craftgrrl | Halloween Masquerade Party help needed (Reply)

Hey everyone

I've posted questions in the past and gotten amazingly fast and creative responses so I'm going to try again. It's nice having such a collaborative creative brainstorming team out there!

I'm throwing a halloween party with some close friends helping out (so appreciated they are!) for a group of people roughly around 20-30. Its at my home in the country, and we are having it half outside and half inside a barn (specifically if it turns out to be quite cold at night) We'll also have a bonfire outside. The theme is a Masquerade Party. I chose this so that my friends didn't have to spend a lot of money and time on costumes, since we are going to be outside no point in them getting dirty, and because they can wear warmer clothes and just do flourishes in capes, cloaks, masks, headwear, etc.

Anyway, getting to the point, I'm trying to come up with good decor ideas. My friends and I are brainstorming good smart adult party decorations but we are coming up a bit short. We'd like the decorations to be more interactive and not just for show. For example we're thinking of having a graveyard in a nearby field with tombstones featuring the guest's name, date of birth, etc that the guests can wander through.

I'm also wanting to do some kind of mystery creepy game that can be played throughout the night but not necessarily continously.

Here's the thing though, we're having trouble finding good websites that have good ideas for adult parties. And I feel that you guys are the best group to approach for ideas and websites that you may know of to get good ideas from. So if anyone can help, we'd be very much appreciated.

We are also working on a constrained budget, and the party is going to be on November 1st, so we have a good window of work time.

Thanks in advance!
-Sommer