SEQUENCE OF THE PROGRAM
PART 1: Introduction of the Parents
Sample 18th Birthday Program. ARRIVAL of GUESTS / REGISTRATION Program proper starts: WELCOME GUESTS by the EMCEE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE PARENTS and SIBLINGS of the DEBUTANTE GRAND ENTRANCE of the DEBUTANTE OPENING PRAYER (Pls. Assign a Prayer Leader) FATHER and DAUGHTER DANCE as 1st ROSE.
- Sample of Debut Program Flow: 1st: Guests arrive 2nd: Welcoming of guests 3rd: Ushering of guests by ushers to their designated seats 4th: Cocktails for guests to mingle (so that they would not mingle once the program starts, and to give the debutante time to prepare before her grand entrance). 5th: After everyone has settled in their place, the host will make mention of important people who.
- Sample 18th Birthday Program ARRIVAL of GUESTS / REGISTRATION Program proper starts: WELCOME GUESTS by the EMCEE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE PARENTS and SIBLINGS of the DEBUTANTE GRAND ENTRANCE of the DEBUTANTE OPENING PRAYER (Pls. Assign a Prayer Leader) FATHER and DAUGHTER DANCE as 1st ROSE Segue to 18 ROSES DANCE PICTURE TAKING of the 18 ROSES 18.
- The debutante’s program can also flow like this: - Guests arrive - Welcoming of guests - Ushering of guests by ushers to their designated seats - Cocktails for guests to mingle (so that they would not mingle once the program starts, and to give you ample time to prepare before your grand entrance).
1 min 15 seconds Audio Visual Presentation (throwback)
Production Number
Welcome Speech of the Debutant
Toast
Part 2: Dinner
Pictorial with the Debutant
Band
Surprise
Part 3: Ceremony
Cake Presentation
Slicing of the cake/ Singing of Happy Birthday
18 Roses
18 Shots
Audio Visual Presentation (Pre – Debut Photoshoot)
Dance with Classmates & Dancemates
18 Memories
18 BlueBills
Speech of Gratitude/ Solo Dance
Mob Dance
Part 4: Dance … Dance… Dance… Fun… Fun… Fun…
Angel: It is any parent’s pride to see their baby grow up…grow up to be one fine young lady. This evening, the Serrano family takes themselves into the spotlight as they formally introduce their beautiful daughter, once a baby now a lady.
Harold: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. & Mrs. __________________________.
All About _____
Angel: It had been eleven years after the birth of their second son. Now blessed with two boys, the Serrano couple was praying for a princess in the family. And one fine ________, the prayer was answered with the birth of the third of the bunch, and the most awaited one, she was going to be named ________, _____ for shot. Surrounded by brothers, _______ was well – cared for by her siblings and her parents. A typical example was, there usually were at least two birthday celebrations, one for the family’s friends and another for the family.
Harold: Generous, humble and thoughtful, she once asked her mom to plan a
birthday party for a friend for she knew she had more than one in a year and her friend had none. And so it happened in what was to become a popular “tambayan”, the Bahay Kubo in Dulag, welcoming all her friends, playing with them with gusto.
Angel: ______ is a certified piano and singing crowd-pleaser. But more than that, the dance gods provided her the terpsichorean talent. With ambitions of becoming a teacher, a fashion model and most importantly a dentist with a clinic of her own, there can be no turning back for our debutante as she fulfills her dreams.
(production number: Father presents her daughter… production number)
Welcome Speech of Meggy
Harold: Birthdays are celebrated to remind us of the magical moment of love, the
epitome of a meaning in life, a manifestation of God’s love towards all of us. Good evening everyone, welcome to the UP Multi-purpose Hall-Eastern University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Tacloban College.
Angel: In our gathering this evening, we cannot help but be thankful of the gift of person in _______ who has brought us together this evening. This celebration provides us a glimpse of the beauty and grandiosity of life. And this evening, we shall all have great time ahead of us as we go through the different parts featured in this debut program of our Debutante. How about a warm round of applause to our birthday celebrator, our debutante, ______________.
Harold: The toast to life. _____’s ninong _______ now leads us to the toast of
life. May I invite you to hold your goblet as we join ______’s ninong to this activity.
