Dolly Parton and Kenny Rodgers Costume: Couple’s Halloween Dinner Party Costumes

How to pull together Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton costumes. Plus, fun Halloween dinner party ideas, including food and games, to pull off a couple’s Halloween dinner party in your own home! 

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, one with childhood memories, ridiculous amounts of candy, all things pumpkin, and getting to dress up as someone or something else is just plain fun.

However, it seems like after you get married and before you have children, the fun of this holiday evaporates. It’s no longer cool or acceptable to hit the single scene parties, and without a little person to dress up and take trick-or-treating, it can be rather dull unless you decide to be the change you wish to see in the world.And thus, the possibly annual Camille & Jacob Halloween bash was born!

But first, we need to talk about our first-ever couple’s Halloween costume.

Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Costumes

When we commit to a costume, we’re all in! Did we learn Islands in the Stream to perform? You know it!

This was such a fun and easy costume, brought to you by a few easy elements, shopping our closet, and a few thrift store finds.

Kenny Rogers Costume

Kenny was king of the leisure suit with a western shirt. He also rocked his iconic white hair and white beard so well! We grabbed a wig and a beard to complete the look.

Dolly Parton Costume

Oh, how the world loves Dolly Parton with her thousands of iconic looks! But I found pulling off this costume really only needed one humorous thing: A very oversized chest. I found the biggest bra I could find at a thrift store, and stuffed it full of dish towels.

A plaid western shirt, denim skirt, and some cowboy boots (make that butterfly cowgirl boots in my case) completed the look!

I added a curly platinum blonde wig. And everyone instantly recognized me as the country music icon, Dolly Parton.

Making a Couples Halloween Dinner Party Happen

We decided we would really miss the old parties from our single’s ward at church, which led to how much we miss our friends from that era of life. We decided the party should start at our house with our friends. Also, we had a sibling hear about it and inform us they were going to come too. It was funny, how can you turn down that kind of insistence?

We planned a dinner party early. It took us about a month and a half to plan and get it all together, but the payoff was worth it! 
A simple creepy menu and an invite to please come in couples costumes was ll it took! 

Halloween Dinner Party Decor

We decorated black tablecloths and added cheesecloth for spiderwebs. Then we added some empty wine bottles (or maybe they were Trader Joe’s sparkling pomegranate juice, who can be sure….).

We went for the glamorous/vintage look with these bottles and some black rattlesnake-patterned placemats and vintage etched metal plates.

Then we added lots and lots of sparkly silver snakes, glittery spiders, black spiders, and fuzzy tarantulas for the center.

How to Make Edible “Blood Rimmed” Glasses for a Halloween Dinner

We decided to kick up the creepiness a notch with “bloody candles” and “bloody” goblets. This was our favorite part!

You just mix 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup Karo syrup, and 1/2 cup water and let boil for about 10 minutes until in the “hard crack stage.” Meaning it will be stringy and crackly if you put a drop in a cup of water.

You then add some red food coloring, stir, dip the edge of the goblet, and watch creepy perfection in action!

And, there were a few creepy appetizers and treats to get everyone going.

And then it was time for the best part: DINNER!

Followed by some dessert: caramel pumpkin cheesecake! But this pumpkin crunch cake would have been amazing too!

BTW: Husbands who bake pumpkin cheesecakes are the best kinds!

We played a few more games. One during dinner where we each had a cheesy and ridiculous Halloween phrase like “he did the mash, he did the monster mash.” You had to say your phrase 3 times without someone calling you out. We had one that almost made it, but it was a funny and tough game.

We also tried to have a costume contest, but our friends are amazing and pulled some hilarious things off. Check them out:

And we’ve probably had “Islands in the Stream” stuck in our heads for about a month, so it was nice to finally let our inner Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton out.

 

And thank you, thrift store, for helping us pull together these costumes so easily! Used Halloween costumes and thrift store items are always a good way to go!

I’m glad we’ve found some Halloween fun as a married couple celebrating our first Halloween as newlyweds.

We hope this helps inspire you to create some Halloween activities and some Halloween fun for you and your family, too!

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