Party Supplies: Banners, Cake Toppers & Confetti

The decorations that do the heavy lifting on the day: happy birthday banners for the wall, cake toppers that turn a supermarket sponge into a centrepiece, table confetti, and a glitter sash and crown for the birthday person.

Everything is posted from the UK and ships with your cards in one order, so the decorations and the card land together instead of in three separate parcels.

Decorations are the cheapest line in a party budget: most pieces here are £2.45 to £5, against £10 to £35 an hour for hall hire and £10 to £35 a head for a buffet.

Planning the rest of it? Start with our guide to how to plan a birthday party, then pick the birthday card and a birthday badge to go with it.