Vintage Rose Garden First Birthday Party
First birthdays are such a monumental occasion! OK, sometimes it seems like it might be more for us parents, but hey… we want our babies to have the best first birthday EVER! This mom was no different and was so excited to start working on her little baby girl’s first birthday event! After running across some images of Rose Gardens and getting some ideas in her head immediately, it didn’t take long to come up with the theme for this big day, a Vintage Rose Garden First Birthday Party! It was fit for a little princess!
Colors chosen for the event were light aqua and pink, and the party was held at the family’s home with approximately 30 guests. Combining the colors with a vintage look of roses, it worked perfectly together! Mom, who is the owner of Farrally Paperie wanted to bring together a few different patterns and the vintage aqua and pinks made a lovely color combo!
Mom made most of the decorations and bought a few items from Oriental Trading, Party City, Hobby Lobby, and Michaels, for the things that just couldn’t be made 100% from scratch.
Normally, this little birthday girl is quite the shy little princess, but not on her birthday! She was taking food from everyone’s plates and even helping feed some. Absolutely adorable … it was her house, her party, her rules! Can’t argue with that!
Hamburgers, hot dogs, macaroni & cheese and baked beans were served at the birthday party. There were also strawberries with marshmallows on a stick, which were YUMMY!
The dessert table was incredible and had cupcakes with piped roses, homemade marshmallows, raspberry rose meringues, cream cheese mints and baby snacks (i.e. cheerios with strawberry melts and crackers), which were all made by Farrally Delicious. The cream cheese mints are a tradition for big events in this family and it was so wonderful to see things like this be incorporated into a family party!
Jennifer from SuchCakes kindly made the tiered cake and smash cake. She incorporated the theme into the big fondant bow atop the tiered cake and by piping buttercream roses onto the smash cake.
Favors for the little ones were homemade baby trail mix, which they loved! For the slightly older ones, there were cone cello bags filled with blue cotton candy and robin colored sixlets. For the much older ones, they received flower seeds in custom-made packets that read “Children, like seeds, grow with love warmth attention.” How unique and adorable and all were made by Farrally Paperie!
There were many DIY projects that went along with this birthday bash! Fabric garlands, invitations, candy buffet labels, signs, the first birthday sign, following the months picture banner, paper rosette backdrop, pom-poms and paper circle garlands and tissue paper tassel garland were just some of the items that were handmade by Farrally Paperie. Phew! That’s sounds like a lot of work! All of the desserts were handmade, as well, minus the main tiered cake and smash cake.
Once it was all said and done, mom had to admit that out of everything, her favorites from the party were the invitations, the fabric garlands, and the awesome cute necklace from Etsy that the birthday girl wore during her smash cake session! It matched her outfit perfectly!
Since this was the birthday girl’s first birthday, Mom really wanted to start some traditions. Therefore, she made the picture banner that portrayed individual pictures of the birthday girl for each month from birth up until 11 months old. A 16×20 birthday poster was also created displaying all her favorites and details. Each year the family plans on creating one of these and on her 18th birthday, they will give them to her in a book form, along with letters each year from us. Awe… Love!
Credits & Resources
Invitations & Party Décor – Farrally Paperie, LLC // Cakes – SuchCakes // Other Desserts – Farrally Delicious // Photography: Allix Atagi
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