Food Theme Wedding Shower: Food Sneak Peek!

Hello everyone! I wanted to give you the breakdown of how we really made the food theme come alive for this shower! It was a long process, but we got it done! 

So the theme was food, but we couldn’t very well just have a heap of food lying around. I mean how do we have a theme about food? But then my brilliant brother suggested we have different food stations with different nationalities! Love, love, love it! So that’s what we did! We had a taco/nacho station: Mexican, a Haitian station (that’s who we are, we are Haitians, we couldn’t not have one), a mashed potato bar: American station, and an Italian station! Yumm. It became a Food Around the World theme! Though it really wasn’t around the world, I'm sure you get my drift.

Before I get into the food, I did want to start off with a guest signature platter I purchased from Etsy. I absolutely loved that it was a platter, fitting our food theme, but was also a sign-in for guests as they came in! It had their wedding colors and monogram!

Taco/Nacho Table: The Mexican table wasn’t too elaborate. We didn’t have a bunch of toppings, just the basics: salsa, sour cream, shredded cheese, and lettuce. We had a regular and a spicy ground beef filling! It was great! Sigh…

Haitian Station: The Haitian table was pretty straight forward as well. I'm glad we had heaters for the food (thanks mom!). Haitian food is always best when warm. It was quite delicious! My sister in law, is an amazing cook and boy did she cook! Gryo, Banan peze, pikliz, diri jon jon, chicken. Haitian food is a good thang!

Mashed Potato Bar: The American table was one of my favorite. I made the mashed potatoes the night before and warmed some gravy the day of, and all we needed was toppings! Bacon bits, shredded cheese, sour cream, and popcorn chicken! Lovely.

Italian table: Unfortunately, this was my least favorite table. It was so bare to me, and if I could do it over again, I would just nix it. But people ate the food! There was actually Haitian baked macaroni, we knew that people would eat it and basically its still Italian. We had yummy lasagna, again all done by my lovely sister in law. As you can see we did not take any pictures of the table. Shame on me! But I'm not that shameful, I really didn't like that table...

Dessert Table: Chocolate Fountain, cupcakes (Groupon!!), and Oreos!

Loved the cake! Represented our food around the world theme! 

Amanda Elizabeth Photography

Lastly, I did want to touch base with you about our Mint To Be favors! We bought a bulk from Dollar Tree of some mints, and decided to wrap them the way we did the toilet paper rolls! I also bought the wrapping paper from Dollar Tree. Printed those labels out and tied them on with ribbon!

I wish I could tell you about the food cost breakdown, but family and friends all shared the burden! Everyone pitched in to make it work and it all worked out well!

The decorations were not the greatest, but for my budget I was very happy! Streamers and tissue paper from the dollar tree and you have the décor for most of the food tables!

Cost Breakdown:
Mexican Table:
tissue paper {Dollar Tree: $1}
tape & scissors: already had
Sombrero hat: {Party City*:$15}
Napkins: {Dollar Tree:$1}
Total: $17

Haitian Table:
Streamers: {Dollar Tree:$2}
Palm trees: {Party City*: $2}
Napkins: {Dollar Tree:$2}
Haitian Flag: already had
Total: $6

American Table:
Streamers: already had/ purchased
Stars: {Party City*: $3}
Napkins: already had/purchased
Total:$3

Italian Table:
Checkered tablecloth: Already had
Total: $0

Decor Total: $26

*Party City used to be Iparty, not sure if their prices have changed.

Hope you enjoyed! I would Love to hear from you!

Blessings,

Sara

A Parisian Shower: Finale!

The journey is complete! Thank you for following my process to a wonderful Parisian shower! This was my first time coordinating and planning an event, and I knew I had fallen in love! It was so satisfying to see everything come together and alive before my eyes! I loved that it was specifically for them as a couple and how it represented them! I also loved how I spent only at the most a Total of $53 for all the decorations! I hope you enjoy the pictures! The fabulous Amanda Elizabeth Pullen, photographed for us!

Picture from my phone

Some of the MANY awesome helpers!

Vendors

Invitation: Etsy

Venue: Bethesda Baptist Church, Hyde Park MA

Caterer: Heather Sullivan

Cupcakes: CjCuppycakes

Cake: Yani's Cakes

Photography: Amanda Elizabeth Photography

A Parisian Shower- Toilet Paper Roll Party Favors (Merci Beau coup!)

This project was one of my favorites.

I truly do not care for party favors in general. I know that they are small gifts to give thanks for those attending the event. However, I do believe that it can be an unnecessary expense. In my experience most people do not even realize if they do not receive one! Therefore, if I was to do it, I decided that I definitely did not want to spend a great deal on the favors. But of course they had to be cute!

I had been finishing a project that involved toilet paper rolls and I still had many rolls left over. I began to research what I can do with the rolls when I came across this picture on Pinterest.

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I read the blog's instructions and I found it to be easy enough. My first action was to find the perfect scrapbook paper. At the craft store I found some nice ones. What caught my eye was a glittered pink swirl paper, but the price turned my eye away. It was 99 cents. This may not seem steep to you, but by my calculations, I was to spend $20 on the scrapbook paper alone... we were expecting 50-75 people. I just couldn't do that.

Luckily, it was the holiday season, and I came across some gorgeous wrapping paper for $2. This was a lot more satisfying! Although it wasn't pink, the paper still matched the color scheme we were going for (pink, black, white, with a touch of silver)!

I decided to do round printable labels that I found at the craft store. I had a coupon for them and ended up spending only $2 for about 50 labels. I also used a coupon for the Mod Podge, and it came up to be $3.29. Lastly, the pink ribbon I found at a dollar store.

With those extra supplies, pink Merci beau coup labels were printed, and I created slits at the top and bottom to weave the pink ribbon seamlessly through to tie around the favors! The lovely maid of honor purchased Hershey Kisses to fill! We ended up making a lot more than we needed, so I'm glad in the end I did not spend much on them. If I could change one thing, it would be to make the words much larger!

Amanda Elizabeth Photography

Toilet Paper Roll Merci Beau coup Favors

Toilet Paper Rolls: $0 (I gathered over time)

Wrapping paper:$2

Mod Podge (including sponge): $3.29

Labels: $2

Pink Ribbon: $1

Hershey Kisses: ? (maid of honor purchased)

Total: $9.29

Fifty party favors, for nine dollars, excluding the Hershey Kisses??? Not to shabby!

Blessings,

Sara