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Travel Party Ideas & Invitations
A travel party dresses the room as a departure: passports at the door, a gate sign, maps and food from the places the guest of honor has been or is headed. It suits bon voyage and going-away parties, retirements, graduations, travel-themed bridal showers and milestone birthdays like a sixtieth. Below are passport, boarding pass and airmail invitations that stamp, flip and fly in as guests open them, and ideas for the decorations, food, activities and favors.
Travel party at a glance
- Best for
- Bon voyage and going-away parties, retirements, graduations, travel bridal showers, milestone birthdays
- Colors
- Navy, kraft brown and airmail red and blue, or vintage map tones with brass
- What makes it
- Passports and boarding passes, a departures board, maps, luggage tags and a globe
Travel party invitation templates
These 6 designs draw the theme and play it as guests open the link. Press a design to watch it live, or Use to open it in the editor with your own details.
Passport, College Graduation
Ticket & travel
A passport for the graduate's next chapter, stamped for every year that got them here.
Boarding Pass, Sixty
Ticket & travel
A first-class boarding pass for a 60th birthday: departed 1967, now arriving at sixty.
Travel party animations
Intros play once as the page opens; effects keep moving behind it while guests read and reply. Put any of them on any design.
Paper plane
A paper plane loops over the desk, glides to a stop and unfolds into the invitation, stamped air mail.
Use this intro
Travel party decoration ideas
- A departures board. List the evening as flights: "Arrivals 7:00, Dinner 7:30, Toasts 8:15, Final boarding 10:00." Black and yellow on a chalkboard or poster reads as an airport at a glance.
- Maps on every surface. Old road maps and atlas pages make table runners, napkin rings and pennant flags; one secondhand atlas covers a whole table.
- A map to pin. Hang a large world map and give guests dot stickers to mark a trip they took with the guest of honor, or where they should go next.
- Luggage as furniture. Stack two or three old suitcases as the gift table or the drinks station; a vintage trunk makes a good card box.
- Tables named for cities. Name each table after a place on the guest of honor's list and use a postcard of that city as the table number.
Travel party food ideas
- A dish from every stop. Pick three or four countries tied to the trip or the guest's life and serve one small dish from each: tapas, dumplings, mezze, mini empanadas. Label each with its city.
- In-flight snack boxes. Small boxes of crackers, cheese, fruit and a chocolate square, labeled "Snack service", keep the buffet line short. Leave nuts out of a few and mark them.
- A destination drink. Serve one drink from where they're headed, a spritz for Italy or a mango lassi for India, with a matching alcohol-free version.
- Passport cake. A sheet cake iced navy with a gold crest reads as a passport; pipe the guest's name and destination where the country would go.
Travel party games and activities
- Passport check-in. Hand each guest a mini paper passport at the door and stamp a page at each stop: the bar, the photo spot, the card table. A full passport earns a raffle ticket.
- Where in the world. Read clues about places the guest of honor has lived or visited and let tables guess; the wall map helps.
- Advice for the road. Set out blank luggage tags for guests to write a tip or a must-see, then tie them to the guest of honor's suitcase handle.
- Postcards home. Have guests address blank postcards to themselves; the traveler takes the stack and mails them back from the road.
- A gate for photos. A sign over a doorway reading "Gate 60" or the flight to their destination, with sunglasses and paper boarding passes, makes an easy photo spot.
Travel party favor ideas
- Luggage tags. Printed or leather luggage tags with the party date stay useful long after the night.
- A taste of the destination. A small bag of coffee, tea or spice from the place they're headed, tagged "Bon voyage".
- Mini travel kits. A small pouch with lip balm, hand sanitizer and a sleep mask is cheap to assemble in bulk.
- Postcard sets. Two or three vintage-style postcards of the destination, tied with twine, for guests to write to the traveler.
Travel party invitation wording
Copy one and change the names, or get more wording ideas.
Bon voyage
Now boarding: Rosa's bon voyage. She leaves for Lisbon in May; we send her off Saturday, April 24 at 7 PM. Gate 4B, our place on Elm Street. Please RSVP by April 17.
Retirement
After 32 years, Frank is cleared for departure. Join us for his retirement party Friday, June 11 at 5:30 PM. Final destination: anywhere he likes.
60th birthday
First class to sixty. Carol's birthday flight departs Saturday, September 18 at 6 PM. Destination: dinner, dancing and old friends.
Occasions for a travel party
Each page has RSVP wording, timing and the questions to ask for that occasion.
How to make a travel party invitation
- 1Press Use this design on one of the travel party invitations above. It opens in the editor with its own intro and page effect already on.
- 2Type your title, date, time and place over the sample, and put your own photos where the design has them.
- 3To change the motion, tap Intro and try Paper plane, Split-flap board, Stamp slam, Paper tear or Postcard arrival, or tap Effect and pick Paper Gliders or Topographic. Every one is free.
- 4Create the event and share the link by text, email or QR code. Guests watch it play and RSVP on the same page, and you see every reply as it comes in.
Travel party questions
- What is a bon voyage party?
- A send-off for someone leaving on a long trip, a move abroad, a semester overseas or a cruise. Hold it a week or two before departure so the traveler isn't packing that night.
- What food do you serve at a travel themed party?
- Small plates from the places that matter to the guest of honor, each labeled with its city. Snack boxes styled like in-flight service and a passport cake keep it simple.
- How do you do a travel theme for a bridal shower?
- Build it around the honeymoon or the couple's story: "From Miss to Mrs." on a boarding pass, a map marking where they met, and gifts for the trip such as luggage, a camera or passport holders.
- What colors go with a travel party?
- Navy, kraft brown and airmail red and blue look like luggage tags and envelopes. For an evening party, try deep green or navy with brass and old map tones.
- Is a travel party invitation free?
- Yes. The 6 designs on this page and every intro and page effect are free on every event. A free event takes up to 20 RSVPs; a one-time upgrade per event raises the limit.
- Can guests RSVP to a travel party invitation without an app?
- Yes. Guests open your link on any phone or computer, watch the invitation play, and reply on the same page with no app or account. Every reply lands on your dashboard.
Send your travel party invitation
Start from the Passport design, change the words and share one link. Guests reply on the page, with no app.