If you follow us on Instagram then you have already seen this party so sorry for the topic overload! As I mentioned last week, this weekend I hosted a really fun 40th birthday party for Terry {ya’ll remember her as she blogged with us the first 3 years our site was around, there is more in our whole blog background/how we started story HERE. } She is such a special friend, and this birthday is pretty monumental one so we had to make sure to mark it by hosting a really great event!
You all also probably remember that Terry is a event planner, so planning a party for a professional party planner is a bit, well, intimidating! We let her decide how she wanted to celebrate her day and she opted for an intimate “Girls Night Out”, and my co-hostess and I {our dear friend Trinity–see her HERE and HERE} chose a “Cupcakes & Cocktails” theme. We found this darling Kate Spade invite from Paperless Post which started things off perfectly.
My husband graciously helped us frantically move all the furniture out of our Breakfast Room and set up the buffet table inside. We used our kitchen table as a bar {pretty hastily set up thanks to the prep time we lost in the whole inside/outside debate} and moved some chairs in for extra seating.
After awhile things calmed down and we were able to return upstairs, but I certainly won’t forget that part of the evening {note to self: have kids clean up basement prior to party next time, it was not in guest-ready shape! *major cringe*}.
You can see this table I made here, I use it as a buffet for parties and my kids use it in the basement for art projects when we don’t have events going on. I had purchased the black and white balloons eons ago {via Oriental Trading} for Terry’s baby shower and they didn’t come in time for that party, so I unearthed them to use for this and they were just perfect. The crystal cupcake stands came from HomeGoods several years ago.
Despite the weather, it was truly a great party. The guests took it all in stride and the smaller turnout {again due to the terrible weather} created a more intimate event with such a lovely group of women. I loved every minute of it and was thrilled to honor Terry’s journey “over the hill” with this celebration. I’ll be back with the party menu in the next few days–it was definitely the easy part of this event.
On an random note–our frantic move everything out of the breakfast room led us to create a new seating area up against the knee-wall in our kitchen, and area I have struggled to find furniture for and has long been just empty. We love the new chairs here, what do you think?
Stay tuned, I’ll be back with Part 2 about this party later in the week. Have a great day!
XO,