Feather boas, sashes, tiaras… no, it’s not a beauty pageant. It’s not even a
bachelorette party, although between the giddiness and the flowing Champagne,
that would be an easy mistake to make. Party planners and manufacturers of party
supplies are raking it in selling everything from “decapitated groom” cake
toppers to black “just divorced” sashes to nights on the town complete with VIP
club entrance and limo transportation.

Warren Berkowitz, owner of the company Forum Novelties, says sales of his
company’s “Divorce Diva” line are gangbusters. “There is more interest in the
line as time goes on,” he tells New York magazine. “Unfortunately, there’s a
growing need for this.”

Berkowitz wouldn’t say how much his business had improved as a result of
ex-wives letting their hair down and partying with the help of accessories like
voodoo dolls and buttons with snarky sayings, but one of Forum’s top retailers
says sales of divorce party supplies and favors are a runaway hit, up 30% in
three years. “The trend is really picking up. I’d say out of ten orders, seven
of them are divorce,” owner Janet Morante LaFauci tells New York.

One divorce party-planner in Los Angeles says her business has tripled since 2003, and even in a
recession, she books three parties a month at $5,000 to $20,000 a pop (that’s a
lot of alimony). In Las Vegas, party-planning company Vegas VIP says bookings
for divorce parties have gone up by 70%, “a result of more people finding out
about celebrating divorce by throwing a wild party or a laid-back night out with
a group of friends,” it says. The company can arrange dance outings, club
nights, pool parties, and even private dinners complete with a “divorce
cake.”

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