The first people to successfully paint the town red spent more time haphazardly assembling scaffolding and arguing over who got to be the "foreman" than enjoying the results. Take the planning out of carousing with today's Groupon: for $65, you get a party package from Elicit Events (a $145 value).

Elicit Events preps any site for a wedding reception, birthday party, or corporate event with a kaleidoscope of festivity-furnishing rentals. Today's package supplies an elegant array of 30 white Samsonite folding chairs; three round or rectangular tables, which have seating for up to eight and are enrobed in your choice of linens; and three balloon centerpieces to airily adorn surfaces. Skilled party planners provide a rainbow-aping palette of solid color options for the linens and centerpieces, ensuring the tables match the hostess's dress and the balloons mirror the host's levitation. Elicit's geniuses of jubilation have experience piecing together precisely themed events and can offer opinions on tasteful place settings, ideal seating arrangements, and what monster truck should jump the dance floor.