A Hearty 1st Birthday (Part 3)

Venue Decor

Labor of love by me and the family. I prepared all of the decors weeks before the party. Thanks to my hubby, FIL, sis-in-laws who helped put it all up.

For the stage decor, my hubby and I set-up a colorful party canopy that I bought at divisoria and the happy birthday banner that I made using board papers, colored papers, and red lace. For the ceiling, we hanged tissue pompoms (red, b&w) and red cherubs. My hubby manually aired the balloons which I simply arrange on stage because my baby loves to play with them.

Game Prizes

I gave out bubbles in fruit containers with whistle caps and big bubbles, mallows in heart shaped containers and chocolate balls in small glass jars.

I downloaded printables at the Catch My Party for the prize labels and name labels.

Giveaways

I gave out the cute dollies to my girl-friends and chocolates for the boy-friends who made the party a success. Thanks to Sweets and Ni, the emcees of the party. Thanks to Ully and Ron who facilated the kids and adult games. Thanks to Efren for the photobooth and Alan for the photos. You all gave life to the party.... XOXO

Thanks to Erin and Rose for leading the prayer.

Thanks also to Paul who helped in doing the errands for us when the big boys were not yet home.

For the rest of the guests, hugs to all of you. I gave out cupcakes (definitely made with love). There was more than enough for all of them. Many had seconds and even thirds. ^-^

Invitation

A labor of love by the daddy ^-^ Perfect! Yun lang masasabi ko. Will post pic soon.

Other DIYs

Food signage
Gift signage
Welcome signage
Photobooth signage

Celebrants Attire

Bought at Tutuban mall, stockings at SM, and hair accessory at a nearby tiangge ^-^

Program Details


Welcome Guests
Opening Prayer
Kids game 1
Kids game 2
Prayer
Dinner/ Open Bar
Happy Birthday Song/ Cake Blowing
Adult games
Thank you by parents

Guests were late. Many came by 5:00pm. So we started the program at 5:30pm then dinner at 6:00pm. My hubby and FIL were late 'coz the lechon was delayed.

A Hearty 1st Birthday (Part 2)

Fotomania (Photobooth)

Sponsored by a good friend. This is his baby business. Ofcourse, this was a hit to many guests. I was so happy that they enjoyed using the props I prepared and posing with their birthday message written on a white board.

Pics to follow.

Photos

A good friend, Alan, who loves to shoot, covered the party pics. Two thumbs up.

A "hearty" 1st birthday (Part 1)

My baby is officially 1 year old. I am so happy her self-catered party was a blast ^-^ Everyone claimed that they enjoyed everything from the giveaways, cupcakes, choco fondue, drinks, etc.

This was definitely an impossible feat if not for my family and friends. Kudos to all of you.

Here are the party details.

Food Menu

We prepared spaghetti, chicken pastel, "Humba" a pork belly dish with boiled egg (my MIL's specialty dish), hotdog with mallows on stick, and spring roll (c/o Jm my sis-in-law). Other food items we ordered were fish relleno and cebu lechon.

For the set-up, the venue owner provided only yello and red table cloth for the buffet. We did the whole set-up and decorated the center buffet table by overlapping the yellow cloth with the red one. I also pinned on the buffet Miel's name but we forgot to take a pic. You may view the DIY banner here.


Dessert

I borrowed chocolate fountain from my gorgeous Tita Maricor and just bought ready made fondue from Chocolate Lovers. I bought 2 kilos but only used up 1 kilo. There was even a pint of fondue left-over.

Drinks

Bottomless iced tea for all. I just bought powdered iced tea (800g/pack)... ordered 2 big containers of mineral water with faucet. One for plain water and the other one for the iced tea. I borrowed a cooler for the ice cubes. We actually bought 7 packs of ice cubes at 7-eleven but I somehow overestimated . We had like 4 packs of ice cubes left.

Mobile bar - I actually mentioned in my previous post that I got boozeondmove at a discount rate purchased thru buyanihan. Though it was difficult to contact them because there were either unreachable or they don't immediately respond to your queries. All my requests were done. They arrived early and set-up fairly fast. I expected them to wear matching shirts or uniforms, it would look fairly nice for the party. But then all the guests said that it was definitely a hit. So two thumbs up to them.

Birthday Cake and Cupcakes

Labor of love by the little celebrant's mommy ^-^ So proud to say that it was my first time to make a birthday cake. For a beginner, well I think it tasted yummy according to my little one hehehe and ofcourse my family. I made chocolate cake with white frosting.

For the cupcakes, I made 3 different flavors (chocolate, red velvet, and classic vanilla) and 3 types of frosting (buttercream, cream cheese, and italian meringue). Everyone claimed it tasted yummy. Most of the guests said that their fave cupcake was red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

I was able to borrow a cupcake stand from my Tita. I just bought a styrofoamed happy birthday sign. A friend helped put red glitters since the text color was pink. I decorated the stand with black and red ribbons then used stick-on gems.

I designed and made the cupcake toppers using free cliparts and MS word ^-^ I got printable red damask toppers here.

For the cake table, I used the extra fabric I got for the photobooth backdrop as table cloth.  I placed tissue pompoms I made on the table top and a cutie doll as added decors.