A bon voyage theme or international theme is just the thing to send them off in style.

Incorporate into the party the food, décor and name of the city and country where they will be visiting. Here are some travel themes to give you ideas:

• Casino in Monte Carlo
• African safari
• Rome, Italy
• Hawaiian Luau
• Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Activities that can be done during the party:

A scavenger hunt for items that would be found in the country that the person is going to, such as poker chips for the Casino, animal print cloth for the trip to Africa, Italian wine for Rome, a pineapple for Hawaii, and Mardi Gras Beads for New Orleans. Each one will add excitement and flavor to the party.

Having everyone at the party contribute a snapshot or written message about the couple and compiling all of the items into a scrap book is a good way to help the newly married couple to remember their bon voyage party for many years to come. This is a small gift that the couple can take away from the party and with them to build on as they experience their trip together.

Trivia games are a lot of fun too. Create trivia cards, two for each guest and have each person read off their question, give a grab bag prize to the person who has the first right answer. The trivia can be about how each person at the party met the happy couple, events that happened over the time of the engagement, even a little about how the big question was asked and where he popped the question. Imagination for the questions is the only limit everyone will have when compiling the trivia questions.

Play music from the country that will be visited and ask your guests to come in the costume of that country or a country they have visited. Have someone learn a couple of the traditional dances from that area and teach others the steps at the party. The themes of each party idea can be pulled into this activity and add loads of fun or everyone. If the budget allows, hire a band that specializes in the sort of music that the couple likes or will hear on their trip. If they are stopping at several ports, it is better to go with the genre they both enjoy. Having a musical chairs dance is very fun and a way to get everyone up and moving on the dance floor. The winner could have the privilege of walking the happy couple up the center aisle of the dance floor and presenting the bride to the groom for their very first dance together as a married couple.

Once you have the theme, the food, the guests, music and games, you have all the right ingredients for a great party. Of course, the most important tip for great parties is to have fun as you create memories that will last a lifetime for your friends.

Hello Everyone,

As many of you know, today is my last day here at the company. I will be walking a different path and will ultimately throw my energy into something that comes my way, though I have nothing planned at this point in time. That is a long range goal and right now, I am focusing on my short term goal of enjoying my retirement.

I will be focusing on many things that I have not been able to focus on due to my job responsibilities such as family outings and a renovation project in my home, providing the wife does not kick me out to the shed. My wife is wonderful, she has through all these many years, supported me as I built my career. Now it is my chance to support her in her own business. I am very proud of my wife and am eager to do the home renovations she has waited for these many long years.

My decision to leave the company has been entirely of my own making. The time is simply right for me to, at least temporarily, relax and enjoy the fruit of my efforts. I have had the most wonderful opportunity in the world and that is to build a company from the ground up with the help of many, many people and organizations throughout the years.

To all the wonderful, dedicated people whom I have had the opportunity to build this company with- Thank You. The times we had the opportunity to share, forge lifetime friendships and the incredible successes along the way have been an extraordinary part of my life. These are the times I will never forget. The company is stronger and more competitive due to the hard work and sacrifices that have been made by my dedicated and passionate employees. There are not enough ways to say thank you to show the gratitude that is felt.

As with all good things, every book has an opening chapter and a page that says, ‘the end’. I am at the end of this career and the timing to end this chapter seems about as right as it could be. I have devoted 35 years to this company and it has taken on a life of its own. I am very proud of all the accomplishments we have made in the industry, the integrity we have built and the quality of the product we continue to produce.

I wish all of you every success for the future. Stay safe, keep up the good work and maintain the passion!

Your farewell email should adequately reflect your thoughts, ideas, feelings and hopes. That is a lot to pack into one little email that will go to everyone in the company. Making you email short and succinct will enable everyone to read it quickly and get back to their job. They will appreciate your gesture that conveys that they were/are important to you in some way.

Subject: Keep in Touch!
Hi all,
It is my last day after a wonderful 5 years with the company. I would like to sincerely thank each of you for every experience we have shared, friendships made, opportunities that were offered and good times had during the time I have been with the company. Our team work has made this move possible for me and I truly appreciate all the cooperation that was given in several of the major projects.

I have thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of being part of this company and I wish you all the very best in the future. As I move on, I have hopes that we will be able to stay in touch so I have provided my email for anyone who wishes to stay in contact.

If anyone wants to keep in contact, you can email me on ABC@hotmail.com (or on face book).

Miss you already,
Fond wishes to everyone!

Sending a farewell email to your colleagues shows a friendly and amicable end to a job you enjoyed, to the people that may be very beneficial to you in the future. It is always a good idea to leave your work environment in a friendly manner. Business networking is an important part of many companies today. The contacts that are made in the workplace can be instrumental in helping you forward your future. The farewell email gesture shows that even on the day you are leaving, you have thought about your coworkers that were influential to your rise in the company and enabled you to move on to a better position.

Though you have made your thoughts and ideas clear in the email, you have stopped short of being “mushy” and no one will take your exit email as anything but business like and friendly. This encourages coworkers to want to stay in touch in the future and be glad that they had the opportunity to work with you and be a part of a team with you.

Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.  ~Jean Paul Richter

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.  ~Emily Dickinson, “Parting”

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?  ~Author Unknown

Gone – flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together?  I guess that wouldn’t work.  Someone would leave.  Someone always leaves.  Then we would have to say good-bye.  I hate good-byes.  I know what I need.  I need more hellos.  ~Charles M. Schulz

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.  ~Henry David Thoreau

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.  ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie

Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I’ll miss you
Until we meet again!
~Author Unknown

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.  ~Ivy Baker Priest

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.  ~William Cowper

Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.
~John Gay

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.  ~George Lansdowne

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.  May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.  And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.  ~Irish Blessing

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It’s the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here’s a happy one for you.
~Dale Evans

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.  ~Robert Southey

Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?  ~Richard Bach

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.  ~Garrison Keillor

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~Frances Anne Kemble

Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.  ~William Cowper

She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.
~Francis Thompson

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.  ~George Eliot

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.  ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

You and I will meet again
When we’re least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I won’t say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again
~Tom Petty

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.  ~William Shakespeare

In the hope to meet
Shortly again,

and make our absence sweet.
~Ben Jonson

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.

Some stay for a while,

leave footprints on our hearts,

and we are never, ever the same.

~Flavia Weedn

So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
~William Shenstone

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.  ~Edward Young

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.  ~John Dryden