Garden Tea Party - Come join us down in the garden....

You are invited to join us down in the garden at this beautiful tea party that we designed for a 6th birthday. We wanted to put together something pretty and fun.

Instead of a standard dessert table, we set a beautiful table, filled with all sorts of delicious goodies and flowers from the garden. Each of the children took home one of these gorgeous little flower pots as a take home favour - which they loved!

Above the table we hung lots of pom poms in bright greens, yellow and pinks, as well as a ribbon mobile. Each of the chairs had lovely crisp white covers and big pink bows - so girly and pretty.

We also filled a table with colour co-ordinated candy, persian fairy floss, fun toffee apples and a gorgeous ruffle cake, made by The Inspired Occasion. Above the table we hung another of the ribbon mobiles - these were so simple to put together, yet looked so lovely on the day. 

Along with their pot plants, each child also got to take home one of these personalised chocolate bars. They are such a sweet addition to a take home favour - all the kids (and parents) love them!

Finally, what party would be complete without some personalised pop tops? As well as the glass vintage style milk bottles on each place setting, we put together some pop tops for the kids.

 We hope you have enjoyed this trip down to the garden with us!



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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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Bike Fest - Village Picnic

The Inspired Occasion had the honour last weekend of providing and styling the Time Out Melbourne Bikefest Stall. With 300 baked items all decorated in the Timeout colours including Vanilla and Carrot Cupcakes, Melting Moments, Sugar Biscuits, Macaron's and Cake Pops. All of which were eaten well before the event had finished!!. 

We had the opportunity to work with some great people including the Timeout Melbourne team, we also had the use of fantastic vintage props from  A Little Somethin Somethin and Asher Floyd Producer and Photographer who took all the photos below.

It is also with excitement that Amy Atlas featured this party on her blog also.

More photos of the event can be found at Time Out Melbourne

Edibles: The Inspired Occasion

Styling: The Inspired Occasion

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Creative party favours

We love the idea of giving a small favour to say thank you to the guests at a children's party. It doesn't have to be anything too fancy or big, but we do like giving guests something that they will actually use or eat - rather than ending up on the floor of the car before they even get home.

And while we always like to include something edible (and usually some lollies from the dessert table - it is a party after all) we must admit to being partial to crafty favours. Here is a round up of some of our current favourites....

Hand wrapped crayons - tutorial here

Gorgeously presented sidewalk paint from here

Super cute 'Moody' crayons (I know, more crayons - we love them, ok!) from here 

Personalised notebook with pencil holder from here.

Scented playdough with cookie cutters from here

Enjoy!

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New Look, New Website - The faces behind "The Inspired Occasion"

Welcome to the new "The Inspired Occasion". A new year,  a new look and new a website. We can't thank Tiffany from Pick Inc Web design enough for working with us to create a logo that reflects who we are.

And on the topic of who we are, we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to introduce the faces behind the company. A mother daughter duo who have a flare for style, sophistication and thinking outside the box. We love a challenge and can put many hats on from disney princess to lego to rustic and stylishly lavish events.

Alex the passionate foodie and less is more approach blends perfectly with Susan the creative and details driven stylist. With us both having extensive corporate event management backgrounds we are loving bringing private functions alive with style and attention to detail.

We have already done some great events this year and are excited with having so many  new events in the pipeline to share with you all over the coming months.

This photo taken for our audition for My Kitchen Rules

You can follow all our events and functions on the following social networks:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theinspiredoccasion
Muuve: http://www.muuve.com/index.php?en=muuver&md=home&fn=dashboard 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/InspiredParties
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/inspiredparties/

Over the coming week we will update all our social media links with our new logo and branding.


Alex and Susan

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