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Throw a Lobster Feast!
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Decorate your table with fantastic lobster butter warmer & lobster bucket from Crate & Barrel.
Don't forget old time lobster bibs from Bed Bath & Beyond.
Deck out your space with a Thomas Paul Linen Lobster Pillow from 2Modern.
Bubbles Birthday Fun
My BFF (of the Fishing Party and Inspiration board fame) is preparing for the 1st birthday of her daughter. She was thinking a bubbles theme-- a great idea for a baby- so I put together an inspiration board for her. I also threw in few other theme ideas for fun!
Bubble Fun!
Invitation: These colored circles prepare guests for a bubble theme! Or, even better, write the party info on inflated balloons, deflate them and send them to guests. Even better if you use the clear latex balloons!
Decor: Lanterns and clear latex balloons give that bubble feeling where ever you look! I saw a few suggestions to use bubble wrap, but I can't imagine that is cute--unless used in strips like this party. I also like this runner of different colored circles-- with coordinating hats. There must be hats! Fun polka dot napkins that coordinate with invites really add. And don't forget the cake!
Activities: The bubbles-- its all about the packaging. And have you seen these colored bubbles? Amazing! Also, if you add tempura paint to bubbles, the older kids can make some fun pictures to take home. Bubble wands also look like fun. And don't forget the bubble gum! That offers bubbles galore!
I love the bubbles-- but here are some more ideas just for fun.
How about a princess and the pea party?
How about a "one" of a kind party?
And I love, love, love this flower birthday! So sweet!
So many choices!
See you next week! xoxo EventLucky
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Bicycle Party
Happy Tuesday everyone! EventLucky here to share some fun in sun ideas!
I love bicycles. I don't ride one myself (unless it's a beach cruiser), but I always think the women that ride them in city are so cool. They just seem so capable and confident. Sure, the men, too, but especially the women. And lately, I have seen bicycles everywhere-- and not just on street.
I've seen them on fabric
I thought it would be fun to put together a bicycle party. I recently read the women that ride bikes are capable and confident-- and stylish. Let's promote bike riding through a party theme!
How cute are these invitations? {photos from here and here}
Download your own bicycle invite here.
And you can decorate with these stanchions, tabletop bikes, and fake cross stitch...
And of course the activities should involve bikes!
This party had the group caravan to the next venue.
And this party tied good wishes to the bike.
And, of course, the favors choices are endless.
This custom notebook is cute. And you can order custom notebooks here.
And a CD and candy packs are good for kids.
Don't forget the cake!
Never underestimate bicycles for getting great pictures!
Do you ride a bicycle? Would you have a bicycle party?
Have a Happy 4th of July! xoxo EventLucky
Splashy Poolside Baby Shower
Hello and Happy FRIDAY! AFS here. Many of you know that my husband and I are expecting a baby girl in August. To honor the coming of our little one, my friends offered to throw me a baby shower, and, of course, I eagerly accepted. True to form, my friends threw an incredible party, right down to every last fantastic detail. I just had to share with you their beautiful success!
Since the temps in Memphis are already SO HOT, they knew that a poolside baby shower would be the perfect theme. The invites set the stage for the poolside par-tay. Here are the perfect parasol/ beachy invites that they used to announce the event (from tinyprints.com):
My friends used our baby girl's nursery colors (aqua, orange, and pink, as found in the Target Liberty of London crib bedding) as the color scheme, and this awesome tutorial (found at hostessblog.comwas the starting point for their entire decor scheme:
Here is their final product:
Pretty snazzy!
They used a Cricut machine to make monogram labels for everything...from the banner between the topiaries, to the drink tags featuring her monogram for the Izze drinks.
The food was perfect for an outdoor event. Melon was served in a watermelon baby crib (built by one of the hostesses' husbands!), and kabobs, pasta salad, spinach salad, and to die for guacamole rounded out the lunch. Cupcakes with baby girl's monogram were a perfect sweet ending to a fresh and delicious meal.
Everyone was invited to bring their bathing suits, and almost everyone swam after we opened gifts. It was the pefect "not-your-traditional-baby-shower" activity, plus the kiddos could play, too!
We sat in the shade to open gifts, and orange and cherry push pops were handed out so guests could keep cool. Even the incredible diaper cake tied in perfectly with the theme!
All talk of decor, drinks, and gifts aside, this was a wonderful way to welcome summer and hang with the girls on a Saturday afternoon!
If you have a summer baby shower, why not consider a poolside party? The water does wonders for relieving the expectant mama's sore feet, back, joints, etc. (I can speak from firsthand experience on that one!), and there are plenty of party goods and ready-made decorations to take your shower from snoozy to splashy! Hope you enjoyed this poolside parasol baby shower!
Diving boards and divas,
Shower Season
EventLucky back this week to share baby shower ideas with you. Hope you enjoy and would love to hear from you!
With the warmer weather upon us, it is sprinkling outdoors and in! Friends are having babies left and right, and announcing babies on the way. I bet more than a few of you are planning showers, so I have gathered some cute baby shower ideas to share with you!
