Arabian-Nights

Having a 1001 Arabian-Nights costume party theme,  Please make sure that your costume and your guests are aware that their costumes conform to the theme, Princess Jasmine, Alibaba, Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, are among the most noted of the tales, a search of the Internet can give you a comfortable idea as to the type of costume suited to such a party, and these would include such as Harem girls, Belly dancers, Arabic prince and Princess, Bedouin warriors, etc, so let us have a party and dress ourselves in costumes from the far east and middle east, let the costumes bring glamor and brightness to the party.

Come heed the 1001 Arabian-nights tales, the following is a short description of the start of the tales, over a period of time other stories have been intertwined with the original story but they do make facinating reading, and it is worthwhile buying the book and learn a more indepth knowledge of this story.

Setting your party theme you have to understand the tales that are told, you must understand the use of the 1001 nights, The 1001 are the 1001 nights that a loving Wife, the loving wife of a demented Sultan, and every night she told a tale to her Husband, to both save her life, and hopefully cure his madness.

The Story goes that there was a Sultan in Arabia whose first wife along with her lover, the Sultans brother, they plotted to kill him, and of course the Sultan found out and had both of them executed, after their death the Sultan sank into a deep dark mood, this brought about a form of madness to the Sulatan where he thought every wife he would ever have would kill him, being rich and lonely he married a new wife every day and at daybreak the next day he would have her executed.

But there was a beautiful woman that truly loved him, she was the daughter of the Sultans trusted Councillor, after the death of so many wivesthe Sultan now finds nobody wanted to marry him, except the daughter of his trusted friend who gladly marries him, on her wedding night she starts to tell her husband a story, and to weave a tale into it that would last till daybreak, with the suspense building and left unfinished and the Sultan wanting to know the rest of the story decides that he must know what happens next, so he postponed her execution, and every night his wife would carry on with her tale.

Her story lasted for 1001 nights, during which time she gave birth to 3 boys, during her tale she weaves into it a Moral to aid in her husbands madness, and slowly this cures him, and his loving wife approaches the Sultan and presents him with his 3 sons which were born during his madness, she asks of him a pardon, which he gladly gives, and they lived happily ever after.