Best Graduation Party Ideas: 10 Things Not to Forget (2025)

My husband and I refer to our firstborn as our “learner child”: we figure some things out on her and make (slightly) fewer mistakes with her younger sister.

Here are practical tips you didn’t know you needed for the best high school graduation party ever. (emilyyya/Shutterstock)

Case in point: our older daughter’s high school graduation party a few years ago. With the 20/20 vision of hindsight, here’s what I now know I needed…that I didn’t know I needed then… you can bet I’ll be rounding up...