Invites
I found these cute invites on etsy, but there are tons out there. These can work the "shower" theme--
Or these invites would be cute for a clothing theme.
Decor
I love the clothesline as decor-- too cute, and can be added to the guests of honor's gift!
If you don't want to do a literal clothesline, cut pieces of paper with warm sentiments make for a nice wish book.
And this hanging message is so sweet.
I love these natural centerpieces, with potted plants and fruits.
I also love the use of letter blocks, whether the name of the baby or not.
Seating cards are also a fun way to decorate. If using the clothesline, the pins are cute napkin holders.
Or these little fabric sachets with safety pins.
Or, if you choose a tea party style shower, tea bags can tell people where to sit.
Activities
Not everyone wants to plays games, but you also don't want your guests to get bored.
Asking everyone to bring photos of themselves is always fun. Have people guess which baby picture matches which guests. Or, try this game with celebrity baby photos.
Or have some scrap fabric around to encourage guests to personalize clothes for the baby on the way.
Favors
A friend of mine loves these cookies in cellophane wrappers-- they are beautiful and thoghtful. Also, sachets could fit the bill.
Also, even though the lollipops are rings, you could steal the idea to make pacifiers.
I hope this has given you some inspiration for your next shower! Please send me pictures from your best shower ideas!
xoxo EventLucky
A Friendship Party: Invitations
We all have friends. We all have friends that we invite to birthday parties and weddings. We all have friends that we ask to join us in celebration of graduations, babies, and engagements. We all have friends that party-hearty with us at 4th of July BBQs, Thanksgiving dinners, and St. Patty's Day celebrations. So why not have a party that celebrates those friends and the memories that have created the friendships?
Let's start with the invites...
Yellow roses symbolize true friendship. So why not give yellow roses as your invitation?
Time-Friendly:
There are a ton of sites that offer invitations with yellow roses on them. These four invitations range in price and come in various degrees of personalization.
(Clockwise from top left)
1. Sweet Yellow Roses Custom Wedding Invitation Suite ($129.99) - These custom invitations are my favorite!This particular set is a wedding invitation set. However, the designer says in the description of the item that she can create custom invites for any event. I'm sure she would have no problem working with you to put this yellow rose design on a regular invite.
2. Blank Custom Yellow Rose Invitation Card ($2.95/ea) - This invitation can be personalized with your own wording and images right on the website.
3. Yellow Rose Square Folded Invitation($1.25/ea) - This invitation is blank inside, so when you receive them you can write in the information or you can use a rubber stamp, like the "Fun Invitation" stamp found at 1-2-3 Stitch.
4. Long Stem Yellow Rose Invitation ($1.39/ea) - This custom invitation can also be personalized on the website before ordering. The wording is entirely up to you, rather than a standard fill-in-the-blank format many personalized invitation sites have.
Budget-Friendly:
If you're really looking to go ultimate DIY, go all the way with a handmade yellow rose. Invite your friends to the party with an origami (the Japanese tradition of paper folding) rose.
You can find step-by-step instructions on how to make an origami rose on Google. I used the instructions found at DofTNet. The instructions are pretty easy to follow and the pictures are a HUGE help. I say"ultimate DIY" because one rose took me over an hour to make. I'm sure with practice the folding would go quicker, but be prepared to spend time on this invitation.
Once your rose is nicely folded, nestle it in tissue paper in a small white favor box. Use ribbon to attach your invitation to the box. The invitation can be a simple white handwritten card or you can use an invitation rubber stamp.
Time- & Budget-Friendly:
This invitation is my absolute favorite out of all the ones I've shared in this post! I've always wanted to receive a hand-delivered party invitation and this one is just crying out to be handed to each friend personally.
Attach a simple and small handwritten or rubber stamped invitation to a piece of ribbon and tie that ribbon around the stem of yellow spray roses or the stem of a single yellow rose.
Simple and sweet, yet beautiful and elegant.
Stay tuned and next week I'll have more on throwing a Friendship Party.
Top 5 Party Themes
Hello!
I am so excited to be writing for createmyevent.com! I am new to the blogging world, but not events. I started my blog, eventlucky, about 3 months ago, but I have stage managed theatre, opera and dance, managed over 1,000 events for a major entertainment company, and organized non-profit events and balls. I hope you will find my posts full of style, useful and beautiful.
Finding a theme not only streamlines the event planning process, it can also make it more fun. Whether planning a birthday party, a shower, or a wedding a theme can be a daunting task. There are so many choices and people creating new ones everyday!
I've put together the top 5 here to narrow the list. I hope this will help make this task more manageable.
Without further ado.... the top 5 party themes!
1. Movies and Characters
Depending on what is in the theater this category can vary. Right now Where the Wild Things Are and Alice in Wonderland/ Mad Hatter Tea Parties are both crazy popular. Lost and Glee weekly viewing parties might also fit in this category.
For the full details on a great Where the Wild Things Are party for kids, check out armelle. Too cute.
And for a fantastic Alice in Wonderland/ Mad Hatter Party, start with these awesome invites.
