Who’s to say living through your child is wrong. Haha, Scarlett said she wanted a tea party in grandma’s backyard so I ran with it and turned into my dream tea party. I seriously had so much fun planning this one. I wanted to use a lot of color so I turned to the master’s and picked monet’s water lilies as my color inspo (seen in my invitation suite), its kind of a muted floral theme with dried flowers and dusty rainbow colors. I wanted it to feel like a garden party but with a little bit of magic so the butterfly theme really hit home for me. I found most of my stuff on Amazon (links below) and the dollar store and fabric store so it ended up being really affordable.
Coming up with unique details was important to me because I love being creative and I thrive on new ideas so I decided to do the dried flowers under the clear glass plates. This was super simple and had a big effect on the table setting. I also wanted to make the cake arch out of dried flowers and edible butterflies to connect each of the small cakes. My only regret with this is not having two of the same height cake pedestals. If you end up doing this same concept consider two of the same height. I also did a glue gun wax seal on the invitation with dried flowers below and it turned out awesome! A great DIY idea.
I also wanted it to be more intimate and with Covid happening, I only had 6 little girls at the party. That way I could do more for the activities than if there were a ton of people there. I made little tutu skirts for each girl and then they bedazzled them with gems. I just used the ones with sticky backs so all ages could participate (I had 2-6 year olds there). Our other activity was beading pearl necklaces to get ready for tea. For the final table setting I out the cake as the centerpiece and bought this cute crinkled runner down the middle to add some color and then sprinkled my flowers around in the white tent with paper butterflies (a must). They were the perfect touch to making it feel magical and the girls absolutley loved sitting below them.
We had so much fun with this theme and I would totally do it again if she asks in the future. Good times with good people make good memories.
https://www.amazon.com/shop/kirstenkizerian?listId=2TK8K1NBXFKMT
