was a big hit with everyone including adults besides angry birds cinderella princesses chhota bheem and doraemon are other popular themes themes also mean a cake table design if its a baby girls princess birthday then we also keep a princess cot next to her cake table says robinballoons worth 30000 besides food and venue balloons too come in various price ranges anjali explains the latex and polkadotted balloons cost between 35 to 4 per balloon while the helium ones are for 30 onwards surbhi adds the foil balloons start from 150 and go up to 500600 theres also the imported category malaysian balloons cost 5 each and are more round have more life and come in many designs robin says when bought collectively balloons turn out to be a massive expense simple says for lavish parties the parents mostly tell us to focus on dcor and they spend up to 30000 only on balloons about the balloon expenditure on her sons party abhilasha tells us if i break up the costs i think we spent around 15000 on balloons because we wanted foil balloons since we had foil balloons with cartoon characters on them it enhanced the dcor by miles a lot of my friends told me that they hadnt seen better dcor at any other birthday partyreturn gifts should be branded or personalized if games and dcor are themebased why should return gifts be left behind the return gifts have to be according to the theme for example a doraemon school bag we also give it a personalized touch by embroidering the childs name on it it costs between 300 to 1000 per gift says surbhi having had a themebased party abhilasha tells us our partys return gift was an angry bird bag filled with chocolates and goodies our budget was 500 for a gift and we had about 30 kids but we stretched it to 600 per gift when our planner suggested this idea all the bags have name tags of the children which made it special for them besides customization brands are also important when it comes to return gifts simple tells us nowadays everyone wants either branded return gifts or customized ones so sometimes what we do is have a photo booth where the kids can take their pictures and we frame them in personalized photo frames for kids who are slightly older the gifts tend to be branded for toddlers the gifts range anywhere between 300700 sometimes for close cousins the price goes up to 1000 but where to spend more is entirely up to the client lower budget parties usually choose gifts between 80100 while more lavish parties have them priced anywhere from 150450 clients can choose where they want to spend more food return presents dcor or activities anjali explains separate gifts for boys and girls are a common feature our return gifts were pink barbie purses for little girls and blue backpacks for boys i dont like the idea of