2. Style
I lend toward a clean, white modern look. One of my friends love shabby chic-- and I could throw a great party for her. I have even seen a preppy wedding. Is this fashionable choice right for your event?
Well, how about a Miami style pool party?
Or this rustic, elegant wedding? Any of these would be a beautiful party!
3. Time of Year
Seasonal parties give tons of options-- from a summer BBQ to an Oscar event. Take a look at a calendar to give you an excuse to plan a gathering!
I loved this Kentucky Derby party put together by a fellow createmyevent blogger.
And Cinco de Mayo is right behind it!
4. Color
I love color. Nothing ties a party together better or easier than coordinating the color of the napkins, plates, drinks and tablecloths. Varying the shade can keep it from being too matchy. To take it to the next level, pick a color then chose a style (#2). Too chic.
This place setting from Martha uses preppy style and green. So eye catching.
5. Activity
In addition to sporting events (Super Bowl, play offs), the activity category can dictate the decor for the event. From a fishing themed party, a murder game party, or simply loving to bike ride and using a penny-fathering on your invites, this choice can be cute way to reflect an active person.
This homemade fishing game is cute. (or check out my inspiration board for a full fishing party!)
And these bike themed invites are too cute.
I hope this list is helpful in picking the theme for your next party! What's your favorite-- on this list or not?
Whimsical Woodland Baby Shower!
Happy Friday to you all! I wanted to share with you a recent baby shower that my dear friend and I threw for another precious friend, Molly. We really wanted to cater the shower to Molly's tastes: modern, natural, with a little whimsy. When she showed us the main fabric she was using for her nursery (Alexander Henry's It's a Hoot! in Brown), we knew it was the perfect inspiration!
(picture courtesy of here)
For our Whimsical Woodland Baby Shower, we refined our color scheme to browns, creams, pear green, and pops of coral/hot pink.
birds of a feather...flock together: The invitations set the stage for the event! We ordered invitations from etsy.com
(Like it? Order some here)
earthy decor: We collected vases, pea gravel, and sticks from around our house (and yard), and used coordinating scrap-booking paper to wrap the vases, and create some other decorations that are featured below. (all photos taken by the incredibly talented Cindy Isom of Memphis, TN. Check out her website here!)
The guest book was a wrapped canvas with a picture of a painted tree. The baby's name is a secret, so the only initial we knew was the last name, "P." Once the baby is born, we'll be able to fill in her first and middle initial! We had two shade of ink, and guests were asked to "leaf a print" and sign their name on the fingerprint. It was a huge hit and Molly loved it, but make sure you have baby wipes for guest to wipe their fingers after they are done!
flora, fauna, and food! For the main food table, we secured four curly willow sticks in four vases, and wove the sticks through the chandelier. We hung a big green moss ball from the center and attached faux orchids and butterflies (from a local craft store) to the branches. The shower was in the evening (Girls Night!), so we had cheese fondue, sausage, chicken, granny smith apples, homemade bread, fruit salad, bruschetta, and a variety of mouth-watering dips lovingly prepared by several friends.
The cake was the hit of the evening...we supplied our wonderful friend with a few inspiration photos, and she came up with the perfect dessert to tie into the theme!
no ruffled feather here! it's all about the details: We found this cute paper owl family from mibo (wise guys collection). The curly willow branches came from the Memphis Botanic Gardens, and the paper cutouts which we taped on the wall of our "tree" were made with leftover scrapbook paper.
branching out: So that guests could easily see each adorable piece of baby girl clothing, we created a paper "tree" in the living room. We simply cut out a tree from a roll of brown craft paper, used double sided tape on the walls, and taped leaves and birds to the tree to our hearts' content. We hung a twine rope along the length of the branch, and as Molly opened her gifts, we used clothespins to hang each special item. By the end of the shower, her "tree" was full of precious baby clothes and linens!
whooooo's at the bar: Since a girls' night is never complete without wine or chocolate, we had both. We also had several nonalcoholic beverages, including a delicious punch, as there were several expecting women at the party. The owl favors were milk, dark, and mint chocolate candies shaped from an owl mold. We wrapped the owls in cellophane, tied them with ribbons, and secured them in a bowl filled with split peas. Because we have been to many parties where people forgot their favors, we handed out the suckers during gift opening time. Many guests enjoyed their tasty gifts while Molly opened hers!
designer diaper cake: One tradition in our group of friends is that we always have a diaper cake for the mother that complements her nursery theme. For a diaper cake tutorial, go here and for other diaper cake inspiration, go here. Each layer was wrapped in a blanket, burp cloth or bib, and was decorated with useful baby toys. The icing on the cake was that adorable pink and brown hounds-tooth owl!
chirpin' away: all talk of food and decorations aside, the best part of the evening was truly the company. Our group of girls have been through so much together, and we always welcome the opportunity to celebrate another tiny addition to the group! We love you, Molly!
Hope you enjoyed the party...we sure did! If you have any questions about sources, techniques, etc., please let me a comment and I will answer you promptly!
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