Yes, I did plan a One Direction themed night at a bar (FULL STORY)!
LAST NIGHT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE!! I helped plan a One Direction themed night at my favorite bar in my city & it was a SUCCESS! It's insane how this whole thing unfolded & how this dream became a reality so this post is going to be all about how we planned this event & what the inspiration was.
So, I've been a pretty big One Direction fan since I first heard What Makes You Beautiful back in 2012 (that was the moment I knew I had discovered the best boy band of the decade).
I even saw them live during their Where We Are Tour in 2014 when I was 17 which was an absolutely life changing experience & probably one of the most historical concerts I've ever been to. I only say it was historical because I saw ALL 5 MEMBERS & they were pretty big at the time! Seriously, I'll forever be so blessed that I got to witness that!
I've been seeing a trend on Twitter in the past couple of months that huge cities like LA & NYC were doing One Direction themed night clubs where you are basically in a club scene where 1D fans (ages 18 & up) were living their best lives singing One Direction songs & I had serious FOMO when I would see the videos online & wished so badly a club or bar in my area would do one but I thought we didn't have the market for it (boy was I wrong).
One day in particular, Harry Styles liked a tweet of a group of girls jamming to his new single Lights Up at a club (I think it was LA) & again I had serious FOMO!!! I had such bad FOMO I DM'd my friend Larissa (who I met on Twitter) & sent her the tweet saying, "CORPUS COULD NEVER PULL THIS OFF LOL" & then she pretty much said that doing a One Direction themed night at the Library (which is a local bar in town that I hang out at almost every weekend) would be fun so she sent the tweet to the Library asking if they could please do a 1D night & we got a tweet back within less than 5 minutes saying, "Only if you help us plan it!". WE WERE SCREAMING!!!!!
Then she got a DM from the Library 5 minutes after that tweet asking when she could meet to talk about 1D Night details! She asked me to go with her to the meeting & a few days later we went to the Library to talk about details of 1D Night & that's when we planned a date & details! Let me tell y'all anxiously waiting for the announcement for the past month has been fun & nerve racking but everything went so well!!
Let's fast forward to a week before the official announcement which was made a few days before the event. We told the bar that Harry was going to be on SNL the weekend we had planned 1D Night & they told us 1D Night could be a 1D Night & a Harry on SNL watch party which I thought was such a fun idea!
We made the announcement this past Wednesday pretty much saying it was going to be a One Direction themed night with a massive dose of 1D music, drink specials, & giveaways & the reaction on Twitter was INSANE!!! 39 retweets & 109 likes! CORPUS CHRISTI FREAKING DID THAT! I was so blown away!
So, the day finally comes (last night) & the bar has a poster (which is shown in the picture above) that people could take pictures at & the music started at 9:30 (the event was 9:30-11:30) & the night before me & Larissa were asked to make a playlist for the night & WE MADE A FREAKING GOOD PLAYLIST Y'ALL!!
The giveaways were so cute too! They gave away 1D keychains, coloring books, dolls, & even the poster shown above! We had a really great turn out & honestly just dancing & having a blast with my friends was the absolute highlight of my night! Even seeing Harry on SNL on a big screen surrounded by fans was an amazing feeling (I would relive last night over & over again)! The first hour before SNL we showed the This Is Us movie too which was pretty cool!
To give a feeling to those who didn't go on the songs they played I made a list (not in order) of songs they played last night! They didn't get to every song on our list but they got to some pretty freaking great BOPS!!!
Songs played at 1D Night (if you were there & I forgot a song let me know so I can update the list so many things were going on last night my mind was EVERYWHERE):
Little Black Dress
Tell Me A Lie
Heart Attack
Rock Me
Lights Up
Lights Up (Harry Styles)
Kiwi (Harry Styles)
Strip That Down (Liam Payne)
Just Hold On (Louis Tomlinson)
If I Can't Have You (Shawn Mendes)
I Want
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Night Changes
Story Of My Life
She Looks So Perfect (5 Seconds of Summer)
No Control
Everybody (Backstreet Boys)
I Want You Back (NSYNC)
Perfect
Girl Almighty
What Makes You Beautiful
History
Best Song Ever
So yeah, that was my night last night! I would like to thank everyone who came out & enjoyed the event! I would also like to give a shoutout to the Library for letting us have this dream come true event & hope to have an event like this again in the future!
Don't be afraid to take risks guys, if you have a vision for a event pitch the idea to someone & make the dream into a reality!
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