DIY: Pink & Lavender Baby Shower - Rosettes and Push-pops!

We celebrated another happy couple's soon-to-arrive baby girl a few weekends ago. We completed the decor with shades of pinks and purples - the paper rosettes and butterflies punch-outs added the perfect touch...simple and easy-to-make! The DIY brownie push-pops favors were a big hit as well!

Congrats to J and D - can't wait to meet you baby girl!

Real Birthdays: Vroom Vroom - a race car day of fun!

Race cars - that's what this 2-year old loves right now. We loved creating this backdrop to highlight the fun theme with bold colors, racer checkers and paper rosettes made to look like silver rims. We did get some ideas off Pinterest but personalized them to this little boy.

Check out the details below: we made lots of little race car treats; from brownie race cars (shaped from Costco premade brownies), kit-kat traffic lights, pretzel "dipsticks" to cotton candy "airbags." The cul-de-sac in front of the house was blocked off and turned into a race track filled with cardboard cars, pedal cars and motor cars. The birthday boy and his friends had a great time on this beautiful, sunny day in February! 

Vroom-vroom...

    

photos by RQue and CQue

L & M's Wedding - by BB Events (Pro Pix)

We were honored to witness the union of L & M, high school sweethearts whose relationship blossomed despite the obstacles of distance and military duties...it's true, distance does make the heart grow fonder!

Their whimsically fun wedding was held at the gorgeous Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The ceremony was preceded by cultural traditions, which began at their private residence - a Chinese Tea Ceremony and all the traditional fun games to go with it! L & M had a photoshoot where their love first seeded - flashback to highschool. Check out their photos by Vero Suh below (here's her blog post of L & M's wedding). Every moment was captured brilliantly and beautifully!

 

   

 

    

    

    

    

    

Credits to their brilliant team of vendors:
Wedding ceremony and reception venue - Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Catering & Rentals - Global Gourmet Catering
Make & Hair - The Glamourist
Florals - Poppy's Petalworks
Photography - Vero Suh Photography
Cake - Napoleon Super Bakery (info from yelp.com)

Real Birthdays: Come Luau! - by BB Events

ALOOOOOOOOOHA!

This was a very special day for a precious 1-year old girl. We had fun planning a backyard luau that incorporated  a tropical display of sweets and a mixed Hawaiian-Filipino savory menu (fully loaded with a whole Lechon). The day was packed with activities for the children, including a Lilo & Stitch jumper house (from Fantasy Jumperz), a special hula performance & lesson, paper lei making and swimming in the backyard pool! The guests also had access to a DIY photobooth - which took some super fun photos! A luau would not be complete without a lei for each guest - this one made of candies (yummy; photos below).

The balloons were anchored down by golf tees - a genius trick we picked up from Pinterest.

We had the most fun with the dessert table - with a backdrop filled with paper rosettes, streamers, a Martha Stewart birthday garland and photos of the birthday girl from 0 - 12 months! The sweets menu included multi-layered jello & haupia (coconut jello) cups on the 3-tier trays, mango cake (left),  3-layered vanilla cake (center), guava cake (right), pineapple cupcakes with coconut frosting, a fruit platter, brownie with oreo frosting push pops, pianono (a Filipino rolled cake) and a jar of chocolate chip cookies. All were homemade except the mango and guava cake, which were ordered from Aki's Bakery.

We were very fortunate to have found Carmel from A Polynesian Performance last minute, who put on a great hula performance, including a dedication hula to the birthday girl and her parents. She also gave the kids a fun hula lesson.

MAHALO for reading this post!

Summary of our luau vendors:

Lechon - Pinoy Lechon BBQ & Grill

Jumper - Fantasy Jumperz

Hula performance - A Polynesian Performance

Cake - Aki's Bakery

photos by chi