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). Debut Program Flow 1. Registration/Arrival of Guests/Receiving of gifts/Cocktails. Sample Program for Debut Party: An outline A Debut Program flow usually last for aorund 3-4 hours and most of the time is being spent on dining and the dances (18 roses dance, cottillion dance, intermission number, or dance performance by the debutante). Here is a sample flow of an event for debut party or 18th birthday celebration.

• Program For Debut Party
• Sample Program Flow For Debut Design
• Sample Program Flow For Debut Music

Thus, it would be a good idea to design an event program. This is sure to add an organized touch to the event while also keeping everyone informed about the goings on. You can get some cue to design such a program using the church program templates online. This is what should be included in an event program. The name of the event.

SEQUENCE OF THE PROGRAM

PART 1: Introduction of the Parents

1 min 15 seconds Audio Visual Presentation (throwback)

Production Number

Welcome Speech of the Debutant

Toast

Part 2: Dinner

Program For Debut Party

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

Sample Program Flow For Debut Design

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.

Sample Program Flow For Debut Music

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.

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.

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.