Circus Themed 5th Birthday Party

We had a lot of fun event managing this very special 5th birthday celebration. With the birthday boy's request of a "Circus Theme" the hunt for the perfect venue started and what an amazing venue we found. The 22 invited children were taken for an hour of circus acrobatic activities before being spoilt with a table full of customised lunch boxes and a dessert station full of sweets and treats.

We designed and custom made a circus “Big Top” canopy in the traditional circus colour pallete of red and white stripes which was complemented by a bright yellow, red and blue ruffle table cloth, together with a themed lemonade stand which was also constructed for the occasion and served as a drinks station.

Our Dessert Station Menu included: 

• Rainbow Vanilla Push up Pops - The inspiration and idea for adding push up pops to this table came straight from Pizzazzerie (Courtney Whitmore) - Push-up Pops book!!
• Vanilla Cupcakes
• Sugar Biscuits with custom designed icing toppers 
• Popcorn Cups
• Cake-pops

The Lunch Boxes contained

• Packet of Crisps
• Grapes and Strawberries
• A Savoury Roll
• Fairy Bread
• Customised Poptops

The birthday cake was also design and made by The Inspired Occasion and incorporated the Big Top Tent together with fondant topper elephant and clown in keeping with the colour palette.

All guests took home a miniature gumball machine and giant chupa-chup as a thank-you gift. 

Credits to the following:

• The Inspired Occasion - All edibles, themeing and styling including construction of the circus tent, lemonade stand and ruffled table cloth - https://www.facebook.com/theinspiredoccasion
• Love JK - Stationary design (invitation, menu tags, decorative toppers, candy jar labels, lunch box labels, pop top labels, thank-you tags, lemonade stand signage and milk bottle labels) - https://www.facebook.com/LoveJKAustralia
• Love JK - Photography
• Little Big Company - Miniature GumBall Machines and swirl lolly pops - https://www.facebook.com/Littlebigcompany
• Circus Spot - Circus party Venue - https://www.facebook.com/circus.spot.

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Elegant in Yellow and White

The Yellow and White Owl Party that we featured back in May has been a popular post and all the details to this party can be viewed here.

Last week we had the opportunity to recreate this dessert station as an Ultimate Party Pack, details of what this pack includes are available on our online shop here

This dessert station featured some of our owl edibles including

• Owl Sugar Buscuits
• Vanilla Decorative Cupcakes
• Lemon Jelly
• Decorative Cakepops

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Girlie Christening/1st Birthday - Pinks and White

Pink and White themed party we put together for a client last month and as featured on Little Big company Blog. 


The occasion was a Christening/1st Birthday celebration. The client chose a very girlie colour scheme of pink and white and wanted a pretty and whimsical design. 


There were 45 guests, who all attended the Christening at the local church before coming to the private residence for the celebrations. The Inspired Occasion managed the event, organising the spit roast catering, food service staff, crockery and silverware requirements, as well as table, chair and linen hire. In keeping with the client’s chosen theme the tables were dressed with white table cloths and matching runners with lantern centrepieces. 


We also provided a number of other hire items for the client to utilise such as our large silver drink tubs and bench seating for the children. All dessert station edibles, stationery and themed items were made and designed in-house, with even the pink and white dessert station canopy constructed specifically for this event.


The guests were served a hearty roast buffet lunch consisting of roast beef, chicken and pork with roast potatoes, and a selection of salads.


Our Dessert Station menu for the event: 

Pink White Chocolate Ganache Macarons

Red Velvet with Buttercream cupcakes

Vanilla with Raspberry buttercream cupcakes

Raspberry Jelly Cups

Chocolate Mousse Cups

The dessert station was completed with two cylindrical jars filled with assorted pink and white candies, and two hanging lanterns with flickering candles under the backdrop which matched the lanterns centrepieces on the tables.

As a take-home thank you gift from the client all guests received a personalised bagged sugar cookie in a heart shape. 

The client made her own birthday cake, which was presented on our cakestand on a riser. The cake, once cut, was a beautiful rainbow layer cake finished off with white buttercream and pink and silver cashous giving the table a finishing touch from the client herself.

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