Party Feature - Island Themed Candy Station

We were delighted to receive this party submission from Christine at Bitter Sweet Creations.

This beautiful Island themed candy station with a colour pallet of blues, greens & creams was coordinated and organised whilst on holidays oversea.  

Below is Christine's story

"Whilst my husband and I were on recent holidays in Spain, we caught up with family and friends. My husbands cousin surprised us with a special announcement that he and his partner had been married one day before they headed overseas.

His sister contacted me whilst I was on holidays and advised that a welcome back lunch for the newlyweds was being organised and could I put together a candy buffet for them.

I didn't hesitate for a minute and said YES!!

Planning a candy buffet whilst overseas on holidays wasn't the easiest of tasks, but I had an absolute Ball as always planning it. With the party being held only two days after I returned.

As the newlyweds were "island hopping" in Spain an Island themed candy buffet featuring shades of blues, greens & creams was created. Adding shell & frangipani accents throughout the styling of both the candy station and place settings.

My centrepiece was my favourite item to put together on the candy table and didn't come together until the day before.

The centrepiece was created by using an extra large martini glass. This was filled with shells and water.  The addition of adding a piece of cabbage flower which resembled coral completed my favourite item and completed the candy station.

This table was an absolute pleasure to create and I'm so glad the happy couple loved it.

I wish them all the happiness in the world.

Special mention and thanks to Flowers for Everyone - Stocklands Merryland NSW"

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Red and Blue)

We love doing baked items especially for our repeat clients. With a request for something plane, train and cars we created the following baked items in the blue and red colour pallet as requested.

• 9inch Chocolate Mud Cake with fondant toppers
• Vanilla Cupcakes with blue buttercream icing
• Decorative Sugar Biscuits trains, planes and cars

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Disney Princess - Cinderella, Beauty and Ariel

On a wet rainy day in Melbourne this was a WOW dessert station that put a smile on everyone face. With a big challenge to incorporate three popular disney princess onto one table. The clients brief was to incorporate Cinderella, Ariel and Beauty with colour requests of Red, Yellow and Blue.

The dessert station backdrop would be our most challenging creation to date. With venue restriction we were unable to hang or stick to walls and everyone knows how much we rely on double sided tape, hooks, pins and fishing line!!

The backdrop was a crafted masterpiece complete with crown, draped fabric and stencils. With the use of paints, glitters, hot glue guns, pins and other crafty items being required.

The dessert station themed baked items include:

• Cupcakes themed with toppers
• Sugar biscuit in shoes and tiara
• Jelly cups in red with glitter
• Cakepops in blue with shimmering glitter

We decided that the best way to tackle this was to have three separate elements representing the princesses. 

Cinderella:

We used a colour cordinated cushion and shoe to present our oreo cake pops on. 

Ariel:

We created an Ariel setting complete with sand, starfish creations and props. We then placed our jelly cups around. An effective way we thought to represent Ariel and the colour red.

Beauty

This section of the dessert station was the most fun, replicating the main charters. Using ceramic paint it is amazing what you can turn to life. The teapot and teacup coming to life along with our candle stick. With the sugar biscuits presented around the props.

All themeing, styling, edibles and crafted items provided by The Inspired Occasion.

This party was also featured over at Lily Chic Events this week. We are very excited to be doing another princess party this week, Cinderella...

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Back to school! - A school themed baby shower

Again its that time of year again. Starting tomorrow morning 7am it's back to alarm clocks, packed lunches, uniforms, homework, drop off's and pick ups.  It's with mixed emotions.... great that routine and structure will commence again and of course more uninterrupted time to manage our upcoming functions will be a blessing, but unsettling also, as we can't believe how fast they are growing up and our youngest little boy is off to pre-prep so there is sure to be tears (from mum...) when he steps into his new class room!!

Anyway -  to celebrate the return to school, We thought we'd re-share this school themed baby shower that we featured last year and with so many new followers on board we are sure it will be well received!!

This baby shower was put together by Whitney at Whitney Smith Photography for her friend, who is a primary school teacher.

It is filled with all sorts of cute details; blackboards, cookies and milk, lunch bags, apples for the teacher, school books and a gorgeous personalised baby shower book. All the guests left notes for the baby in here, along with a list of gifts and other mementos.

Another adorable feature was prepared by the mum-to-be's class. They all wrote down pieces of advice on parenting for her - maybe not overly helpful, but certainly amusing!

Enjoy!

And stay reading as next week we will be featuring another baby shower that we managed recently, think sage green, lemon, white and birdcages!!

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Party Blog - Le Petit Prince

The Little Prince (French "Le Petit Prince") is a French classic children's novel first publish in 1943 written by a French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It is is a wonderful children's story about a man who meets an amazing boy and relearns what it means to be a child.

This blog post has a number of images from a party we created and event managed late last year.  Le Petit Prince themed party was created for a client's son's 1st birthday.
















Our Client wanted a unique theme to celebrate her son's first birthday and loved the french book Le Petit Prince so the challenge was set for us to research and create something unique. As we started to research the novel we soon came across various aspects of the book we could make reference to on our dessert station, the fennec fox, the stars, the planets, red roses etc.

There were 50 guests in attendance and we started by designing an invitation to set the scene for the party, They looked so unique and were a perfect way to invite the guests!

For the party, we added in lots of elements from the book such as stars, fresh red roses, figurines and lanterns to represent space.

Starting with a colour palate of blue, yellow and hints of red we created a dessert station enjoyed by all. The stationery was designed by The Inspired Occasion and our all baked dessert items where created in-house to incorporate the colours and theme. Items on the dessert station included cupcakes with the red rose and stars as toppers, sugar cookies in the shape of stars dusted in edible glitter, cake pops and jelly cups all appreciated by the big and small guests.

There was also a themed chocolate mud cake cake which stood centre on the table with a handmade sugar figurine of the character himself and was a big talking point of the table. A selection of colour coordinated candy also added to the theme of the table.

We created the space feel by adding a backdrop with stars and hanging blue and yellow lanterns. We also incorporated some of the clients items into the table including the fox and various figurines. Red roses doted on the table another way to transform this table.

The Loot Bags, designed by The Iinspired Occasion where filled by the client who had two option for both the younger and older children. With each child receiving a bag filled with candy along with other items such as crayons and themed colouring pad, lego, bubbles and a balloons.

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To top the party off we organised for a French themed entertainer to host the children with an array of activities, games, face painting, glitter tattoos, music and dance.

Hope you have enjoyed the photos from our Little Prince Party and looking forward to sharing more of our party highlights soon.

We were also lucky enough to have this party featured over at Les Enfants party blog:
 http://lesenfantsparty.blogspot.com/2012/01/real-party-le-petite-prince.html

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