{Event Recap} Board Game Birthday

Okay, now that my husband is 34 I should probably get around to sharing his 33rd birthday! Inspired by table top game day (Saturday, March 30, 2013) I decided to get off my butt and write the post already!


One of my best friends and my husband have birthdays just 3 days apart so we typically celebrate them together. This year they both requested a board game party.


Over the last few years we've discovered the world of Euro games and turned into some serious board game geeks.


We're anxiously awaiting our children to get old enough so we can have some serious family board game nights. We're very excited that at four our oldest is slowly being trained in some of the simpler games.

But back to the party! The colors had to be green and orange, because those are the birthday boy's and girl's color of choice when picking playing pieces. We threw in white accents since another board game addict friend's birthday was a few weeks previously and he likes playing white! I grabbed a cheap Ikea rug from my kids' room and hung it up as a backdrop for the table. The rug reminded me of a whimsical children's game board; and it had all the right colors to match the party theme.


I broke the table up between appetizers and desserts. I didn't want to have separate tables since most of the rooms were going to be full of empty tables on which to play games.


There are so many games we enjoy, but I tried to focus on some of the favorites of the birthday boy and girl, and ones I could easily replicate in food form! All of the food signs were designed to imitate cards from the Munchkin card game. This was especially fun to design since the cards are all humorous and silly. For appetizers we served chicken salad, pigs in a blanket,

On a Roll Ham Sandwiches

and Seafood Stuffed Mushrooms
For the desserts I got some help from the wonderful Jessy of Fairytale Frosting, who created amazing "tile" cookies to replicate pieces from the game Carcassonne.



Eating Carcassonne cookies while playing the game
And Jenny of Parker's Flour Patch, who, once again, created some fabulous cupcake toppers with lots of different game pieces



Game pieces from Tobaggo

Pow Wow head piece

Guests playing Pow Wow

Meeple (game piece)

Age of the birthday boy and girl

Fondant Guillotine Cards also by Parker's Flour Patch
A few more of the birthday boy's favorite desserts I had to include on the table:

Brownie Bite Checkers

Reeses Pieces
Vendors
Party styling & design: Enchanted Events & Design
Printables & graphic design: Enchanted Events & Design
Carcassonne cookies: Fairytale Frosting
Cupcake Toppers: Parker’s Flour Patch

{Event Recap} Mallory's Tutu Cute 1st Birthday

My good friend Marta, owner of Twinkle Twice a 2nd hand children's clothing store, asked me to help her with her youngest daughter's 1st birthday party. Marta recently started creating her own tutus for the shop (Tutus by Twinkle Twice). She wanted to use that for the party theme so she would have an excuse to make tutus for all of Mallory's friends (such cuteness). I hope you enjoy the party I styled for little Miss Mallory!
















































Vendors
Party styling: Enchanted Events & Design
Paper products and printables: Enchanted Events & Design
Tutus: Tutus by Twinkle Twice
Photography: Bebe Jacobs Photography
Custom cookies: Fairytale Frosting
Cupcake toppers: Parker’s Flour Patch
Location: Amy's Indoor Playground

{Event Recap} The Knot Magazine Wedding Photo Editor Event

I recently designed a dessert table for a fabulous wedding industry event hosted by Cat and Adi of Next Exit Photography.


The wedding photo director of the Knot Magazine, Rebecca Crumley, recently moved to Los Angeles from New York and Cat and Adi greeted her in style with a beautiful event at their home. This event also coincided with Next Exit's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday Next Exit!

The inspiration for the event was to play off of the modern architecture of the home which was newly renovated and GORGEOUS! Specifically, I was given this beautiful wallpaper which accented one of the walls as the inspiration for my design.



Soon I was swimming in gray, mocha and pale blue!






I called on Jessy of Fairytale Frosting to design some custom sugar cookies to match the design because I love her work and she's so amazingly affordable!


I also tried a new vendor, Jennie of Pop Culture Desserts, to see if she'd be interested in designing some items for the table. All I can say is ... OH MY! The food she provided was beautiful and scrumptious. The guests were literally fighting over the leftovers at the end of the night.








Finally, I want to share a few details from the rest of the party which was designed by Bob Gail Events.






Vendors
Dessert Table Styling: Enchanted Events & Design
Dessert Table Paper Goods: Enchanted Events & Design
Photography: Next Exit Photography
Desserts: Pop Culture Desserts
Sugar Cookies: Fairytale Frosting
Chevron table runner: A to Zebra Celebrations
Flowers and rentals: Bob Gail Events
PR: Hitching Post Public Relations