linens. Place nature-inspired centerpieces, such as tree stumps, flowers, and leaves.
• Use black or white chair covers and accent them using dark green or gold sashes.
• Add some greenery: Bring in some live plants or artificial greenery to add to the woodland feel of the baby shower.
• Incorporate woodland animals: Use woodland animal decorations such as deer, foxes, and squirrels, to add to the theme.
• Lights: Use string lights or lanterns to create a warm and cozy ambiance, as well as to mimic the feel of a forest at night.
• Use natural elements: Use natural elements like stones, pinecones, and acorns to decorate the space.
• Serve food with a theme: Serve food that fits the woodland theme, like cupcakes with tree branch decorations, or a fruit platter shaped like a forest.

We are not going to explain how to set up an Alien themed baby shower. My wife doesn't like it. I hope that if anyone ever does this that they can share videos or pictures with us. My phone number is 407-813-8715 so please send silly baby shower theme pictures here. The sillier the better :'D.

The whole idea about partying is about sharing joy and celebrating accomplishments. So definitely make it unique add all the flavor of your personalities into the party. This is why we loved setting up our own wedding. We were able to get creative and figure out all the different ways to add personality to our party. We may return to add more baby shower ideas later. For now let's move on to the next chapter. 

Ch 4

Birthday parties! I believe my family and friends including my wife have it real easy with me. I'm the kind of guy that will plan his own birthday party and will still be surprised by how good it comes out :'D. But enough about me, what about you? do you love to party? are you the designer, cook, and host? Who do you go all out for, your friends, family, maybe yourself? There so many reasons to celebrate your birthday! I mean, you're a phenomena. Out of all the possible little swimmers, you were the one that won the race! Congrats! I have no idea how I made it to be honest, I'm a lousy swimmer! My wife does laps around me. I digress, let's party. 
Throwing a birthday party is not difficult at all as long as you have the basics. A good location, enough tables and chairs for your guests. Good food and Excellent music. If you're doing a more grown up version, then having refreshing beverages goes a long way. So lets discuss how to set up your party. 
First location, like a good realtor always says location location location. Is it in the house, backyard, event hall, park, garage, basement, attic? Okay, hopefully not the basement or attic in Florida, but all the other options are pretty much fair game. Heck, there may be some more that I didn't even mention. Anyways, you want to make sure that you're getting the right tables and chairs for your soon to be amazing birthday party. So lets take a look. If you're doing the party inside, you can use the couches as sitting, however, parties tend to get, messy. So you could move them to the garage and use rented chairs instead. For an in the house or garage party I'd recommend getting 48" tables. These four feet tables sit 4 to 6 people comfortably. They don't take up a lot of room and look super cute when dressed properly. You'll want to rent chairs and chair covers for additional impact. Backyard parties can be a little bigger, so you can use 60" tables for these. Even hall or park venues you can use 72" tables since these are huge and sit up to 12 people comfortably. We went for the 72" tables for our outdoor wedding which was supposed to be on a 2 acre backyard. It would've worked great if it wasn't for the meddling weather. We had to bring tables inside and although they did fit, the fit was tight. Now on to the second item, tables and chairs, you can rent a ton of different tables and chairs. There are certain types of chairs that work best for different types of occasions. We provide heavy duty banquet chairs. These chairs can be used as is, but we provide chair covers so you can customize them to match your theme. There is no beating the versatility of chair covers, especially when paired with your choice of color chair sash to really spruce up your party. We have multiple party packages, and all of them come with linens included for your tables as well. Our linens are washed, pressed, and folded. Our linens, chair covers and sashes come in totes, so all you have to do is fold the linens, place them back in the tote, throw the covers and sashes back in there and wait for us to pick up the equipment, its that easy. Our packages give you the versatility to create elegant themed parties and beautiful memories. If you're throwing a party you're going to need food and good music. We'll be covering these two together now since they're kind of similar. These two are similar in the sense of you could do it yourself, if you're really good at it. Otherwise, please cater from a reputable source. We have family that can cook, so we did a combination for our wedding. My mother made specialty food for our wedding that no other vendors offered, but the bulk of the food came from a caterer in town. If you have a favorite restaurant ask if they cater. Chances are that they'll be willing to work for you since you'll be ordering a lot of food. Now on to the music, if you understand your crowd and group of friends and family pretty well you can always create a playlist and set it and forget it! I wanted to do this for our wedding, but, big but! We needed someone with experience to guide tipsy people through the stages of our event. :'D so we got a DJ. He was extremely reliable. If your DJ gives you a form to fill out with important times certain events are to take place, please do your best to fill it out with as much detail as possible. This is their itinerary and it only works if you take it seriously. Thankfully my better half is great at details so the DJ was able to maneuver our tipsy guests through every stage of our wedding flawlessly. If you have these down, your party will be amazing. After you knock all these off your list you can proceed to thinking about other things like decorations, lighting, special effects, etc. We sincerely wish you the best with all of your events! You will do great!

