| A Birthday Message - tell 'em how you feel! A well crafted, meaningful message can speak volumes. One special way to
enhance any theme is to make the grand finale, the cake moment or climax to
the event, the reading of something
quite personal or momentous to the Birthday Person.
We focus on cards and cake in
western culture. It's almost an assumed thing that there will be a cake of
some sort, a gift and a card with -- usually -- a message that someone
else has written!!
Can we go beyond this? Sure!!
Why not change that all and use a special message as the
center piece.
This
can work very well for any age and situation.
Best Birthday
QUESTIONS
- What do you want to say in the
message - in simple terms?
- Why is it imortant to you?
- What impact do you want to
create?
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The ideas around this are endless.
You could go the well worn path of the GREETING
CARD and scan web-sites , newsagencies and supermarkets looking for the "right
thing" to say. But then someone else has said this!!
There are fabulous books of poems and web sites that have birthday messages
and
appropriate offerings. Let's target out search a little with these favorites of
ours:
How about a joke? OR create a song. with your birthday person having their
name and juicy things you have mentioned included in the lyrics.
Be mindful of the Backfire Factor in setting up some of these things..a
scroll thru Embarrassing moments.
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CONSIDERATIONS
- Make the message fit the
person.
- Think about timing.
- Choose a delivery method --
card, email, newspaper ad, mini DVD -- that you can do well.
- If verbal - Practice!! If
written - spell check & make sure it's readable.
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Like many things it depends how you
deliver the message. Is it you who will deliver it, written on paper, sent in
the mail, written in the sky, tattooed? Think it through.
There is lots to consider.
How about these quick ideas....
Jig Saw Message
Broken up in torn pieces and hidden in spots you know they will go during the
day may be a fun way to go. They grab the pieces and put them together like
puzzle.
Sing me a Song
How about singing it to them at a Karaoke Bar?
Scroll Me
Have a scroll made up like a proclamation Get everyone to sign it / stamp their
finger prints / lipstick kisses ..use your imagination. Makes a great keepsake.
More ideas for Birthday Messages at the
Birthday Idea Generator
Best Birthday
SUGGESTION
What ever the message you
decide be succinct, look them in the eye at delivery and make it about
them -- not you.
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