I cannot believe I’m planning a birthday for this little girl already. How has it been eleven and a half months? We took her one year old photographs this morning and are knee-deep in birthday preparations. There is much to share over the next three weeks as we close in on our celebrations, but I thought I’d start by sharing my party theme, decoration ideas and invitation suite.
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I am so lucky that my girls are both book obsessed and decided to use that as inspiration for a first birthday fete. We don’t really need toys at this house, so a book party was perfect. I opted for long, skinny invitations that mimic the shape of a bookmark and that people can reuse long after the party. I had them UV coated and added ribbon tassels to complete the look.
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Instead of party favors that included candy and toys that no mommy wants to bring home, we found cute little board books in the dollar bin at Target a few weeks ago. They have a vintage flair that works really well with our decorations. I printed these cute favor tags to stick on the back of each book so that the guests would remember their gift from Soph.
Additionally, I made these cute bookplates to send out with the invitations. I hope our guests will fill them out and place them in the cover of their gifts so that Sophie will be able to look back and see the sweet little notes her friends and family left her in honor of her very first birthday!
I’ve already ordered super-cute cakes and cupcakes, bought paper pom-poms and old fashioned streamers to hang above the dining room table and found colorful paper straws, desert cups and cupcake liners. We have an adorable new outfit and fancy birthday crown and I’ve booked the best photographer in town to make sure we have plenty of photos to share. Things are coming together and I’m getting ready to put these invitations in the mail. Two more weekends to finish up things around the house and we’ll be celebrating God’s latest and greatest gift in our life!