Ch 5

Hi There! Long time no see. A baby will do that! Surprise! We're pregnant or rather we were pregnant but not anymore. We now have a full grown 7 month old baby crawling about an exploring this beautiful world. Her name is Jasmine and she is the most beautiful baby girl I've ever seen. My wife and I have begun preparations for her very first birthday party! We are very excited and we've decided on a 70's themed birthday party with a twist. Dress up will be required and the guys have the option of dressing up like Austin Powers. We're very excited to celebrate her first birthday and will be coming back to this post to share some pictures. Now on to the topic of kids birthday parties. This will be a first time for us doing a birthday party for our little one. But we have experience from our childhood parties. From my earlier experiences I realized it does not take much to make a birthday party memorable. First you start with making sure you have the right guests. If your child is in school make sure to invite their friends. Then food, make easy to grab easy to eat delicious food. The more simple the food the better think things like sandwiches, subs, pizza, etc. Always have something sweet like ice-cream and finish it off with a simple cake. Browny points for an ice-cream cake! Then there's the adult guests, invite the kids parents if possible and make sure to that the aunts and uncles get invited. It's like free entertainment, from my experience they often bring the pinatas, cake or refreshments! Both my wife and I agree that our uncles helped make the parties memorable! You know kids are coming so depending on the age rent a bounce house! These things are always a hit! We don't rent these yet but we are looking forward to offering this service eventually. Make sure you take breaks from hosting and have fun with your kid. Wrap up the day or evening by having your little one help clean up and enjoy some left over cake or ice cream while watching a movie. I promise you, you will be a rockstar for a long time!

CH 6 

How'd the party go? How was the music? How was the food? Be honest and ask yourself, "did I have fun?" Often times people forget to enjoy their own party. Here at OK Party Rentals we know that you want everything to be PERFECT! Unfortunately things happen. Our wedding got rained out but we quickly switched gears, and had a blast while doing it. To be able to throw a successful party you'll need to be flexible and more importantly, RELAX! You're already here, the appetizers are being served, the DJ is playing the music, and the party has officially started. However, as the host your attitude, tone and body language will affect your guests. Remember to have fun with it and relax so that your guest let loose. So, how'd the party go? I hope it went great, that you had plenty of drinks shared some great stories and maybe a slice of cake. Remember the purpose of a party was never to be perfect, rather to bring people together to share in celebrating milestones in life. We are happy that you are here with us and even more happy in helping you celebrate. We will be meeting each other soon, so be sure to ask us any and all questions you might have so that we can help you be as prepared as possible for your event. We love being able to help our party people by delivering our equipment the day/evening before your event. This helps you by setting up a day in advance. We also don't pick up until the evening after, this helps you rest up before packing up. We can also help set up, just ask.

CH 7 

Hello again, Party Peoples! Lets talk birthdays! We've just had the most amazing time celebrating our baby girls second birthday! She is officially 1. This may sound weird, 2nd birthday? Yep, we had a private birthday celebration when she was born, on her official birth day. Our private celebration consisted of my wife, myself and our little bundle of joy! We bought a cake a candle number "0" and softly sang happy birthday to our little bundle of joy. Now, I probably should revise chapter 5 because we did not go with 70's themed birthday party! (LOL). We ended up going with a "Fairy First Birthday Party Theme". We encouraged our guest to dress up whimsically. For the kids we handed out fairy wings and for the adults they got little wooden mushroom give aways. Good God, we had a blast! My baby girl looked super cute in her fairy costume, complete with wings and a little princes crown. Here's the most amazing part about this party, we had guest from other states come by a total of 9 guests from other states. That was unexpected and heartwarming. The new theme really matched my baby girl, but also it was easier to prepare for. This is because we were able to use a lot of the decorations we saved from our wedding. We re-used the garland, fairy lights in mason jars, flowers, etc. I'll be posting pictures in the "GALLERY" tab. I realized we've been extremely busy and we thank God for this but this website has been in dire need of some updating. We promise to do better (LOL). We'll be sharing more ideas on parties and how to make your party rock!

CH 8 

So we moved to Apopka, Florida. Don't worry if you live in Orlando we are still here and we are continuing to offer great event packages in your area! Now, its been a while! Jeez Louise! When I started this company, specifically this blog, I thought that I would be able to write a chapter a week. Sadly that has not been the case (sad face). However, its not without reason, you have been keeping us really busy, since we started we've had to double our inventory of tables and chairs twice! For that we thank you :). So, what have we been up to other than making your events special? Well, we're parents to a 1 year old little crotch goblin! She's our first one and she has been too good to us! I don't know what I ever did to deserve such a wonderful little monkey. Also, we are expecting again, our new baby is expected in January! So right now we are working on the preparations for a baby shower. The theme of our baby girls baby shower and gender reveal was Jurassic Luau. We wanted to confuse everyone on the gender and we both like Dinosaurs and Luaus, we grew up watching Jurassic park and Lilo and Stich. For our new baby we wanted to be a little bit more cohesive with our theme and pick something that most people will dress up for. So what did we go with? Hear ye, Hear ye you have been royally invited to our Medieval Baby Shower and Gender Reveal! Will it be a fair princes? or will it be a knight of the round table? Joins us on December 14th to find out. My wife really liked this, we went to the Ren Fair over at Lady of the Lakes in Tavares for her Birthday and she loved it. The baby shower theme took us only one day to figure out. Crazy thing is the weather finally started cooling down a bit so we should be able to do it outside and enjoy this break we get in Florida every 2 months. If you ever want to throw a similar theme party I got a few details for you below. YouTube has huge playlist of Medieval Music, our favorite is "My Hips Don't Lie" its pretty hilarious. We are asking for people to dress up, thankfully there are many ideas on YouTube on how to make a quick Medieval attire from your old clothes. For kids we are giving out princess tiaras for kids and swords for the boys. I'll be dressing up as an inflatable dragon and fighting it out with the kids. I'll also have my knightly attire ready to join in other games with my guests. We have a lot more details to go over but we are very excited for our baby shower. Until next time! 

CH 9 

Hello Party Peeps!