Slice of Life: Party Princess Cafe

Cat cafes, Dog cafes, Dr. Fish cafes, and Princess cafes… you name it, and Korea probably has it!

Recently, Melody,  JeeYoung and I took Adrienne to the Party Princess Cafe to celebrate her birthday. JeeYoung had wanted to go to this cafe for a few months and it was on her Bucket List before leaving Korea, so we decided to check it out.

“What in the world is Party Princess Cafe,” you might ask.  Well, it is a cafe where girls (women really) can go and pay anywhere from 10,000krw (~ $10.00) to 100,000krw (~$100.00) in order to wear a dress and take pictures around the cafe. The dresses range from prom style to Hanbok style to wedding dresses! Essentially, you get to be a princess for about an hour! haha

I am cheap so I got a 10,000krw dress, but it was still nice. Meldoy had my favorite dress~ she looked like she could have been in a saloon in an old Western film! After her amazing posing skills we are trying to get her to audition for a Korean drama since foreigner acting is so awful– they could stand to have some better actors and actresses! 😉 Adrienne wore a Hanbok style dress and JeeYoung wore a cute dress that could easily be a bridesmaid dress.

The lady pinned our dresses and unfortunately there were no shoes big enough for my feet and none small enough for Melody’s feet! After sucking in and fitting into our dresses and not our shoes, we were accessorized with tiaras and other fancy hair pieces.

Then came the fun… one full hour of being silly and acting like princesses (because we are of course^^).

Adrienne and I soon discovered that we are not natural posers. We are rather awkward and don’t have the cool of a natural actress. And unfortunately no one could help us pose! Yet, we also discovered that JeeYoung and Melody had an innate ability to pose and eat up the camera! After a while, we would have Mel pose and then just do what she did~ haha We had a steep learning curve for posing. (Adrienne and I will not be auditioning for the Korean dramas!)

After transforming back into our normal clothing we all felt like we had just ventured off into some fairy tale land and returned with a story to share.

My favorite part of the whole night was laughing~ with a semester of grad school and the whoas of working full time as well, it was a nice reprieve from real life. I mean, the whole idea of dressing up like a princess is a little bit hilarious. But I can’t deny it, I kinda, sorta, really loved it!

And, I would totally do it again!

[several of the photos are complementary of JeeYoung and Melody]

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