We are so excited to share the vintage farm birthday party that we threw last week for a very special little farmer!
The decorations included plenty of vintagized grape crates, a party animal chandelier, mason jar candles, wooden farm equipment made by the birthday boy's grandfather, and the rustic birthday banner we featured a few weeks back.
The decorations included plenty of vintagized grape crates, a party animal chandelier, mason jar candles, wooden farm equipment made by the birthday boy's grandfather, and the rustic birthday banner we featured a few weeks back.
In order to celebrate the birthday boy, The Party Planning Committee created a chalkboard our of grape crate lidsand wrote down all of his 'stats', and strung up lots of pictures of his first year!
Green cutlery was wrapped in orange napkins and tied with twine to look like carrots.
Mini guests adopted stuffed dog "farm puppies" as their favours. There is a free printable available on our blog here for the thank you tags. The same thank you tags were also used to label chocolate-dipped pretzel rods for the adults.
On the "mini" menu was:
- Sliders on homemade pretzel buns (we shaped the patties using a cookie cutter and followed this recipe for the pretzel buns)
- 2 kinds of mini pizzas (goat cheese with red onion, sundried tomato and kalamata olive, and meat lovers)
- Bacon-wrapped dates
- Mini "baked potatoes" (new potatoes baked in the oven, topped with sour cream and chives)
- Fresh veggies in ranch sauce
- An olive and pickle platter
- The caprese salad bites we featured here (we found larger cocktail tomatoes and cocktail bocconcini, making these even easier to make!)
- Bacony devilled eggs cut horizontally instead of vertically, placed back in a half shell, and displayed in an egg carton
For dessert, french vanilla cupcakes were dressed as sheep with the help of mini white chocolate chips and fondant faces.
The two-tiered lemon and french vanilla birthday cake featured fully edible fondant farm animals, and was surrounded by peanut-free haystacks (made with marshmallows instead of the traditional peanut butter).
The cake smash was, of course, done atop the scalloped splash mat we featured here.
The photobooth was decked out with farm-related props, including a cowboy hat and mini straw hats, bunny ears, a pig nose, mustaches (not so on-theme, but very necessary!) and fill-in-the-blank speech bubbles.
All in all, we think it was a night to remember! What do you think?
Love,
Ashley, Jen and Alessandra
Love,
Ashley, Jen and Alessandra
