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| Left: Detail of flowers, Right: Detail of straws, coasters and paper napkins |
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| Left: Winni with hat, Right: Balloons |
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| Left: Pom Poms hanging from the ceiling and Right: A detail, Photography: Marcus Hay |
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Left: Ink stamp of skull & cross bones onesie on paper napkins, Right: gift bags filled with prizes,
Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Left: The mantle decorated, Right: Winni's hat pre decorating with ribbon, Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Left: Our apartment mascot got dressed for the event, Right: platter with flowers, Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Left: Personalised bags of Popcorn, Right: From above, seating area for guests, Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Droopy sunflowers, Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| The invite and guests enjoying the opening of presents, Photography: Marcus Hay |
It was such a pleasure to host a baby shower for our dear
friend Winni Lok who is expecting her first baby in October. She lives in the
building so we will be super close when the baby comes. With the cutest working
name “Mini Winni” ever, I kick started into decorating mode when we suggested
hosting it for her. A while back I remember discussing with Winni what colors
she would like, I remember she said a definite No to pink so we went with a
yellow, white and pale orange as the colors.
I have done many a baby shower shoot but never hosted one,
and as always real life is very different to non reality especially with real
life guests, After a late change of time and thus many emails later, balloons
deflating and popping before the event upon delivery, multiple trips to
Wholefoods ..yet again!, because we forgot something else! Guests arrived and
all thank fully went to plan. For entertainment we played a measuring of the
tummy game and for a second amusement everybody who bought ribbons on their
presents attached to a hat we had especially monogrammed with Winni’s name on
it with which she posed for pictures. Andrea my Assistant who doubles as a Bar
Tender served for us Rose petal cocktails with stripy straws and Peach
Bellini’s which were too delicious, with a baby friendly one for Winni for the
official toast.
For flowers we did small bouquets in small silver rain buckets with gift tags attached with ducks and baby shoes and big droopy sunflowers in vases (which we had to wire up as they kept
sagging). I brought out of storage my white animal collection of figurines to
create a little forest of woodland creatures to help celebrate the event. We
had personalized mini bags of popcorn and prizes in gift bags with tags we
stamped with a signature baby onesie with skull and cross bones. Balloons in
yellow, white and cream and big paper pom poms hanging from the ceiling.
It was such a fun evening and so great to see Winni smiling
ear to ear! Can’t wait to meet Mini Winni for real!
Looks gorgeous! I love yellow for a baby party - it's so cheerful (and it's the perfect season for sunflowers!) - and avoids the boring pink / blue dilemma. I read somewhere recently that chevrons are a big trend for decorating baby rooms, so those popcorn bags are bang on. I hope everyone had a great time.
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