Club AOII isn't necessarily dated. The way your chapter presents it may be though. You could change it to Mocktails and make it more cocktail party style. If you get cocktail rounds (bar height tables w/ no chairs) it'll take up space and make the room appear fuller. It also give you a place to dispurse paraphanalia around the room.
No harm in looking to other themes though. The threads that came up with the search function for the most part had to do with panhellenic recruitment themes. "No matter the letter" and that type of thing.
Some ideas that could work stolen from the threads below
"Hollywood" theme party- wear cocktail dresses and serve shirley temples and little appetizers. Purchase a long piece of red fabric and use it as the red carpet. Decorate with old-school hollywood decor, and lots of string-lights. It looks very pretty and it's nice to get dressed up right before pref night as well.
Welcome to Paradise...where it's all about sunshine and being on vacation.
Welcome to the Jungle- wear animal print one night, camo another, etc etc...animal crackers, jello jigglers, and trail mix for refreshments.
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Theme Ideas
Hollywood Walk of Fame (incorporate the red carpet, paparazzi, tabloid headlines, Hollywood Stars, spot lights, etc)
All Stars (sports and stars theme)
Passport to Dreams (your preview book and marketing materials can look like travel guides, each sorority gets its own distressed stamp out)
Survivor Theming but instead of "Survivor" you have "Sisterhood" and the three mottoes outlining can be "Friendship, Scholarship, Service," etc.
The Real World: Greek Life
Use the logo of a popular television show, like The OC and theme everything around fashion, palm trees, etc., elements of that show.
We want YOU! (Uncle Sam theme, patriotic.... Sorority Women-- Making XYZ University Beautiful since YEAR...)
Yearbook theme (2 good 2 B, 4gotten...) and your marketing materials can take on this look-- you could do a whole section on "Who is a likely joiner--" She is... Most Likely to Have Fun (pictures and copy about socials), Most Likely to Have Friends (talk about friendship and Sisterhood), Most Likely To Be Safe and at Home, Most Likely to Be Involved in the Community, Most Likely to Graduate with Honors and On Time (talk about your GPAs, honor societies), etc.
A Night at the Oscars
Etc.
Good luck!
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If you do some searching in the recruitment threads I know there's hundreds of posts with ideas. Also, pretty much any theme that works for COR and lots of themes that work for exchanges/mixers can be made into a good recruitment night theme.
Some things that I've heard of over the years include: slumber party, cabaret/broadway, summer camp, Tiffanys/Breakfast At..., Jungle, CocaCola, Night at the movies, surf/beach, luau/Hawaii, Mardi Gras, casino/Monte Carlo, seasons (fall/summer, etc), garden party, Sex and the City, Around the World, Winter Wonderland (for January recruitment), and American Idol.
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