Enchanted Events & Design

Friday, March 29, 2013

{Event Recap} Board Game Birthday

Okay, now that my husband is 34 I should probably get around to sharing his 33rd birthday! Inspired by table top game day (Saturday, March 30, 2013) I decided to get off my butt and write the post already!

One of my best friends and my husband have birthdays just 3 days apart so we typically celebrate them together. This year they both requested a board game party.

Over the last few years we've discovered the world of Euro games and turned into some serious board game geeks.

We're anxiously awaiting our children to get old enough so we can have some serious family board game nights. We're very excited that at four our oldest is slowly being trained in some of the simpler games.

But back to the party! The colors had to be green and orange, because those are the birthday boy's and girl's color of choice when picking playing pieces. We threw in white accents since another board game addict friend's birthday was a few weeks previously and he likes playing white! I grabbed a cheap Ikea rug from my kids' room and hung it up as a backdrop for the table. The rug reminded me of a whimsical children's game board; and it had all the right colors to match the party theme.

I broke the table up between appetizers and desserts. I didn't want to have separate tables since most of the rooms were going to be full of empty tables on which to play games.

There are so many games we enjoy, but I tried to focus on some of the favorites of the birthday boy and girl, and ones I could easily replicate in food form! All of the food signs were designed to imitate cards from the Munchkin card game. This was especially fun to design since the cards are all humorous and silly. For appetizers we served chicken salad, pigs in a blanket,

On a Roll Ham Sandwiches

and Seafood Stuffed Mushrooms

For the desserts I got some help from the wonderful Jessy of Fairytale Frosting, who created amazing "tile" cookies to replicate pieces from the game Carcassonne.

Eating Carcassonne cookies while playing the game

And Jenny of Parker's Flour Patch, who, once again, created some fabulous cupcake toppers with lots of different game pieces

Game pieces from Tobaggo

Pow Wow head piece

Guests playing Pow Wow

Meeple (game piece)

Age of the birthday boy and girl

Fondant Guillotine Cards also by Parker's Flour Patch

A few more of the birthday boy's favorite desserts I had to include on the table:

Brownie Bite Checkers

Reeses Pieces

Vendors
Party styling & design: Enchanted Events & Design
Printables & graphic design: Enchanted Events & Design
Carcassonne cookies: Fairytale Frosting
Cupcake Toppers: Parker’s Flour Patch

Friday, February 22, 2013

{Photo shoot} Sugar & Spice Thanksgiving

Wait, what? Does that say Thanksgiving??? Yes it does! Since the end of the year got so hectic with my move and the holidays I never got a chance to share all the fabulous photos from my Thanksgiving photo shoot for Bird's Party Magazine with everyone. So now that I have a bit more time I wanted to finally let you all see all the wonderful photos by Sarah Vinson Photography that you didn't get to see in the magazine. When coming up with a party design I love working with traditional themes and palettes, but I really enjoy including a fun or unique twist. For this sugar and spice table I wanted to design a tablescape fit for a little girl's Thanksgiving. I chose traditional colors of orange, brown and white and added in a fun feminine twist by including an abundance of pink! The table still has a warm harvest feeling with the inclusion of traditional elements like pinecones, fall leaves, pumpkins and acorns. The addition of all the fun pink details like the napkin rings, placemats, pink florals and the graphic table cloth makes it also look very fun and modern.

I also wanted to do something different with the napkin rings, menus and place cards. Instead of traditional printed designs I opted to include more kid friendly craft ideas. These items are a great opportunity for the little hostess to have fun in assembling the table herself and for cute keepsakes for her guests. The napkin rings were plastic children's bracelets I found at the local dollar store.

The place cards were acorns I glued onto ribbon and decorated with glitter and beads.

The menus were assembled out of pine cones, paper and other crafting materials.

Vendor Credits
Event Design: Enchanted Events & Design
Photography: Sarah Vinson Photography

Monday, February 4, 2013

{Event Recap} Pan & Tink Boy/Girl Birthday

Early last year (ya I know that's how far behind I am on these posts!!!) I got asked to style a combo boy/girl birthday party for a little 2 and 4 year old. The mom asked for a Tinkerbell and Peter Pan theme using pink for the girls and green for the boys. I decided to focus on a woodsy, tree house style with lots of brown and beige to accent the pink and green. The dessert table was set up on the back deck under a beautiful wood plank awning. I covered the entire awning with strands of green felt leaf garlands. This gave the impression of being under a forest canopy with the Lost Boys. The table itself was covered in a burlap fabric and all the platters were wood slices in different shapes and sizes. The treats included:

A Beautiful and Whimsical Cake

Powdered Donuts decorated with Tinkerbell and Peter Pan silhouette toothpicks

Peter Pan's Cap Cake Pops

Strawberry Wendy Wafers

Cookie Pops, Strawberry Whoppers,
Gummy Candies, and of course Pixi Stix

I continued the decor throughout the rest of the party. When the guests arrived they entered along a walkway lined with silk Gerber daisies and pink and green fairy houses staked into the ground. Each of these were adorned with a tiny paper Tinkerbell silhouette. Wooden ships sat on the tables with pink and green pirate sails and the canopies were all draped in festive pink and green crepe paper.