Josslyn was born the week before Halloween and her older
sister called her “Sunny Girl” while I was pregnant with her. So it only made since to make her 1st
birthday party filled with sunflowers and a festive fall theme!
We made it a costume party and I created photo backdrop outside below the fall leaves. I created the pallet backdrop from an inspiration found on Pinterest: http://mydiyenvy.com/diy-pallet-wall-tutorial/3/. I’ve used this design for several events as well as yard décor. Wooden crates were filled with a variety of pumpkins, seasonal flower arrangements within some pumpkins and also in re-purposed tin cans wrapped with fabric.
The fabric patterns are also seen in the garlands throughout the event. The birthday girl’s darling highchair is a thrift store snag for $10! It just needed a little color and décor. I coordinated with an Etsy seller to create Josslyn’s onesie to match the same fabric that I was using in the party: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HazelandEloise. My mom sewed her tulle skirt and I added the tulle fluff on the shoulders to complete the outfit.
For the table backdrop, I painted on burlap
and added tissue sunflowers made from a Martha Stewart kit. The sunflower smash cake was made by a local
Safeway, but for guests we served a variety of homemade seasonal pies- which
everyone agreed was fabulous in lieu of cake!
I did make a few sunflower cupcakes for kiddos with Oreos as
centers.
The little guests also had a crafting corner and festive take home bags with loot such as: fall stickers, necklace kits, colored sunflower seeds and planting seeds. All ages enjoyed posing for the photo booth and all of the festive decor!
Event designed and photographed by: Lanissa Youngquist of Sweetandpetitepartydesigns.
