3 Fun Graduation Party Ideas!
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3 Fun Graduation Party Ideas!

by | Apr 22, 2025 | Events, Party Catering

At Plenty of Thyme, we don’t just care about the amazing food dished onto your plate; we also care about the environment and the overall quality of your event, ensuring that it is just as amazing as your food. As the top Essex catering services, with years of experience in wedding catering services, alongside corporate catering services and many other social events, we have seen many styles of fun celebrations!

Your graduation party is no exception; having a celebration of your amazing hard work and effort in your education deserves top priority, and all of us at Plenty of Thyme agree. So here are three fun graduation party ideas!

1. Through the years

When looking at graduation party ideas, a super fun theme is a ‘through the years’ style of decor. This is where the party celebrates your life as a graduate, it could include a photo wall of baby pictures ageing all the way up to your final university year! This allows for nostalgia and a personal celebration.

Activities could include ‘guess the age’ of certain photos, allowing all the guests to guess how old you are in each photo. Another activity could be creating a time capsule or creating memory boards, where each guest writes their favourite memories of you, creating a wholesome and sentimental event.

Your graduation food is no exception on the priority list, whether you would like a formal canape catering service to add elegance to your nostalgic gathering or perhaps a street style of food. The formal canapes allow for bite size delicious treats to fuel your taste buds, and add prestige to your event, whereas street food is tasty and chill, bringing a chill vibe to your nostalgic night. These are amazing graduation party ideas!

We’ll set up and sort the amazing food while you enjoy your amazing memories!

2. Future careers

Another super fun theme, when looking at graduation party ideas, is the chill theme of ‘future careers’

This is designed for when celebrating with other graduates and friends rather than your family and close personal people. This is where you ask each of your invitees to show up to the event wearing their intended future job roles; for example, showing up as a doctor or a teacher.

This can be a fun way to enjoy with all the other graduates and have activities such as beer pong and guess the job role. This can be a more chill way to celebrate your graduation.

With our bespoke buffet style catering we can ensure your food remains just as amazing as your party.

Dinner inspiration for graduation party ideas

3. Dinner party

This is a much more elegant way to celebrate your wins, with all your loved ones. And we can give you 5-star service wherever you are. Allowing your decor to be completely personalised and wow your guests with a personal chef and waitress.

When looking at graduation party ideas, this is a top selection where the celebration and food will be equally prestigious and allow for a more intimate and private commemoration of your achievements.

At Plenty of Thyme, we can uplift this celebration with bespoke service and mouth-watering, award-winning food. Tailoring menus to your requirements and theming, with the offering of creating a menu to your choice of wines.

Furthering this as the top company for mobile catering in Essex, we supply everything from crockery to kitchen equipment, so you can relax and enjoy the party.

More information on our dinner party service here.

We hope these three graduation party ideas offer an idea of our versatility and flexibility in regards to matching food to theming. At Plenty of Thyme we are able to work to your needs and desires, creating a magical environment. Contact us today for more information.

For some more graduation party ideas and props to use, check out Rock the Day for their amazing designs!