For my niece, Laurajane's sixteenth birthday
(this was September 2010), she wanted to have a vintage-y Alice in Wonderland themed party.
She has such a fun sense of style, and I was so excited to help her throw this awesome party!!
This is what my inspiration
picture was: Different chairs, different tablecloths, different sized tables, tea pots, pedestal platters, etc...
First, the Invitations: I love how they turned out!!!
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The tea pot was the envelope. Each tea pot was made with different scrapbook paper - I wished she had taken a picture of them all together before they were handed out. |
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We put the words 'open me' at the top of the tea pot (because those words were used a bunch in the movie...), and the invitation came out of the tea pot. |
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I was so excited when I found brads that looked like key holes! |
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Each tea pot had a key attached with the black and white ribbon. |
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Laurajane wanted it to be a costume party, so on each invitation Laurajane included a picture of who the guest was supposed to dress up as. I have to say, she has the coolest friends, because they all dressed up!
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Laurajane was, of course, Alice - being the guest of honor and all...
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Her dress was a Goodwill find. Literally minutes before guests arrived, I was hot gluing strips from the bottom of her dress as sleeves! |
There was the blue caterpillar, the mad hatter, the white queen, the hare, and more!!
ENTRANCE TO THE PARTY:
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I wanted her to do one of these signs for the party, and she and her dad did a great job! How awesome is that??? |
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We used mix and match china - a lot of it vintage. Every table setting was different, different tea cups, goblets, and plates, etc. |
THE GAMES: Of course they played croquet...
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We added cards to the wires |
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I realized my candy thermometer was broken when my petit fors icing turned to thick glue!!! So it wouldn't cover my over sized petit fors! So sad!! |
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My nephew made the mushrooms |
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To keep the party at a reasonable budget, my sister vetoed the roses we wanted to use, so we used carnations instead, and it was still fabulous. |
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I did some printed tissue paper flowers, a little bit harder... |
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We also put quotes at each table setting for them to read and try and guess which character in the movie said it. |
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I absolutely loved the place cards... |
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These napkins were going to be the death of me. I decided early on, we would make the napkins into rabbits, then the night before, I started making them, and my white napkins were TOO THICK to make the rabbits. Luckily, I had brought some white fabric with me, and just cut large napkins out of the fabric with my pinking shears. |
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She wanted soup and chicken salad croissants, so that's what she got! |
THE CAKE: Laurajane wanted a topsy turvey cake, so I practiced and experimented, and this was the final product. I'm not sure if you knew or not, but making a cake with fondant was on my bucket list... so, check and check! (for the record: I've never been a fan of fondant until I made this marshmallow fondant, but fondant with food coloring is absolutely disgusting, I told everyone to pick the colored stuff off before they ate the cake! :) The cake was three different flavors, but it was so long ago, I couldn't even tell you what they were!
THE FAVORS: A deck of cards wrapped up with a quote from the movie, "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
It was such a fun party for my bestest Laurajane friend! ;) |
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yay!! i feel guiltless now that it's finally been posted..
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ReplyDeleteThis party idea looks fun and amazing too! At the moment, we are quite hooked with Frozen but I might suggest this Alice in Wonderland for my niece's birthday theme in the future. Those signs were great too, especially the "all mad here" (sounded like it's a danger zone) lol!
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