A Gift - The New Invitation

Over the last year we have been noticing a real trend for different and exciting invitations.  The hand-written, filled-in invite has been replaced by a new breed of personalized, themed and sometimes shaped invitations.

We always see the invitation as a pre-cursor to the party, a taster of what is to come and from our perspective as a party planners, we like to ensure it is as stylish as the party itself.

Recently our clients have been asking for us to push the boundaries of the traditional invitation and we have been creating invitations, which are in themselves small gifts.  Examples include a Wonka bar with a golden ticket, a paint box with the invite inserted into the lid, a book and sweets in a gift bag, a pirate invite in a bottle and cupcakes and themed cookies as well.

We decided to look further into this as a concept and see what other exciting and interesting ideas we could find out there as well as sharing some of our own.

How about adding crayons to an art party invitation
as One Charming Party did here 

Let's Go Lego!

Today we’re taking a journey into the land of endless colourful opportunity… LEGO!!! What I love about this theme is you can apply it to any gender! The endless options of colours and Lego characters available allows for a completely bespoke party theme.

The timeless, instantly recognisable blocks have built countless forts, pony stables and castles and what better way to celebrate with a theme exuding fun and creativity.

Here’s a brilliant idea to entertain the children; LEGO DRESS UP! From the hair to the outfits or even yellow face paint, a Lego Dress-Up Station filled with colourful plain t-shirts and black shorts provides the perfect activity to get the children involved in the theme, bringing it to life.

Lego Sweetie bags are a brilliant idea. Again, the contents can be altered and the bag can be customised with names and images! If you want to get really inventive, the bags could be tied up with coloured ribbon holding pieces of different Lego as weights. The balloons could be also weighted with Lego shaped blocks… I could go on and on. The below sweetie bags by Les Enfants are adorable and unisex with little chocolate Lego men and theme coloured jelly beans!

Smash Cake Chaos

Good Morning

 

I must start this post with an opening statement - why weren’t Smash Cakes around when I was a child? It’s just not fair!

For those who don’t know; a smash cake is an individual cake presented to a child traditionally on their 1^st birthday. The aim of the game? For the baby to completely enjoy their smash cake with no regard for the amount of mess they may create.

Party in style - tea for two

Happy New Year, hope you all had a great Christmas.

I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you the promotional photo shoot we styled at the end of last year with the talented Danielle Owen.

It was a sunny Autumnal day when we headed deep into Epping Forest with our chaise longue and various other props.

Apart from a few comedy moments of a team of females lugging the furniture, the whole shoot went perfectly and our little models were gorgeous.

We hope you see how these photos embody our ethos - no matter how small or large your party is - always party in style.

  

Tea for Two

 

A special gift