Nicole and I just completed a beautiful baby shower for our
good friend, Christy. When Christy
approached us about the shower she really wanted it to be a fun time for the
woman invited. She wanted to bring in non-alcoholic cocktails (Mocktails) and
make everything very girly. She already
has a little girl and she really wanted to embrace the girl theme. Also, our
beautiful mom-to-be has gestational diabetes so we wanted to be very particular
in the foods we would serve. We wanted to offer things that Christy could enjoy
as well.
At first, we
brainstormed about how we could incorporate cocktail glasses. We
decided to have a bar with 2 options for drinks with fun ingredients. We served these drinks in fun cocktail
glasses with colorful sugar rims. One of the mocktails we made was carb and
sugar free.
Next, we decided that it would be fun to serve desserts in
the cocktail glasses as well. We did not
want to serve the typical cake or cupcakes because our mom-to-be would not be
able to enjoy them. Instead, we served a
spiced cheesecake and cherry Jello dessert. Both of these options were sugar
free and were yummy items that our mom-to-be could enjoy along with her guests.
After we started mulling over our menu ideas, we decided
that it would be fun to have a “Sugar and Spice” theme. By incorporating this theme we could use many
colors and have some fun food options that everyone could enjoy.
I started looking around for fun colors and I really wanted
a vintage nursery theme. I found some
fun scrapbook paper, polka dot napkins, fun paper tissues colors, and some
great Martha Stewart Crafts at Joanne’s.
By bringing all of these items together I thought it made a fun bright
colorful party that worked well with all different sugar and spice ideas.
The budget for this event was small so we wanted to find
lots of easy & inexpensive ways to bring in our theme. We made most of our signs with our scrapbook
paper, we made all of our tissue poms, we found cute “sugar and spice” food
tagson Etsy that we were able to put all over the house, and we even made 3
jars: one full of sugars, one full of spices, and one full of fun girly things.
We decided that we wanted to add in a few fun aspects to the
party because the mom-to-be did not want to play any shower games. We made a
bright photo booth section so that Christy could get some great pictures with
all of her guests. We also made a “wall of encouragement” where guests could
write encouragement and words of wisdom.
Our mom-to-be loved this idea and took the whole wall home with her so
that she could scrapbook all the encouragement she was given.
Our food table consisted of a Sugar side and a Spice side.
We wanted each side to have something correlating by being the same size and
shape but being a totally different food item.
When all was said and done the shower looked great and our
mom-to-be was very happy. All of the guests had a great time and went home with
some home-made spiced popcorn with a sweet little tag.
Enjoy our pictures and let us know what you think.
VENDORS:
Tags bought on Etsy
from http://www.etsy.com/people/
Photography done by our sweet friends, Michelle Fonda,
Elizabeth McCall
Decorations, event design, and more done by Cherry Kissed
Events
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