Invites
I used smilebox for invites for DD's bday that I jsut sent out. They were great as I didnt have the money to order invitations. You can put a photo of DD on the invite in cute designs and music plays to it and then you send it by email. Food
We are doing a sausage sizzle and then just plates of nibble foods like cob dips, plattars, fruit and then I will do some fun things for the kids. Venue
We are doing it at home Cake
Getting it made as I am hopeless and baking cakes.
For DD's invitations (both years) we have made them on the computer at home and printed them on photo paper. Half of the paper wass a recent photo of DD and the other half wass the details, then I just added some pictures for the theme (ie: this year was a butterfly party so there were some butterflies flying around the photo and writing). They looked pretty good and I think it is nice for family, especially rarely seen family, to be given a nice picture of DD each year. We also sent out a nice photo after the party with a little personalise thank you message on the back.
mrsmac- thx beautiful ,my house is pretty small..wouldnt really be suitable for the amount of ppl that would be coming i don't think.lol
i have that woman's weekly cake book as well its awesome hay i might pick one out of their and get it made as i just don't think i could do it lol
AliBaby- oooo i have smilebox why didnt i think of that lol thx hun
when's you dd's bday party hun xx
The picnic idea sounds great, what if you checked at the auto shops or even the cheap shops for one of those little gazebo things, we picked some up from bunnings on special for like $20 and it would be perfect to have 1 or 2 in the car and pop up if it rains or even just for extra shade on the day?
Food: bbq meat, some salads, sandwiches, fairy bread (for the kids of course ), mini quiches.. think of things that if possible can be made the day before and travel well.
Invites i like the idea of designing your own, i did DD's and then took them to office works to be printed, or get someone to help you design them if your not comfortable doing it yourself.
Cake - i cheated i bought the one for Ava... it was gorgeous though.
Have fun hun it's exciting... do you have a theme for the party, butterflies, beach, flowers etc... work around that on the invite if you do... lol
Our little girl just turned 1 last week!! (sad but exciting at the same time!!!)
I made her cake with the help of DH! (cute turtle cake!!) and we had everyone over at our house on Saturday and ordered heaps of Subway platters!!! ANd just put out other nibblies so it was low fuss!! We are so glad we got subway to make the lunch for us as that way we just had to pick it up and it was all done for us!! That way we could enjoy talking to everyone more. If we'd been in the kitchen handling food etc it would have been too stressful!!!
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), mini quiches.. think of things that if possible can be made the day before and travel well.
Good luck! It's lots of fun!
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