Best of Summer Movie Nights: All Around the World

Summer 2007: Beach Movie Night

To decorate our table for beach night, I used a straw beach mat as a table cloth, some brightly colored sand castle molds and plenty of candles. We had goldfish, fruit skewers, popcorn, and of course bright drinks with umbrellas!

Bay and I pose with our drinks and some sand toys.


Our activities for the night included a short hula hooping and limbo session.

Marci and Lyn relaxing on the hammock in their tropical frocks.

Gina, Bay, and Nicci also relaxing on the hammock.

All of us girls form a conga line for one of our favorite movie night pictures ever!

Summer 2008: French Movie Night

Bailey and Gina toast with their sparkling French blueberry lemonade.


Gina posing for a "French countryside" look.


Our movie for the night was "Charade," which is set in Paris, and stars the magnificent Audrey Hepburn and Carey Grant.


Marci looking very French in her red beret and matching dress.

Our beautiful centerpiece for our table.

Gina made some delicious French crepes for our dessert.

Gina, Nicci, and Marci posing in their lovely Paris-inspired outfits.

All of us girls posing for some photos together.

Summer 2008: Italian Night

One of our favorite movie nights of all time thrown in honor of Bailey's birthday, as well as a going-away party for Marci, who was studying abroad in Italy the next semester. We had a full Italian dinner with pastas, bread and olive oil, desserts, and every flavor of sparkling Italian soda ever imagined.

Marci and Bailey pose for a picture at dinner.

Bay and I toast before dinner.

Some of our delicious sparkling Italian sodas.

Bailey even made Cannolis, which were SO delicious. We enjoyed them while watching our movie.

All of us girls (minus Marci and Lyn) gathered around our Italian dinner table.


Our appetizer was a lovely blend of frozen fruit and juice, along with plenty of garlic bread with olive oil and spices.

Tunes for the evening were provided by possibly my favorite album of all time "Italian Love Songs" by the incomparable Dean Martin.

Gina and I sampling some different Italian sodas before the movie.

Our movie for the evening, of course, was "Roman Holiday."

Beautiful Audrey.

Raising a toast to our final movie night of 2008, and one of the most memorable of all time.


Summer 2009: Grecian Movie Night

Our drink area with music from the Mamma Mia soundtrack (our movie for the night).

For our food, we had some greek cheese dips with pita chips and vegetables.

We also had flatbread with olive oil and spices.




Bailey invented her own delicious dessert with angel food cake, fruit, and cream filling.


Bailey and I posing by the tiki torches in our Grecian dresses.


Gina, Bailey, and Marci posing with some Grecian leaves.


Summer 2009: Fiesta Movie Night

For our fiesta-themed party, we had quesadillas, chips with salsa and queso, margarita parfaits, and Mexican Jarritos soft drinks.


I love this fiesta-themed tablecloth I found at an estate sale. I also got some other fun decorations at the party store including this honeycomb sombrero.

Our favorite Jarritos!


Bailey brought her quesadilla maker, and we set up our own quesadilla bar.

We even got a mini pinata filled with candy!

The infamous bubble machine made an appearance for some photos.

Our music for the night came from this vintage Latin Dance Party album.

Shake your maracas!

The Best of Summer Movie Nights: The Decades

The thing my friends and I have become most well-known for is our invention of "Summer Movie Nights." The idea was created from our love of themes, movies, dressing up, and documenting all of this with looooottts of pictures! Every summer since freshman year of college, we hold about 5-6 extravagant movie nights, each one with a different theme corresponding to a movie. We watch the movies usually in my backyard, projecting them on the side of the house. For our movie nights everything is in theme: our outfits, choice of foods and drinks, music, and decor. I am going to use the next couple of posts to relive the best of our summer movie nights beginning with our Decade Themes.



Our first movie night ever: 50's Cocktail Party Summer 2007

All the girls in their cocktail frocks with our delicious drinks!


A sampling of our table for the night

Marci lounging and enjoying the movie

Our movie of the night: Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn (one of my favorite movies of all time)

Me relaxing listening to some vintage albums

80's MOVIE NIGHT: Summer 2009

Footloose was our movie of the night, we broke out in spontaneous dancing several times while watching the movie.


All of us in our 80s outfits. We held this movie night in Marci's basement, where she has an awesome home theater.

Bailey and Nicci giving an interesting pose to the camera.

Dancing to some 80's tunes.

70's movie night: summer 2009

We sat on the floor, shared all kinds of fondue, and had one of the most memorable disco dance parties of all time!

BEST DECADE MOVIE NIGHT: 60's Night- Summer 2009

60s Night: Started with dinner and milkshakes at the fabulously retro Parkette Restaurant, then to my house for a drive-in movie, "That Thing You Do!"

We had so much fun at the Parkette, we have decided to make a return trip again this year! Of course we made quite a scene in our 60s outfits, posing for pictures all over the parking lot!

All of us girls in our 60's attire piled in Nicci's blue convertible!

Marci enjoying a root beer float at the Parkette!

Bailey with her delicious dinner.

Bay serving up some snacks and drinks back at my house for the movie.


Our very own drive-in movie!

We had plenty of coke and crush in bottles with these adorable daisy straws!

Bay and Marci enjoying some refreshing Orange Crush!