Angel: Thank you very much ninong Raul. With the welcome message said by our debutante, a dinner has been prepared for us by ______’s family. We shall partake of this and therefore ask for the blessing from Daddy God.
(Prayer…)
Harold: Please be seated. Now for our meals this evening…
Angel: While we are dining let us all be mesmerized by the serenade of the _____ Band. Again, from all of us, bon appetite.
Surprise …
(Ceremony…)
Harold: Of Cakes and Happy Birthday Songs. As tradition would have it, cakes give us an idea of the nourishment a birthday celebrator gets. It’s a nourishment in all forms.
Angel: in another way of presenting the birthday cake, we witness now the dance offering of 18 mini cakes of ______, as the baby has now become a lady.
And so ladies and gentlemen, just like any other birthdays, and with all of us witnessing this momentous day of ______’s life, we all together sing a happy birthday song, one that everyone would here…
Angel: One that all of us will be proud of as _____ turns 18. And one where happiest of wishes are set to come true…so together…(birthday song….)
(After the birthday song….)
Harold: Everyone, let us all say happy birthday! Happy birthday!
18 roses…
Angel: Roses…they touch the heart of ladies. They tell us how much love they would like to give and its beauty is its most vivid form.
Harold: The 18 roses and the dance of ______’s life shall now commence with her papa
leading her way in the hope that she finds real friends in her journey to life.
Sample Program Flow For Debut
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. _______.
18 shots…
Angel: Why do we have wine for a party? A coming of age for ______ therefore permitting her to get one… Wine, a celebration of prosperity ahead of her, to explain a few.
Harold: The 18 shots serve as _______’s 18 well-wishers in her toast towards life, living
life to the fullest with the guidance of her loved ones and Daddy God. Ladies and gentlemen, the 18 shots…
AVP…
Angel: As the stage is set, ______ and her family shares with us the pre-debut photo shoot and take us into a magical ride of photography with _______ on the spotlight, our birthday celebrator and debutante.
After AVP…
Harold: It is no secret that _______ had her dance talent honed in STEFTI. Moving up to become one of the dance soloists in her junior and senior years, we get a glimpse of the best of ______ and a retro with her fellow STEFTI dance troupe.
Angel: And so here now is a throw-back of her halcyon days in STEFTI as a member of the STEFTI dance troupe. Everyone, Ms. _________.
Angel: Now you’re expecting five more traits, but not this time, that’s not you’re fate, those five more gifts go to you. They go to you for being you. You need to realize nothing favors, over you and all layers, you stand on top, just don’t forget, you have no worry, not one threat.
18 memories
Angel: There always comes in our life when we want to reminisce memories, we go back through the gifts given to us by special persons. Memories, we like to say it…memories, we like to indulge ourselves back.
Sample Program Flow For Debut Research
Harold: And so the memories shall now be given by 18 special people who shall give
_______ one for the ages. Ladies and gentlemen the 18 Memories…
18 blue bills…
Harold: Our debut this evening has been filled with different symbolisms in the hope
that each symbol becomes a part of of her growth.
Angel: Ladies and gentlemen, we shall now have 18 blue bills. A prosperity tree should help us witness through how generosity and the hope of financial bliss should go through her life.
Harold: The prosperity tree shall stand as witness to this event as _____ shall plant this
and together grow with it. It’ll remind her that when she was 18, 18 of her loved ones and friends stood for this generosity.
Harold: We all started our evening with the presentation of our debutante Ms. __________. We were mesmerized and we somehow felt as if this has got to happen only in the television. However, ______ made all of this happen, her loving parents, together with her siblings made this happen.
Angel: This evening will not be over until our ______ says her thank ‘yous’ to everyone, but not on the usual terms that we know of, but rather on her own terms…through dancing. And so ladies and gentlemen, Ms. __________________.
After dance
Angel: Although we cannot tell what can happen to our lives, but our gathering has shown us a collective agreement that we shall all be ready to help her and to pray with her in her life’s journey.
Harold: While she has turned 18, we shall look forward to form stronger bonds of
friendship and of family love and care only all of us here can share with ______.
Angel: We’ve seen great things transpire this evening. We’ve seen the art of
presentation go through its magnificence.
Harold: For life to be lived to the fullest, we share ourselves for others.
Angel: Good night everyone. The formal program ends but the party has just started.
Dance, dance and dance for all of us to enjoy.