Emily’s shabby vintage tea party

Themed to perfection

At The Inspired Occasion we believe that theming any event gives your occasion an unbeatable edge! From choosing a simple colour palette through to creating an entire event around a specific idea, theming is definitely something to consider if your aim is to wow your guests!

Over the past year The Inspired Occasion’s online blog has featured an abundance of diverse events to help get your creative juices flowing, many of which we carefully created around our clients visions.

The Inspired Occasion will be providing regular blog posts sharing our tips on the different ways that events can be personalised and styled with the help of a theme.

Rachael from Myrtle and Grace (www.myrtleandgrace.com.au) blew us away with this latest party submission, with her delicate theming and incredible attention to detail The Inspired Occasion are delighted to present 

 Emily’s shabby vintage tea party

When we asked Rachael where the inspiration for her theme came from she explained that her daughter Emily had asked for a flower garden party. The bright flower decorations used throughout the party certainly fit Emily’s desired theme yet contain the elegance and quirkiness of the shabby vintage that Rachael added later on. 

The clear glass bottles you can see below (which are available for purchase at The Inspired Occasion) show the incredible level of creativity that Rachael put into every minute detail. Just look at the vintage style font on the gorgeous flowery labels.  

Do you have ‘useless’ old objects lingering around your house? Why not get creative and use them for your next occasion? This terracotta plant pot is a perfect example of using the old to create the new and undoubtedly it fits perfectly with the shabby vintage garden party theme!

One thing that the Inspired Occasion would recommend to anyone looking to create their own themed event is to COLLECT!

Rachael became a hunter and gatherer when organising her event and searched for everything from old vintage side plates and pretend crystal dishes to vases and cake platters. These sought after items definitely add a touch of elegance to the event and we have no doubt that Emily’s guests felt quite the lady for the afternoon!

The Inspired Occasion will be featuring Part 2 of Emily’s 4^th Birthday later in the week so stay tuned to see more divine photos from Celeste (www.ourgirlyworld.blogspot.com), vintage themed food ideas and supplier credits.

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Kais Kids Market - St Agnes Homestead

What a wonderful day was had today at The Stables, Saint Agnes Homestead in Kyneton, (www.saintagnes.com.au) with a fantastic charity market supporting some family friends.

The Inspired Occasion all set-up

With all gold coin entry, stall holder fees and donations going to Kais Kids www.kaiskids.org an orphanage in Cambodia dedicated to housing and supporting infants and children.

With an early start and a car packed full of cupcakes we headed to Kyneton this morning with the weather holding out for what was a great day in the beautiful grounds and stalls at St Agnes Homestead.

It was great to see a familiar Inspired friend Margarite from Babychinos who stopped by for a Raspberry Cupcake!!

The Inspired Occasion Stable

 And some new friend were made:

• Liama – Olive Branch preserve from Taradale
• Brian - Honey Health Warrandyte
• Gordon - Cope/Williams wines
• Linda - Red Loves Green – Unique hand painted art

 The day was action filled with the arrival of Santa with his baby reindeer, Cooking demonstrations, live music, silent auctions and lots of local wines, beers, produce and products to be sampled.

Some people arrived early and quickly took claim to prime sunny locations with picnic blankets. Many of these people of whom became regulars during the day enjoying our cupcakes for both morning and afternoon tea!!

We knew a successful day was had when we sold out of cupcakes hours before the end of the day and was then able to sample and purchase some of the great products ourselves.

This market will defiantly be on The Inspired Occasions calendar again next year

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First Communion

We love it when our customers share with us what they do with our Edibles after they are collected, and Kelly has excelled with this dessert table.

We just couldn't resist sharing the feedback we received from our client  "Everyone just loved the edibles and Grace was just so happy! Everything tasted wonderful and my table never looked so beautiful!". It puts a big smile on our face.

Working with a brief of  "something pretty and a colour palate of white, pink and touch of green" we designed decorative cross and heart shaped sugar cookies, colour matching macarons and cake pops as well as the ever so popular personalised chocolate bars.

Finally a special thanks to Kelly for letting us be a part of your daughters special day, for sending these snapshots and providing us with great feedback.

If you would like to order some Edibles for your next event, you can email us here.

'A very hungry caterpillar' themed babyshower

We were thrilled when we were recently asked to put together some pieces for a baby shower with The Very Hungry Caterpillar as the central theme. The guest of honour is a teacher, so it seemed very apt and we loved creating all the little details to help her bring the baby shower to life. 

Love these biscuits - each one had a tiny hole in it!

Big thanks to Giggleberry Creations for the gorgeous bunting and Squiggle & Stitch for the fabulous purple spotty table runner. The fun caterpillar was made from pom poms by the lovely Pom Pom Princess.

All candy, edibles, cake stands and jars from The Inspired Occasion.

Finally, big congrats to Bec and Kristy on their wonderful job of styling the table!

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Join us to dance the night away!

Who doesn't love a disco dance? And nothing says disco, like a shimmery shiny disco ball. This fun party that we recently put together for a gorgeous 12 year old included everything a disco loving girl could possibly want!

We started off by preparing each guest a survival pack to take home. Each one included a glittering nail polish, a CD containing all the birthday girls favourite songs, a personalised chocolate bar and some lollies. We were so pleased with how these came up and can't wait to do them again!

And what disco for a 12 year old is complete without lots and lots of pink?! Everything from pink glasses, to 150 pink balloons helped to set the scene. 

The highlight of the dessert station was the lovely disco ball cake created by Cakes & Biscuits by Lisa. It also included; mini chocolate mousse cups, pink donuts, macarons, cake pops, cupcakes and of course, lots of delicious candy!

We also arranged a karaoke machine and a chocolate fountain - which the kids loved and we heard they rocked out long into the night!

All the printables for this party were inspired by the invite design by Jennifer Birkhead.
All styling and edibles are from The Inspired Occasion.

You can check out another of our favourite disco parties here.

We have another busy weekend, with a cocktail party on Saturday night (the first of the Christmas season - when did that sneak up?!) and then off to Williamstown on Sunday for Fairy Floss Markets, where we will be the cupcake chicks again.

Would love to see you there :)

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