Murder Mystery Mayhem

A little while back I blogged about maybe thinking of doing a murder mystery party and this past weekend me and my friend Alana pulled off a very successful Murder Mystery event! We had 37 people in total(including us) come and we made them come up with names and background stories. Then we took those and made a scavenger hunt with clues to who wasn't the murderer and which weapon was not used, so at the end they would be left with one weapon and one person. Since we had so many people we divided them up into 5 groups of 7 and they all had to go around and hunt for the clues. While people were coming in and mingling we had a mugshot area set up and we took every one's mug shots and they received them on a card stock paper with their background story at the end of the night. We had food for them to eat while they mingled and awesome 40's and 40's inspired music playing as well. When it was time for the murder to happen, we turned off the lights, had someone scream, then our friend Cassie was kind enough to be our victim and let us put fake blood on her while she played dead on the floor and the butler read the rhyme to the game. After that we split everyone into groups and let them go off and figure out the clues. It took about an hour, I would say and then one group figured it out first and won. We had a prize basket for them. After that we took a few group pictures, and then had people vote for awards that we had made up. Some people left right after the awards and some people stuck around for awhile and hung out. It was such a great party and almost everyone came up to me or Alana and told us what an awesome job we did, we even got applauded at one point! It was so much fun! The best part was how into it everyone that came was, everyone dressed up and played their part! Here are pictures of our award winners and some random ones of the night.

Mrs. White Award-Most proper and orderly

Col. Mustard Award-Dashing and most outspoken
Professor Plum Award-Smartest and Scatterbrained
On the left was Miss Scarlet Award-Sexiest Dress and Most flirtatious attitude and on the right was the Mrs. Peacock Award-Most extravagant and uptight
Mr. Green Award-Smooth Talker I can't remembered what we called the award but she got it for being our victim of the evening
Most Sinister Villain Award-and her weapon of choice was the candlestick
Some decorations

The food

Some random pictures of the night

The entire party!