A Sweet Sailor Themed Christening Celebration

I worked on a limited budget. So, I had to find a caterer who can provide great food and service at an affordable cost.  By the way, this was not only a christening celebration but a post-birthday of the celebrant's daddy.

Church: Sagrada Familia Parish, Bagumbayan Taguig City
Special baptism (Tuesday to Saturday only) cost Php1500 inclusive of first pair of godparents. Additional  fees include:
Succeeding godparents at Php50 each
Baptismal bib cost Php50
Baptismal certificate at  Php50
Candle for godparents at Php5 each
Candle for parents at 2.50 each
Feedback: You just need to visit the church office  to fill-up a form and pay the reservation fee. There is a pre-baptism seminar 30 minutes before the ceremony proper.


Party Venue: Open Clubhouse at our compound. We rented it at Php3,000 around 60pax capacity.
Feedback: We were the ones who did the cleaning. The sound system was great. There were fans in all corners though it was still very hot at that time because it was a luncheon event. 

Caterer: Queensland Catering
Contact: Michelle Galdiano
Rating: Food was definitely good. All communications were made by email, phone call and even by chat.  Service was great. Spent only Php16,150 for 60pax.

Photographer: Alan Mercado (no pics yet)

Decorated Cupcake Towers: Cakerista
I ordered the pink and blue cupcake towers at Php250 each. 
All cupcakes were made by me. I prepared vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with blue and pink frosting for the guests.

Giveaways to Godparents: Ceramic bowls (from Landmark) with red velvet cupcake (by me)
I just stick-on printed design and then use tape to stick the ribbon with personal message. 

Baby Hair Accessories: Labor of love
All of my girls hair accessories were made by me.

Baby white dress and shoes: Hand-me-down from her ate

Baby pink dress: SM Department Store

Mommy dress and shoes: 168 Mall , Divi

Daddy Polo: SM Department Store

Daddy pants and shoes: Closet

Invitations: DIY by one of the Ninongs

Message Wall: DIY
I use blue fabric that I purchased at Divi then hang by tying the ends. I then used yellow yarn to hang extra invites, photos of the celebrant and the daddy.

I printed message notes using MS word. I got the idea from a fellow n@w. Will soon post a link to her blog. 

Gift table and cupcake table: DIY
I bought fabric at divi and did the skirting of all tables. I decorated the cupcake tables with pinwheels (made from scrapbook paper), a lighthouse (something we already had in the house), printed the invite and used an old frame to display at the gift table, etc. I might make a separate posts for all the DIYs.

Table centerpiece: DIY
Hand stitched felt sailboats with candies inside I have a separate post here.

All other decors: DIY
Paper sailor hats (at the kiddie corner), Notes, Food labels, Streamers, etc.

Felt Sailboat

I just want to share one of my DIY projects for my daughters christening celebration.

For the guest table centerpiece, I hand stitched a boat made of felt.  If you want to make one, you can copy the template at icandy.   I made mine slightly different from icandy. I did not even use a foam. To make sure that the stick stays in place, I stuffed extra (soft type) felt cloth around it then covered with blue felt cloth. .

My Little Leopard

Sharing a DIY costume of my little one.  Here is what I did with the help of my sis-in-law.

I bought a half yard animal print fabric at the Fabric Warehouse located at Glorietta 5, Makati City. The cloth was sold at Php100 per yard.

For the halter top, I used my baby's old shirt as the base pattern in cutting the cloth into the desired style. Then I temporarily hand stitched the top making sure that there was enough allowance and then tried it on my baby and then made the necessary adjustments. I then attached the garter on the back of the halter top.For the skirt, I use an existing skirt as the base pattern. Just ensure that there is allowance for the garter and a space to attached the tail. For the tail. I decided how thick it should be then cut and sew. I had no foam available at the time since it was a last minute thing. So, I used shredded paper to give body to the tail. Lastly, I cut haphazardly a zigzag pattern on the ends of the top and skirt. Extra cloth was used to tie her hair.

The leopard cape and shoe cover was bought on sale at only Php200. This really made the whole look perfect. Total cost: Php260.00 (leopard cape set + cloth + garter)

Here's the final look:

One more thing, for mommies out there who plan to copy this look. Don't forget to make also a matching undie. That's what I forgot to do. Hope you like this post.

My baby was able to strut her look at Rustan's Makati Halloween event last Saturday ^-^