Disney Princess Party. For my daughter's 4th birthday, we had a Royal Princesses and Kinghts Celebration.  We rented a banquet hall for the party and decorated each round table with plastic lavender tablecloths from the dollar store. The centerpieces were vases with different colored flowers (some had blue flowers, some pink flowers, some yellow...) and cutouts of each Disney princess was glued to bamboo skewers and inserted into a styrofoam ball inside the vase.  Color coordinated tissue paper was stuffed into the vase to cover the styrofoam.  Each vase was from the dollar store and the cut outs were done on my home computer.  For example, the vase with blue flowers had a Cinderella cutout with blue tissue paper.  We had Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, Aurora, Jasmine, and Ariel. Each table also had a glass slipper filled with princess fruit snacks (dollar store). The food was: Knight Skewers (meat and cheese cubes on frilly skewers), Princess Sceptors (fruit and cheese cubes on frilly toothpicks), Dragons in a Blanket (hot dogs and cheese in a croissant), Magic Wands (rice crispy treats shaped like stars with popsicle sticks through them tied with curling ribbon), and Princess Potion (raspberry sherbert and 7-up). I decorated clear plastic ware with plastic jewels I hotglued on.  I bought plastic wine glasses and hotglued jewels on the sides to make royal goblets.  When the guests arrived, they made crowns.  I got a bunch of gold crowns from Burger King (free) and bought a bucket of princess foam stick-ons (from Michaels crafts store) and some stick-on jewels (from Michaels) and had a bunch of princess stickers (Oriental Trading) for the kids to use to decorate their crowns. Each child wrote their name on their crowns and then went out to jump in the pink castle bouncer we rented for the day.  While the kids were outside, I served the "royal table" their lunch and Princess Potion in their goblets. When the kids came inside to eat and saw their places marked with their crowns, and that they had special jeweled covered forks and glasses, they were so excited and acted very grown up and proper while they ate.  After lunch, we slayed the dragon - a pinata. The boys got dragon pendants and the girls got flower necklaces (both from Oriental Trading) and then they collected their loot (candy and toys) in their goody bags decorated with dragons for the boys and princesses for the girls.  The other goodies they took home were dragon eggs (rubber balls), rubber frogs, Dragon Tales fruit snacks, and pencils for the boys in a royal purple paper bag with a dragon sticker on it. The girls took home rings and bracelets, Princess fruit snacks, and pencils in a hot pink paper bag with a princess sticker on it.  And there was tons of candy as well.  The cake was store bought 4 Princesses cake served with individual ice cream cups.  We had visited Disney World 4 months before the party and taken my daughter's picture in Downtown Disney between statues of Aurora and Cinderella. For the invitations, I scanned that picture into my computer and typed the invitation below it. Another decoration we had at the door was a cardboard replica of Cinderella's castle that my sister-in-law made with a computer box, paper towel rolls, snow cone cups on top for the turrets, wall paper and princess stickers. We also had a photo of my daughter dressed as a princess wearing a crown standing next to a big number 4.  The thank you notes were that photo with "Thank you" and my daughter's note and signature. The children and the parents had a great time and I'm still getting compliments on that party a year later.