10 WAYS TO SURPRISE YOUR BEST FRIEND

Making that special friend feel special on his/her birthday is just something that as a friend you have to do and hopefully, the above ideas would help you in planning some great birthday surprises for your best friend.

1. Enjoy a Spa Together
If your friend has been having a rough week at the office, with having to spend long longs in office, trying to complete the excess workload, then maybe, the best idea for a birthday surprise for them would be a day of relaxation.



You can book a nice spa session for the two of you and while enjoying and relaxing in that atmosphere, the two of you can also catch up on all the latest gossip in each other’s life.

You can also get a nice makeup session included in the spa package, and finally finish off the birthday surprise with a nice lunch at a restaurant which is either new in town, or is one of the favorite eating joints of your best friend.

2. Get Adventurous

Our lives today have become restricted to our homes, offices and dinner parties. We neither have the time nor the inclination to take up some nice outdoor, physical activities. However, this might not have been the case when you were younger and in school or college. You and your friend may have been a part of the hiking and other similar outdoor sports groups in college.

This birthday, take your best friend, back to these old and more healthy college days, and take him or her out for a hike, or simply engage in the game of kite flying like you both use to when younger.

Participating in these outdoor sports, would help both of you in reliving your childhood and also feel an adrenaline rush, which your friend may not have experienced in a very long time.

3. Get Maximum People to Wish Them Birthday 

We generally do not expect the doorman of our building to remember and wish us birthday. In fact, there are only a select few people in our life who we expect birthday wishes from. However, if those people, who are not supposed to remember or even know about our birthday, do come up to us and wish us birthday, it would not just be surprising, but also very special. It would make one feel like a celebrity.

So on this birthday of your best friend, inform as many people as you can about his or her birthday, so that your friend keeps getting wishes from everyone around her all through the day.

4. Send a Special Birthday Wish

More than the presents and party, it is your wishes that matter the most to your best friend. Therefore, you need to find a unique way of expressing your feelings on this day for your friend.

No one uses snail mail these days, and surely your friend too would not be expecting you to write a letter to her. Therefore, writing a letter, with all your feelings in it, and sending it through the snail mail, would be a great birthday surprise for your friend.

You can be sure that this letter of yours would be cherished by your friend for the rest of their life.

5 - Kids Birthday Party

If you and your friend have been together since childhood, then there surely must be one special birthday party, which both of you must have enjoyed and still remember.

You can actually plan a surprise birthday for your friend, and prepare everything at the party, as it was during this old special birthday party the two of you had maximum fun at.

Reliving this childhood birthday party is not just something that would surprise your best friend, but would make him or her extremely emotional as well.

6 - Take a Class Together

You and your friend may have been in the same class in school and that is where your friendship may have begun. Doing something together is the best way to come close to anyone, and therefore, on this birthday, plan a surprise for your best friend, which would not only be special for her, but which would make your friendship stronger as well.

You can enroll the two of you for a special one day class for something that both of you enjoy like cooking, yoga, etc.

7 - Skip Town for the Weekend

If your friend’s birthday is falling on a weekend, you can plan a nice weekend trip to some nice location close to your home, but far enough to forget the busy daily life and have fun in each other’s company.

You can also ask your other friends to join you for the trip, more the merrier! While all the friends pay for their expenses in this trip, the expenses of the birthday girl or boy can be shared by all the friends.

Get the parents of your best friend pack a weekend bag for them, so that there is absolutely no reason for you to tell your friend in advance about this trip.

8 - Do Something Unexpected On the Birthday Eve 

While the birthday is a special day, however, even the birthday eve is also equally important. In fact, if you are planning to give a surprise to your friend, then doing something special on the birthday eve would be a much better idea, as your friend would not be expecting anything to happen on this day.

You do not have to indulge in any grand gestures, but small loving acts can go a long way in surprising your best friend and making them feel extra special on their birthday. For example, if you know that after a long day in office, your friend has to go back home and cook dinner for himself or herself, which can be quite exhausting, you can plan on getting food delivered to their doorstep once they reach home from office and along with this food, attach a nice birthday message for them, letting them know the special meal is for the most special friend of yours.

9 - Plan a Nice Dinner At Home

The best time best friends have, is in each other’s company, where they are able to vent out all their frustrations and share everything that is happening in their life and around them.

Hence, instead of planning a grand party, this birthday surprise your friend with a quiet evening accompanied by a simple dinner, cooked by you personally, where the two of you can have a conversation which would last all through the night.

10 - Call in Old Friends

If the two of you have been friends since school, then surely you must know some other old friends, who may have moved out of town and hence, you hardly get to meet them.

However, school friends are always very special and just like you; they too might be willing to go that extra mile to make this birthday special for their school friend.

All of you can plan in advance, and these old friends can come to town for a surprise dinner party for your best friend. Seeing these old pals, would surely be a huge surprise for your best friend and he or she would simply love you for it.